The Scoop By Chriss Coats 12/29/05
The Scoop
Thursday, December 29
Billboard Hot 100 Singles Chart for issue 1/14
Weeks On Label
2W Rank LW Rank TW Rank Artist Title
12 ISL 2 1 1 CAREY*MARIAH DON'T FORGET ABOUT US
20 JIVE 1 2 2 BROWN*CHRIS RUN IT!
8 UNIV 4 3 3 NELLY GRILLZ
15 ASDM 3 4 4 D4L LAFFY TAFFY
18 5 6 5 NICKELBACK PHOTOGRAPH
12 7 5 6 THE PUSSYCAT DOLLS STICKWITU
8 COL 18 8 7 BEYONCE CHECK ON IT
24 DEF 6 7 8 WEST*KANYE GOLD DIGGER
13 DEF 12 10 9 SANTANA*JUELZ THERE IT GO (THE WHISTLE SONG)
21 AAM 9 11 10 BLACK EYED PEAS MY HUMPS
AP
© Photographer Not Charged in Lohan Crash
The photographer whose collision with actress Lindsay Lohan helped prompt California to adopt an anti-paparazzi law won't be charged with a crime, the district attorney's office said. Deputy District Attorney William Hodgman said there was no evidence photographer Galo Cesar Ramirez deliberately crashed his minivan into Lohan's Mercedes-Benz. http://news.yahoo.com/
© Gary Glitter Paid to Ensure Cooperation
Former rock star Gary Glitter paid $4,000 to ensure the cooperation in his legal case of the families of Vietnamese girls he is accused of sexually abusing. Glitter, who won fame as a flamboyant glam rocker in the 1970s, gave $2,000 each to the families of two girls, ages 11 and 12, after they agreed to write letters to the court asking that the case be dropped, lawyer Le Thanh Kinh said Wednesday. "If we pay the money for the two families, when this case goes to court, maybe Mr. Gary will receive a lighter penalty," Kinh said.
http://news.yahoo.com/s
© Mrs. Partridge in Sex Romp in New Movie
What's this — the matriarch of the Partridge family in bed with a 24-year-old stud? It happens in "Grandma's Boy," a boisterous comedy produced by Adam Sandler's company. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051228/ap_en_mo/film_shirley_jones
© Ex-'Top Model' Judge Dickinson Gets Series
Cast off by "America's Next Top Model," Janice Dickinson will get her own reality modeling show on the Oxygen network. http://news.yahoo.com/
© Jamaican Police Officer Becomes Rap Artist
A police commander who led a commando-style, anti-crime team that human rights groups accuse of multiple killings is hitting the airwaves with a rap-style song that pledges to restore law and order in Jamaica. Senior Superintendent Reneto Adams' song was released after a jury last week acquitted him and two other policemen on charges of murdering two men and two women and planting guns on their bodies. The song quickly stirred an outcry from rights groups. http://news.yahoo.com/
Daily News
© Fiend ran to Elvis
Fleeing cops and quickly running out of cash, accused Halloween sex attack suspect Peter Braunstein went sightseeing - strolling into Graceland just days before his dramatic suicide attempt in Memphis. "I went and visited Elvis' mansion," the pop culture-obsessed writer told a hospital official as he was being processed inside Bellevue Hospital's psychiatric ward. http://www.nydailynews.com/front/story/378526p-321495c.html
© Fantasy life of hip-hop drug cop
The off-duty Queens cop who allegedly schemed to rob drug dealers is a hip-hop fanatic who drove luxury cars, flashed wads of cash and claimed he was pals with rap superstars 50 Cent and Ja Rule, sources said yesterday. Officer Donald Medard even rolled up to the 104th Precinct stationhouse in Maspeth recently behind the wheel of a silver Mercedes-Benz SL500 Roadster, police sources said. http://www.nydailynews.com/front/story/378623p-321542c.html
Barbra Streisand is trying to take inches off her waist — but not off her wallet. Despite her obese bank account, we hear the diva and her increasingly tubby hubby, James Brolin, have turned to Jenny Craig to shed pounds. "Oprah hired a personal nutritionist," sniffs a source. "But Barbra wants to save money, so they're getting their meals from a Jenny Craig center."
http://www.nydailynews.com/front/story/378570p-321443c.html
After years of writing scathing lyrics about her in his rap songs, Eminem finally has something nice to say about his once and future wife, Kim Mathers. "This day I will marry my best friend, the one I laugh with, live for, love," reads the invitation to their Jan. 14 wedding in Michigan obtained by Star magazine. The simple invite shows two children sitting side by side, perhaps a symbol for the pair, who met when Kim was 12 and Eminem was 15.
