CONCERT ALERT Courtney Love stormed off stage during Hole's concert Saturday night in Portland, Ore. -- Love's home state. The part-time actress reportedly played for 45 minutes to a half-full, unresponsive Rose Garden audience, and then yelled, ''Make up your mind. Either you're happy that me and (director) Gus Van Sant are from here or you're not.'' When silence followed, Love said, ''This is so bad I can't deal with it'' and cut the show short .... Sugar Ray has been selected (along with fellow rockers the Goo Goo Dolls and the Flys) as the Rolling Stones' opening act. Sugar Ray is slotted to open the final three shows of the Stones' ongoing North American tour: April 16 in Last Vegas, and April 19 and 20 at the San Jose Arena.
'TOON IN Get ready boys and girls, new Mickey Mouse cartoons are on the way to ABC's Saturday-morning lineup. Disney's ''Mickey MouseWorks'' -- which will star Mickey, Goofy, Donald Duck, Pluto, and Minnie Mouse -- will premiere Saturday, May 1, at noon. This is the first time a full-time animation crew has been put together to do Mickey Mouse cartoons since the '50s.
CHARGED Rapper Russell Jones, a.k.a.,O.D.B., has been charged with possession of body armor under a new California law that bars convicted felons from using bullet-proof vests. (Jones, 29, was convicted in 1993 of second-degree assault.) Scheduled to be arraigned Wednesday, O.D.B. was arrested last month in Hollywood after being stopped for alleged parking violations. Police officers then found that he had no driver's license and was wearing a bullet-proof vest, which since Jan. 1 has been illegal for felons of a violent crime. He could face a maximum of three years in prison.
CASTING Another 1960s sitcom is coming to the big screen. Michael Douglas will produce and star in New Line Cinema's ''My Three Sons.'' Douglas will play Steve Douglas (the role perfected by Fred MacMurray in the 1960-1972 series), a widower left to raise his three sons Mike, Robbie, and Chip. Douglas and New Line execs are still looking for a screenwriter to pen the script.
HOSPITALIZED Tom Hanks has been ordered off his feet for a few days due to a knee blister he got while shooting a movie in Fiji. Hanks, 42, was hospitalized in Los Angeles yesterday after returning from the set of ''Cast Away'' with an infected blister. Although Hanks is scheduled to be released from the hospital today, he will reportedly miss the upcoming Oscar luncheon and the NATO Star of the Decade Awards in Las Vegas this week.
ENGAGED ''ER'' hunk-in-residence Noah Wyle is officially off the eligible-bachelor's list. Wyle told yesterday's edition of ''Access Hollywood'' that he and girlfriend Tracy Warbin, a makeup artist, had gotten engaged over Valentine's Day weekend. Wyle and Warbin, who met on the set of ''The Myth of Fingerprints'' in 1996, have not set a wedding date.
LEGAL BRIEFS Los Angeles Magazine has been ordered to pay Dustin Hoffman's legal fees for publishing the actor's face on the body of a cross-dressing man. The magazine must pay $270,000 -- an amount less than the $415,000 Hoffman's legal team had sought. Last January, a U.S. District judge also ordered L.A. Magazine, which is owned by ABC Inc., to pay Hoffman $3 million in damages for the bogus fashion layout. ABC Inc. has announced its plans to appeal that judgment.... Aerosmith leader Steven Tyler doesn't have to worry about nude photos of him floating around...yet. Tyler, who is suing his ex-wife Kathleen Tallarico over nude photographs of him, got a restraining order yesterday from the New York Supreme Court that temporarily blocks publication of the photos until after the trial. Tallarico -- who plans to publish the photographs in the paperback edition of her book ''Dream On'' -- says there are only two photos in question and that they are not Tyler's personal possessions, since she and Tyler took them of each other.
DIAMONDS Move over platinum and gold records, the real honor is the diamond. Elton John, Billy Joel, Fleetwood Mac, Michael Jackson, and the Eagles are some of the acts whose albums will be given the new diamond sales certification from the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). In a ceremony next Tuesday at New York's Roseland Ballroom, the RIAA will unveil the diamond distinction, which honors sales of 10 million units for an album or single. Other recipients include Boyz II Men, Boston, Celine Dion, the Backstreet Boys, Alanis Morissette and Garth Brooks.
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