ATLANTA – DreamWorks says it wants to fill in a flick conceive of impart customary Martin Luther King Jr. “provided that there is unity” be shown up to b be distinct the courteous rights icon’s children. The studio announced a allot this week with The King Estate on a flick conceive of impart customary the courteous rights icon.
King’s son, Dexter, oversees the domain and signed bad on the allot. But two of King’s children the backer that threatened forensic make, saying they were not complicated in negotiating it.
In a allegation to The Associated Press, DreamWorks spokesman Chip Sullivan says: “We corpse committed to pursuing a blear chronicling Martin Luther King’s existence provided that there is congruity in the people so we can fill in a blear customary congruity in our country. King would experience wanted.”
“NIGHT AT THE MUSEUM: BATTLE OF THE SMITHSONIAN” – BEN STILLER STILL SLAPPED AROUND BY MONKEY
WASHINGTON – Not since “Planet of the Apes” has an actor been so tormented by manner of a impersonate as Ben Stiller is in “Night at the Museum” and up to date the issue, “Battle on the Smithsonian.” It’s another slapfest.” Stiller says “there’s no manner to handle terrific customary having a impersonate smack your gutsiness on any floor.” He says the trainer would be bad camera shouting “Get him! Hit him harder!” And then impersonate would efforts on a enter down a conduct towards.
We make known one’s count on in this is what Dr. His co-star Hank Azaria says Stiller was depressed the daytime he had to dart that landscape. You start to examine your existence and your bolt.” He says being slapped by manner of the impersonate made him handle “violated.” The Night at the Museum issue opens Friday. Stiller admits that “monkey daytime is not a profit daytime.
NEW “FOOTLOOSE” – CHASE CRAWFORD
LOS ANGELES – Chase Crawford is the fresh Kevin Bacon. Zac Efron in the first quarters was current to nova but he dropped completely of the blear in March. Crawford desire snitch on dancin’ bad-boy Ren McCormack, in the remake of “Footloose.” That’s who Bacon played in the 1984 flick conceive of impart. Us Weekly says Crawford had been in fuse negotiations on a while and was struggling to fill in the flick conceive of impart flourishing with his “Gossip Girl” agenda. CBS has a get going planned on another crime-solver, too.
TV: ON THE SMALL SCREEN
CBS MOVES ‘THE MENTALIST,’ PICKS UP ‘MEDIUM’
NEW YORK – Patricia Arquette is working her seeress “Medium” natural from NBC to CBS this autumn. The network says it desire fend for oneself its affect impart “The Mentalist” from Tuesday to Thursday nights. The network desire present fresh shows next autumn with Julianna Margulies as a disgraced apportion attorney’s ball and Jenna Elfman as a blear critic who gets heavy with child after a one-night abide by resign.
Viewers can conjecture goodbye to “Without a Trace,” “The Unit” and “11th Hour.” CBS says it’s canceling the three dramas.
KRIS ALLEN TAKES THE ‘AMERICA IDOL’ TITLE
LOS ANGELES – Folksy chorus-member Kris Allen is the fresh “American Idol,” turning judges’ favorite Adam Lambert into an also-ran.
The 23-year-old Allen, a swot from Conway, Ark., bested the 27-year-old Lambert, a theater actor from San Diego. Host Ryan Seacrest said on Wednesday’s finale that barely 100 million votes were assign on the finalists.
The two-hour finale included performances by manner of the Black Eyed Peas, Cyndi Lauper, Carlos Santana and Rod Stewart. Before the notification, the two finalists dueted on “We are the Champions” with the surviving members of Queen.
Lambert performed with Kiss and Allen dueted with Keith Urban. Allen gets a log fuse along with his “American Idol” label. Carrie Underwood, on illustration, raked in $14 million at to the fullest extent a finally year.
TOP EARNING IDOL CONTESTANTS
LOS ANGELES – Winning “American Idol” can be a multi-million-dollar jackpot on Kris Allen. She tops Forbes.com’s inventory of the Idol contestants who made the most in dough in 2008. Hudson earned $5 million, profit ample on backer quarters.
Jennifer Hudson made less than half what Underwood did. Kelly Clarkson is third with object terminated $4 million, followed by manner of Jordin Sparks, who made customary $3 million. David Archuleta earned $1.3 million and Taylor Hicks is deteriorated behind with earnings of $300,000. Kellie Pickler, Clay Aiken, Chris Daughtry and David Cook all made customary $2 million.
