FIRST LOOK: The News in Brief, June 14, 2005

BED BAN: Michael Jackson's attorney, Thomas Mesereau Jr., telling NBC's Today that the popster will no longer share his bed with boys. "He's not going to do that anymore," Mesereau said. "He's not going to make himself vulnerable to this anymore." After the verdict, a haggard-looking Jackson retired to bed.

JACKSON ADD: Despite clearing him of all charges, some jurors saying the acquittal didn't necessarily mean they thought Jackson hadn't molested any children and that three members had voted to acquit him only after being persuaded there was a reasonable doubt. "He's just not guilty of the crimes he's been charged with," panelist Ray Hultman said. "That's not to say he's an innocent man."

POSSIBLE COMEBACK? Jackson has been offered a long-term residency worth a reported $80 million to perform at Donald Trump's new Las Vegas casino, opening in 2007 or 2008.

SETTLING UP: Burt Reynolds and a former girlfriend have agreed to settle lawsuits they filed against each other in November, according to lawyers for both sides. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.

HANGING IN THERE: Australian popster Kylie Minogue thanking fans for their good wishes and support after she was diagnosed with breast cancer. She's expected to undergo further treatment when she returns to Europe.

IF IT MAKES THEM HAPPY: Lance Armstrong hinting that he and Sheryl Crow might be settling down after his final Tour de France this year.

JAGGED LITTLE DISC: Canadian music retailer HMV Canada on Monday pulling all of Alanis Morissette's albums from its shelves as a protests against the rocker releasing her latest disc, an acoustic version of Jagged Little Pill, exclusively through Starbucks for six weeks.

BLACK OR WHITE: Per the Hollywood Reporter, Tim Robbins in final talks to star in director Philip Noyce's fact-based drama Hot Stuff, about an ordinary man who resorts to terror during the apartheid in South Africa.

JOINING FORCES: Foo Fighters frontman Dave Grohl telling Howard Stern today on his radio show that his band and Weezer are in talks to team up for a fall tour.

LOCKED AND LOADED: Also in the Reporter, Clive Owen starring in Shoot 'Em Up, an action flick about a man entrusted to protect a baby from an army of gunmen.

ABOUT TIME: Director James Cameron will either make Battle Angel or another project tentatively titled Project 880 his first big-budget studio feature since Titanic. Both films will be shot in 3-D with custom-designed high definition cameras. Filming is slated to start in December.

SHAMING EBAY: After Live 8 organizer Bob Geldof blasted eBay for allowing scalpers to sell tickets to his London charity concert, calling it "sick profiteering," the online company shut down more than 100 ticket auctions from its Website today.

CHUMP CHANGE: A New York federal appeals court reducing a $132 million verdict against Island Def Jam Music Group and its former top executive to $127,000. The lawsuit, brought by TVT Records, was about an unreleased record from rapper Ja Rule.

RIDING HIGH: TNT rounding up 6.5 million total viewers to Friday's premiere of its epic limited series, Into the West, executive produced by Steven Spielberg.

ON THE HUNT: A 30th anniversary Jaws DVD in stores today featuring a two-hour documentary, deleted scenes, outtakes and a 60-page photo journal. The two-disc set retails for $23.

KUDOS! Robert Redford, Sharon Stone and Liv Ullmann set to receive top honors from the Karlovy Vary Film Festival in the Czech Republic, which opens July 1.

MOURNED: Memphis-born actor Lane Smith, who played Richard Nixon in the TV movie The Final Days and appeared in such films as The Legend of Bagger Vance, passing away Monday in Northridge, California of Lou Gehrig's disease. He was 69.