Sunday, January 29, 2006

The Scoop by Chriss Coats 01/27/06

AP

© Singer Pete Doherty Pleads Guilty
Pete Doherty, the sometime boyfriend of Kate Moss, was jailed Friday after pleading guilty to possessing drugs for the second time in a week.
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© Joaquin Phoenix Uninjured in Car Accident
Joaquin Phoenix's car overturned on a canyon road and collided with another vehicle after his brakes went out, but there were no reports of injury, police said.
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© Ex-'SNL' Star Pleads Not Guilty to DUI
Former "Saturday Night Live" star Tracy Morgan is heading to court after pleading not guilty to charges of drunken driving, prosecutors said Thursday.
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© Kidman Accepts Role As Goodwill Ambassador
Nicole Kidman has a new role — working to advance women's rights around the globe as a goodwill ambassador for the U.N. The Oscar-winning actress will work with the United Nations Development Fund for Women, UNIFEM, on critical gender concerns such as ending violence against women.
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© Gere, Berry Are Hasty Pudding Recipients
Richard Gere and Halle Berry are this year's recipients of the annual Hasty Pudding awards, given by a student drama group at Harvard University.
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© Meg Ryan Adopts Baby Girl From China
Meg Ryan has adopted a baby girl from China. The 44-year-old actress recently traveled to China for the adoption. She and her new child are now home in California together, Ryan's publicist Stephen Huvane confirmed Thursday.
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Daily News


Former Army Ranger John Paulus swore he wasn't going to sell out singer Clay Aiken when we contacted him last week about rumors that he'd had sex with the supposedly straight "American Idol" star. "They couldn't pay me enough to have my pics on the supermarket stand," he told us at the time. "I am not the type of guy that would make life difficult for anyone." But that was then. Turn to page 10 of the new National Enquirer, and there's shirtless John Paulus, talking about his alleged hotel "romp" with the 27-year-old Aiken. "On Dec. 16, using the screen name of 'valleyprettyboy,' Clay sent me his first instant message," Paulus claims.
http://www.nydailynews.com/front/story/386295p-327703c.html

Dave Navarro had the cojones to sit at rival rocker Tommy Lee's VIP table while Lee was deejaying at the Thrive/Benderspink bash at Cain's Sundance outpost. A member of Lee's entourage physically ejected Navarro, hissing, "You're always trying to steal Tommy's thunder." Leaving with pal Jack Osbourne, Navarro shot back, "I am just sick of this bull-!

That was Jon Bon Jovi - trying to be camera-ready for yesterday's minute-long "Today" show appearance to hype arena football - getting an emergency trim the previous evening at Sally Hershberger's W. 14th St. salon, where a haircut goes for up to $600. The shaggily highlighted New Jersey rocker, who co-owns the Philadelphia Soul team, yakked on his cell phone during his session but apparently didn't want to admit where he was. "I have to get off now, baby, because I've got a meeting," he told one caller. A Lowdown spy reports: "I thought it was funny that Mr. Macho Bon Jovi had to go to the hairdresser before he went on the air as a jock."

Looks like self-labeled Video Vixen Karrine Steffans has wasted no time finding a replacement for HBO host Bill Maher. It's an old boyfriend, singer-actor Ray J. The other night at Mel's Diner in L.A., Steffans, who split with Maher just before the Golden Globes, swapped spit with Ray J while Serena Williams and her entourage looked on in amazement. "It was certainly hot and heavy," said a spy. Ray J's technique got a rave review in Steffans' recent memoir, "Confessions of a Video Vixen," in which the author reveals: "When Ray and I made love, we would go for hours on end, each hour more satisfying than the last." I'll draw a veil over the rest.

© MTV's 'Barkers' are back for amour
Meet the Barkers. Dad Travis, former drummer of punk band Blink-182, has a 6-inch Mohawk. Mom Shanna is an actress and erstwhile Miss U.S.A.
http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/story/386095p-327638c.html

NY Post


© ELTON'S COFFIN FIT
ELTON John is about to descend on his much-maligned new musical "Lestat," and the cast and crew are gnawing their nails.
http://www.nypost.com/entertainment/62352.htm

EVERYONE knows fashionistas hate to wait. When Madonna showed up an hour late to designer Jean Paul Gaultier's couture show in Paris Wednesday, the claws came out. The Material Mom, masked in giant black sunglasses, was whisked through the crowd behind a phalanx of muscleheads, who steamrolled reporters on the way to her seat. Adding insult, she waived off questions about her reported split from Guy Richie and the sudden death of her ex-brother-in-law, Chris Penn. Of course, the Brits got their revenge: "Her skin was stretched taut across her razor-sharp cheekbones , and her chin was puckered in a most unflattering manner," the London Mirror sniped.

