ACTOR GERE CLEARED OF OBSCENITY

Richard Gere was cleared of obscenity charges after spontaneously smooching Bollywood actress Shilpa Shetty at an AIDS awareness event in India last year.

An Indian Court had issued an arrest warrant against Gere, 58, claiming he had violated the country’s public obscenity laws (the kiss "transgressed all limits of vulgarity," reports said at the time).