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FIRST LOOK: The News in Brief, July 5, 2005

FOUND WHAT HE'S LOOKING FOR: Bono winning a court battle to reclaim a pair of trousers and other items of memorabilia from a former U2 stylist.

TRIAL FILE: A federal judge stating that the Los Angeles Police Department "defied credulity" in explaining why certain documents were withheld in the wrongful-death lawsuit brought against Los Angeles by the family of slain rapper Notorious B.I.G.. The judge says he could sanction the city or declare a mistrial.

IT'S A GIRL: Angelina Jolie adopting an Ethiopian girl orphaned by AIDS this week, People magazine reports. The actress adopted her son, 3-year-old Maddox, from a Cambodian orphanage in 2002.

PESKY PIRATES: Pirated recordings of the Live 8 concerts are being removed from eBay's Website after the record industry complained. The illegal DVDs had been fetching bids up to $31.

OOPS, THEY DID IT AGAIN: The BBC apologizing to viewers after stars including Madonna and Snoop Dogg used swear words to spice up their performances during a live broadcast of Saturday's Live 8.

REMEMBERED: Legendary Hollywood screenwriter Ernest Lehman died Saturday in Los Angeles at age 89. The six-time Academy Award nominee penned the scripts for North by Northwest, West Side Story, The Sound of Music, Sabrina and Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, and he won an Honorary Oscar in 2001.

CODA: Obie Benson, an original member of Motown group the Four Tops, died last week in Detroit after a battle with lung cancer. He was 69.

FINAL RESPECTS: Funeral services for Luther Vandross taking place Wednesday and Thursday in New York, with a memorial service scheduled for Friday. Vandross died last Friday at 54.

ICE, ICE BABY: Fox ordering six episodes of a new reality show called Skating With Celebrities, which will mirror ABC's Dancing With the Stars, except contestants will be on skates.

READY TO COMPETE: Ninety-one countries invited to submit films for consideration in the Foreign Language Film category for the 78th Academy Awards.

ON THE BLOCK: Beverly Hills-based auctioneer Profiles in History selling off items from filmmaker Gary Kurtz's archive, including the light saber used by Luke Skywalker in Star Wars, which is expected to fetch between $60,000 to $80,000.

WAR OF THE BOX OFFICE: War of the Worlds winning the battle for the Fourth of July weekend, taking in a $77.1 million over the four-day period. Overall revenues were still down from the same period last year for the 19th straight weekend.

TAKING SIDES: New Jersey's acting governor, Richard J. Codey, siding with Brooke Shields in her feud with Tom Cruise, stating his wife had also struggled with postpartum depression and that Cruise should "stick to acting." Shields penned an op-ed in Friday's New York Times, bashing Cruise's "ridiculous rant" against psychiatry.

DATES, PLEASE: A Chicago judge in R. Kelly's child-pornography case asking prosecutors to give more specific dates of the alleged crimes. The singer is charged with 14 counts of child pornography between November 1997 and February 2002.

CODA: Country and Rockabilly singer "Big" Al Downing passing away Monday in Massachusetts from leukemia. He was 65.

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