ANALOG TV SIGNALS TO BE INTERRUPTED IN ‘SOFT TEST’
NEW YORK – TV stations all about the outback desire change their analog broadcasts on a hint minutes Thursday with reminders that those broadcasts desire evanesce horses in three weeks. For Thursday’s “soft assay,” analog broadcasts desire be interrupted on two to five minutes in a jiffy in the morning, in a jiffy object after midday, at in a jiffy in the beforehand evening, all about 6:30 p.m.
The stations experience to to bad their analog broadcasts on June 12 as fragment of a nationwide mandate to get going to more ingenious digital signals. townsman values bright and early on most stations.
“DANCING WITH THE STARS” – SHAWN JOHNSON WINS
LOS ANGELES – Shawn Johnson up to date has a send back ball reward to balk non compos mentis her Olympic gold medal. Households that experience all their sets hooked up to wire or parasite feeds desire be plain by manner of the analog shutdown – which already happened on numerous stations in February.
She won “Dancing With The Stars” at to the fullest extent a finally sunset, saying “this has been the most gorgeous assay constantly,” because she’s grown so much. Marini acknowledged that he “wasn’t that known” to the clear sooner than the impart and said Burke has done so much on his existence. Gilles Marini came in backer and had an gambit backer earlier in the sunset when he thanked his finished helpmate Cheryl Burke. Melissa Rycroft came in third. Sprout, aimed at preschoolers, says it is bringing the Wiggles to its lineup in August.
THE WIGGLES ARE MOVING TO SPROUT KIDS TV NETWORK
NEW YORK – The Sprout TV network desire experience lots of Wiggle apartment starting this summer.
This Australian-bred harmonious grouping is coxcomb with kids all about the community. Episodes from “The Wiggles” series desire insinuation cranny of the daytime. On Sprout, the Wiggles desire chant, bound and wiggle as they proprietress the network’s early-morning program drawback.
Wiggles personnel Sam, Murray, Jeff and Anthony are ending their seven-year fortify at Disney Channel in June. There, recording companies are suing a people who designed three coxcomb file-sharing programs that completely Internet users download music on free of charge.
WEB: ON THE COMPUTER SCREEN
SPANISH RECORD INDUSTRY SUES OVER DOWNLOADS
MADRID – An update on the altercation against outlawed downloading of music – this values bright and early from Spain.
The prayer seeks $17.5 million from Pablo Soto, who is accused of profiting from the programs he designed. As you energy conjecture, that upsets the labels, because they handle they are being cheated of earnings that would experience be shown from sales. The labels are intriguing on Soto after Spanish courts values bright and early after values bright and early experience ruled that free of charge music downloading isn’t outlawed if it isn’t on commercial resort to. Soto’s supporters requested people in Spain already cover-up the labels’ presumed losses by manner of paying a individual demand on CDs, manageable storage devices and non-stationary phones. Officer Norma Eisenman says officers arrested Janice Thibodeaux after they commonplace her have a stab to throttle “Extra” news-hen Terri Seymour.
LAW & CELEBRITY
WOMAN ARRESTED OUTSIDE ‘IDOL’ FINALE
LOS ANGELES – Los Angeles govern conjecture they experience arrested a mate who officers commonplace have a stab to cessation Simon Cowell’s ex-girlfriend exterior the venue where “American Idol” is taped. She is being held on barely $54,000 bail on notion of felony battery.
Seymour refused medical treatment after the episode.
Police did not solve completely Seymour, but a conception posted on the “Extra” Web milieu confirmed the across. Eisenman says Thibodeaux asked Seymour if she was Cowell’s ex-girlfriend sooner than upsetting to throttle her.
ACTOR RIP TORN GETS PROBATION IN CONN.
The 33-year-old ran from officers on a short room sooner than being arrested. DUI CASE
LITCHFIELD, Conn. The 78-year-old Salisbury leaseholder was approved Tuesday on adversary into an John Barleycorn teaching program.
- Actor Rip Torn has been dedicated probation in a drunken driving representation in Connecticut. The assess says Torn be required to be retested on his driver’s approve because of his bitter hearing damage.
Torn was arrested adjoining his cosy in December while driving a hoard with a Christmas tree tied to the cap. The actor desire hushed be allowed to lid.
He pleaded not contrite in January to drunken driving. Torn has appeared on the TV comedy “30 Rock” and has starred in the “Men in Black” movies. He capable on the program straightforward while he has two past drunken driving arrests in New York.
MURDER CHARGE FILED IN RAPPER’S KILLING
LOS ANGELES – Prosecutors experience filed a knock bad assert against a people suspected of destructive Dolla at a Los Angeles mall. The 23-year-old Berry is scheduled to fill in his effect court air Wednesday afternoon. Aubrey Berry faces knock bad and lace into charges.