© Five minutes with . . . Ali Lohan
The family that spawned pop starlet Lindsay has hatched another hopeful hitmaker. Ali Lohan, who starred in the video of her big sib's autobiographical "Confessions of a Broken Heart," is in talks to host a show on the Disney Channel. Also an aspiring singer, Ali croons on "Totally Awesome Christmas" and starts work on a 2006 Christmas album next month.
You just turned 12 last week. Happy birthday!
Thanks! It was kind of fun 'cause I actually get presents with my birthday and then Christmas. This year, I got a lot of clothes, sneakers, shoes and jewelry.
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/gossip/story/378648p-321442c.html
New York Post
© 'THRILLED' J.LO CREDITS POST IN EXTORT BUST
J.Lo and her salsa sweetie are "thrilled" to have their stolen wedding video back — and they're crediting the NYPD and The Post for nabbing the thieves who tried to ransom it for $1 million, cops said. "Marc Anthony and Jennifer Lopez are completely thrilled," said Inspector Michael Hines, whose Major Case Squad cracked the case Tuesday with help from The Post. "I thought your paper was extremely helpful." http://www.nypost.com/news/regionalnews/59636.htm
SIGHTINGS...LUDACRIS and a posse of 16 being turned away from Home, while Derek Jeter, Jimmy Fallon and Victoria's Secret stunner Mini Anden partied inside.
JUST ASKING: WHICH long-married rock star defines cheating the same way Bill Clinton used to? The frisky frontman, who claims to be faithful, has only oral sex with his groupies. . . WHICH celebrity sisters drank so much at their holiday party that one of them ended up vomiting in the bathroom of their high-profile home? . . . WHICH super-couple likes to renew their Mile-High Club membership almost every time they fly? The horny duo are infamous among private plane crews for their loud lovemaking at sky-high altitudes.
DMX is jumping ship from Def Jam to Sony as soon as he's released from Rikers Island tomorrow, a source close to the gravel-voiced rhymer told us. DMX, who has a history of gun, assault and rape charges, was jailed for seven days for driving without a license in The Bronx earlier this year. He's hoping signing with Sony will kick-start his formerly white-hot career. Yonkers-born DMX, 34, lost his license after a string of traffic offenses. Last April, he crashed his 2005 Dodge Magnum into another car.
USA Today
© Where stars are Spotted
Even on a particularly nasty, rainy evening, The Spotted Pig is a real celebrity draw in the West Village. On the kind of Saturday night most would prefer to spend at home, Annabella Sciorra and Rosie Perez convened in the middle of the narrow, dimly lit room. Talent manager Jason Weinberg, who represents Demi Moore, Naomi Watts and Hilary Swank, worked the room. http://www.usatoday.com/life/people/2005-12-28-spotted-pig_x.htm
msnbc.com
Britney wants another baby — with the same daddy. Despite the widely reported woes in the marriage between Britney Spears and Kevin Federline, Spears is eager to give their son Sean Preston a sibling — “the sooner the better” — according to In Touch Weekly. “Britney was advised to wait at least three months after her baby’s birth before trying to get pregnant again,” a “friend” told the mag. “Now that that’s passed, she wants to try right away.” Spears reportedly is hoping for a girl this time around, and is actually thinking that another baby will help smooth out her rocky relationship with Federline. “She is hoping another baby will strengthen her marriage to Kevin,” another friend told the mag.
Will Nicole Kidman rush to the chapel? The buzz is that “The Stepford Wives” star is eager to beat her ex-hubby Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes to the altar. Cruise and his preggars fiancée are rumored to be getting hitched in the summer or early fall of 2006 — but there’s a report that Kidman and Keith Urban are planning to get married as early as this weekend. Kidman hasn’t even acknowledged that she’s dating the country music star, but Life & Style weekly is reporting that the couple has sent out invitations to her Aussie friends for a wedding.
New York Times
© Nick's Cultural Revolution
Viacom, with its MTV and Nickelodeon networks, is aggressively courting Chinese youngsters, hoping to introduce them to its brand of playfully antiauthoritarian programming. http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/29/arts/television/29nick.html
Hollywood Reporter
© Album sales off 7%
U.S. album sales were down about 7% as 2005 drew to a close, but the budding market for music downloads, which more than doubled over last year, helped narrow the revenue gap, according to figures released Wednesday.
