QUICK TAKES

On to Iraq

Ryan Conklin, who appears on this season's "The Real World: Brooklyn," will be heading to Iraq on Sunday. The 23-year old is doing his second tour of duty and said he hopes to serve a nine-month rotation. The former cast member of the MTV reality show received his deployment notice while living in the "Real World" house. He enlisted in the Army when he was 17.

Hasselbeck hit

Elisabeth Hasselbeck attempted to hail a cab from a Manhattan sidewalk and ended up getting hit by a bike. The pregnant co-host of ABC's "The View" joked about the incident on Wednesday's show. She said she then sent a message to her husband, former NFL quarterback Tim Hasselbeck, about the hit-and-run accident and posted a Twitter update announcing that "The belly is OK."

Ready to rumble

Actress Callie Thorne, who plays the on-again-off-again love interest of Denis Leary's character on the FX show "Rescue Me," says she'll come to blows with Andrea Roth, who plays Leary's estranged wife Janet. The actress calls the fights "some of the juiciest stuff that I've gotten to do on 'Rescue Me,' " noting the brawls aren't cat fights, but are "down and dirty." But rest assured, the smackdowns are just acting. "Andrea and I have been having the best time!" she says.

Woman convicted

Austrian officials said Wednesday that a woman accused of threatening "CSI: Miami" star David Caruso has been convicted and sentenced to seven months in jail in a secure psychiatric unit. The sentence was handed down Tuesday, court spokesman Thomas Lechner said. The attorney for the woman -- who is only identified as Heidemarie S. -- said his client will appeal the ruling. Heidemarie S. is accused of sending more than 100 letters to Caruso in an attempt to secure an autograph. She sent a death threat in 2007 when he refused to give her one. A court-appointed psychiatrist testified that she had "profound personality disorder."

Compiled from wire reports by Melissa Sullivan