NEW YORK - Tommy Lee says he and Pamela Anderson aren't getting married again.
"Noooo," he told "The Tonight Show" host Jay Leno Monday night.
The couple, who were married in 1995, divorced in 1998. They have been on and off again ever since. They were photographed together in Hawaii last month, and that's when the marriage rumors started, Lee said.
"I took Pamela and the kids to Hawaii for her birthday. And anytime we get together for any length of time, people are like, 'Oh, they're getting married,'" he said.
Anderson had told reporters she and Lee weren't getting back together, but the 42-year-old rocker renewed speculation when he told People magazine: "We're crazy in love. We're going to take things slowly and see where they go."
"You know, we're stuck together forever. We love each other dearly and we have two beautiful kids," Lee told Leno. "But as far as getting married or engaged, I'm not engaged or married."
The couple have two sons, Brandon, 9, and Dylan, 7.
Lee's new show, "Tommy Lee Goes to College," debuts Aug. 16 on NBC.
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NEW YORK - Count Basie, Ella Fitzgerald and Benny Goodman head this year's class of inductees to the Nesuhi Ertegun Jazz Hall of Fame, which opened last fall at Jazz at Lincoln Center's new home in the Time Warner Center.
The other 2005 inductees, announced Monday, include trumpeter Roy Eldridge, pianist Earl "Fatha" Hines, alto saxophonist Johnny Hodges of the Duke Ellington Orchestra, Basie band drummer Jo "Papa Jo" Jones, bassist-bandleader-composer Charles Mingus, cornetist Joe "King" Oliver, who brought Louis Armstrong north to Chicago from New Orleans in 1922, and Thomas "Fats" Waller, the stride pianist and singer who wrote hit tunes such as "Ain't Misbehavin" and "Honeysuckle Rose."
Pioneering bebop drummer Max Roach and tenor saxophonist Sonny Rollins became the first living inductees. The Jazz Hall of Fame is named after the Turkish-born Ertegun, who played a key role in developing the catalog of jazz, R&B and rock albums at Atlantic Records, the label founded by his brother Ahmet.
The inductees were chosen by a 58-member panel of jazz musicians, educators and scholars from 17 countries.
An induction ceremony will be held Sept. 8 at Frederick P. Rose Hall, home of Jazz at Lincoln Center.
"These great jazz musicians set new standards for instrumental and vocal performance in the 20th century," said trumpeter Wynton Marsalis, JALC's artistic director, in a statement. "Their work stands as a testament to the creative power of jazz."
Last year's inaugural group of 14 inductees included Louis Armstrong, Miles Davis and Billie Holiday.
On the Net:
http://www.jazzatlincolncenter.org
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SANTA BARBARA, Calif. - The prosecutor in a murder and kidnapping case says he did nothing wrong when he shared information with the maker of an upcoming movie based on the story.
The defendant, Jesse James Hollywood, 25, is accused of orchestrating the August 2000 killing of 15-year-old Nicholas Markowitz near his San Fernando Valley home because the teenager's older half brother owed Hollywood a $1,200 drug debt.
The film, "Alpha Dog," which stars Bruce Willis, Sharon Stone and Justin Timberlake, is scheduled to be released in late 2005 or early 2006. Although it is based on the slaying, the names and the setting have been changed.
Ron Zonen, a senior deputy district attorney, said in court papers that he provided writer/director Nick Cassavetes with tapes, photographs and investigative reports on the case in a bid to find Hollywood, who fled after Markowitz's body was found outside Santa Barbara.
"There was no misconduct in assisting Nick Cassavetes in making a movie that would reasonably assist law enforcement in apprehending a fugitive indicted for the murder of a child," Zonen said.
Zonen was responding to a motion filed by Hollywood's lawyer, James Blatt, who wants the district attorney's office to provide a detailed list of what prosecutors shared with the filmmakers. Blatt also subpoenaed Cassavetes.
Blatt said Monday he believes the prosecutor may have committed a conflict of interest by serving as an unpaid consultant on the movie. He has said in court that he wants the Santa Barbara district attorney's office to withdraw from the case.
Four people were convicted in the case, but Hollywood fled. He was captured in a beach town in Brazil in March after a nearly five-year manhunt.
A hearing on the defense motion is scheduled for Friday.
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NEW YORK - Johnny Knoxville and Seann William Scott, who play Luke and Bo Duke in "The Dukes of Hazzard," didn't exactly perfect the art of "yee-haw" for the film.
In the latest issue of Entertainment Weekly magazine, Knoxville says he felt like "half a man" when he heard John Schneider, who played Bo Duke on the '70s TV series, do the rebel yell.
"John Schneider comes up to us last night at the premiere. He's giving us these big hugs, and he goes, 'Let's do a yee-haw!' And he belts out this Tarzan-like 'yee-haw,' and I was like, 'That's kinda how we were supposed to do it, Seann.'"
Knoxville plays Luke Duke, and Scott plays cousin Bo. Jessica Simpson is denim short shorts-wearing cousin Daisy Duke, Catherine Bach's role in the TV show, which ran from 1979-1985.
Ben Jones, who played wisecracking mechanic Cooter on the popular series, has called the movie - which took in an estimated $30.7 million on its opening weekend - a "sleazy insult."
"Every place we went to - we did all this regional press, and city by city, they'd all talked to Ben Jones. He's got a hellava publicist," Knoxville says.
As for the plot, Scott says: "Plot? What plot? Plot's just an excuse to blow (expletive) up and see Jessica in her shorts! You don't want a plot with 'Dukes of Hazzard.' (Pause.) It could've been nice to have one."
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NEW YORK - Keith Richards says if the Rolling Stones were a mom-and-pop operation, Mick Jagger would be the "Mum."
"Mick has to get up in the morning with a plan," Richards tells Newsweek magazine in its latest issue. "Who he's going to call, what he's going to eat, where he's going to go. Me, I wake up, praise the Lord, then make sure all the phones are turned off. If we were a mum-and-pop operation, then he'd be Mum."
The Stones' new tour kicks off Aug. 21 in Boston. Their latest album, "A Bigger Bang," is due for release next month.
"I could see why some people may think we're phoning it in after all this time," the 61-year-old Richards says. "But playing the music we do, and playing it with these guys, 'Jumpin' Jack Flash' can be a new song to me every night."
"I mean, we don't need to do it to feed our families," he says. "We don't need to do it to prove anything."
On the Net:
http://www.rollingstones.com/home.php
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NEW YORK - Madchen Amick has joined the cast of ABC's new comedy "Freddie," which stars Freddie Prinze Jr. as a luckless bachelor surrounded by women.
Prinze plays a chef who lives with his sister, sister-in-law, niece and grandmother. Amick will play Allison, Freddie's impulsive sister-in-law, the network announced Monday. The series also stars Jacqueline Obradors, Brian A. Green, Jenny Gago and Chloe Suazo.
Amick played waitress Shelly Johnson on David Lynch's 1990 TV series, "Twin Peaks." Her recent TV credits include recurring roles on "ER" and "Joey."
"Freddie" will air on Wednesdays this fall.
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