April 01, 2006

Q magazine has recently conducted a poll on the Worst Albums of All Time. Involving almost 2000 people, including professional guitarists and music teachers, Duran Duran's 1995 album "Thank You" comes on the very top position of the poll.

The set, a collection of covers featuring songs by artists who have influenced Duran Duran throughout the years, was claimed as "abysmal on every level". That's according to Gareth Grundy, Deputy Director of Q, who commented "Sometimes these things are redeemed by some sort of kitsch value, but it didn't even have that".

Courtney Love has sold 25 per cent of her share of Nirvana's publishing catalogue for more than $50 million. The stake, which she inherited in 1994 after her late husband Kurt Cobain committed suicide, was sold to Larry Mestel of Primary Wave Music Publishing.

As for everybody to know, Love was given 98 per cent of Nirvana's publishing rights following Cobain's death, while his bandmates Dave Grohl and Krist Novoselic split the remaining two per cent. "I took a strategic partner, Larry Mestel, to help me co-manage the estate because it was overwhelming," Love said.

AceShowbiz.com has published the March 2006 edition of its Celebrity Buzz, the Top 100 most popular celebrity search counting from readers search keywords and number of celebrity page views.

Placed at the leading position is T.I., the Georgia-based rapper who has been rapping since nine years old. It makes sense, in fact, considering that he has had his fourth album "King" released in March then had his film debut "ATL" hit theater at the end of the month.

"They're taking it slow," said a source as if confirming the love relationship between Teri Hatcher and Ryan Seacrest. In fact rumors are abuzz that the twosome has embarked on a romance soon as they were photographed kissing after a cozy lunch in Malibu, California last Saturday.

There they were enjoying food at a beach-view table at a local restaurant. It is said that Hatcher was seen giving Seacrest a neck massage and frequently laughing out loud at his jokes. And soon after lunch, both of them were photographed with their arms around each other, holding hands and kissing numerous times on the beach.

"After contact with Wembley, it is evident that the stadium will not be ready for the Bon Jovi shows in June," the rock band said in a statement released Thursday March 30th, 2006 on their Web site.

Due to such fact, the music group has changed the venue for two live shows in Britain, held June 10-11 later this year, to the nearby Milton Keynes Bowl.

The highly anticipated "Mission: Impossible 3" brings trouble for Tom Cruise. The Hollywood actor is facing a lawsuit filed by Scott Wheatley, a stuntman who suffered burns while filming the movie.

Named Cruise's production company Cruise/Wagner Productions and Paramount Pictures in his suit, Wheatley alleged that he received burns over 60 per cent of his body last June, when the stunt "malfunctioned" and a "gasoline bomb" exploded, covering him "in this ball of fire".

Hollywood entertainment industry sees one more new couple emerges among the many others. Its Matthew Perry and Kristin Davis. Report on their becoming lover remains unclear, but as the two were spotted kissing is a definite evidence that they are dating.

Dining at Los Angeles restaurant La Dolce Vita recently, Perry and Davis were spotted kissing, shared an ice-cream, and looked like a couple in love. "He kept his arm around her the entire time and kissed her forehead at one point", so an onlooker remarked. Elsewhere, a friend of Davis' says, "She's really fallen for Matthew."

U.S. District Judge Florence-Marie Cooper has on Wednesday March 29th, 2006 ordered the city to pay $1.1 million payment to late Notorious B.I.G.'s family as a penalty for police negligence in last year's wrongful death trial.

The legal cost, caused by police errors during a wrongful death case brought against the city and the LAPD in which a police detective withheld documents that were pertinent to claims made by the rapper's family, represents the cost of legal fees and other expenses incurred by the family's attorneys.