“The Green Mile” star Michael Clarke Duncan remains hospitalized in Los Angeles more than three weeks after suffering a heart attack.

Publicist Joy Fehily said in a brief email statement Monday that the 54-year-old actor “was just moved from the intensive care unit, but remains hospitalized” following his July 13 heart attack, according to The Associated Press.

“His family are firm believers in the power of prayer and have asked that you keep him in yours during this time,” the statement said. No further information was available on Duncan’s condition.

Besides “The Green Mile,” the actor’s film credits include “The Scorpion King,” “Armageddon,” “Breakfast of Champions,” “The Whole Nine Yards” and “Sin City.”

TRAVOLTA DENIES ALLEGATIONS: John Travolta has officially denied he was trying to seduce a male employee while aboard a Royal Caribbean cruise ship in 2009, in his response to a lawsuit filed by cruise-ship attendant Fabian Zanzi.

In his answer to Zanzi’s suit, which was filed in June, the actor denied most of the claims against him, admitting only that he was aboard the MS Enchantment of the Seas on June 29 of that year, according to the Wrap. In several other instances, the actor’s legal team claims insufficient knowledge to answer the allegations.

Zanzi went public with his allegations in May and filed suit the following month, claiming assault and battery, intentional infliction of emotional distress and negligent infliction of emotional distress.

Well, any of us who saw “Perfect” could claim emotional distress.

According to Zanzi’s complaint, filed in U.S. District Court in California, he was assigned as the actor’s personal room attendant for the 2009 cruise. After arriving at Travolta’s room with a food order, Zanzi claims, the actor complained of neck pain and “pleaded” for Zanzi to touch his neck.

Zanzi says Travolta went on to expose himself to him, then “proceeded to forcefully embrace” Zanzi and “forced his naked person and his erect penis against Plaintiff’s person causing Plaintiff to experience pain, shock, embarrassment, distress, and fear.”

The former cruise attendant claims that Travolta later offered him $12,000 to keep quiet about the alleged incident, and when he told three of his superiors about the encounter, he was segregated in a room for five days until Travolta’s stay on the boat was over.

“This is another ludicrous lawsuit with inane claims. It is obvious that Mr. Zanzi and his lawyers are looking for their 15 minutes of fame,” said Travolta’s lawyer, Martin Singer.

This isn’t the only claim of this type against Travolta. Earlier this year, two men filed a lawsuit claiming that Travolta had touched them in inappropriate ways during two separate massage sessions. The masseurs, who filed anonymously, dropped their suit before retaining the services of media-friendly attorney Gloria Allred. It is not yet known whether they plan to refile their complaints.

KATY PERRY AND JOHN MAYER AN ITEM: Katy Perry has been spotted playing tonsil hockey with John Mayer.

According to Wonderwall, the pair had a “sexy” dinner date last Wednesday at the Chateau Marmont,

What does that mean — a “sexy” dinner date? Was there public stripping involved? Did they hire a Barry White tribute band to play at the table?

Some serious swapping of saliva apparently also happened between the two at a pool party at a home in the Hollywood Hills on Saturday.

“They were all over each other in the pool and were not being shy about it,” an eyewitness tells the website. “Katy had her legs wrapped around John in the water, and they were making out in front of everyone.”

OMG. Maybe they were, like, playing truth or dare with the other kids or something.

The eyewitness concluded, “They are clearly an item.”

The next day, Perry, 27, was seen entering the Four Seasons Hotel in Beverly Hills just a few minutes after Mayer, 34.

In addition to being spied “holding hands across the table” and locking lips while they dined at the Chateau, according to Us Weekly, paparazzi caught Perry being dropped off at her apartment the next morning in what appeared to be the Mayer’s Ferrari.

Two weeks earlier, Perry and Mayer reportedly rendezvoused at Soho House, where they held hands and cuddled.

“Maybe he’s a changed man, but Katy likes bad boys,” a source told Life & Style. “I can’t imagine John’s changed that much.”

So he’s still writing spineless music?

“I don’t think either of them are trying for anything serious right now. She’s not talking like he’s The One,” an insider told People.com. “She’s comfortable around guys who understand the craziness of that world, which he definitely does.”

JENNIFER LAWRENCE GETS BUMP IN PAY: Jennifer Lawrence is getting a serious raise for the next “Hunger Games” film.

The actress, who will reprise her role as Katniss Everdeen in “Catching Fire,” made $500,000 for the first film and is in the final stages of negotiating a $10 million salary for the second one, according to the Hollywood Reporter.

That figure will include the actress’ salary, bonuses and other factors, but could be increased to an even larger number depending on how the film does at the box office.

In other words, she makes more money than you.

Co-stars Josh Hutcherson and Liam Hemsworth are also renegotiating their contracts, but are reportedly receiving much less than Lawrence. Apparently, they’re not as good-looking.

