FIRST LOOK: The News in Brief, June 5, 2006
BREAKING UP NOT HARD TO DO: The Break-Up, starring Jennifer Aniston and Vince Vaughn, topping the box office with $38.1 million, demoting X-Men: The Last Stand to second place with $34.35 million, according to studio estimates. That should soothe the sting of Shiloh's birth, at least temporarily...
RUINING JEN'S MOMENT: Or not. Clearly having no respect for Jennifer Aniston's box-office-topping moment in the sun, Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie making the earth-shattering announcement that they will sell off the first photos of little Shiloh Nouvel Jolie-Pitt and donate the proceeds to charity. The images, taken at a private photo shoot, will be distributed by Getty Images, the photo agency said Monday.
LOW ON FUEL: American Idol finalist Chris Daughtry turning down an offer from Fuel to become the band's vocalist. "I'm going to be doing my own thing," he told the Charlotte Observer. For his sake, let's hope that "thing" brings him more of a Clay Aiken than say, Justin Guarini, end result.
SAY WHAT?! "I'm like a cockroach, don't worry, I'll be around for a long time."
--Dave Grohl, refuting recent Internet rumors of his death to NME
WEDDING BELLS: After six years together, Casey Affleck and Summer Phoenix making it official by tying the knot over the weekend, People reports. The couple has a two-year-old son, to whom they gave the celebrity offspring appropriate name of Indiana August.
BEHIND THE WHEEL: DMX busted for yet another traffic infraction Friday after he was stopped for speeding and making unsafe lane changes, police said. The rapper was then found to be sans driver's license and seatbeltless. He's due back in court June 16.
DA VINCI NO'D: Pakistan banning The Da Vinci Code out of respect for the feelings of the 3 percent of the country's mostly Muslim population that is Christian. Even so, the film topping the foreign box office for a third weekend in a row, with a total gross of $410 million to date.
DON'T TOUCH THAT DIAL: Shakira's "Hips Don't Lie" becoming the most played song in pop radio history as of last week, when it was played 9,657 times, beating the previous record of 9,582 set last year by Gwen Stefani's "Hollaback Girl." So, no, it's not your imagination. That song really is always on the radio.
MISSION: DESPERATION: In an effort to lure Japanese moviegoers into seeing Mission: Impossible III, Tom Cruise planning to re-create an action scene from the film at the June 20 Tokyo premiere, at which he will arrive in a motorboat being pursued by a helicopter. He'll then join 150 fans on board a bullet train bound from Tokyo to Osaka, where they'll take in the film. That is, if they can possibly stomach any more of him.
ON TO THE HONEYMOON: Wedding Crashers, starring Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson, winning three awards at the MTV Movie Awards Saturday, including Best Picture. Brokeback Mountain winning two awards, including Best Kiss for Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal. We're guessing this didn't do much to cure Ang Lee's disappointment over not winning the Academy Award for Best Picture, but hey, it's something.
HE'S NO ANNA NICOLE: The makers of diet pill Stacker 2 suing Joseph R. Gannascoli, who played Vito, the closeted gay mobster on The Sopranos, accusing him of not doing enough to promote their product after they paid him more than $300,000 over the last two years. Gannascoli has argued the drug makers simply didn't like that he was "doing the gay thing." Touch?.
KILLING DEADWOOD: HBO and Deadwood creator David Milch reaching an agreement to wrap up the western series in a pair of two-hour movies, rather than a full fourth season, per the Hollywood Reporter. That's one effin' way to ride off into the effin' sunset, we suppose.
CODA: Vince Welnick, the last keyboardist for the Grateful Dead, died Friday at age 55, the band's longtime publicist confirmed. Police calling his death an apparent suicide. Welnick joined the band in 1990 to replace Brent Mydland, who died of a drug overdose. Mydland replaced Keith Godchaux, who died in a car crash in 1980 shortly after leaving the band, and Godchaux replaced original keyboardist Ron "Pigpen" McKernan, who died in 1973 of a gastrointestinal hemorrhage.
REMEMBERED: Arthur Widmer, who developed some of the most important special-effects technology used in films today and was honored with a Lifetime Achievement Oscar last year, died of cancer May 28 at the age of 92.




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