LADY GAGA HEADED FOR 'ROCK BAND': Lady Gaga's music will soon be part of Rock Band. MTV reports that next week the video game franchise will release the first "Lady Gaga Song Pack," featuring "Bad Romance," "Just Dance," "Monster" and "Poker Face."
BRITNEY SPEARS WANTS TO DRIVE A MASERATI: Britney Spears has her eyes on a Maserati. For the second time in less than a month she took the $150,000 sports car for a spin. X17Online reports that she actually bought the car, but sources tell TMZ.com there's no way her father or a judge will let her buy the car under the conservatorship. Spears did manage to buy a lot of clothes this week, though, during a shopping trip with her mom to Bebe, H&M and the Gap.
MADONNA DANCES NON-STOP AT OSCAR PARTY:
Madonna was dancing it up at her
Oscars party over the weekend. A source tells People.com that she danced non-stop for four hours." At one point, Madonna said that if CNN's
Anderson Cooper didn't start dancing, she wouldn't play any more music. Anderson, needless to say, listened to the Queen of Pop and joined her on the dance floor. Meanwhile, HollywoodLife.com reports that Madge was grinding with actor
Gerard Butler at the party. Her boy toy,
Jesus Luz, was nowhere to be found. Madonna will release her
Sticky & Sweet tour DVD on March 30th. Watch a sneak peak here:
http://tinyurl.com/ya3ftnz
CHARLIE SHEEN TO DO AFTER-WORK REHAB? Charlie Sheen will reportedly resume shooting Two and a Half Men next week -- but he'll go back to rehab at night. TMZ reports that Charlie will be in rehab full-time until early Monday morning, when he'll fly to Aspen for his felony arraignment. He'll supposedly come back to L.A. that night, where he'll sleep at the rehab facility and then show up on Tuesday to film the show. Insiders claim that after each day on the set Charlie will go directly back to rehab.
ALLEGED RYAN SEACREST STALKER PLEADS NO CONTEST: Chidi Benjamin Uzomah Jr. pleaded no contest on Tuesday (March 9th) to a felony stalking count stemming from his attempts at getting close to Ryan Seacrest. E! reports that Los Angeles Superior Court Judge John Fisher ordered the 25-year-old former Army reservist to undergo a psychiatric evaluation in prison. After completing the assessment, Uzomah is due back in court for formal sentencing June 14th.
'BACHELOR' CONTESTANT DENIES SEX TAPE: A rep for Rozlyn Papa denies that the former Bachelor contestant is featured in a 15-second "dirty video" that now appears on a porn site. Stacie Vanchieri told E! News, "I've seen the tape. Anyone who has met her once would know it's not her. The woman has a different body, hands, face, everything." She continued, "The woman looks directly into the camera and is definitely not Rozlyn. The tape looks like it was done as porn to be sold, not a private moment captured on tape . . . It so clearly seems someone is trying to ruin her. I don't know why someone would do this to her -- she has to take her son to school in the mornings."
MAN CONVICTED OF BLACKMAILING CINDY CRAWFORD: A German man has been convicted of blackmailing Cindy Crawford and has been sentenced to two years in jail. Reuters reported that the court in the southern German town of Kirchheim unter Tech said Edis Kayalar was found guilty of extorting money from Crawford by threatening to release a photo showing Crawford's then seven-year-old daughter gagged and tied to chair. Kayalar turned himself in to German police in November 2009. According to court papers, the girl says a former nanny took the picture as part of a "cops and robbers" game. Kayalar allegedly stole the photo from the nanny.
JASON AND MOLLY WEDDING PAPARAZZI SUING ABC: The two photographers tossed out of the Bachelor wedding after attempting to sneak shots of Jason Mesnick and Molly Malaney are suing ABC for the hands-on scolding they received from security guards. Bachelor producer Next Entertainment and O&R Protective Services, which provided the guards, are also named as defendants in the suit filed Monday (March 8th) in Los Angeles Superior Court. Photographers Eric Brogmus and Maximiliano Lopes are claiming battery, false imprisonment and negligence for the February 27th incident.
HOLLY MADISON AND BENJI MADDEN MOVING IN? The exes of Paris Hilton and Hugh Hefner are reportedly shacking up. In Touch magazine reports that Holly Madison is planning to move from Las Vegas to Los Angeles in order to be with her beau, Benji Madden. A source told the magazine, "Benji cares very much for Holly. They have been talking about living together." The couple began dating back in December.
JOHN KRASINSKI CLOSER TO PLAYING CAPTAIN AMERICA: The odds of John Krasinski playing Captain American on the big screen are increasing. Several weeks after his initial screen test was reported, sources are saying he's the "favorite" to get the part. Sources told Fox411, "John has read 4 times and is doing screen tests. He has screen tested 2 times so far. It's very likely that he will be the new Captain America."
ROBERT DE NIRO TO PLAY VINCE LOMBARDI: Robert De Niro will reportedly star as legendary coach Vince Lombardi in the feature film Lombardi. Variety reports that Eric Roth has signed on to pen the script, which will chronicle the coach's career during the years he transformed the Green Bay Packers from the worst team in the NLF into five-time champs.
QUENTIN TARANTINO SUED: A man is suing Quentin Tarantino, claiming that the director stole his idea for Kill Bill. TMZ.com reports that Dannez Hunter says in 1999 he submitted a treatment to Miramax about a fictional character named Ren and eventually Miramax, Harvey Weinstein and Tarantino ripped off his work, including the "concept/character name Ren." Some of the ideas he claims were stolen include Ren witnessing her mother's sadistic murder and the knife through the mother's abdomen. He also says that he applied for a job at Miramax but "was never given a return phone call, as numerous similar situated less qualified Jewish and White people were bestowed job after job after job."
NBC RENEWS MISS UNIVERSE: NBC has renewed its deal with Donald Trump and the Miss Universe organization to air the Miss USA and Miss Universe pageants for three more years beginning in 2011. The announcement comes a week after TLC said it would not renew its telecast deal with the veteran Miss America organization.
LIV TYLER STARRING IN 'THE LEDGE': Liv Tyler and Patrick Wilson will star in the upcoming suspense film The Ledge. The Hollywood Reporter announced that the stars join Terrence Howard and Charlie Hunnam in the story of a man (Hunnam) standing on a high-rise ledge who insists he must jump by noon as the policeman below (Howard) tries to manage the situation.