Pop diva Beyonce Knowles is in talks to star in DreamWorks' Dreamgirls, the adaptation of the Broadway hit that's a thinly veiled story of the rise of Diana Ross and the Supremes, according to Variety.
Knowles has previously starred in Austin Power in Goldmember and will be seen this summer starring with Steve Martin and Kevin Kline in The Pink Panther.
A sobbing Michael Jackson in 1993 begged a mother for permission to sleep with her 13-year-old boy, the beginning of a relationship that ended in a US$23 million settlement and left her estranged from her son ever since, the woman testified. In sometimes emotional testimony, the mother said she deeply regretted trusting the pop icon and hadn't spoken to her now-25-year-old son since shortly after the family reached the out-of-court settlement with Jackson over child molestation accusations in the mid-1990s.
Martha Stewart must keep wearing her electronic bracelet and abide by home confinement rules despite complaints the terms were hurting her efforts to revive her namesake company and work on new television projects, a federal judge ruled on Monday. US District Judge Miriam Goldman Cedarbaum also denied Stewart's arguments that she should get a new sentence because of a US Supreme Court ruling in January that held that federal sentencing guidelines are to be advisory rather than mandatory. The judge said the highest court's ruling would not change her decision in Stewart's case.
US hard-core porn pioneer Al Goldstein, who went from being the multimillionaire owner of Screw magazine to being homeless on the streets of Manhattan after his sleaze empire collapsed, is making a comeback. Goldstein, 69, last employed as a greeter at a Kosher deli and as a wholesale bagel salesman working on commission, is back promoting smut, this time over the medium that helped push him from his porn pedestal -- the Internet.
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