BOX-OFFICE CHANGE: The road-rage drama Changing Lanes skidding in as the new number one film at the weekend box office with $17.1 million. Panic Room fell to second place after two weeks on top.
PHONING HOME: Steven Spielberg's rerelease of E.T. earning $1.5 million over the weekend to surpass Star Wars: Episode I--The Phantom Menace for third place on the all-time domestic box office list. Its 20-year total now stands at $433 million, behind the original Star Wars and Titanic.
PLAY MISTY FOR ME: Music lover Clint Eastwood signing on to direct a segment for The Blues, a seven-part PBS documentary series on the history of the blues that's being executive produced by Martin Scorsese.
EASTWOOD ADD: The actor-director lost the distinction of owning the country's largest known hardwood tree last week, when a new champion bluegum eucalyptus was discovered in Petrolia, California, taking first place in the 2002 National Register of Big Trees.
GET REAL: Thanks to the amazing popularity of The Osbournes, MTV in talks to create new reality shows featuring the likes of rapper P. Diddy and Brandy, who could have cameras follow her during her pregnancy.
YEEHAW! Trevor Nunn's revival of Oklahoma! snagging a field-best 10 nominations for this year's Outer Critics Circle Awards, a tune-up to the Tony Awards. Winners will be announced on April 29.
FINALLY FINDING WORK: MTV producing a scripted movie based on The Real World and featuring former cast members of the long-running show. The Real World--Lost Season would revolve around a group of cast members who are kidnapped by a psychotic reality show wannabe.
BUNDLE OF JOY: Actress Julianne Moore giving birth to her second child, a little girl, late last week, her longtime boyfriend, director Bart Freundlich, tells E! News Live.
WEB-A-THON: ABC Family airing an animated Spider-Man marathon during Memorial Day weekend, drawing on episodes culled from the '60s, '80s, '90s and current versions.
BYE BYE BYE: A federal judge in Los Angeles dismissing a lawsuit brought against pop superstars 'N Sync by puppet makers Sid and Marty Krofft over an alleged copyright violation.
MUM'S THE WORD: British actor Hugh Grant politely refusing to answer questions surrounding former girlfriend Liz Hurley and her newborn son at the London premiere of his latest film, About a Boy, on Sunday.
IN COURT: John Cusack aboard the long-delayed adaptation of the John Grisham novel The Runaway Jury, while Naomi Watts is being considered to play the female lead.
MAC ATTACK! Fox giving the green-light to a second season of its popular The Bernie Mac Show, the network's highest ranking new show of the season.
BACK TO THE TUBE: Mia Farrow returning to television in the CBS comedy pilot Julie Lydecker, playing the flighty mom of series star Mary McCormack.
X DOESN'T MARK THE SPOT: Whoopi Goldberg bowing out as center square and executive producer of Hollywood Squares after failing to reach a new deal with syndicator King World Productions to return for a fifth season.
MARKETING DAVE: As part of its new deal with David Letterman, CBS significantly stepping up the marketing of The Late Show with David Letterman, advertising the show during more sports programming and the Viacom-owned MTV to target younger audiences.
NOT SO GOODMAN: British stage actor Henry Goodman, who replaced Nathan Lane as Max Bialystock in The Producers, fired from the Broadway musical Sunday, the New York Post reports. He will likely be replaced by Brad Oscar, who currently appears in the show as deranged Nazi playwright Franz Liebkind.
ANNIE GET YOUR GUN: Tony winner Bernadette Peters headed back to Broadway in 2003 to star as Mamma Rose in the musical Gypsy.
NO LONGER SPONGE-WORTHY: SpongeBob Squarepants creator Steve Hillenburg telling the Los Angeles Times that, after 60 episodes, he is taking an indefinite break from the hit Nickelodeon 'toon. The cable net has the option of continuing without him.
FUTURE CAREER? Olympic gold medal swimmer Dara Torres winning the Toyota Pro-Celebrity Race on Saturday, becoming the first woman to win the car race in its 26-year history. Christopher Masterson of Malcolm in the Middle was second.
DREAM TEAM: Nas and rival Jay-Z both appearing on separate tracks of The Fix, the new album by hardcore hip-hop legend Scarface due out on July 2.
WHAT'S IN A NAME? Locobazooka, a sort-of Lollapalooza festival for metal bands, set to hit the road this summer with Filter and Sevendust headlining.