Music Updates Tuesday, March 1 During The Academy's Robin Williams came out with tape on his mouth. It was because he was protesting the censoring, by ABC, of a number he wrote. Annika Sorenstam has filed for divorce. The Lost and Desperate Housewives first season will be out on DVD with all the extras. Lost will be out on Sept 6 and Housewives Sept 20. The Bachelorette said yes to no one. It was to be Jerry, but she told him to wait and see how he felt down the road. That's almost 3 hours of your life you won't get back. The Star Wars trailer for the new movie Episode III: Revenge of the Sith will air during the March 10 episode of The OC. Out on DVD today• The Day After Tomorrow • Man on Fire • Flight of the Phoenix • The Spongebob Squarepants Movie • Super Bowl XXXIX Monday, February 28 Thanks to Paris Hilton's hacker some other hacker got Fred Durst's info and hacked into his phone and ripped a sex video off of it. I'm sure it's made it to the internet already. Michael Jackson's trial has begun. Remember when Michael went to the hospital for the flu. The hospital moved a woman so Michael could have his own room. The woman died, so the family is suing. Jen Shift is supposedly ending up with Jerry. I heard she has already gone on to greener pastures. Check out the finale of The Bachelorette tonight. Bob Newheart will guest star on Desperate Housewives in April. The big winners of the Academy Awards were: Hilary Swank (Best Actor) Jamie Foxx (Best Actor) Million Dollar Baby (Best Motion Picture) Hot at the box office • Diary of a Mad Black Woman • Hitch • Constantine • Cursed • Man of the House February 24, 2005 Anna Kournikova got her restraining order. Her weirdo stalker has to stay 1,000 feet away from her, if he doesn't go to jail. Lindsay Lohan's dad is a mess. It's alleged in the divorce papers that he wanted to kill his family and that he beats his wife. Quentin Tarantino is going to direct the finale of CSI!! Michael Jackson's jury has been picked. No African American's, 8 white, 3 latino and one Asian. The age range is 20-79. The jury panel includes a few fans of his music and a guy who has visited Neverland. Natalie Portman was doing a kissing scene in front of the Wailing Wall in Jerusalem and was chased away by a group of Orthodox Jews. The crew didn't get permission to film there. Joan and Melissa Rivers will be holding million dollar mics at the Red Carpet on Sunday for the Oscars. The mics are encrusted with diamonds and rubies. February 23, 2005 A year already! Martha is out of jail March 6th and will be busy writing a column for Martha Stewart Living which will be in the April issue. Jessica Simpson was admitted to the hospital the same day she was filming a segment for The Oprah Winfrey Show. She was dehydrated. The episode will air this Fri. Sean Connery is being sued for $30 million for trying to bully and force his neighbor and the neighbor's family out of the townhouse they share. Nicole Richie's boyfriend Adam Goldstein is old fashioned and asked Nicole's dad if he could have her hand in marriage. Lionel appreciated the gesture. He was in tears! P. Diddy has pissed off the people at PETA. He used real penguins at a party he had the other night in Miami. The penguins were said to have been huddled in the corner and obviously scared of the loud music. How lame! Aaron Carter says it like it is, he started dating Hilary when he was 13 then he broke up with her because he was board so he decided to go out with Lindsay Lohan. He was over that went back to Hilary and then cheated on her with her friend. What a mess! February 22, 2005 Paris gets what Paris wants, not only did she cut the potty line at a NYC club she also stole away a guy Mary-Kate Olson had her eye on. Paris just bought a $3 million 4-bedroom place in Hollywood Hills. Oprah got her ears pierced for the first time in front of a live audience and on her 51st birthday. Lindsay Lohan's dad got arrested this weekend for a DUI and ran his car into a utility pole. Steven Tyler and his wife of 17 years are getting divorced. The episode of The Simple Life where the girls worked at a mortuary didn't go over so hot with the people who lived in the town where the mortuary was located. The mortuary got lotz of complaints. DVD's andCD's out today Our Town, She's Too Young, The Shield (season 3),I Heart Huckabees, Kanye West Collage Dropout (CD and DVD combo) February 18, 2005 The Anniston/Pitts got together to celebrate Jen's birthday. Among the guest were Cindy Crawford, Courtney Cox and David Arquette. The Rock thought his chest was getting too fat so he got platic surgery. Randy Jackson doesn't thinks getting gastric-bypass surgery is the way to go. He thinks it should be the last resort. Ashley Olson is moving in with her 30 year old boyfriend. Not permanently, her condo is under construction. The Loney Tunes are getting an extreme make-over. They'll be know as the Loonatics and they will be very 