FIRST LOOK: The News in Brief, August 20, 2001

Mon., Aug. 20, 2001 2:55 PM PDT by Josh Grossberg

PIE STILL COOKIN': American Pie 2 held on to the top slot in the box-office race for a second straight week, raking in $21.1 million to hold off Rush Hour 2's $19 million. Rat Race led all newcomers with $11.7 million.

CHANGE OF VENUE: Organizers announcing Monday that the Latin Grammys are moving from Miami to Los Angeles after more than 60 Cuban exile groups said they would protest the September 11 show.

ON PATROL: Fox rescucitating Baywatch as a two-hour TV movie starring David Hasselhoff, Alexandra Paul, Yasmine Bleeth, Donna D'Errico and Carmen Electra, among others. No word whether Pamela Anderson will appear in Baywatch Blast, which is set to air in February.

UP THE CREEK: A Canadian man who claimed he was Katie Holmes' fianc? has been sent to a mental institution after making harrassing calls to the actress' father.

IT SHALL BE RELEASED: Bob Dylan's latest single, "Po' Boy," available as a free download from BobDylan.com. The track comes from his 43rd album, Love and Theft, due September 11.

ALL THAT HE CAN'T LEAVE BEHIND: Bono reportedly flying back to Dublin following U2 concerts to be with his ailing, cancer-stricken father.

ALL OR NOTHING AT ALL: Frank Sinatra's Beverly Hills mansion is on the market. For $12.5 million you not only get the 14-room spread, complete with pool, gym, art gallery and maid quarters, but also all furniture left in the house by the late crooner.

SHADY LOVE: Eminem telling Britain's Q magazine that everything he does is for daughter Hailie's future. "The money. The money--it's for her college," the rapper says. "[Hailie] knows at the end of the day Daddy is not what he says in his songs."

BUM RAP: C-Murder spent Friday night in a Baton Rouge, Louisiana, jail after allegedly trying to shoot a club owner. The rapper, who also faces separate burglary and gun charges, has also been sued by his supposed target.

BOLDLY MAKING OVER: Oscar-winning director Robert Wise revisiting the original Star Trek movie for a special edition treatment on DVD that tweaks the sound mix and digitally enhances more than 90 special effects shots. The DVD version also ups the film's G-rating to PG.

BIG DEAL: Everybody Loves Raymond costar Patricia Heaton signing a new contract worth an estimated $250,000 an episode for two more years on the hit CBS sitcom.

SATCHMO FOR SALE: The horn on which Louis Armstrong learned to play as a child being put up for auction on the Internet October 1 through 15 by Sotheby's. It's expected to fetch up to $100,000.

GETTING THE AXE: Sony Music laying off about 50 people from its North American workforce in what the company says is a retooling of the record label's 6,500-strong staff.

BACKSTREET BOATING: Backstreet Boy Howie Dorough hosting a seven-night Caribbean cruise leaving December 15 for Cozumel, Mexico, that will benefit his Dorough Lupus Foundation. The singer will perform a one-hour private concert during the special event which will also include a celebrity auction.

COUNTRY GATHERING: Rap star Nelly and an entourage of 3,000 people refused entry to a night club Saturday night in Lake of the Ozarks, Missouri, because the crowd was too large.

CHECKERED FLAG: Sylvester Stallone selling a NASCAR-themed series pitch to NBC that the brawny actor most likely plans to write and direct.

MEMORIAL: Dekalb County, Georgia, politicians renaming an arts center after native son Tupac Shakur. The Tupac Amaru Center for the Arts is set to open in 2003 in Stone Mountain.

IT HAS A NAME: Rolling Stones frontman Mick Jagger's first solo album in eight years will be called Goddess in the Doorway and is tentatively set for release November 6.

CODA: Prolific composer Jack Elliott, whose music was features in such TV shows as Barney Miller, Starsky & Hutch, Charlie's Angels and The Love Boat, died Saturday of a brain tumor. He was 74.