FIRST LOOK: The News in Brief, April 20, 2006

CURTAIN CALL: Julia Roberts making her Broadway debut Wednesday in Three Days of Rain. Celebs including Oprah Winfrey, James Gandolfini, Dave Matthews and Diane Sawyer turning out for the performance, which received generally negative reviews from critics.

EARMUFFS: The California State Supreme Court ruling that a writer's assistant was not sexually harassed, as she claimed, when writers for NBC's Friends used "sexually coarse and vulgar language" around her because the remarks were made in a "creative workplace" by people working on an "adult-oriented" show.

REVOLVING DOOR: CBS Radio close to pulling the plug on David Lee Roth's morning radio show and replacing him with Opie and Anthony's syndicated XM satellite radio show.

GETTING HELP: A London judge sentencing Pete Doherty to 18 months of drug rehab, forbidding him for driving for six months and giving him two years of probation.

MORE SHAMBLES: Just hours after his court appearance Thursday, Doherty reportedly arrested on suspicion of possession of drugs with intent to supply, the BBC reports.

SEEING GREEN: Expectant father Brad Pitt teaming with Global Green to create a design contest in New Orleans with the aim of helping to rebuild the city.

ON THE BLOCK: Dave Matthews, Paul McCartney, Glenn Close and Martha Stewart among the headliners at the Third Annual Chevy Chase Earth Day Auction.

CANNES DO: The Da Vinci Code, United 93 and X-Men: The Last Stand among the films showing out of competition at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival. The American films in competition include Sofia Coppola's Marie-Antoinette and Richard Kelly's Southland Tales.

BOOTED: Ace Young eliminated from American Idol Wednesday, leaving six contestants still in the running.

MOURNED: Emmy-winning producer-director Scott Brazil, whose shows included The Shield and Hill Street Blues, died Monday of respiratory failure due to Lou Gehrig's disease and Lyme disease complications. He was 50.

IDENTITY ISSUE: A judge dismissing an invasion of privacy lawsuit filed by a woman who claims she was the star of Kid Rock and Scott Stapp's sex tape, unless she agrees to reveal her name.

SOUTHBOUND: Lindsay Lohan, Felicity Huffman and Jane Fonda attached to star in Georgia Rule about a young woman who has a dysfunctional relationship with her mother and is sent to spend the summer with her grandmother, per Daily Variety.

CATCH A WHIFF: KISS launching a new fragrance line for both men and women, due to hit department stores in September.

GETTING SOME SATISFACTION: Mick Jagger in talks to appear in an untitled ABC comedy pilot about a group of blue-collar guys in New York who decide to rob a celebrity, per the Hollywood Reporter.

TAKE A CHANCE ON MIA: Campy musical Mamma Mia, inspired by the music of ABBA, being adapted to the big screen by Tom Hanks' production company, per Daily Variety.

VEGAS MEETS THE BEATLES: Tickets going on sale Wednesday for Love, a new Las Vegas Cirque du Soleil show that combines the acrobatic troupe's signature high-flying antics with classic Beatles tunes. The Fab Four's original producer, Sir George Martin, helped arrange the score. Love premieres June 30 at the Mirage hotel.

FINAL TRIBUTE: Eminem, 50 Cent and Obie Trice among the more than 2,000 mourners who packed a Detroit chapel Wednesday to say goodbye to D12 rapper Proof, who was shot to death at a Detroit nightclub last week. The funeral started 45 minutes late to accommodate the long line of people waiting to enter the church.

GOING THE DISTANCE: Lance Armstrong announcing that he plans to compete Nov. 5 in the New York City Marathon. The star cyclist won seven consecutive Tour de France titles.

TEMPORARY REPRIEVE: Sentencing for Survivor winner Richard Hatch on tax evasion charges postponed until May 16, giving his lawyers time to rebut a government memo suggesting Hatch should get extra prison time for allegedly obstructing justice.