EVERYTHING'S WRAPPING UP ROSIE: CBS announcing that Rosie O'Donnell will host Survivor: Marquesas--The Reunion May 19, during which the show's $1 million winner will be announced live from New York's Central Park.
BIG STING: The Scorpion King making a killing at the weekend box office, shattering the record for an April opener with $36.1 million.
THE DAMAGE DONE: Police saying heroin paraphernalia was found with the body of Alice in Chains singer Layne Staley when it was discovered Friday. Staley, 34, had been dead in his north Seattle apartment for two weeks before a relative found him.
PIXART: Disney and Pixar Animation Studios announcing plans for three new computer-animated films: the underwater adventure Finding Nemo (due next summer); superhero comedy The Incredibles (holidays 2004); and the talking-cars comedy Cars (holidays 2005).
SCARY NUMBERS: Disney and Pixar's Monsters, Inc. passing the $500 million mark at the worldwide box office. The 'toon has now grossed $504 million worldwide, second only to The Lion King among animated features.
ONCE AGAIN? Once and Again costar Billy Campbell confirming rumors that the canceled ABC romantic drama may now return for a fourth season. Campbell tells TV Guide Online that star Sela Ward "called and said, 'Have you heard? It's not definite that we're canceled,' " he recalled. "Apparently, on the same day that they canceled us, [ABC] called the studio and said, 'Don't knock down the sets, don't release the actors, and why don't you work us up a tentative budget for Year Four."
PHANTOM MENACE: Lucasfilm acknowledging in a marketing pitch to Hasbro toy dealers that Star Wars: Episode I--The Phantom Menace "did not live up to expectations," and that the upcoming Attack of the Clones will have "a darker feel, closer to the original saga," with "no silly characters or kids," Newsweek reports.
COME ON DOWN! CBS planning a special prime-time summer run for The Price is Right. Five hourlong "military" editions of the long-running game show will air in June.
PROTECTED: The FX network picking up its controversial cop drama The Shield for a second season, despite defections from advertisers and complaints from family TV watchdogs.
TRIPLE LUTZ: Figure skater-turned-Celebrity Boxing champ Tonya Harding cited for drunk driving after crashing her pickup into a ditch early Saturday in Washington, police said.
BIGGER THAN LAWRENCE? Director Martin Scorsese reportedly in talks with the estate of late director David Lean (Lawrence of Arabia) to revive Lean's plan to produce a film version of Joseph Conrad's epic novel Nostromo.
IT'S BAAACK: The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences kicking off a yearlong celebration May 8 for Oscar's 75th anniversary.
JENNY, THEY GOT YOUR NUMBER: Tribune Broadcasting saving the syndicated Jenny Jones show from cancellation by agreeing to carry it on all of its 23 stations.
FILMING FOXTROT: Cowboy Pictures announcing a summer release date for a new documentary following the alt-country band Wilco, titled I Am Trying to Break Your Heart. Director Sam Jones followed the group just as it began recording its album Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, which would later be rejected by its record label.
REJECTED: Members of the Screen Actors Guild rejecting a tentative franchise agreement with the Association of Talent Agents. SAG is recommending actors continue working with their current agents even though the actors no longer have contractual protections.
PARTY ANIMAL: The Practice star Dylan McDermott signing on to play nightclub impresario Peter Gatien in Party Monster, joining a cast that includes Macaulay Culkin, Seth Green, Marilyn Manson and Natasha Lyonne.
KUDOS: Antonio Banderas given the inaugural Anthony Quinn Award for Excellence in Cinema and the Arts, helping kick off the 10th annual Providence New Latin American Cinema Festival.
YOU'RE THE DISEASE... Sylvester Stallone named Action Star of the Millennium by the Video Software Dealers Association, which will present the award July 16 at its convention in Las Vegas.
MOURNED: Reginald Rose, the Emmy-winning TV writer and Oscar nominee for his screenplay to Twelve Angry Men, died Friday at a Connecticut hospital. He was 81.