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...print media, addicted to celebrity and sensation, are anchorites compared to their avid brethren in Hong Kong. Fourteen local newspapers breathe down the necks of the S.A.R.?s movie, TV and music performers, sleuthing Nicholas Tse?s traffic citations, Maggie Cheung?s potential suitors and the cavorting of various pop-star Twins and Boy?z. Transcribing and translating all this for English-language HK hankerers is Saskatoon, Saskatchewan?s own Sanney Leung. With his ?staff of ten ... fingers,? Saint Sanney synopsizes the day?s gossip, provides links to HK news and reviews (including mine from TIME?s Asian edition...
Remember when being charged with child molestation was a bad thing? In a spectacle that even hardened TV-news commentators described as a freak show, pop star MICHAEL JACKSON appeared in a Santa Maria, Calif., court to plead not guilty to seven counts of lewd acts with a child and two counts of giving intoxicants to a child. Outside, hundreds of fans--some of whom arrived on buses chartered by Jacko's camp--screamed their support while Jackson's bodyguards handed out invitations to the star's Neverland Ranch for postarraignment festivities. Later, Jackson climbed onto the roof...
...grille on a '65 Cadillac--because lightweight and superficial have been very, very good to him. He spent a decade apprenticing, first in local Atlanta radio, then doing gigs on a kids' version of American Gladiators, Talk Soup and Extra. Now he has parlayed his Idol success into a pop-trifle trifecta. While still the host of Fox's smash talent hunt, which returns this week, he has also taken over the radio institution American Top 40 from host Casey Kasem, and last week he launched On-Air, a variety "infotainment" (Seacrest's word, and proudly) show--which he made...
...crazy. Do you realize we landed on Mars that day? Why aren't we all talking about that?" BRITNEY SPEARS, pop singer, on the attention she received after her marriage to a friend in Las Vegas was annulled after 55 hours...
DIED. ARNE NAESS JR., 66, Norwegian shipping magnate and ex-husband of pop diva Diana Ross; after falling 320 ft. while climbing in the Franschhoek mountains; in Cape Town, South Africa. Married to Ross for 14 years until their divorce in 2000, he was an ecologist and experienced mountaineer who conquered Mount Everest...