TUBE TALK ''Last Call with Carson Daly'' will air a special one-hour episode early Monday morning (March 30), to make room for a lengthy interview with Elton John. John dishes on his past eating disorders and his love life, and will perform several songs, according to a ''Last Call'' spokesperson. The show airs on NBC at 1:35 a.m….

SOUND BITES Newsflash: Getting trampled by a bull can really mess you up. Lyle Lovett, who broke his leg in at least 20 places when he suffered that fate on Wednesday, will have to undergo six months of rehabilitation, according to USA Today…

Rock icon David Bowie, who vowed to leave the major label system behind when he parted ways with Virgin Records last year, was apparently just kidding. He's signed with an even larger corporate giant, Columbia Records. to release his new album, ''Heathen.'' The disc, which marks Bowie's first collaboration with longtime producer Tony Visconti in more than 20 years, is due June 11, according to the artist's publicity firm…

''Lord of the Rings'' director Peter Jackson says that the oft-repeated story about The Beatles trying to make their own ''Rings'' movie in the '60s is true. Jackson tells New Zealand's Evening Post newspaper that Paul McCartney informed him at the Oscars that the Beatles even had their casting choices down -- though J.R.R. Tolkien quickly nixed the idea. George Harrison would have played wizard Gandalf, McCartney would have been the hobbit Frodo, John Lennon would've been the evil Gollum and Ringo Starr wanted to play Frodo's friend Sam. In related news, the Beatles smoked a lot of pot in the '60s...

Liza Minnelli would like you to know all about her sex life: It's great. She informs the New York Post's Page Six ''exclusively'' that her new husband, David Gest, is a world-class lover. ''I know many of my husband's ex-girlfriends... will agree that if every man was as good in bed as David, there would be a lot of happy women in the world,'' she says, helpfully shooting down rumors that Gest is gay.

Originally posted Mar 29, 2002
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