INFINITE GLADNESS: Billy Corgan taking out full-page ads in Chicago's newspapers announcing plans to reform the Smashing Pumpkins, five years after the band decided to call it quits.

WATERGATE: A rep for Tom Cruise telling Entertainment Tonight that he won't press charges against four men arrested following Sunday's water-squirting attack at the London premiere of War of the Worlds. The pranksters were ordered to return to a London police station on July 4 to find out whether authorities will pursue assault charges.

MORE TOM: Steven Spielberg telling Newsweek that he thinks the media "punished" Cruise for his public declaration of his love for Holmes during an appearance on The Oprah Winfrey Show, but downplaying speculation that Cruise's oddball behavior will hurt the box office for War of the Worlds.

A B.I.G. DEAL Jury selection gets underway today in Los Angeles in the federal lawsuit brought by the family of the late Notorious B.I.G. against the LAPD for allegedly botching the rapper's murder case.

DESPERATE DEAL: Desperate Housewives costar Cody Kasch, 17, in a New York court Monday, where a judge said he will drop a marijuana-possession charge against the actor if he stays out of trouble for a year. Kasch, who plays Zach Young on the ABC show, was arrested in May.

MORE THAN OK: Spin magazine naming Radiohead's OK Computer the top album of the last 20 years in its 20th anniversary issue currently on newsstands.

ROCK AROUND THE WALK: Hollywood's RockWalk inducting Bill Haley & the Comets on July 6. Attending the ceremony will be the five surviving members of the original lineup.

MORE GEEK: The WB renewing Ashton Kutcher's new reality series, Beauty and the Geek, for the 2005-06 television season.

CELEBRITY POP: NBC developing I'm a Celebrity But I Want to Be A Pop Star, a new reality series featuring stars from film, TV and sports who get to live out their musical dreams performing in front of an audience.

WHAT UP, DAWG? Westwood One announcing American Idol judge Randy Jackson to host his own syndicated radio show beginning this September.

DOWN THE RABBIT HOLE: Per the Hollywood Reporter, Sarah Michelle Gellar set to star in a feature film adaptation of the Electronic Arts videogame American McGee's Alice, a bizarro take on Alice in Wonderland in which Alice has grown up to become a disturbed young woman.

HEY STEWIE! Family Guy mastermind Seth MacFarlane planning to release Family Guy Presents Stewie Griffin: The Untold Story, a direct-to-DVD movie featuring the famous 'toon clan on Set. 27.

LIVE 8 UPDATE: Live 8 organizer Bob Geldof saying the only thing holding a long-rumored Spice Girls reunion at the July 2 London show is Scary Spice, aka Melanie Brown, who reportedly doesn't want to return to the past.

RESPECT: The producers of Ray developing a big screen biopic of late legendary comic Rodney Dangerfield based in part on his memoir, It's Not Easy Bein' Me.

THAT'S ENTERTAINMENT: David Spade inking a deal with Comedy Central to host The Showbiz Show, a nightly half-hour series spoofing entertainment news shows in the vein of The Daily Show. The new series debuts in September.

REALITY BITES: The Writers Guild of America kicking off a campaign on Monday to negotiate a labor contract on behalf of writers, producers and editors of reality TV series who are seeking union representation to get equal pay to those on scripted shows. So far, no companies have offered to negotiate, setting up the potential for a strike.

LOOKIN' GOOD: FX premiering the second season of Denis Leary's firehouse drama, Rescue Me, tonight. The cable network has nine shows either on the air or in the pipeline for this year and is plotting a miniseries called Ten Commandments, executive produced by George Clooney for fall 2006.

RED STATE ALERT: Country rocker Steve Earle's upcoming July 30 show at the Southeast Alaska State Fair in Haines, Alaska, drawing angry protest from letter writers and local conservative newspapers for what they consider un-American music.

NIMBYS: Welcome to the Neighborhood, a new reality series on ABC debuting July 10, coming under fire from a variety of groups including fair-housing and gay antidefamation activists for statements in the first couple of episodes made by self-described "Christian" families who say they won't tolerate gay or minority couples moving in next door to them.

START THEM UP: The Rolling Stones set to play their first show at Los Angeles' historic Hollywood Bowl since 1966 on Nov. 6.

ZOOM INTO COURT: Variety reporting that Fox and Marvel Enterprises is suing Sony and Revolution Studio's new comic book satire, Zoom, starring Tim Allen, which is due out around the same time X3 will hit theaters, accusing prodcuers of the comedy of ripping off elements of the X-Men.

BETTER THAN MASTERPIECE THEATER: Three public interests group including Common Cause, Free Press and the Center for Digital Democracy holding a press conference Monday demanding Public Broadcasting chairman Ken Tomlinson should be fired, claiming he's a "political hack" who's screwing up PBS and NPR, according to the New York Times.

SAVE THE WOLVES: French actress and animal rights activist Brigitte Bardot writing a letter to the European Union demanding they take legal action against France for authorizing the killing of six endangered wolves.