Alan Arkin hospitalised after ‘mini stroke’

A publicist says 81-year-old Oscar-winning actor Alan Arkin was hospitalised after a minor stroke but was fine and back reading scripts on Friday.

Arkin, who won supporting actor Academy Awards for 2006’s Little Miss Sunshine and 2009’s Argo, suffered the “mini-stroke” on Monday and was released from the hospital the next day, said publicist Melody Korenbrot.

She added that Arkin was home reading a script for a possible new movie. In addition to his two Academy Awards, the actor was Oscar-nominated for The Russians Are Coming, The Russians Are Coming and The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter in the 1960s.

Arkin, who has acted in several dozen films in a nearly 60-year career, appears in this weekend’s new holiday dramedy Love the Coopers.