THE Chateau Marmont has always been a hub of clandestine Hollywood hookups, but the windows of the famed hotel must be fogging up with all the amorous action there lately. Our spy swears Jessica Simpson took a break from partying with Kirsten Dunst the other night to disappear into Maroon 5 man-whore Adam Levine's room - and didn't emerge until the next morning. "She was picked up by her best friend, Cacee Cobb, that morning," our snitch tattled. Simpson's rep has steadfastly shot down rumors of a romance with the skirt-chasing singer in the past. Meanwhile, newly single Jude Law - who broke up with molten-hot Sienna Miller last week - has been spotted around the Marmont making time with a stripper he met at the nearby Body Shop, the Sunset Strip mammary mecca famously name-checked in Motley Crue's "Girls, Girls, Girls." But our spy sniffs that Law's latest squeeze is a far cry from the beautiful Miller: "He's been going to the Body Shop strip club every night and hanging out with this nasty young brunette - she is really beat looking."

USA Today


© Spector's deposition to be released
Part of Phil Spector's deposition testimony in a civil court battle with his former attorney will be released to prosecutors in his murder case, even though it contains no "smoking gun," a judge ruled Thursday.
http://www.usatoday.com/life/people/2006-01-27-spector_x.htm

Hollywood Reporter


© Dowling to 'Rock' on
Paramount Pictures and MTV Films have tapped scribe Tim Dowling to adapt Gordon Korman's comic novel "Born to Rock." Gavin O'Connor will helm, with Solaris Entertainment's Greg O'Connor and Josh Fagin producing. The coming-of-age story centers on Leo, a college-bound young Republican who loses his scholarship to Harvard after being erroneously implicated in a school prank. As his dreams for the future evaporate, he learns that his biological father is a legendary rock icon setting out on a reunion tour. Leo goes on the road with the band with the hidden agenda of getting his father to pay his tuition. The film focuses on the unlikely father and son relationship that evolves during the band's tour.

Billboard

© With its self-titled CD/DVD debut ready for a March 17 release via Disney Sound, the kid-staffed Devo 2.0 is preparing to take the original band's music to such unlikely locales as state fairs and suburban shopping malls. Devo co-founder Jerry Casale has spent the past couple of weeks in rehearsals with the five pre-teen members in advance of eventual live performances this spring.

© Rob Zombie will unleash his third solo album, "Educated Horses," March 28 via Geffen. First single "Foxy Foxy" is due to arrive the second week of February at U.S. rock radio outlets; a video will be shot next month in Los Angeles by Zombie and cinematographer Phil Parmet, who previously worked on the Zombie horror film "The Devil's Rejects."

© College radio mainstays Nada Surf and Rogue Wave will begin a North American tour Feb. 8 in Federal Hill, Md. The outing will run through March 11 in Toronto, with support from King Of France and Inara George. March 8: Webster Hall

© In a first, iTunes is offering a download of a performance from NBC's "Today" show. "Black Horse and the Cherry Tree," the first single from KT Tunstall's Feb. 7 Virgin album, "Eye to the Telescope," is available as a free video download on iTunes until the album release date.

© Alternate versions of tracks by Le Tigre, the Chemical Brothers and Gorillaz will be found on production duo DFA's "The DFA Remixes -- Chapter One" due April 4 via DFA/Astralwerks. The collection also features remixes of material from Blues Explosion, Soulwax, Radio 4, Fischerspooner, Metro Area and Hot Chip.

© Avril Lavigne will take a break from working on her third studio album to perform April 12 at the fourth Volvo for Life Awards at New York's Rainbow Room. The event honors local heroes as nominated on VolvoForLife.com through Jan. 31. Beforehand, the artist is set for a Feb. 21 acoustic set as part of the 2006 Olympic Winter Games in Turino, Italy.

MTV

© While Paris Hilton partied at Sundance, her lawyers got down to business in the $10 million defamation lawsuit filed against her by Zeta Graff, the ex of her ex Paris Latsis. On Tuesday, they asked the court for permission to have their psychologist examine Graff, since she's claiming emotional distress. Hilton's attorneys also told the Los Angeles judge that they plan to file a countersuit against Graff. The case is due back in court on March 2.

