EXPECTING
Actress Tracey Gold (Growing Pains), 38, and her husband, financial consultant Roby Marshall, 42, are expecting their fourth son in April.
BIRTHS
Brothers & Sisters star Balthazar Getty, 32, and his wife, designer Rosetta, welcomed their fourth child, daughter June Catherine, on Oct. 2
in L.A.... Actor Nick Nolte, 66, and companion Clytie Lane welcomed a
baby girl on Oct. 3 in L.A.
MARRIED
Ricardo Chavira (Desperate Housewives), 36, wed Marcea Dietzel, 36, on
Sept. 22 in San Antonio.
RECOVERING
Guitarist Isaac Hanson, 26, underwent surgery to treat a pulmonary
embolism after an Oct. 4 Hanson concert in Dallas. He is expected to
make a full recovery, and the band's tour resumed on Oct. 8 in
Knoxville, Tenn.... On Oct. 5, Lindsay Lohan, 21, reportedly checked out
of Utah's Cirque Lodge, a drug and alcohol treatment center. The
actress, who voluntarily entered the facility in early August, is
scheduled to start shooting the drama Dare to Love Me in L.A. on Oct. 29.
COURTS
On Oct. 9 in L.A., actor Kiefer Sutherland (24), 40, pleaded no contest to misdemeanor charges of DUI — for which he was arrested on Sept. 25 — and violation of his five-year probation period (stemming from a 2004 DUI
incident). Prosecutors are recommending that the actor serve 18 days in
an L.A. county jail starting Dec. 21 — the day he is scheduled to appear
for sentencing — and an additional 30 days by July 1, 2008. Any sentence
is not expected to disrupt 24's production schedule. ''I'm very
disappointed in myself for the poor judgment I exhibited,'' said
Sutherland in a statement.... Music publisher Bourne Co., owner of the
rights to Pinocchio's Oscar-winning ballad ''When You Wish Upon a Star,''
filed suit against Fox and Cartoon Network for copyright infringement on
Oct. 3, claiming that a 2000 episode of Family Guy altered the lyrics
and turned the song into an anti-Semitic parody titled ''I Need a Jew.''
According to the lawsuit, Fox originally refused to air the show due to
its content; it appeared on Cartoon Network in '03. Neither of the
networks' reps returned calls for comment.... Rapper Lil' Wayne (né Dwayne Michael Carter Jr.), 28, was arrested as he walked off stage
after an Oct. 5 gig in Boise, Idaho, and charged with being a fugitive
from a 2005 felony drug-possession charge in Fulton County, Ga. Carter
says he thought the charges had been dropped and therefore missed a
scheduled court appearance. Notes Carter's lawyer: ''He's never missed a
performance, much less a court date.''... On Oct. 7, convicted felon
James Sabatino, 31, sued Bad Boy Entertainment CEO Sean ''Diddy'' Combs, 37, for $20 million for breach of contract. Sabatino, currently serving
time in Florida for fraud, says Combs failed to pay him for recordings
made by Notorious B.I.G. in 1994. Sabatino claims he financed the
material (17 minutes of vocals and some 90 minutes of video), which was
sold to Bad Boy. A rep for Combs says he will ''vigorously defend''
himself.... On Oct. 4 in L.A., Deborah Curling sued the production
company of The Price Is Right and ex-host Bob Barker, 83, for wrongful termination. Curling, who worked in the game show's greenroom for 20
years, says she was forced to quit after complaining about Barker's
sexual and racial prejudice (against her and others) and for testifying
against him in a co-worker's harassment lawsuit in the mid-'90s.... On
Oct. 4, Robert Furo Jr., 45, was charged with felony burglary for
allegedly breaking into the Newport Beach, Calif., home of Nicolas Cage,
43, two days earlier. Police say Cage entered his house and discovered
Furo wearing nothing but a leather jacket that belonged to the actor.
Furo could not be reached for comment.... On Oct. 2 in L.A., Roderick
Davis, 37, was arrested in connection with the Sept. 24 theft of
computers and photographs from the production offices of Steven
Spielberg's upcoming sequel Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. Police apprehended Davis while they were posing as buyers for the
stolen goods. Davis, who faces up to four years in jail, has pled not
guilty.
DEATHS
Tony award winner George Grizzard (Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?), 79,
of complications from lung cancer, Oct. 2, in NYC. — Additional reporting by Stewart Allen
Pam Weds; Color White Loses All Meaning
Baywatch babe Pamela Anderson, 40, and Paris Hilton sex-tape costar Rick
Salomon, 38, made it legal on Oct. 6 in Las Vegas — the very city where
Anderson's ex-husbands, Tommy Lee and Kid Rock, duked it out at last
month's VMAs. The Canadian actress squeezed in the nuptials between her
twice-nightly shows with magician Hans Klok, and walked down the aisle
in a white denim dress. No word on whether the ceremony was videotaped. — Adam Markovitz
R. Kelly: I Gotta Sing
Five years after his arrest on child pornography charges, R. Kelly's
trial has yet to start. His music career, however, doesn't seem to stop:
On Oct. 9, Kelly, 40, announced a nine-week U.S. tour beginning Nov. 14
in Columbus, Ga. For his '04 and '06 concert tours, Kelly — who maintains
his innocence — had needed a judge's permission to leave Illinois; now,
according to his lawyer, Kelly is required only to notify the court of
his travel plans. A source close to the situation says the R&B star
began booking dates after his trial's Sept. 17 start was postponed: ''It
became clear that it was not going to be rescheduled this year. [He]made the decision that he needed to get on with his life.'' — Simon Vozick-Levinson
The Week in Cruise
EW has learned that the manuscript of Andrew Morton's upcoming unauthorized Tom Cruise biography just landed in the New York City
offices of its publisher, St. Martin's. The book — due Jan. 15, according
to an industry insider — is the dirt-digging latest from Morton, the
best-selling author of Diana: Her True Story and the Lewinsky tell-all,
Monica's Story. Meanwhile, Cruise's next movie — the summer 2008 WWII drama Valkyrie hit yet another stumbling block this week. United Artists
confirmed that due to a processing snafu, director Bryan Singer has to
redo scenes shot at Bendlerblock war memorial in Berlin. ''When we sent
the film to the lab, something happened. Some of the footage was
damaged,'' says UA marketing head Dennis Rice, adding that the German
government, which was slow to grant access to Bendlerblock in the first
place, has signed off on the reshoots: ''It's a bit of a snag, but it's
not anything that hasn't already been handled.'' — Gregory Kirschling
