FIRST LOOK: The News in Brief, August 21, 1998
MOVIE ADD: The studio behind Joe Black, to open November 13, denies the thing is as much as $30 million over budget.
OH, THOSE LONDON TABS: According to The Sun, bride-to-be Posh Spice is three months pregnant. No word from Spice Girls camp.
FOR RENT: The two-bed SoHo apartment--complete with bad view, rusted sink and rotten floorboards--where Jonathan Larson wrote Rent. The price: $3,000 a month.
SUPER HAUL: Fox reportedly getting a hefty $1.6 million for a 30-second commercial on the 1999 Super Bowl. That's up 23 percent from this year's game on NBC.
BATTLE ROYALE: O.J. Simpson's ex-in-laws were in court today to try to win back custody of his and Nicole Brown Simpson's two children.
SIMPSON ADD: However, Sydney and Justin Simpson want to stay with their father, their attorney told the court Friday.
HEART WON'T GO ON? Celine Dion talking semiretirement in today's USA Today. She says she thinks the career is thwarting her baby plans.
DION ADD: The songstress opens her latest tour tonight in Boston. Protests are planned by activists targeting the event sponsor, a cel-phone company.
MUY MEA CULPA: A Los Angeles radio station, whose talk host called Bill Cosby's wife "just nuts," aired an apology to the celeb couple eight times in a two-hour period.
POW! The creator of Blade, the comic, suing the studio behind Blade, the new movie, in a battle over ownership of the character.
STARRED: Blade star Wesley Snipes to get the Hollywood Walk of Fame treatment today, in star-unveiling ceremonies.
SMOKIN': Jackie Gleason's family suing a cigar-store chain for alleged unauthorized use of the late comic's image in an ad.
UNLIKE THE DI DOLL: Princess Diana's memorial fund threatening lawsuits against 50-plus companies that have slapped the late royal's face on their cheeseball trinkets.
TRASH TALK: Howard Stern vowing to best "lame" Saturday Night Live with his new late-night TV show, bowing tomorrow.
ACTION! Oscar-winner Denzel Washington to make his directing debut on Finding Fish, about a security guard-turned-screenwriter, Daily Variety says. For casting news, see Dotted Line.
EMMY WATCH: Dawson's Creek's James Van Der Beek and Katie Holmes set as presenters for next month's prime-time Emmy Awards.
ICE, ICE BABY: ABC and ESPN swipe pro hockey from Fox with a five-year, $600 million deal.
FACE LIFT: Local L.A. news' Kyle Kraska tapped as sole anchor of the revamped Hard Copy, launching September 14.
BRANCHING OUT: Woody Harrelson enlisting celebs like Julia Roberts in a campaign to protect California redwoods.
OBITUARY: A producer of 1995's acclaimed Leaving Las Vegas is dead of cancer. Stuart Regen was 39.





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