Sean Young wants apology in Oscar party arrest

"Blade Runner" actress Sean Young said she wants an apology from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences after a security guard had her arrested outside an Academy Awards ball Sunday night.

"They need to make a public apology on behalf of their security guard," Young told People magazine Monday. "I was just standing by the little line" outside the Academy's annual Governors Ball, she said. "I wasn't bothering anybody."

Young, 52, who had no ticket to the ball, said she was at the Hollywood & Highland Center taking pictures for her Facebook page when a guard said, " 'No, you have to leave.' I started to leave and [the guard] grabbed my arm and he started pulling me. And I turned around and I was pulling my arm away -- and I struck him."

Another guard placed her under citizens' arrest, and Los Angeles police charged her with battery, Officer Rosario Herrera told People.

The actress tried to crash the Vanity Fair Oscar party in 2006. She entered rehabilitation for alcohol abuse in 2008 after she was removed from the Directors Guild of America awards. She was on Season 5 of VH1's "Celebrity Rehab."

SEACREST 'SURPRISED.'Ryan Seacrest said Monday on his radio show that he was "surprised but not surprised" by Sacha Baron Cohen's red-carpet stunt Sunday night, when the actor poured what appeared to be an urn of flour on his tuxedo. Seacrest, interviewing Cohen, who was in full character for his new movie, "The Dictator," said "I definitely did not know he was going to do that," but he suspected Cohen planned some sort of stunt.

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Sunday's Oscar telecast on ABC was seen by about 39.3 million viewers, or 1.4 million over last year's telecast, ABC said yesterday. That figure was the highest since the 82nd Academy Awards telecast in 2010, which drew 41.6 million viewers and appeared to reverse an overall trend since 2006.

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