May 05, 2006

Some notable names have been listed to attend a pre-world cup charity auction, which is about to be hosted by Victoria Adams. The beauty reportedly has managed to gather numbers of items to be donated, including a pair of diamond encrusted his and hers watches, a diamond necklace and a limited edition Bentley car.

The auction, which will be held at the Beckham's Hertfordshire mansion, will be attended by the entire England football squad, Prince Charles, Sir Elton John, Elizabeth Hurley and Tom Cruise among others. All the attendance will be entertained by a duet of Robbie Williams and James Brown. Graham Norton has been slated to host the event, with Gordon Ramsay is to preparing the food.

There're changes on the Billboard Hot 100. What significant is Rihanna's success in seizing the No. 1 spot on the chart from Canadian singer Daniel Powter, whose single "Bad Day" slips to No. 2 after 5 week on the top spot. Rihanna's "SOS" amazingly leaps 33 places to be the leader of the singles chart by Thursday May 4th, 2006.

Bow at No. 3 is Sean Paul's "Temperature", while Chamillionaire's "Ridin"' holds strong at No. 4. Follow at No. 5 is rapper T.I.'s "What You Know" which slips two places from last week's position, ahead of Nick Lachey's "What's Left of Me" which rockets 27 places to No. 6. No. 7 on the chart is Bubba Sparxxx' "Ms. New Booty".

It is confirmed Thursday May 4th, 2006 by NBC that Matthew Perry will be returning to primetime television this fall. The guy reportedly is landing his feet on the hour-long drama "Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip" for its 2006-07 schedule.

Created by Aaron Sorkin and Thomas Schlamme, the series will focus on the backstage antics of the talent and production team who work on a late-night sketch comedy show, à la Saturday Night Live.

After some "controversies", New Line Cinema finally okays the production of the highly anticipated "Rush Hour 3". New Line Production President Toby Emmerich announced May 4th, 2006 that the film would start production this fall with a 2007 release date being eyed.

In the meantime, fellow actors Chris Tucker and Jackie Chan will both star in, reprising their role as LAPD detective James Carter and Chinese Chief Inspector Lee which will feature the action comedy duo traveling to Paris to battle a wing of the Chinese organized crime family, the Triads.

The boys in the Red Hot Chili Peppers got mad when they acknowledged that their new album titled "Stadium Arcadium" has been leaked onto the Internet despite its due on sale next week.

In a letter posted on the band's Web site, bass player Michael Balzary wrote "For people to just steal a poor sound quality version of it for free because some asshole stole it and put it on the internet is sad to me."

Music act Goo Goo Dolls was forced to cancel their concert at the Emerald Theatre Wednesday afternoon May 3rd, 2006 following a failure in an underground electrical line that caused a series of gas explosions that sent utility hole covers flying.

What a fortunate that the blast caused no injury, though it forced evacuation of part of the downtown for several hours besides caused some property damage. Speaking on the incident, a DTE Energy Co. spokesman said the day's unusually warm weather led to a spike in demand for electricity as people turned on air conditioners.

It's been 17 years that Guns N' Roses and The Rolling Stones shared the bill at the Los Angeles Coliseum. And now it's time for Guns N' Roses to open two German dates on the Rolling Stones' upcoming tour of Europe.

As that mentioned on the Stones' Web site, Guns N' Roses will join the Stones in Nuremberg on July 10 and Leipzig on July 12. And despite guitarist Keith Richards' health condition, the European leg of the Stones' "A Bigger Bang" tour will still be kicked off on May 27 in Barcelona, Spain.

The joy felt by newlyweds Jack White and wife, model Karen Elson, becomes even more complete as they have on Tuesday May 2nd, 2006 welcomed their first child together.

The baby who happens to be a girl is named Scarlett Teresa. Details on the newly born remain undisclosed except that she was born in Tennessee, where The White Stripes rocker and Karen bought a home.

Academy Award winning actress Catherine Zeta-Jones is in talks to star opposite Guy Pearce in "Death Defying Acts."

Of drama genre "Death Defying Acts" actually is a movie about Harry Houdini which story centers on the height of his career in 1926, when he toured the world, amassing large crowds with his elaborate and daring escape performances.

Wanna get your idol's stuff? Go and get it. Betty Kresin, the grandmother of famous rapper Eminem, sold the star's stereo on eBay.

Betty said, "Ronnie had this stereo in his bedroom and him and Marshall would go up there and crank this thing up. They would play records and start rapping over the music and tape it."

News on their marriage has been heating up. But that Katie Holmes and her soon to-be-husband Tom Cruise reach a prenuptial deal, it is something new from the controversial couple.

Rumors on the street mention that both of them have agreed on a prenuptial deal worth over £23 million. Such amount obviously is nothing for Cruise whose fortune reaches almost £250 million.