Evergreen do-gooder Sting (above) will be gracing Hong Kong with his presence next month. Born Gordon Sumner, the British eco-activist got his moniker from a black and yellow striped shirt he wore on stage early in his career (he looked like a wasp; geddit?). The philanthropic former frontman of The Police owns several luxury properties, including an Elizabethan manor house on 60 acres of southern England, a 600-acre estate in Tuscany, Italy, and a Malibu beach house bought from one Larry Hagman …
Hagman bears little resemblance to the evil Texan oil billionaire J.R. Ewing, whom he plays in the recently revived 1980s soap opera Dallas and is, in fact, a fan of substance abuse. The former heavy drinker and LSD enthusiast has requested his ashes be scattered "over a field and have marijuana and wheat planted and harvest it in a couple of years and then have a big marijuana cake … People eat a little of Larry [sic]." In 1996, he offered to front the rehab costs for his drug-addled friend Robert Downey Jr …