FIRST LOOK: The News in Brief, January 20, 2003

GIVE 'EM THE OLD RAZZLE DAZZLE: Chicago sweeping the Musical/Comedy categories at Sunday's Golden Globe Awards, winning Best Picture, Best Actor (Richard Gere) and Best Actress (Renée Zellweger).

SPANNING THE GLOBES: The Hours won the Globe for Best Drama and star Nicole Kidman won Best Actress, Drama. Jack Nicholson got Best Actor, Drama, for About Schmidt and Martin Scosese was named Best Director for Gangs of New York.

STILL MORE GLOBES: Cable dominated the TV side, with FX's The Shield named Best Drama, HBO's Curb Your Entusiasm winning for Best Comedy and HBO's The Gathering Storm named the Best Miniseries/TV Movie.

AND ALL THAT JAZZ: Chicago also the big winner at the Critics' Choice Awards, winning trophies for Best Picture, Best Ensemble and Best Supporting Actress (Catherine Zeta-Jones). Julianne Moore won Best Actress for Far from Heaven and Jack Nicholson and Daniel Day-Lewis (Gangs of New York) tied for Best Actor.

HOPPING IN: Here's a sentence we'd never thought we'd write: Kangaroo Jack won the weekend box-office derby, taking in an estimated $17.7 million to hold off another comedy, Martin Lawrence's National Security, which took in $15.7 million. Final figures will be released Tuesday.

REST IN PEACE: Actor Richard Crenna, best known as the teen star of Our Miss Brooks and Sylvester Stallone's commander in the Rambo movies, died Friday of pancreatic cancer. He was 75.

FACING THE MUSIC: A California woman and her hubby arrested for trying to extort $13.5 million from Celine Dion's husband, Rene Angelil. The woman sued Angelil and filed a police report claiming he raped her in a Las Vegas hotel room. Angelil has denied the allegation.

CANDID CAMERA: Tucson police releasing the video of Diana Ross' December DUI arrest. The grainy, 42-minute audio-less footage shows Ross leaning on a police car, but doesn't show the diva taking a field sobriety test, during which she allegedly fell over.

SUPER TEAM-UP: A rare 1973 recording featuring John Lennon and Mick Jagger dueting on the old blues tune "Too Many Cooks" will be auctioned off in London on February 20.

GOOD INTENTIONS: The highly touted AIDS benefit to be hosted by Nelson Mandela and feature Bono and Elton John, among others, has been canceled due to production disputes.

FRIENDS NO MORE: NBC Entertainment President Jeff Zucker conceding on Friday that next year's 10th season of Friends will definitely be the last. Zucker surprised many by getting the cast to agree to do one more year.

SPLITSVILLE: Brit deejay Fatboy Slim ("Praise You") and his wife, BBC personality Zoe Ball, have split after almost four years of marriage. The couple, who have a two-year-old son, say the separation is amicable, and, according to a rep, they just want "a bit of breathing space."

GUARDIAN ANGEL: Jaclyn Smith telling TV Guide she's beaten breast cancer. The actress, who was diagnosed last summer during a routine checkup, underwent a lumpectomy and chemo. She'll appear in this summer's Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle.

SEE YA! A judge in Van Nuys, California, allowing another Robert Blake walk. Jennifer Keller announced her intention to leave earlier this week after learning that Blake hoped to tape an in-jail interview with Barbara Walters.

WILL & GRACE & FRIENDS: Madonna, Demi Moore and Minnie Driver among the big-name guest stars appearing on Will & Grace this season. Moore and Driver will show up during the upcoming February sweeps, and Madonna will pop in for May sweeps.