ERIN GO BRA-LESS
Courtney Love enjoyed a quiet St. Patrick's Day in New York last night. After repeatedly lifting her shirt during an appearance on Late Show with David Letterman, Love moved on to an East Village nightspot and allegedly threw a microphone stand at a 24-year-old man — leading to her arrest on reckless endangerment and third-degree assault charges. All this comes a day after the Hole front woman showed up two hours late to a court hearing in Los Angeles on drug charges and was berated by the judge for talking out of turn. A preliminary hearing on that case has been postponed to April 15. Where does all this leave Love's daughter, Frances Bean? In therapy for life with Bobbi Kristina. |
MODEL MYSTERY
Sephora shoppers are doing a double-take at the cosmetics retailer's Spring 2004 catalog, whose cover girl is a dead ringer for Yoanna House — one of the three remaining finalists on UPN's America's Next Top Model. Since Model's grand prize includes a Sephora campaign, we had to ask: Did Sephora accidentally reveal the identity of next week's big winner? A UPN spokeswoman declined to comment, but Sephora's PR rep insists the model in question is "not Yoanna." However, when the flack refused to ID the model, we called Sephora's 800 number and a friendly (and soon-to-be-unemployed) customer-service rep told us the lookalike's name is Cassia. Mystery solved. I think. |
LEAH LABUHBYE
More than 18 million American Idol voters didn't keep Leah LaBelle hanging on very long. The 17-year-old tone-deaf Seattle native became the first Top 12 finalist to get the hook on last night's show. Speaking of Idol, Tuesday's performance edition — which featured LaBelle's horrendous cover of "You Keep Me Hanging On" — attracted a staggering 26.7 million viewers, giving Fox its biggest Tuesday ever. |
SPEAKING OUT
Lisa Marie Presley is clarifying remarks she recently made on the Australian TV show, Enough Rope, in which she said she "saw things she could do nothing about" during her brief marriage to a certain baby-dangler. "In saying, 'I saw things,'" she now says, "I was specifically referring to things in that relationship with us, that went on between us, at the time as husband and wife and that dynamic." Presley's suspicious comments fueled talk that she may be called to testify in Jacko's child-molestation case — or at the very least become a spokesperson for Jesus Juice. |
SCENE STEALER
It's official: Gary Sinise has signed on to headline CSI: New York, CBS confirms. The deal closed on Wednesday, Sinise's 49th birthday. His present? A cool $150,000 per episode. Although New York doesn't debut until the fall, Sinise will first appear in a May sweeps episode of CSI: Miami. |
WONDERS NEVER CEASE
Wonderfalls exec producer Tim Minear is takin' it to the Web to drum up a bigger audience for his acclaimed (yet low-rated) Fox dramedy. In an open letter making its way around the Internet, Minear asks fans to spread the word about the show. "I believe you're a huge untapped resource," he writes. "I know that every one of you is connected to many others that I can't reach. If you can give a hand here, you might be keeping us afloat long enough for us to catch the tide." For the full text of the letter visit: www.TimMinear.net |
R. KELLY BEATS RAP
Florida prosecutors have dropped all child-pornography charges against R. Kelly. The singer's legal victory comes after a judge's ruling last week that digital photos were taken from his Miami home by illegal seizure and were inadmissible as trial evidence. The photos in question reportedly depicted R. Kelly engaging in sexual acts with an underage girl. He's still fighting similar charges in Illinois. |
DESPERATE PLEA?
Convicted felon Martha Stewart is reportedly asking 100 of her closest supporters (her frightened servants) to write to the federal judge who will determine her sentence on June 17. "Please include your opinion of my character, my work ethic, my integrity and my probity," Stewart allegedly wrote to friends, adding that they should include "any memorable experiences" — incidents that didn't involve her yelling at them — "you have had with me." |
REAL MESS
The Real World is homeless. Three weeks before the show's 15th season was was set to begin taping in Philadelphia, producers are pulling out of the City of Brotherly Love after they angered local labor unions by hiring non-union labor to renovate the cast's crib. There's no word on The Real World's new locale, so Delaware, this could be your big break! |
RYAN'S BIG GET
Boobygate star Janet Jackson will perform on the April 2 edition of On Air with Ryan Seacrest. The show's standard seven-second delay will be in place, a show rep confirms. Prior to her On Air gig, Jackson will appear on Good Morning America and Saturday Night Live. |
REMEMBERED
Actress Mercedes McCambridge, who scored a Best Supporting Actress Oscar for the 1949 film All the King's Men and later provided the voice behind the demon-possessed girl in The Exorcist, died March 2 from natural causes. She was 87. McCambridge died at a San Diego-area assisted-living facility. |
SHORT CUTS
Debbie Harry, Cyndi Lauper and Joss Stone will join previously announced headliners Patti Labelle and Jessica Simpson on stage April 18 in Las Vegas for VH1 Divas... Norah Jones' Feels like Home enjoyed a fifth week atop Billboard's album chart with sales of 183,000 copies. |
