FIRST LOOK: The News in Brief, January 17, 2000
BOX OFFICE UPDATE: Ice Cube's Next Friday leading the way at the weekend box office with an estimated $14.5 million through Sunday. Final estimates for the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday weekend due Tuesday.
OSMOND SPLIT: Mother of seven, Marie Osmond announces a "friendly" separation from Bill Blosil, her husband of 13 years. It will be the singer/talk show host's second failed marriage.
SWEPT AWAY: Fox moving That '70s Show to Monday nights, and benching Jennifer Love Hewitt's Time of Your Life and fellow first-year drama Get Real for the February sweeps.
RETIRING? Barbara Streisand telling TV Guide that her New Year's Eve performances in Las Vegas were her last.
AWARD-O-RAMA: The Golden Globe-rivalling Golden Satellites named The Insider the year's top movie drama, Being John Malkovich best movie comedy, NBC's The West Wing top TV drama and Fox's canceled Action best TV comedy.
EVEN MORE AWARDS: American Beauty, The Insider, The Matrix, The Sixth Sense and The Talented Mr. Ripley contending for the American Cinema Editors' best-edited dramas of 1999. Analyze This, Being John Malkovich, Election, Man on the Moon and Run Lola Run up for Eddies in the comedy category.
STILL JOKING: "I feel fantastic. In addition to rerouting the arteries, they also installed an E-Z [commuter] Pass," David Letterman cracked Saturday after quintuple bypass surgery.
NO SATISFACTION: British Prime Minister Tony Blair's office denying reports he had blocked Rolling Stones frontman Mick Jagger from being knighted by the Queen this year.
SPLIT: Actress Jena Malone (Contact, Stepmom), 15, won legal emancipation from her mother Friday. Malone accused her mom of squandering the teen's acting earnings.
R.I.P. The Directors Guild of America has stopped using Alan Smithee as a pseudonym filmmakers use when they don't want their own names attached to a film, the Los Angeles Times reports.
UPDATE: Honky-tonk crooner George Jones, nearly killed last year when driving drunk, has finished a two-week stint at an alcohol treatment program in Tennessee.
IT'S NOT AN ENGAGEMENT RING! Jerry Maguire star Renée Zellweger sporting a $200,000 diamond "friendship ring" from boyfriend Jim Carrey, the New York Daily News says.





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