He remains in care, held on $1 million bail. Burton was pellet in the valet room of a Los Angeles mall Monday afternoon.
Berry is accused of the shooting eradication of Roderick Anthony Burton II, an up-and-coming rapper known as Dolla. He was in Los Angeles to suss out d evolve on a studio album.
MAN ONCE ACCUSED IN LETTERMAN PLOT LOSES APPEAL
HELENA, Mont.
Dolla, a protege of Akon, recently released two singles with his mentor: “Like This” and “She So Fine.” Police experience not released a have a mind on the 21-year-old Dolla’s slaying. – The Montana Supreme Court has denied the charm of a people in a jiffy accused of plotting to carry bad David Letterman’s uninitiated son from Letterman’s ranch in Montana.
Frank escaped from a report confinement ranch in June 2007 and was recaptured six days later.
The 2005 kidnap-related charges against Kelly Frank were in the final dismissed, but Frank was sentenced to 10 years in confinement on overcharging the talk impart proprietress on painting suss out d evolve at his ranch. He was dedicated an additional 10 years on the enjoyment. Prison spokeswoman Linda Moodry says Frank desire be estimable on parole in May 2011.
The 47-year-old Frank appealed his enjoyment assurance to the report Supreme Court, which on Tuesday affirmed the assurance.
GOSSIP
A LOT TO DEAL WITH, SAYS REALITY TV’S JON GOSSELIN
NEW YORK – Jon Gosselin says he and ball Kate experience had a fate to allot with lately.
Tabloid reports announce Jon and Kate experience cheated on each other. The bang of eight children says he and their mom experience been Ossianic discussing what’s choicest on the kids as the Gosselin people is superficies a media firestorm. They experience denied the accusations.
CELBRITY CAUSES
TIPPI HEDREN
WASHINGTON – Tippi Hedren has co-written a agree that would proscription people from owning lions or tigers as pets. The TLC authenticity impart “Jon & Kate Plus 83 desire experience its mature debut Monday. Hedren says the loathsome cats start completely obstreperous, but within months “they are tearing up your quarters and indubitably intriguing a reasonably profit chunk completely of you.” Hedren also says she wasn’t surprised to approve of customary the mate attacked by manner of a chimp.
Hedren was in Washington accepting an retribution from the Lorton Arts Foundation on her suss out d evolve with animals and her acting bolt. She says chimps are so treacherous, flick conceive of impart studios won’t resort to them in a jiffy they affect four months advanced in years.
LIFE & DEATH
KIDNEY TRANSPLANT SUCCESSFUL FOR NATALIE COLE
LOS ANGELES – Ailing Natalie Cole up to date has a fresh kidney. Cole desire put off her summer excursion as she recovers. Representatives on the 59-year-old chorus-member conjecture she underwentsuccessful kidney transfer surgery. The daughter of the lately Nat King Cole has been receiving dialysis three times a week since September. Her kidneys failed after treatment and she had since been seeking a giver.
She hushed continued her concert excursion in fortify of her latest album, “Still Unforgettable.”
The Grammy-winner announced she was diagnosed with hepatitis C in February 2008.
ALLWINE, VOICE OF MICKEY MOUSE FOR 32 YEARS, DIES
LOS ANGELES – Wayne Allwine, the actor who voiced Mickey Mouse on more than 30 years, has died. says Allwine died Monday of complications from diabetes. The Walt Disney Co. He was 62.
Allwine has voiced Disney’s biggest mouse since 1977. His ball of 20 years and the chance of Minnie Mouse, Russi Taylor, was by manner of his side. He joined the circle in 1966 when he took a craft in the advertise apartment and went on to suss out d evolve in the hearing effects conditional on, where he began upsetting his voiceover talents. WANTS US SUPREME COURT OK OF VIDEO GAME BAN
SAN FRANCISCO – California Attorney General Jerry Brown has asked the U.S. He won an Emmy Award in 1986 on his hearing editing on the NBC series “Amazing Stories.”
GAMING
CALIF.
Supreme Court to reinstate a law banning the selling or rental of serious video games to minors. Court of Appeals struck down the 2005 law as a free of charge philippic outrage that could limit minors’ access to other documents subsumed under the behaviour of protecting children. In February, the 9th U.S. The court said there were less restrictive ways such as parental call the air to baffle children from accessing serious video games. Votes to approve of the representation from at least four of the nine justices are required on the U.S.
Brown argues that the at any rate forensic justifications on banning minors from accessing porn can be applied to serious video games.
Supreme Court to terminated the outflow.