FIRST LOOK: The News in Brief, November 30, 2005

FETUS FLAP: The American College of Radiology complaining that Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes may be putting their fetus at risk by performing unsupervised sonogram tests and warning that the couple should not view their personal ultrasounds as a substitute for medical attention.

DIAL TONE: Meanwhile, Cruise, who is currently in China shooting scenes for Mission: Impossible 3, taking a cell phone away from a reporter who answered a call during a press event in Shanghai Wednesday and chatting with the surprised female caller.

QUALITY PROGRAMMING: HBO planning to document the opening of Heidi's Stud Farm, Heidi Fleiss' planned Nevada brothel of male prostitutes for female customers.

SLAMMER TIME: A judge slapping DMX with a seven-day jail sentence Wednesday, after the rapper pleaded guilty Tuesday to driving with a suspended license last April. DMX is already serving a 70-day sentence after pleading guilty to a separate charge last month.

REMEMBERED: Wendie Jo Sperber, best known for her roles as Tom Hanks' pal in Bosom Buddies and as Michael J. Fox's sister in Back to the Future, has died of breast cancer at age 47.

RE-STARRED: Gregory Peck getting a replacement star on Hollywood's Walk of Fame Wednesday after the late actor's star was stolen sometime earlier this month.

FOR THE KIDS: Alicia Keys and Bono teaming up to record the single "Don't Give Up (Africa)," and will donate all proceeds to Keep A Child Alive, which provides medicine to families infected with AIDS and the HIV virus.

SOAK UP THE SUNDANCE: Jennifer Aniston, Bruce Willis, Jessica Lange and Robin Williams among the stars with films on display at January's Sundance Film Festival.

CHART ATTACK: System of a Down making history this week by becoming the first band to debut atop the charts twice in the same calendar year with different studio albums. The band's Hypnotize landed the number one spot, with 320,000 copies sold, per Nielsen SoundScan data.

PRETTY PAYCHECK: Julia Roberts topping the Hollywood Reporter's annual Power List of Hollywood's highest paid actress. Roberts still pulls in $20 million a film, according to the trade magazine.

FACE FIRST: Meanwhile, Roberts selected as the face of fashion label Gianfranco Ferré for a new print campaign which launches in January 2006, Us Weekly reports.

ARE YOU EXPERIENCED? Lenny Kravitz reportedly in talks to play Jimi Hendrix in an upcoming biopic, per Fox News.

DIRTY MONEY: Jurors are now deliberating in the money laundering trial of Murder Inc. Records founders Irv and Chris "Gotti" Lorenzo.

STORK WATCH: Law & Order: Special Victims Unit star Mariska Hargitay and her husband, actor Peter Hermann, expecting their first child. No word on a due date.

STORK WATCH, PART II: White Stripes frontman Jack White and wife Karen Elson expecting their first child together.

DIAPER DUTY: Wayne's World star Tia Carrere and husband Simon Wakelin welcoming their first child together in September, a daughter named Bianca, People reports.

REUPPED: Fox picking up American Idol for an additional five seasons, with acid-tongued judge Simon Cowell locked in to appear on each one. Meanwhile, Fox says it will keep the results show on Wednesdays instead of moving it to Thursdays.

NOT AGAIN: Santa Barbara D.A. Tom Sneddon considering charging Michael Jackson on charges of conspiracy to export a controlled substance, per London's Sun.

GUESTING GAME: Tom Selleck signing on to guest star on an upcoming episode of Boston Legal, scheduled to air Feb. 21.

READY FOR SOME FOOTBALL: The Rolling Stones scheduled to provide halftime entertainment during Super Bowl XL at Ford Field in Detroit.

PULLING AN ELTON: George Michael says he will enter into an official civil partnership with his longtime boyfriend "early next year."

DANCES WITH LAWYERS: Kevin Costner suing Ascendant Pictures, alleging the company promised to pay him $8 million for a role in a feature never produced titled Taming Ben Taylor.

THAT'S THE SPIRIT: The Squid and the Whale leading in nominations for the 2006 Independent Spirit Awards, with a total of six, including Best Feature, Best Director and Best Screenplay.

INDIE PRIDE: Brokeback Mountain, Capote, Good Night, and Good Luck. and The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada also in the running for Best Feature at the 2006 Independent Spirit Awards.