FIRST LOOK: The News in Brief, December 7, 2003
THEY DO! Made-for-TV couple Trista Rehn and Ryan Sutter tied the knot Saturday in the Lodge in Rancho Mirage, a resort outside Palm Springs. The couple's nuptials will broadcast in a Bachelorette wedding special Wednesday on ABC.
THEY MIGHT: Gwyneth Paltrow and rocker beau Chris Martin applying for a marriage license in Santa Barbara County, Entertainment Tonight reported Friday, two days after the couple announced that Paltrow is pregnant with their first child. The wedding license is valid for 90 days.
CRUISE CONTROL: Tom Cruise's The Last Samurai earned an estimated $24.4 million this weekend, sweeping into the top box-office slot, left wide open as family films already in the marketplace took a sharp nosedive.
HUNCHBACK OF BEVERLY HILLS: Ozzy Osbourne telling the Los Angeles Times he was overprescribed a host of powerful anti-psychotic and tranquilizing drugs by a Beverly Hills physician, resulting in his oft-bizarre behavior on the hit TV series The Osbournes. The doctor, David Kipper, is being investigated for overprescribing drugs to other celeb patients.
HIS HOMETOWN: Bruce Springsteen's Saturday night benefit show in his adopted hometown of Asbury Park, New Jersey, postponed due to the massive snow storm that swept up the East Coast.
HILARY POP: Lizzie McGuire star Hilary Duff selling out her first string of headlining theater dates as a pop star in less than 30 minutes on the strength of 1.2 million in sales for her debut album, Metamorphosis released in August.
FIRE: Power of Soul, a Jimi Hendrix tribute disc featuring a previously unreleased Stevie Ray Vaughan medley, as well as newly recorded covers from Prince, George Clinton and Bootsy Collins and Eric Clapton, hitting stores May 4. It will benefit the United Negro College Fund.
SMALL VICTORY: Florida prosecutors dropping a drug-possession count against Joe Francis, the creator of the Girls Gone Wild video series, after his attorney provided a prescription for some pills. However, Francis still faces 43 other charges, including a second possession count, racketeering and promoting the sexual performance of a child.
THE PEACE CANDIDATE: Willie Nelson planning to hold his first fundraising concert for presidential candidate Dennis Kucinich on January 3 at the Austin Music Hall in Texas. The evening will also feature Tim Reynolds and Michelle Shocked.
GOING TO WAR: Jay Rifkin, one-half of the team who composed the award-winning film score for The Lion King, filing a $10 million lawsuit against partner Hans Zimmer accusing him of plotting to take over their famed Santa Monica, California music studio.
LUCK OF THE IRISH: Nineteen-year-old Miss Ireland Rosanna Davison crowned Miss World 2003 on Saturday in Communist China's first international beauty pageant.
SICK BAY: David Bowie postponing the first two dates of the North American leg of his "A Reality Tour" this weekend in Atlantic City and Washington D.C. on December 6 and 7 after coming down with the flu. The trek will now kick off December 9 in Boston.
FORGET IOWA: Democratic presidential candidate Al Sharpton set to host this weekend's broadcast of Saturday Night Live, however viewers in Iowa didn't see it because of election rules.





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