28th century. Set to air on the WB on Saturdays. Michael Tarshi (aka mini-Trump) was bounced from The Apprentice last night. Ashlee Simpson's tour started out with a hitch! Her guitarist was turning around so fast his strap broke and the guitar went flying accross the stage. This Weeks Movies Are.......Because Of Winm-Dixi starring Annasophia Robb, Constantine Starring Keanu Reeves, Son of the Mask Starring Jamie Kennedy February 17, 2005 Kid Rock is tearing it up at a strip club. He had an argument with the DJ about the music and punched him. He was arrested at another strip club later that night. Jessica Simpson may have more legal problems with a company who wants her to do an exercise video for them. People are paying as much as they do for a Super Bowl ads for product placement in The Apprentice. A cool $2 mil. Omarosa is saying the shows producers are racist. Michael Jackson is ok and out of the hospital. The trial will resume next Tuesday. Gavin wants a baby Gwen Stefani doesn't right now! Sound familiar? The new American Idol : The Magazine will be out this week. It will be an every-other month publication. Britney Spears is PO'ed at Us Weekly for publishing her private Honeymoon album. It will be in the Feb. 28th edition. Thursday, February 24 Green Day will vie for the Favorite Music Group honor at the Kids' Choice Awards '05, which Nickelodeon will broadcast live from Los Angeles on April 2. Meanwhile, Green Day's recently taped appearance on VH1's Storytellers will premiere April 3 on the music TV network, while the band will be the musical guests on the April 9 episode of NBC's Saturday Night Live. Natalie Portman raised the ire of dozens of ultra-Orthodox Jews when she and her Free Zone co-star Aki Avni shot a kissing scene next to Jerusalem's Western Wall on Tuesday. A group of protesters disrupted filming, and police asked the actors to leave and return another time. The site is considered the holiest place in Judaism, and it includes a barrier that separates male and female worshippers. Usher reportedly is looking to buy a piece of the Cleveland Cavaliers. The R&B crooner is among a group of investors, led by entrepreneur Dan Gilbert, who have agreed to purchase the basketball team for $375 million. If the deal is approved, Usher would join the likes of Jay-Z (New Jersey Nets) and Nelly (Charlotte Bobcats) as co-owners of NBA franchises. Hollywood is busy gearing up for Oscar night. The festivities will take place Sunday, and will be broadcast live on ABC beginning at 8 p.m. ET. Among the contenders for the year's best-movie prize are The Aviator, Finding Neverland and Ray, with Leonardo DiCaprio and Johnny Depp just two of the men vying for best actor honors. Among the stars presenting awards will be Kirsten Dunst, Orlando Bloom and Scarlett Johansson. 50 Cent's single "Candy Shop" featuring Olivia has leapt to the top of the Billboard Hot 100, ending the nine-week reign of Mario's "Let Me Love You," which falls to third. Meanwhile, 50 has two other tracks in the Top 10 -- the Game's "How We Do," which features 50, is at No. 4 and "Disco Inferno" is at No. 6. Wednesday, February 23 Nelly is finalizing plans for a spring tour of major U.S. cities that will see Fat Joe and Fabolous taking on opening act duties. Before hitting the road, Nelly will play a handful of mainly Midwestern college shows, beginning with a March 7 stop at Southern Illinois University in Edwardsville, Ill. A stomach virus landed Jessica Simpson in a Chicago hospital Monday, where she was treated for dehydration and then released. Jessica was in town to shoot a segment for The Oprah Winfrey Show. Titled "Red Carpet Makeovers With Jessica Simpson," the segment will air as part of Friday's pre-Oscars episode. 50 Cent's highly anticipated next album, The Massacre, is coming early to a candy shop, er, record store near you. In response to the disc being leaked to the Internet, the collection will now be released March 3 instead of March 8. The Net already is abuzz with Fiddy's heated diss track "Piggy Bank," in which he vilifies Fat Joe, Ja Rule and others. Jennifer Love Hewitt's ABC comedy pilot was scrapped, but the actress has a new show in the works for CBS, a drama in which she'll play a medium who communicates with the dead. Also set for a return to the small screen is James Van Der Beek, who has signed on to star in the upcoming CBS comedy Three, about a married couple and their just-divorced pal. Jay-Z plans to open an education center called The S. Carter Academy in New York this spring. The school's curriculum will concentrate on music, sports and fashion. Jigga and New York Knicks b-baller Jamal Crawford will appear together in a commercial promoting the school in March, which is when enrollment for classes begins. Tuesday, February 22 Missy Elliott is hard at work on her next album, which she hopes to release in May. Although the rapper is mum on the project, she feels it