FIRST LOOK: The News in Brief, June 27, 2006

APPETITE FOR DEGUSTATION: Axl Rose detained in Stockholm, Sweden, for allegedly biting a security guard in the leg outside of his hotel following a performance Monday night, police said. Apparently, room service was closed for the night.

SAY WHAT?! "What you don't know is that my contract was not renewed for the 10th season. I feel like I was fired."
--Star Jones, airing her views on her View exit to People magazine.

BUH-BYE, BAHRAIN: Michael Jackson relocating to Europe in order to revive his flagging musical career, his spokesperson, Raymone K. Bain, said Tuesday. Jackson also naming Bain his "general manager," as part of a "sweeping restructuring" of his affairs, she said. At this point, change could only be a good thing.

READMITTED: Genie Frances returning to ABC's General Hospital as Laura Spencer, the role she originated three decades ago. You know, back when people actually watched the soaps.

GOT THE BLUES: Rush Limbaugh held up for more than three hours at Palm Beach International Airport Monday after authorities said they found a bottle of Viagra in his things without a prescription. The radio host's attorney said a doctor had prescribed the erectile dysfunction drug, but that it was labeled as being issued to the physician instead of Limbaugh for "privacy purposes." That plan worked out well.

OH, POOH: The U.S. Supreme Court ending a battle by Winnie the Pooh author A.A. Milne's granddaughter and the Walt Disney Co. to strip rights to the popular children's books from long-time licensee Stephen Slesinger and have them reassigned to Disney. We're guessing someone's even gloomier than Eeyore as a result.

IF YOU CAN'T BEAT 'EM: NBC announcing plans to promote its fall television lineup on YouTube by making promo clips available to the video-sharing site. "Rather than putting our heads in the sand and saying this doesn't exist, we're trying to jump in and embrace it," Chief Marketing Officer John Miller said. That's the spirit! Now put "Lazy Sunday" back up.

WORKERS' COMP: Yet another one of Naomi Campbell's maids suing the supermodel for assault, after claiming Campbell hit her in January when she couldn't find a specific pair of jeans. The latest suit comes as Campbell is due in court Tuesday to face charges that she hit a different maid in the head with a cell phone for a similar reason: a missing pair of jeans. It's just so hard to find good help these days.

ONE CRAZY SUMMER: John Cusack requesting a restraining order against a 31-year-old woman he says has been stalking him by throwing notes onto his property and listing his address as her own so that mail addressed to her is coming to his house, according to TMZ.com. Well, at least she's not standing outside his window with a boom box, blasting Peter Gabriel songs...yet.

GET SIRIUS: Barbara Walters teaming up with Sirius satellite radio under a deal with ABC News allowing the veteran newswoman's high-profile interviews from the last three decades to be rebroadcast in a weekly two-hour special. Walters will also host a one-hour call-in special four times a year, called "Ask Barbara Anything."

HOW THE GRINCH STOLE BROADWAY: Look out, Santa Claus. How the Grinch Stole Christmas making its Broadway debut Nov. 8 at the Hilton Theater and running through January 2007.

COPPING A PLEA: Apparently, these cops weren't on Tony's payroll. John Ventimiglia, who plays Artie Bucco on The Sopranos, pleading guilty Monday to drunk driving after he was stopped by police last month.