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FIRST LOOK: The News in Brief, November 21, 2004

TREASURE TROVE: Nicolas Cage's action-adventure flick National Treasure dug up $35.2 million to top the weekend box office and squish The SpongeBobSquarePants Movie, which mopped up $33.5 million.

HOLDING HIS TONGUE: Earle Caldwell, Robert Blake's former bodyguard and former codefendant, has invoked his Fifth Amendment right in court in Los Angeles Friday, where he was asked to testify in advance of Blake's trial.

CIVIC DUTY: Meanwhile, Blake's lawyers screening more prospective jurors for the Baretta star's trial.

MY BIG FAT BISEXUAL CONQUEROR: Many Greeks are outraged by the portrayal of Alexander the Great as bisexual in Oliver Stone?s new epic Alexander, Reuters reports. Stone has asserted that Alexander?s love for his male friend Hephaestion is historically accurate; a group of Greek lawyers is threatening to sue.

JACKSON WATCH: Michael Jackson sued by a Los Angeles furniture store that claims he owes almost $180,000 for items he purchased in May, including an "Austrian gold-plated dancing girl," according to the suit. It's the second lawsuit filed against Jackson this week--on Tuesday, porn producer Marc Schaffel sued him for $3 million in unpaid loans and fees.

BAD VIBE: Young Buck, the rapper who allegedly stabbed a man at the Vibe Awards this week, gave up to Santa Monica police on Friday, according to his attorney. He is free on $500,000 bail and will fight the assault charge, per his lawyer.

THE LOW-TALKER WOULD BE PROUD: Jerry Seinfeld to donate the infamous puffy shirt he wore on an episode of Seinfeld to the Smithsonian as part of a promotion for the upcoming DVD release of the first three seasons of the show.

INVESTIGATING NUMBER ONE: The 100th episode of CBS' CSI drew 31.44 million viewers, making it the most-watched episode ever.

ACTING IS HARD: Law & Order: CI star Vincent D'Onofrio was released from a New York hospital Friday after a diagnosis of exhaustion. The actor has suffered several fainting spells over the last few weeks.

THE REVOLVING COURTROOM DOOR: Actress Annie Parisse will replace Elisabeth Rohm as Sam Waterston?s prosecutorial sidekick on NBC?s Law & Order. Rohm is leaving the show to pursue a film career.

WEDDING BELLS: Former Noxema girl Rebecca Gayheart married Wonder Years alum Eric William Dane.

CODA: Cy Coleman, composer of Broadway musicals such as Sweet Charity and City of Angels, died Thursday in New York of heart failure. He was 75.

MEASURE OF A MAN: Clay Aiken has postponed the first three dates of his Joyful Noise tour due to vocal-chord damage resulting from a sinus infection.

NOT ON THIS STATION: New York public television station WNET is rejecting a commercial for the new film Kinsey due to concerns the spot is too "provocative." Some conservative groups have been critical of the film's sexual nature.

WHAT DOES PED X-ING MEAN? Tori Spelling reached a settlement with a woman who sued the Beverly Hills, 90210 alum for unspecified damages after Spelling's car struck her in a crosswalk and fractured her shoulder.

PASSION OF THE OSCAR: Mel Gibson has vowed not to spend a penny on pushing The Passion of the Christ for a nomination in the Best Picture category at the Academy Awards. Instead Gibson is sending out thousands of screeners of the film to members of the Academy and other Industry guilds that vote on the nominees.

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