MTV
© Sure, she's not one of the winningest coaches in college football history, but FedEx Orange Bowl organizers are still stoked that Ciara will be sharing the field with Joe Paterno's Penn State Nittany Lions and Bobby Bowden's Florida State Seminoles. The "1, 2 Step" singer has been confirmed to headline the Orange Bowl halftime festivities, which promise to be the biggest ever for a college sports event.
© Blink-182's Travis Barker and wife Shanna Moakler welcomed their second child, Alabama Luella, into the world at 12:22 p.m. on December 24. The Barkers have a 2-year-old son, Landon, together; Moakler also has a 6-year-old daughter, Atiana, with former fiance Oscar De La Hoya.
Billboard
© Fantasia, Maroon 5, India.Arie and Toni Braxton are among those who will pay tribute to Stevie Wonder during the United Negro College Fund's annual "An Evening of Stars" fundraising telethon. Set to air Jan. 6-8 in syndication, the show at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood honors Wonder for his music, humanitarian efforts and philanthropy. Also set to appear during the four-hour broadcast are Lou Rawls, Quincy Jones and Doug E. Fresh, actors Jeremy Piven, Vivica A. Fox, Gary Dourdan, Idris Elba and Terrence D. Howard, and comedians D.L. Hughley, Robert Townsend and Tyler Perry.
© Singer/songwriter Garrison Starr is planning a March 13 release for her fifth full-length disc, "The Sound of You and Me." Her second album for Vanguard Records was recorded in Nashville with collaborator/guitarist Neilson Hubbard co-producing the album with Brad Jones.
BBC
© Elton 'wedding' document revealed
Sir Elton John and David Furnish's civil partnership certificate is released to the public. The couple "married" on 22 December at the Windsor Guildhall followed by a lavish reception at their home, attended by a host of celebrities. The document shows that the pair's mothers' were called as witnesses during the ceremony. Sir Elton, 58, was listed as a musician on the certificate while Furnish's occupation was stated as film-maker. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/4567036.stm
Thursday, December 29
Billboard Hot 100 Singles Chart for issue 1/14
Weeks On Label
2W Rank LW Rank TW Rank Artist Title
12 ISL 2 1 1 CAREY*MARIAH DON'T FORGET ABOUT US
20 JIVE 1 2 2 BROWN*CHRIS RUN IT!
8 UNIV 4 3 3 NELLY GRILLZ
15 ASDM 3 4 4 D4L LAFFY TAFFY
18 5 6 5 NICKELBACK PHOTOGRAPH
12 7 5 6 THE PUSSYCAT DOLLS STICKWITU
8 COL 18 8 7 BEYONCE CHECK ON IT
24 DEF 6 7 8 WEST*KANYE GOLD DIGGER
13 DEF 12 10 9 SANTANA*JUELZ THERE IT GO (THE WHISTLE SONG)
21 AAM 9 11 10 BLACK EYED PEAS MY HUMPS
AP
© Photographer Not Charged in Lohan Crash
The photographer whose collision with actress Lindsay Lohan helped prompt California to adopt an anti-paparazzi law won't be charged with a crime, the district attorney's office said. Deputy District Attorney William Hodgman said there was no evidence photographer Galo Cesar Ramirez deliberately crashed his minivan into Lohan's Mercedes-Benz. http://news.yahoo.com/
© Gary Glitter Paid to Ensure Cooperation
Former rock star Gary Glitter paid $4,000 to ensure the cooperation in his legal case of the families of Vietnamese girls he is accused of sexually abusing. Glitter, who won fame as a flamboyant glam rocker in the 1970s, gave $2,000 each to the families of two girls, ages 11 and 12, after they agreed to write letters to the court asking that the case be dropped, lawyer Le Thanh Kinh said Wednesday. "If we pay the money for the two families, when this case goes to court, maybe Mr. Gary will receive a lighter penalty," Kinh said.
