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: [JustForFunForYou] **~Today's Entertainment
News*~*~**
today's news in
brief
January
05, 2003,
OOPS? Britney Spears reportedly got
married in Las Vegas Saturday to boyfriend Jason Allen Alexander.
People.com says the quickie ceremony was a "joke that went too far" and Spears
plans to annul the wedding.
FORGET THE HONEYMOON: Spears' record
company meanwhile releasing a statement saying the popster and her new beau have
already filed for an annulment, which will become official today.
RINGS IN NEW YEAR: For a third weekend in a row, The Lord
of the Rings: The Return of the King dominated the box-office with
$30.7 million. It has now grossed $291 million domestically and $677 million
worldwide.
BOX OFFICE DIVE: Tickets sales at the North American
box office last year dropping sharply for the first time since 1991, with $9.27
billion sold last year, off from $9.317 billion in 2002 while attendance also
fell from 1.6 billion to 1.53 billion, according to Exhibitor
Relations.
SPLENDID! Shaking up the Oscar race, American
Splendor, the biopic featuring Paul Giamatti
as file clerk turned comic book author Harvey Pekar, named Best Picture
of the year by the National Society of Film Critics. Lost In
Translation's Bill Murray snagged Best Actor and Monster's
Charlize Theron took home Best Actress.
VISITING HIS
DOMAIN: Newsweek reporting that Jerry
Seinfeld plans to make a cameo in an upcoming episode of HBO's
Curb Your Enthusiasm, starring old Seinfeld pal, Larry
David. The episode will reportedly be set in the Big Apple.
NOT
MUCH OF A THRILLER: CBS' Michael
Jackson Number Ones special scoring only a modest 10.6
million viewers on Friday, according to Nielsen Media Research, far fewer than
the 18 million who tuned in to his 60 Minutes interview.
FAMILY TRADITION: Crocodile Hunter Steve Irwin
biting back at critics who say he endangered his month-old son by holding him
while hand-feeding a crocodile, saying he has no qualms about doing it again.
"What I would do differently is I would make sure there were no cameras around,"
Irwin told A Current Affair, adding that his father used to do the same
thing when he was a kid.
THE FRIENDLY SKIES? A&E set to
premiere on Monday night Airline, its new reality series documenting the
trials and tribulations of employees at Southwest Airlines as they try and make
travelers' lives easier.
SINGING FOR PEACE: Willie
Nelson debuting his new anti-war ballad, "What Ever Happened to
Peace on Earth," at an Austin fund-raising concert on Saturday for Democratic
presidential candidate Dennis Kucinich.
SWAPPING VOWS:
Blues and jazz singer Lou Rawls, 70, tying the knot with his girlfriend
of two years, 33-year-old flight attendant Malek Inman, on New Year's Day
in Memphis.
RUSH RAGE: Rush lead guitarist Alex Lifeson
(real name: Alex Zivojinovich) arrested for allegedly assaulting sheriff's
deputies and spitting blood on one during a New Year's Eve brawl at the Ritz
Hotel in Naples, Florida. Deputies said they had to use a stun gun on the
musician who they described as displaying drunken, violent behavior.
Zivojinovich's son said his father's nose was broken during the skirmish.
NORWEGIAN IDOL: Norway's Pop Idol, Kurt Nilsen,
achieved World Idol status Thursday, beating out American Idol
Kelly Clarkson to take first place in the international singing
competition between Idol winners from 11 countries. Clarkson finished
second and Belgium's Peter Everard took third.
LEARNED HIS
LESSON: Singer Ozzy
Osbourne telling Britain's Sunday Mirror he has given up
riding all-terrain vehicles for good after his near-fatal accident left him in a
coma for eight days last month. "When I woke I was so confused you could have
told me I was upside down in a kilt and I'd have believed you," the heavy metal
icon said. "I could have died or been paralyzed."
MOURNED:
British filmmaker Brian Gibson, best known for helming the award-winning
English drama Blue Remembered Hills as well as such Hollywood features as
The Josephine Baker Story, What's Love Got To Do With It, The
Juror, died Sunday in London of bone cancer. He was 59.
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