FIRST LOOK: The News in Brief, November 15, 2005

SEEKING PIRATE BOOTY: Los Angeles management company The Firm suing actor Orlando Bloom for $660,000 in commissions stemming from his upcoming roles in the second and third installments of the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise.

BY THE BOOK: 50 Cent launching a hip-hop book line called G-Unit Books, featuring street fiction about members of his G-Unit crew, including Lloyd Banks, Tony Yayo, Young Buck and Olivia.

WHAT A WOMAN: GQ naming Jennifer Aniston its Woman of the Year, along with Men of the Year Vince Vaughn and 50 Cent.

SHUT THEM UP: The Rolling Stones' San Francisco concert drawing numerous noise complaints Sunday, leading city officials to monitor whether SBC Park is obeying noise laws.

SWEEPS WEEK: CBS dominating the second leg of November sweeps, claiming victories in total viewers (averaging 14.5 million) and the 18-49 demographic. CSI was the most-watched show with 29.5 million viewers.

VERDICT WATCH: Jurors in Robert Blake's wrongful death civil trial completing their fifth day of deliberations without reaching a verdict. The panel resumes deliberations Wednesday.

CAMPAIGN BACKLASH: The National Legal and Policy Center filing an FEC complaint against P. Diddy, contending the hip-hop mogul violated election law in his 2004 "Vote or Die" campaign by promoting Democrat John Kerry and opposing President George W. Bush.

BUSTED: Los Angeles police launching an investigation after viewing video footage shot by TMZ.com, featuring Jackass' Steve-O with a bag of marijuana.

SETTLED: Sharon Stone reaching a settlement in her lawsuit against a plastic surgeon who claimed to have worked on her face.

ON A MISSION: Mark David Chapman, the man who murdered John Lennon, saying in a Dateline NBC interview airing Friday that "nothing could have stopped" his quest to kill the former Beatle.

PICTURE PERFECT: Halle Berry stepping in as the new face of Versace, per the New York Post.

MODEL BEHAVIOR: Rivals Tyra Banks and Naomi Campbell, who have reportedly been feuding for 14 years, facing off on Friday's episode of The Tyra Banks Show.

NEW DIGS: Michael Jackson shelling out $1.5 million for a quarter-acre property on one of Bahrain's man-made Amwaj Islands, where he reportedly plans to build a permanent home, per the New York Post.

OFF THE WALL: Meanwhile, the Khaleej Times reporting that police were called to a Dubai shopping mall on Saturday to resolve a dispute between Jackson and a Tunisian woman who took pictures of him with her camera phone after spotting him in a women's restroom.

SUING MAD: Doris Roberts suing her former agent for more than $2 million for allegedly failing to represent her properly in dealings with the producers of Everybody Loves Raymond.

PUCKER UP: Sex and the City author Candace Bushnell adapting her latest novel, Lipstick Jungle, into a half-hour series for NBC, per trade reports.

JUST BECAUSE: Mandy Moore signing on to play Diane Keaton's daughter in the comedy Because I Said So, which begins shooting later this month, per Daily Variety.

AHOY, PIRATES: The International Federation for the Phonographic Industry launching legal cases against illegal file sharers in Sweden, Switzerland, Argentina, Hong Kong and Singapore for the first time, in an attempt to curb piracy.

PICKED UP: NBC ordering a full season of freshman drama E-Ring, per trade reports.

DROPPED: ABC canceling Night Stalker after six airings due to gruesome ratings, per the trades.

NOT A GOOD THING: NBC opting not to order a second season of The Apprentice: Martha Stewart, due to weak ratings. The finale airs next month.

RECOVERING: Former Baywatch babe Brooke Burns hospitalized over the weekend after diving mishap in swimming pool. She broke a bone in her neck but is expected to make a full recovery.

THAT'S A NICE: Kazakhstan's foreign ministry threatening to take British comedian Sacha Baron Cohen to court over his popular Ali G Show character Borat. The ministry says Cohen's character wrongly portrays the central Asian nation's people as drunks whose local wine is fermented with horse urine.