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An arrest warrant has been issued for JUVENILE in Georgia on charges of child abandonment. The rapper (a.k.a. TERIUS GRAY) has allegedly failed to make child-support payments for his six-month-old daughter . . . STEVE EARLE is starring in the award-winning off Broadway play "The Exonerated" through January 4th . . . DEVANDRA BANHART has recorded a pair of new albums. The first, "Rejoicing in the Hands," will be released in April, with the second to follow in September . . . MARCY PLAYGROUND will release "MP3," their first album in five years, on March 23rd . . .
A new HELMET anthology, "Unsung: The Best of Helmet 1991-1997," will collect twenty-one of the band's songs. The album is due January 27th . . . HENRY ROLLINS will take his new spoken word tour, "Shock and Awe My Ass," out on a thirty-two-date tour starting January 13th in Tempe, Arizona. A new DVD, "Live at Luna Park," culled from a 1999 spoken word tour will be released on February 10th . . . The NOTWIST will release "Different Cars and Trains," a collection of five remixes, on January 27th . . .
PINK will follow in the footsteps of BEYONCE and BRITNEY SPEARS as a Pepsi pitchwoman, fronting the soda's new "International" campaign . . . TRICK DADDY avoided a prison term by pleading guilty to cocaine and weapons charges. Instead the rapper has agreed to make twenty-four free appearances, during which he will talk to kids about the dangers of drugs and guns . . . Two weeks after his all-terrain vehicle crash at his estate in Buckinghamshire, England, OZZY OSBOURNE is out of intensive care. The fifty-five-year-old rocker, who suffered a broken collarbone, neck vertebra and eight ribs, has been moved from Wexham Park Hospital in the town of Slough to a private clinic. The Osbourne family announced the news via a December 23rd statement and thanked fans for their "kind support, well wishes and prayers" . . .
BRITNEY SPEARS was the year's most searched celebrity, according to the search engine Lycos, while Eminem topped Spears on Yahoo's list . . . BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN led mourners in a rendition of "Santa Claus Is Coming to Town" at a funeral for eccentric millionaire JOHN A. MULHEREN JR. on Friday. Guitarist NILS LOFGREN also sang and JON BON JOVI was in attendance . . . CLAY AIKEN graduated Saturday from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte with a bachelor's of arts in special education . . . EMINEM'S ex-wife and sometime muse KIM MATHERS plead guilty to a drug charge and a driving offense to resolve a case stemming from a June traffic stop in Michigan.
A DVD documenting the making of WARREN ZEVON's final album "The Wind" will be released in March. It will include the original VH-1 documentary and unreleased footage, including interviews with the album's guests . . . CHRISTINA AGUILERA paid a visit to a Pittsburgh women's shelter Sunday, signing autographs and talking to the residents during the course of her two-hour stay . . . Vans and SLAYER have teamed up to create the Slayer Old Skool sneaker due out in a limited edition this spring . . . A man convicted of impersonating CREED guitarist MARK TREMONTI has been sentenced to more than two years in prison for conning fans out of more than $1,000.
(December 29, 2003)