CHEERS: The California Highway Patrol is recommending that Kelsey Grammer be charged with drunk driving after flipping his Dodge Viper near his home in Agoura Hills on Saturday. Grammer crawled out of his crushed car, was taken to a hospital and released shortly after. He was convicted on a series of drunk-driving and cocaine-possession charges in the late '80s.
SETTLEMENT: Clint Eastwood and Sondra Locke have settled her lawsuit against him while the jury was still deliberating. Clint will pay Sondra an unspecified amount of cash.
HOLA: Melanie Griffith and Antonio Banderas are celebrating the birth of a baby girl today in Marbella, Spain.
REVEALING: Fifties sex goddess Brigitte Bardot releases her autobiography October first, shortly after she turns 62. She doesn't remember Alain Delon or Marlon Brando kindly.
LIVING COLOR: Black Entertainment Television and Encore Media launch BET Movies next February, the first cable movie channel devoted to black-themed movies and black stars. On the schedule: Seven, A Good Man in Africa, Clockers and How to Make an American Quilt.
AIR SPINOFF: Warner Bros. hopes to sell a billion dollars worth of toys, clothing, books, housewares and sports accessories, all spinning off the November release of Space Jam, the semi-animated movie starring Michael Jordan and Bugs Bunny, says the Wall Street Journal. In what may be an early indication of success, nearly all the posters for the movie were stolen from bus stops in Los Angeles last month by collectors.
GRILLED NEWS: Burger King won the rights to promote the Jurassic Park sequel next summer...Planet Hollywood opened in Moscow today with actor-owner Arnold Schwarzenegger on hand.
MARRIED GUY: Jim Carrey and Lauren Holly were married in Los Angeles on Sunday. He's in the middle of filming Liar, Liar.
SOLO ACT: Hillary Clinton welcomed Princess Diana to the White House for lunch as part of the buildup to tonight's big charity fashion show in Washington for breast cancer research, an event Di chairs. Clinton praised her guest for her "tireless commitment" to cancer, AIDS and other health issues.
SKOL: Seagram will keep its campaign going to get liquor ads back on television, despite criticism from President Clinton. The distiller is offering lots of cash to independent stations to take its commercials. The latest to fall off the wagon: WNDS in Derry, New Hampshire.
GUINEA PIGS: Sony is running a contest to recruit four part-time beta-testers for the launch of The Station later this year, a site featuring interactive versions of Jeopardy and other TV productions, as well as made-for-the-Web entertaintment.
BLESSED QUIET: On Friday night, David Letterman scored his best ratings in more than 16 months (and beat Jay Leno for the first time since December) with an experimental show that had no commercials.
GOOD WORKS: Patti Smith, Jon Bon Jovi and Tony Rich headline a concert for Lifebeat, the music industry's AIDS organization, set for October 12 in Washington, D.C. Among the items to be auctioned: Alanis Morissette's harmonica.
GIGS: Laurence Fishburne, Teresa Wright, Mary Kay Place, Mickey Rourke and Virginia Madsen have been hired for The Rainmaker, the John Grisham tale to be directed by Francis Ford Coppola...Janeane Garofalo is in talks to star in a screwball comedy, The Misadventures of Margaret...Glenn Close and Wendy Crewson (who's about to be seen in the Tupac Shakur film Gang Related) join Harrison Ford in Air Force One.
NO QUEENS: Warner Bros. plans a production of Boyfriends, about a gay frat house, billed as the first studio movie about gays that doesn't involve drag queens or illness, says Daily Variety.
SCRIBES: Prolific sci-fi author Arthur C. Clarke is developing a miniseries about the 21st century...The estate of Anthony Burgess, author of A Clockwork Orange has sold the film rights to his last novel, A Dead Man in Deptford. It's about 16th century playwright Christopher Marlowe...Olivia Goldsmith, writer of the First Wives Club novel that's doing boffo business as a movie, hasn't even finished her next book, Switcheroo, but already there's a bidding war on among the studios.
DEATHS: Paul Weston, musical arranger who worked with all the great Hollywood singing stars from Rudy Vallee to Judy Garland and composed "I Should Care" and other pop tunes, is dead at 84 in Santa Monica...Winston "Tony" Cox, 55, former head of the Showtime cable network and a crusader against TV violence, died at 55 of a heart attack in New York.
EXPOSURE: Italian actress Valeria Marini is suing to get the movie Bambola pulled from circulation because it shows too much nudity--of her.