FIRST LOOK: The News in Brief, October 19, 2005

PARIS IS BURNING: Paris Hilton denying claims made by Tom Sizemore on his DVD, Tom Sizemore Sex Scandal, that he shared an overnight experience with the celebutante. "It's disappointing that Mr. Sizemore has to use my name to sell his DVDs," she said in a statement. "He is not an acquaintance of mine nor have I ever had intimate relations with him."

NOT AMUSED: Lawyers for the Church of Scientology ordering the owners of a Website devoted to mocking Tom Cruise to stop using the domain name ScienTOMogy.info, claiming that Web surfers might confuse the satirical site with the Church's real site.

SWEET HOME OHIO: Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes considering buying a $1.5 million home in Toledo, Ohio so that Holmes, who hails from the area, can be closer to her family, NBC reports.

FOUND: Police arresting a 20-year-old man suspected of robbing Lost star Josh Holloway's Hawaii home at gunpoint last week.

AILING: Oscar-winning actress Shelley Winters, 83, in a Los Angeles-area hospital recovering from a heart attack suffered last Friday. She's expected to remain hospitalized for another week.

DELAYED: The release of Jessica Simpson's latest album being pushed back from Nov. 22 to spring 2006, Us Weekly reports.

BUSTED: Rapper-turned-actor Sticky Fingaz arrested on a charge that he left an unlicensed handgun in a Manhattan hotel room, police said.

NOT FAMILY FRIENDLY: The Parents Television Council rating four Fox shows, including The War at Home, The Family Guy and American Dad, as worst prime-time shows for family viewing.

CHART ATTACK: Alicia Keys's latest album, Unplugged, topping the charts with 196,000 copies sold, per Nielsen SoundScan data. Young Jeezy rounding out the top 10 with Let's Get It.

ON HOLD: Hurricane Wilma forcing MTV to postpone the MTV Video Music Awards Latin America, which had been scheduled for Wednesday at Mexico's Playa del Carmen resort.

DANCE WITH THE DEVIL: A walk-on appearance in the Meryl Streep film The Devil Wears Prada among the items up for bid at StarwoodKatrinaAuction.com. Proceeds from the auction aid Hurricane Katrina relief efforts.

BACK FOR MORE: Fox renewing So You Think You Can Dance for a second season. The reality series will return next summer.

USING THE FORCE: Spike TV paying between $65 million and $70 million for a six-year exclusive deal covering all six movies in the Star Wars franchise, Daily Variety reports. The cabler grabbed the first network window for Star Wars: Episode III: Revenge of the Sith, which will air in April 2008.

SWEET REVENGE: Meanwhile, Revenge of the Sith winning the Hollywood Film Festival's Movie of the Year award, based on public online voting. George Lucas to receive the award Monday at the Hollywood Awards Gala.

MORE FUSS: The Killers reissuing their album Hot Fuss in a limited-edition boxed set featuring individual seven-inch vinyl singles for every track on the album, Billboard reports.

BACK TO SCHOOL: Madonna surprising students at Hunter College Tuesday by showing up as a guest lecturer at a film class where an advance screening of her documentary I'm Going to Tell You a Secret had just been shown. The appearance was filmed for MTVu's series Stand In.

KUDOS: Tim McGraw's hit "Live Like You Were Dying," penned by Tim Nichols, scoring the Robert J. Burton Award as Most-Performed Song of the Year at BMI's annual Country Awards Tuesday in Nashville.

PAGING DR. MCCOY: William Shatner being examined at a hospital Tuesday after complaining of back pain on the set of Boston Legal. The actor is expected back on the set Wednesday, according to a rep for the ABC series.

SPEAKING UP: Desperate Housewives narrator Brenda Strong serving as national spokesperson for the American Fertility Association.

STORK WATCH: Former ER star Noah Wyle and his wife welcoming their second child Saturday in Los Angeles, People reports. The baby girl, Auden Wylie, weighed in at a healthy seven pounds and is named after the poet W.H. Auden.

FAMOUS FOREVER: Antonio Banderas receiving the 2,294th star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame Tuesday. The Zorro star was toasted by his wife Melanie Griffith and actress Sharon Stone at the ceremony.