Furbowl & other: July 2008

90210 spinoff gets another star

Actress Jessica Stroup has become the newest cast member of the planned 'Beverly Hills, 90210' spin-off series.
The Hollywood Reporter says that Stroup will play Silver, the classmate of Annie (Shenae Grimes) in the pilot episode.
She makes an Internet video series called 'Answers to Life's Inane Questions Answered by a 15-Year-Old in a Bikini'.
Twenty-one-year-old Stroup will be seen on Irish cinema screens in the horror 'Prom Night'; it opens on Friday 6 June.

Ian McKellan: Lord of the Twinks

Holy Shire! Don't tell Frodo, but Gandalf the WHITE went for a dip with his very own hobbit!

With nips erect, 69-year-old Sir Ian McKellan attempted to sun his bloodless, porcelain skin while cooling off in the Mediterranean with a young pal. X-men united!

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Sister Of NBC Sting Suicide Victim Settles Lawsuit

NBC has settled a $105-million lawsuit brought by the sister of Louis Conradt, a Texas assistant county prosecutor who shot and killed himself when police arrived at his house as part of a Dateline "To Catch a Predator" sting in November 2006. An attorney for Patricia Conradt and an NBC News spokeswoman told today's (Wednesday) Los Angeles Times that the lawsuit had been "amicably resolved." Last February, U.S. District Judge Denny Chin rejected NBC's effort to throw out the case, saying that the network had "placed itself squarely in the middle of a police operation, pushing the police to engage in tactics that were unnecessary and unwise, solely to generate more dramatic footage for a television show. A reasonable jury could find that by doing so, NBC created a substantial risk of suicide or other harm, and that it engaged in conduct so outrageous and extreme that no civilized society should tolerate it."

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Bad Company - Bad Company Reunite For One-off Gig

Rock supergroup BAD COMPANY are to reunite for one night only.

New Queen frontman Paul Rodgers has confirmed the Feel Like Makin' Love rockers will play their first show in almost a decade at the Seminole Hard Rock + Casino in Hollywood, Florida.

Rodgers tells Billboard.com, "It'll be great to see the guys and play and go back down that road again just for one night.

"(We're) protecting the legacy that we have built... cementing the rights to the trademark Bad Company for touring.

"I can't really go into that because it's kind of in the hands of our lawyers at the moment. But there are a lot of things that make it necessary to reinforce our rights here.

"By doing this one-night stand with Bad Company, we will be cementing our right to the trademark 'Bad Company' for touring, and anyone who attempts to challenge us and tour misusing our trademark and mislead the fans will be liable to legal action."

Rodgers, guitarist Mick Ralphs and drummer Simon Kirke will take the stage in Florida on 8 August (08).

The show will be dedicated to the memory of Steve Weiss, the longtime attorney for Bad Company and Led Zeppelin, who died last month (Jun08) in Florida.

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