Going to the chapel?
Beyonce and Jay-Z arrived at New York’s Scarsdale Village Hall shortly after it opened at 9 a.m. on Tuesday to get their marriage license, People.com reported yesterday.
Although a rep for Beyonce, 26, had no comment and a rep for Jay-Z, 38, could not be reached, the courthouse trip is the first real indication that the pair — who began dating in 2002 — will walk down the aisle.
Rumors of a wedding have long followed the couple, and Beyonce has admitted to thinking about how it would happen. “I never pictured myself as a bride, but after my sister’s wedding, I did start thinking about what kind of wedding I’d want. I don’t think I want a big one” she told Cosmopolitan magazine in January 2006.
Band kicks Weiland to the curb
Velvet Revolver founding members Slash, Duff McKagan, Matt Sorum and Dave Kushner announced yesterday that they’re giving the heave-ho to singer Scott Weiland, notes the Philadelphia Daily News.
“This band is all about its fans and its music, and Scott Weiland isn’t 100 percent committed to either,” Slash said. “Among other things, his increasingly erratic onstage behavior and personal problems have forced us to move on.”
But Mr. Weiland, 40 — whose career has long been overshadowed by heroin addiction — won’t be out of work for long. Billboard.com reports that his old band, Stone Temple Pilots, has reunited and may add a summer tour to previously announced festival dates.
When one door closes, another one opens.
Judge dismisses ’Borat’ case
A judge yesterday tossed out a defamation lawsuit brought by a businessman shown in the movie, “Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan,” as he is chased down Manhattan’s Fifth Avenue by comedian Sacha Baron Cohen, Associated Press reports.
Federal Judge Loretta Preska says the term “newsworthy” — defined in its most liberal and far-reaching terms — can be applied to the 2006 film hit.
The lawsuit had sought unspecified damages for Jeffrey Lemerond, a Dartmouth College graduate and financial analyst. In the movie, Mr. Lemerond is shown running and yelling “Go away” as Mr. Cohen’s character, a phony Kazakhstan journalist, chases him in an attempt to hug strangers.
Messages for comment left with lawyers on both sides were not immediately returned, AP said.
• Compiled by Robyn-Denise Yourse from Web and wire reports
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