FIRST LOOK: The News in Brief, July 25, 1999

Slash...Phil Collins...Alanis Morissette...

By Joal Ryan, Daniel Frankel Jul 26, 1999 4:45 AMTags
SHUT OUT: After just one week Eyes Wide Shut nose-dived to fourth place opening up the No.1 slot to the latest horror movie The Haunting which earned $33 million nationwide.

STASH HIM: Former Guns N' Roses guitarist Slash (aka Saul Hudson), 34, arrested in West Hollywood Saturday for allegedly beating his live-in girlfriend.

RUN AWAY, BRIDE! British singer Phil Collins reportedly entering into his third marriage Saturday. The 48-year-old former Genesite, now a Swiss resident, will marry his 27-year-old interpreter in a private Lausanne ceremony, reports say.

WEDDED BLISS ADD: Naughty By Nature's Treach and Salt-N-Peppa's Peppa--already hitched in a Kansas tatoo-parlor ceremony in April--will do more traditional nuptuals this weekend in New Jersey.

ROCK ON: Some 200,000 expected in Rome, New York, as Woodstock '99 kicked off its three-day fest Friday. Alanis Morissette, Limp Bizkit and Jewel among the scheduled performers.

UH-OH: The driver who hit horrormeister Stephen King last month has a history of driving offenses and still could face charges in the accident.

SICK BAY: Rapper Eminem sitting out the two Pennsylvania shows on the Vans Warped Tour this week, due to bruised ribs suffered in concert Sunday in Connecticut, Blaze.com says.

THE BETTER TO SEE THE LOIN CLOTH: Disney's Tarzan to be shown in digital format in three theaters in California and Florida, starting this weekend.

BAD VIBES, EH: SCTV alum Dave Thomas talking lawsuit after production's shut down on his planned sequel to the 1983 cult comedy, Strange Brew, Jam! Showbiz says.

SO LONG: Muhammad Ali among 350 mourners at Friday's private memorial service in Manhattan for John F. Kennedy Jr. and his wife. Wyclef Jean performed "Many Rivers to Cross."

FAREWELL: Services for Lauren Bessette, the JFK Jr. sister-in-law also on the doomed flight, set for Saturday in Connecticut. All three were buried at sea Thursday.

STAMPED: A U.S. postage stamp commemorating screen legend James Cagney available now at your local post office. Exact change not required.