© Hot on the heels of his collaborations with Gwen Stefani ("Luxurious") and Beyoncé ("Check on It"), Slim Thug says he's recorded a track for Busta Rhymes' upcoming LP, The Big Bang, due in March.

© Hilary Duff is going back for seconds with Candie's, posing once again for the shoe and clothing brand, but this time she's got a little help from Ciara, Michelle Trachtenberg and Samaire Armstrong. Together, the girls have a pillow fight (for the newly launched home collection) and saunter down the red carpet with their shopping bags in tow for the spring television and print campaign. The campaign, which will launch in March, features Duff's song "Supergirl."

© Conor Oberst's Bright Eyes will be honored in April by the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation, during the organization's annual Media Awards. GLAAD's picked Bright Eyes as the recipient of its Special Recognition Award; actor/director John Cameron Mitchell, who helmed the band's video for "First Day of My Life," will share the honor. The video features straight and gay couples sitting on a couch, listening to the track for the first time. The GLAAD Media Awards will air on Logo on April 15 and VH1 on April 16

© Music from the Darkness' latest album, One Way Ticket to Hell ... and Back, is the focal point of an online video game called "The Darkness: Duel With the Devil." "Duel," which is reminiscent of the handheld electronic game Simon, features a guitar-playing Beelzebub strumming Darkness chords. Each shred illuminates a candle, and gamers must click on the candles in the exact same order — or, predictably, you're cast into the fiery pits of hell. You can check the game out at duelwiththedevil.com.

Monday, January 30
David Letterman: Scarlett Johansson, Tiki Barber (R 1/10/06)
Jay Leno: Dominic Monaghan, Dennis Rodman, P.O.D.
Late Late Show: Emma Thompson, Steve Byrne
Conan O'Brien: Ricky Gervais, Stephen King, Nickel Creek (R 9/23/05)
Daily Show: Randy Jackson
Colbert Report: Annie Duke
The View: The show's most outrageous moments
Regis and Kelly: Kristin Cavallari, the latest "Dancing With The Stars" cast-off
Ellen DeGeneres: Jon Cryer, Jennifer Esposito, Westminster Kennel Club dogs

Tuesday, January 31
David Letterman: Kiefer Sutherland, Andy Samberg, Alicia Keys (R 1/12/06)
Jay Leno: Harrison Ford, Bryce Dallas Howard, Juanes
Late Late Show: Eddie Izzard, Piper Perabo
Conan O'Brien: Benjamin Bratt, Broken Social Scene
Daily Show: Charles Barkley
Colbert Report: Reporter Dave Marish
The View: The co-hosts then and now
Regis and Kelly: Meredith Vieira, Randy Jackson
Ellen DeGeneres: Michael Buble

Wednesday, February 1
David Letterman: Jim Carrey, We Are Scientists (R 12/19/05)
Jay Leno: Snoop Dogg, Ron White
Late Late Show: Lynn Redgrave, Mute Math
Conan O'Brien: Meredith Vieira, Jim Gaffigan
Daily Show: Michael Beschloss
Colbert Report: Emily Yoffe
The View: Favorite celebrity moments
Regis and Kelly: Jeff Probst
Ellen DeGeneres: Jason Mraz, 5-year-old trumpeter Geoffrey Gallante

Thursday, February 2
David Letterman: Tommy Lee Jones, Anthony Hamilton
Jay Leno: Roseanne Barr, Sue Johanson, Sergio Mendes featuring will.i.am
Late Late Show: Jean Reno
Conan O'Brien: Bette Midler
Daily Show: Robert O'Harrow, Jr.
Colbert Report: Gov. Christine Todd Whitman
The View: The 2,000th episode with Regis Philbin, Tom Selleck
Regis and Kelly: Bette Midler, the "Queer Eye For The Straight Guy" Fab Five
Ellen DeGeneres: Teri Hatcher, Paul Bettany

Friday, February 3
David Letterman: Diddy, Train
Jay Leno: Jarod Miller, Collective Soul
Late Late Show: Kiefer Sutherland, motocross rider Travis Pastrane, Rocco DeLuca
Conan O'Brien: Sarah Vowell, Rick Moranis
The View: Guest memoriam
Regis and Kelly: Sean Paul

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