LOS ANGELES — A publicist says 81-year-old Oscar-winning actor Alan Arkin was hospitalized after a minor stroke but was back reading scripts Friday.

Arkin, who won supporting actor Academy Awards for 2006’s “Little Miss Sunshine” and 2009’s “Argo,” suffered the “mini-stroke” Monday and was released from the hospital the next day, a publicist said. Arkin also was Oscar-nominated for “The Russians Are Coming, The Russians Are Coming” and “The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter.”