FIRST LOOK: The News in Brief, August 13, 2001
STATE OF THE ARTERY: ABC funnyguy Drew Carey released from a hospital Saturday after undergoing a successful procedure to unblock a coronary artery. "He's doing great," publicist Christina Papadopoulos tells the Associated Press. "He's happy to be home."
PHANTOM MENACE! Star Wars actor Ewan McGregor telling a British newspaper he will never move to Hollywood because he despises the studio system. "I might like working there," he tells Sunday's You magazine, "but I'd never live there."
ALL IN FAVOR: The Screen Actors Guild and the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists overwhelmingly voting to approve a new contract that includes a 9.5 percent pay increase over the next three years for television actors. The guilds reached a deal with Hollywood producers July 3.
WHEN ACTORS ATTACK: Former Little House on the Prairie star and SAG presidential hopeful Melissa Gilbert blasting rival candidate Valerie Harper and outgoing prez William Daniels as ineffectual leaders.
ELEVATION: U2 launching its European tour in England, moving the crowd with pleas for peace in Northern Ireland. "Compromise is not such a bad word after all," Bono told the sell-out crowd in the northern city of Manchester.
STILL A VIRGIN: Lenny Kravitz has reupped with Virgin Records, the label announced Monday. Kravitz is finishing up his seventh Virgin album for release later this year.
JAM ON, JERMAINE: Despite publicly complaining about ticket prices and threatening to boycott his brother's party, Jermaine Jackson deciding to join the rest of the Jackson 5 for Michael Jackson's 30th anniversary bash September 7 and 10 at Madison Square Garden.
ON THE JOB: Oscar winner Al Pacino teaming up with Tigerland actor Colin Farrell for The Farm, a CIA suspense thriller that begins shooting in November.
GUITAR GOD: Gibson Guitar honoring Les Paul and his guitar model's 50th anniversary in New York on Monday night. The 86-year-old guitarist will open the Iridium club. He'll be accompanied by Slash, Mick Jones, Tom Peterson, Tico Torres and young jazz artist Mark Whitfield.
ALWAYS GLAD YOU CAME: The owners of The Bull & Finch pub--the inspiration for Cheers--opening an exact replica of the Cheers set in Boston's Faneuil Hall next week.
TEEN FAVORITES: 'N Sync winning for Best Single for "Pop," while Britney Spears was named Favorite Female Artist at the Teen Choice Awards. Ben Affleck took a break from rehab to show up for the ceremonies.
BUENA VISTA SOCIAL CLUB: The New York Post reporting that the Treasury Department plans to question CBS president Les Moonves about a private trip he and other entertainment moguls took to Cuba for dinner with Fidel Castro.
DEATH ROW HISTORY: Now that he's out of jail, Marion "Suge" Knight telling MTV that Death Row Records will now move forward with a new name--Tha Row--and change its sound after signing fresh R&B singers and a whole slew of young emcees.





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