http://news.yahoo.com/s
© Mrs. Partridge in Sex Romp in New Movie
What's this — the matriarch of the Partridge family in bed with a 24-year-old stud? It happens in "Grandma's Boy," a boisterous comedy produced by Adam Sandler's company. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051228/ap_en_mo/film_shirley_jones
© Ex-'Top Model' Judge Dickinson Gets Series
Cast off by "America's Next Top Model," Janice Dickinson will get her own reality modeling show on the Oxygen network. http://news.yahoo.com/
© Jamaican Police Officer Becomes Rap Artist
A police commander who led a commando-style, anti-crime team that human rights groups accuse of multiple killings is hitting the airwaves with a rap-style song that pledges to restore law and order in Jamaica. Senior Superintendent Reneto Adams' song was released after a jury last week acquitted him and two other policemen on charges of murdering two men and two women and planting guns on their bodies. The song quickly stirred an outcry from rights groups. http://news.yahoo.com/
Daily News
© Fiend ran to Elvis
Fleeing cops and quickly running out of cash, accused Halloween sex attack suspect Peter Braunstein went sightseeing - strolling into Graceland just days before his dramatic suicide attempt in Memphis. "I went and visited Elvis' mansion," the pop culture-obsessed writer told a hospital official as he was being processed inside Bellevue Hospital's psychiatric ward. http://www.nydailynews.com/front/story/378526p-321495c.html
© Fantasy life of hip-hop drug cop
The off-duty Queens cop who allegedly schemed to rob drug dealers is a hip-hop fanatic who drove luxury cars, flashed wads of cash and claimed he was pals with rap superstars 50 Cent and Ja Rule, sources said yesterday. Officer Donald Medard even rolled up to the 104th Precinct stationhouse in Maspeth recently behind the wheel of a silver Mercedes-Benz SL500 Roadster, police sources said. http://www.nydailynews.com/front/story/378623p-321542c.html
Barbra Streisand is trying to take inches off her waist — but not off her wallet. Despite her obese bank account, we hear the diva and her increasingly tubby hubby, James Brolin, have turned to Jenny Craig to shed pounds. "Oprah hired a personal nutritionist," sniffs a source. "But Barbra wants to save money, so they're getting their meals from a Jenny Craig center."
http://www.nydailynews.com/front/story/378570p-321443c.html
After years of writing scathing lyrics about her in his rap songs, Eminem finally has something nice to say about his once and future wife, Kim Mathers. "This day I will marry my best friend, the one I laugh with, live for, love," reads the invitation to their Jan. 14 wedding in Michigan obtained by Star magazine. The simple invite shows two children sitting side by side, perhaps a symbol for the pair, who met when Kim was 12 and Eminem was 15.
© Five minutes with . . . Ali Lohan
The family that spawned pop starlet Lindsay has hatched another hopeful hitmaker. Ali Lohan, who starred in the video of her big sib's autobiographical "Confessions of a Broken Heart," is in talks to host a show on the Disney Channel. Also an aspiring singer, Ali croons on "Totally Awesome Christmas" and starts work on a 2006 Christmas album next month.
You just turned 12 last week. Happy birthday!
Thanks! It was kind of fun 'cause I actually get presents with my birthday and then Christmas. This year, I got a lot of clothes, sneakers, shoes and jewelry.
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/gossip/story/378648p-321442c.html
New York Post
© 'THRILLED' J.LO CREDITS POST IN EXTORT BUST
J.Lo and her salsa sweetie are "thrilled" to have their stolen wedding video back — and they're crediting the NYPD and The Post for nabbing the thieves who tried to ransom it for $1 million, cops said. "Marc Anthony and Jennifer Lopez are completely thrilled," said Inspector Michael Hines, whose Major Case Squad cracked the case Tuesday with help from The Post. "I thought your paper was extremely helpful." http://www.nypost.com/news/regionalnews/59636.htm
SIGHTINGS...LUDACRIS and a posse of 16 being turned away from Home, while Derek Jeter, Jimmy Fallon and Victoria's Secret stunner Mini Anden partied inside.
JUST ASKING: WHICH long-married rock star defines cheating the same way Bill Clinton used to? The frisky frontman, who claims to be faithful, has only oral sex with his groupies. . . WHICH celebrity sisters drank so much at their holiday party that one of them ended up vomiting in the bathroom of their high-profile home? . . . WHICH super-couple likes to renew their Mile-High Club membership almost every time they fly? The horny duo are infamous among private plane crews for their loud lovemaking at sky-high altitudes.
