SHUTTERBUGGED: A photographer suspected of bugging Nicole Kidman's home in Sydney does not have to give a DNA sample to police, an appeals court ruled Tuesday. Jamie Fawcett, 43, had been ordered to provide the sample back in April after a listening device was discovered outside the actress' mansion.

GET DOC: William Shatner nearly hospitalized 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.

FALSE IDOL: A couple in Fantasia Barrino's hometown of High Point, North Carolina, petitioning to have signs promoting the American Idol winner taken down because they feel she portrayed the town negatively in her new autobiography in which she claims she never learned to read after attending local schools.

KUDOS: Kenny Chesney winning the ASCAP Voice of Music Award at the 43rd Annual ASCAP Country Music Awards at Nashville's Ryman Auditorium on Monday night.

DISASTER RELIEF: Sharon Osbourne announcing the Oct. 18 release on iTunes of a star-studded recording of Eric Clapton's "Tears in Heaven" to benefit Hurricane Katrina and tsunami victims through Save the Children. Elton John, Mary J. Blige and Gwen Stefani among the artists lending vocals to the song.

SUE HAPPY: David and Victoria Beckham seeking libel damages from the News of the World after an article ran with the headline: "Posh and Becks on the Rocks." The case is set to be heard by a judge and jury at London's Law Courts in December.

ART IMITATING LIFE: Ashton Kutcher producing the sitcom 30-Year-Old Grandpa for Fox, about a younger man who marries an older woman and becomes stepfather to her children who are almost the same age as him, Daily Variety reports.

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 lbs. and is named after the poet W. H. Auden.

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

BAD TERMS: Jerry Lewis revealing in a new book that he and Dean Martin were barely speaking during the last 10 months of their partnership.

LAST CHANCE? A judge reinstating Tom Sizemore's probation Monday, but telling the actor that if he slips again, he could face up to 16 months in prison. Sizemore has been living in a drug-treatment facility since early July.

TRIAL FILE: Robert Blake's defense team claiming Monday that there were three witnesses who could provide the actor with an alibi for the moment wife Bonny Lee Bakley was shot, but they were likely undocumented and would not have wanted to go to police.

GAME GRIPE: Two industry trade groups suing the state of California Monday after the state passed a law barring the sale of violent videogames to minors.

NEW LIFE? Despite Fox axing the reality series, Paris Hilton telling the Associated Press that filming begins on a new installment of The Simple Life on Nov. 1. The hotel heiress cited interest by rival networks as the reason the show's going ahead.

BACK IN THE RING: Sylvester Stallone reprising his role as boxer Rocky Balboa for a sixth Rocky movie, tentatively titled Rocky Balboa, that will see the legendary prizefighter coming out of retirement to mount yet another heavyweight comeback.

BEAM HIM UP: The remains of Star Trek's James "Scotty" Doohan, who died in July at age 85, being blasted into space aboard Space Services Inc.'s Explorers Flight on Dec. 6.

HURRICANE AID: Hurricane Relief: Come Together Now, an all-star double album featuring tracks from Coldplay, James Brown, Gwen Stefani, Elton John, Bonnie Raitt and Barbra Streisand, among many others, hitting stores in mid-November to raise money for victims of Katrina and Rita.