Names and faces

LITTLE ROCK — A Los Angeles jury on Thursday convicted Anna Nicole Smith’s psychiatrist, Khristine Eroshevich, and boyfriend, Howard K. Stern, of conspiracy counts but acquitted the doctor who prescribed drugs for her of all charges. The only conviction against Stern was for giving false names and acting by fraud to obtain prescriptions. Eroshevich was also convicted of unlawfully prescribing Vicodin by fraud. The jury acquitteddefendant Dr. Sandeep Kapoor of all charges. The jury found that the prosecution did not present enough evidence to convict Kapoor of six charges that he provided excessive prescription drugs to Smith. The defendants were charged with conspiracy, excessive prescribing of opiates and sedatives to an addict and fraudulently obtaining drugs by using false names. The jury deliberated about 58 hours after being asked to decide whether the three defendants were trying to relieve Smith’s emotional and physical pain or were feeding her addiction to prescription drugs. The defendants were not charged in Smith’s 2007 accidental-overdose death in Florida.

The crew of the latest Mission: Impossible will have at least one tall task: filming shots involving the world’s highest building. The filmmakers are being tight-lipped about plot details and where exactly they plan to shoot in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. But star Tom Cruise and producer Bryan Burk did let slip Thursday that the fourth installment of the big-screen series will feature scenes with the Middle East city-state’s morethan half-mile-high Burj Khalifa. “I’ll be spending many days, many hours on the side of this building,” Cruise told The Associated Press at the base of the silvery spire. “I can’t give you details, but I will be up there,” he said. Unlike previous sequels in the spy franchise, the fourth installment will go without a number. Cruise blew its cover Thursday: Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol. Cruise is in the emirate with his family to shoot scenes for the movie after wrapping up filming in the Czech capital Prague. Co-stars Paula Patton from Precious and Jeremy Renner from The Hurt Locker are also in town. Filmmakers said little about what role Dubai would play in the forthcoming Mission: Impossible, which will also include scenes shot in Moscow and Vancouver, British Columbia.