will be her "best album" so far. In addition, Missy is collaborating with Paramount Studios on her biopic. "I don't want to star in the movie," she says. "But people want to know about the struggles." Smallville star Tom Welling has signed on for his second-ever big-screen role. Tom will co-star with Lost actress Maggie Grace in a remake of the 1980 John Carpenter horror flick The Fog. The movie tells the tale of a boatload of vengeful shipwreck ghosts who wreak havoc on a Northern California town. Hilary Duff, who recently guest-starred on the CBS series Joan of Arcadia, is about to make a special appearance on another prime-time show. The singer-actress will be featured on the March 8 episode of the ABC comedy George Lopez, in which she will play a "feminist rhymester" who takes part in a poetry slam. Hackers wormed their way into Paris Hilton's cell phone over the weekend and posted her famous friends' phone numbers on the Internet, Ashley Olsen's and Jay-Z's digits included. "I got 100 calls in two hours," said Paris' pal Victoria Gotti. "This went on all night . . . It's driving me insane." Kelly Clarkson is springing into a two-month theater tour of North America. The American Idol's jaunt is set to kick off March 28 with a three-night stand in Tulsa, Okla. It's currently scheduled through a May 29 stop in Vancouver, Canada. Pre-sale tickets for many of the shows will be available to fans on the mailing list of Kelly's official site. Friday, February 18 Destiny's Child will launch their McDonald's-sponsored Destiny Fulfilled . . . And Lovin' It World Tour on April 19 in Hiroshima, Japan. The divas' jaunt will take them through 14 countries in Asia, Australia and Europe. The North American leg of their trek tentatively kicks off in July and hits 44 cities in the United States and Canada. Sarah Jessica Parker is set to star in and produce the upcoming movie Love Walked In. The film, based on a forthcoming novel by poet Marisa de los Santos, will center on Sarah's character, who's surprised to find out that her beau has an 11-year-old daughter that he left nine years before. The woman then forges a bond with the girl. Usher's 20-minute mini-movie Rhythm City Volume 1: Caught Up -- which hits DVD on March 8 -- will get its theatrical premiere at 44 Regal theaters nationwide Monday at 9 p.m. ET. Usher will be on hand via satellite for a live Q&A hosted by singer Lionel Richie. "It's a great way for me to reach out to my fans," says Usher. To purchase tickets, click here. A woman accusing Colin Farrell of harassment and stalking found her case thwarted in a Santa Monica, Calif., court Wednesday. A judge informed Desarrae Bradford that her case could not proceed because the actor has not yet been served with the lawsuit. The judge has given Desarrae a month to serve Colin, who says he never met her. R&B beauties Beyoncé and Jennifer Lopez have teamed up to battle soccer hunk David Beckham in a new Pepsi commercial. The martial-arts-themed ad, described as Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon meets Kill Bill, features the lovely divas showing off their fighting skills while clad in all-black leather jumpsuits. The commercial will premiere in Madrid near the end of the month. Thursday, February 17 50 Cent believes his upcoming album, The Massacre (due March 8), will garner more sales than his multiplatinum previous disc, Get Rich or Die Tryin'. "Yeah, I'll outsell it," he says. "If I sell it under, I feel like a failure. I know what's expected of me and I'm prepared a little more." Meanwhile, catch 50 performing on NBC's Saturday Night Live this weekend. Bachelorette Jen Schefft reportedly has already split with her still-airing show's "winner," whose name has yet to be announced to the public. Perhaps continuing the curse of The Bachelor that seems to have hit its sister show, Jen has reportedly left her chosen man for her boss, Chicago-based nightclub owner Billy Dec. Britney Spears is angry with 107.9 the end Weekly for the magazine's Feb. 28 issue, which will feature photos from her October honeymoon in Fiji with hubby Kevin Federline. "Kevin and I chose a resort location where we were promised absolute privacy," says Britney, adding that they allowed staff to take their picture, but only for use in a personal scrapbook. Alyson Hannigan says she was very nervous about her guest-starring stint on UPN's Veronica Mars, which airs Tuesday. "I am a huge fan of the show," she says. "I got so nervous, I couldn't even speak . . . I messed up most of my first scene." Alyson also will appear in the April 19 installment of the series. Mario's "Let Me Love You" has held on to the No. 1 spot on the Billboard Hot 100 for the ninth straight week. The song also remains atop the Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Singles & Tracks and Hot 100 Airplay charts. Meanwhile, 50 Cent's new hit "Candy Shop" has jumped from No. 8 to No. 2 on the Hot 100 tally.