NAMES IN THE NEWS : Harris Pays Tab, Doesn’t Drink

GALWAY, Ireland — One-time hell-raiser Richard Harris celebrated the end of location shooting on his latest film by running up a $1,500 bar bill at a west Ireland hotel. But the Irish actor once famed for his hard-drinking never touched a drop of alcohol; he sipped tea while the crew on the new Irish film “The Field,” his first screen appearance for eight years, drank and partied.

They were speedily attracted to the bar by a notice on the hotel board saying “Drinks on me for the night until exhaustion sets in. Signed Richard Harris.”