FIRST LOOK: The News in Brief, February 5, 2003
KITTY KIDMAN? Nicole Kidman has been offered the lead role in Warner Bros. planned feature film Catwoman based on the comic book character. The actress is waiting on a revised script, according to the Hollywood Reporter.
PILLOW FIGHT: Prosecutors are paying attention to Michael Jackson's slumber-party confessions, airing Thursday night on ABC. The Santa Barbara District Attorney's office, who investigated Jacko for child sex-abuse charges 10 years ago, plan to examine the documentary more closely, reports the New York Post.
MORE JACKO: British television network ITV's broadcast of Living with Michael Jackson attracted 15 million viewers when the documentary aired there on Monday. ABC paid between $4 to $5 million for rights to the special.
STORK WATCH: Elle Macpherson gave birth to a baby boy in London on Tuesday named Aurelius Cy Andrea. It's the second child for the model-actress and her Swiss partner, Arpad Busson.
BACK TO BACHELORHOOD: ABC's Bachelor Aaron Buerge, who proposed to Helene Eksterowicz at the end of the second season, is single again. He and Eksterowicz will rehash the breakup in an ABC special February 20.
15 MINUTES: Jennifer Lopez's former husband Cris Judd will join the cast of ABC's I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here! roughing it out Down Under beginning later this month.
GOING HOME: Claudia Schiffer checking out of a London hospital today with husband Matthew and son Casper in tow. The supermodel gave birth to the couple's first child by Caesarian there last week.
SCHIFFER SQUARES OFF: Meanwhile, Schiffer is scheduled to appear in court next month to testify against her alleged stalker, Agostino Pomata, who's accused of trespassing on the grounds of her English estate.
MORE THERAPY? Kelsey Grammer is weighing another season of Frasier. Industry buzz originally predicted that next year would be the last for the good doctor but the actor could prove them wrong, making Frasier Crane the longest-running character on television.
THE ENVELOPE PLEASE: Oscar winner Marisa Tomei will join Academy president Frank Pierson in announcing the Academy Awards nominees on February 11.
BYGONES: Courtney Love was released from police custody yesterday without any charges. The actress-singer was yanked from her Virgin Atlantic flight for cussing at a flight attendant.
HIP-HOP BOYCOTT: Russell Simmons plans to announce a boycott of Pepsi during the NBC All-Star weekend in Atlanta in response to the soda maker dropping Ludacris as a spokesman because of his vulgar language and subsequently signing on the foul-mouthed Osbourne family.
BUSTED! Michael Gramling, the car thief who stole Nicolas Cage's 1989 Porsche 911 two years ago, will spend five years in the slammer for the offence. Another defendant, airman Robert Clerkin, was already sentenced in a military court to six months in the stockade.
STAT OF THE DAY: People are getting it on twice as much on TV as they did four years ago, especially among teen-oriented shows, but the sex is much safer according to a survey by the Kaiser Family Foundation.
SPORTS 24/7: NBC will carry round the clock coverage of the 2004 Olympics in Athens, Greece, a first for the Peacock net, which nearly doubles the coverage provided of the 2000 games in Sydney.





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