- Amy Winehouse must report to a court in Norway at the end of February to appeal a fine for marijuana possession. The singer and her currently incarcerated hubby, Blake Felder-Civil, were arrested in October for possession, but were released without charges after a night in prison and a 500 euro fine. Winehouse’s father later claimed she had been tricked into signing a confession, although authorities maintained she was assisted by fluent English speakers.
- Want press for your little-known group? Give Robert Plant an award. That’s what the Beard Liberation Front has done, bestowing the Led Zeppelin frontman with 2007’s Beard of the Year title for his blond-and-gray goatee. “The winners this year have stylish beards and are promoting a new twenty-first century image of the hirsute,” organizer Keith Flett told the BBC.
- More bad news for Ozzy Osbourne: His memoirs, originally scheduled for release before the end of 2007, have been pushed back to May 1st. Earlier this year reports indicated Osbourne had missed his deadline for publisher Little Brown, with whom he signed a reported $2 million deal almost two years ago.
- Apple CEO Steve Jobs is expected to announce a partnership with Fox and Disney to introduce movie rentals on iTunes at January’s MacWorld conference, Variety reports. The rentals are expected to be priced between $2 and $5 for a 24-hour viewing window, and will be able to be transferred to iPods — the key difference between iTunes’ service and Blockbuster, Netflix and other rivals.
- It’s been a slow album-release week, however iTunes is offering a free download of Regina Spektor’s cover of Peggy Lee’s “My Dear Acquaintance (A Happy New Year)” (click here to check it out), while Lil Wayne quietly released a five-song EP called The Leak on Rhapsody and Amazon. Weezy was expected to release a full mixtape titled Tha Carter III: The Leak this month but never did. Tha Carter III LP is still due February 18th.
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