Variety reported the 21-year-old Lawrence is in negotiations to be in the romantic drama “Ends of the Earth,” which follows the controversial love affair between an oil baron and his adopted daughter. The film is slated to start production next summer.

MIKE TYSON SHOW THREATENED: Who threatens Mike Tyson?

Obviously someone isn’t right in the head. New York police are hunting down a Twitter user who threatened to massacre audience members at Mike Tyson’s Broadway show, according to MSN.

Some extremely stupid person tweeted about going on a killing spree similar to that of James Holmes, the suspect in the Aurora, Colo., massacre, who is accused of murdering 12 people and injuring 58 others during a midnight screening of the new Batman movie, “The Dark Knight Rises,” last month.

The Twitter user, whose identity is unknown, first posted on July 29, “I might just shoot up this theater in New York I know they leave their exit doors unlocked. Ha now I gotta plan it step by step.”

The user went on to tweet, “i wanna kill a lot of people” and added, “This (expletive) ain’t no joke yo — I’m serious, people are gonna die like aurora.”

When they catch this idiot, they should put him in a room with Mr. Tyson for 10 minutes, just the two of them. You know, to talk things over.

Security has been stepped up at the Longacre Theatre, where former boxer Tyson is performing his one-man show, as police put pressure on Twitter executives to hand over information about the user’s identity. New York Police Department spokesman Paul Browne reveals executives at the social media website have been uncooperative so far and have denied detectives’ requests for the user’s contact information. He told the New York Post, “We’ll cover the theater until we find this guy. We needed a name and we needed it fast. Twitter said no.”

AUGUST 8 IN HISTORY

Wednesday is Aug. 8, the 221st day of 2012. There are 145 days left in the year.

1815: Napoleon Bonaparte set sail for St. Helena to spend the remainder of his days in exile.

1911: President William Howard Taft signed a measure raising the number of U.S. representatives from 391 to 433, effective with the next Congress, with a proviso to add two more when New Mexico and Arizona became states.

1937: During the Second Sino-Japanese War, Japan completed its occupation of Beijing.

1942: During World War II, six Nazi saboteurs who were captured after landing in the U.S. were executed in Washington, D.C.; two others who’d cooperated with authorities were spared.

1945: President Harry S. Truman signed the U.S. instrument of ratification for the United Nations Charter. The Soviet Union declared war against Japan during World War II.

1953: The United States and South Korea initialed a mutual security pact.

1963: Britain’s “Great Train Robbery” took place as thieves made off with 2.6 million pounds in banknotes.

1968: The Republican national convention in Miami Beach nominated Richard Nixon for president on the first ballot.

1973: Vice President Spiro T. Agnew branded as “damned lies” reports he had taken kickbacks from government contracts in Maryland, and vowed not to resign — which he ended up doing.

1974: President Richard Nixon announced his resignation, effective the next day, following damaging new revelations in the Watergate scandal.

1978: The U.S. launched Pioneer Venus 2, which carried scientific probes to study the atmosphere of Venus.

1992: AIDS activist Alison Gertz died in Westhampton Beach, Long Island, N.Y., at age 26.

1994: Israel and Jordan opened the first road link between the two once-warring countries.

2002: Saddam Hussein organized a big military parade and then warned “the forces of evil” not to attack Iraq as he sought once more to shift the debate away from world demands that he live up to agreements that ended the Gulf War. Bankrupt telecommunications firm WorldCom said it had uncovered another $3.3 billion in bogus accounting, adding to the $3.85 billion fraud it had revealed in June.

2007: Space shuttle Endeavour roared into orbit with teacher-astronaut Barbara Morgan on board.

2011: Eager to calm a nervous nation, President Barack Obama dismissed an unprecedented downgrade by Standard & Poor’s of the U.S. credit rating from AAA to AA-plus, declaring: “No matter what some agency may say, we’ve always been and always will be a triple-A country.”

BIRTHDAYS

Actress Esther Williams (91), Joan Mondale, wife of former Vice President Walter F. Mondale, (82), singer Mel Tillis (80), actor Dustin Hoffman (75), actress Connie Stevens (74), country singer Phil Balsley (The Statler Brothers) (73), actor Larry Wilcox (65), actor Keith Carradine (63), rhythm-and-blues singer Airrion Love (The Stylistics) (63), radio-TV personality Robin Quivers (60), actor Donny Most (59), rock musician Dennis Drew (10,000 Maniacs) (55), TV personality Deborah Norville (54), rock musician The Edge (U2) (51), rock musician Rikki Rockett (Poison) (51), rapper Kool Moe Dee (50), rock singer Scott Stapp (39), rock musician Tom Linton (Jimmy Eat World) (37), singer JC Chasez (‘N Sync) (36), singer Drew Lachey (98 Degrees) (36), tennis player Roger Federer (31), Britain’s Princess Beatrice of York (24).

Associated Press