DMX is jumping ship from Def Jam to Sony as soon as he's released from Rikers Island tomorrow, a source close to the gravel-voiced rhymer told us. DMX, who has a history of gun, assault and rape charges, was jailed for seven days for driving without a license in The Bronx earlier this year. He's hoping signing with Sony will kick-start his formerly white-hot career. Yonkers-born DMX, 34, lost his license after a string of traffic offenses. Last April, he crashed his 2005 Dodge Magnum into another car.
USA Today
© Where stars are Spotted
Even on a particularly nasty, rainy evening, The Spotted Pig is a real celebrity draw in the West Village. On the kind of Saturday night most would prefer to spend at home, Annabella Sciorra and Rosie Perez convened in the middle of the narrow, dimly lit room. Talent manager Jason Weinberg, who represents Demi Moore, Naomi Watts and Hilary Swank, worked the room. http://www.usatoday.com/life/people/2005-12-28-spotted-pig_x.htm
msnbc.com
Britney wants another baby — with the same daddy. Despite the widely reported woes in the marriage between Britney Spears and Kevin Federline, Spears is eager to give their son Sean Preston a sibling — “the sooner the better” — according to In Touch Weekly. “Britney was advised to wait at least three months after her baby’s birth before trying to get pregnant again,” a “friend” told the mag. “Now that that’s passed, she wants to try right away.” Spears reportedly is hoping for a girl this time around, and is actually thinking that another baby will help smooth out her rocky relationship with Federline. “She is hoping another baby will strengthen her marriage to Kevin,” another friend told the mag.
Will Nicole Kidman rush to the chapel? The buzz is that “The Stepford Wives” star is eager to beat her ex-hubby Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes to the altar. Cruise and his preggars fiancée are rumored to be getting hitched in the summer or early fall of 2006 — but there’s a report that Kidman and Keith Urban are planning to get married as early as this weekend. Kidman hasn’t even acknowledged that she’s dating the country music star, but Life & Style weekly is reporting that the couple has sent out invitations to her Aussie friends for a wedding.
New York Times
© Nick's Cultural Revolution
Viacom, with its MTV and Nickelodeon networks, is aggressively courting Chinese youngsters, hoping to introduce them to its brand of playfully antiauthoritarian programming. http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/29/arts/television/29nick.html
Hollywood Reporter
© Album sales off 7%
U.S. album sales were down about 7% as 2005 drew to a close, but the budding market for music downloads, which more than doubled over last year, helped narrow the revenue gap, according to figures released Wednesday.
MTV
© Sure, she's not one of the winningest coaches in college football history, but FedEx Orange Bowl organizers are still stoked that Ciara will be sharing the field with Joe Paterno's Penn State Nittany Lions and Bobby Bowden's Florida State Seminoles. The "1, 2 Step" singer has been confirmed to headline the Orange Bowl halftime festivities, which promise to be the biggest ever for a college sports event.
© Blink-182's Travis Barker and wife Shanna Moakler welcomed their second child, Alabama Luella, into the world at 12:22 p.m. on December 24. The Barkers have a 2-year-old son, Landon, together; Moakler also has a 6-year-old daughter, Atiana, with former fiance Oscar De La Hoya.
Billboard
© Fantasia, Maroon 5, India.Arie and Toni Braxton are among those who will pay tribute to Stevie Wonder during the United Negro College Fund's annual "An Evening of Stars" fundraising telethon. Set to air Jan. 6-8 in syndication, the show at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood honors Wonder for his music, humanitarian efforts and philanthropy. Also set to appear during the four-hour broadcast are Lou Rawls, Quincy Jones and Doug E. Fresh, actors Jeremy Piven, Vivica A. Fox, Gary Dourdan, Idris Elba and Terrence D. Howard, and comedians D.L. Hughley, Robert Townsend and Tyler Perry.
© Singer/songwriter Garrison Starr is planning a March 13 release for her fifth full-length disc, "The Sound of You and Me." Her second album for Vanguard Records was recorded in Nashville with collaborator/guitarist Neilson Hubbard co-producing the album with Brad Jones.
BBC
© Elton 'wedding' document revealed
Sir Elton John and David Furnish's civil partnership certificate is released to the public. The couple "married" on 22 December at the Windsor Guildhall followed by a lavish reception at their home, attended by a host of celebrities. The document shows that the pair's mothers' were called as witnesses during the ceremony. Sir Elton, 58, was listed as a musician on the certificate while Furnish's occupation was stated as film-maker. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/4567036.stm
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