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FILED: The government filed court papers Thursday opposing Martha Stewart's bid for a new trial based on perjury allegations against Secret Service ink expert Larry Stewart (no relation to Martha), who testified against her in her trial for lying to federal investigators over a stock sale. Judge Miriam Goldman Cederbaum, who is still scheduled to sentence the domestic diva, 62, and her former stockbroker, Peter Bocanovic, 41, on July 8, will consider the request for the new trial.
CAST: Paris Hilton, 23, will star in the sorority comedy National Lampoon's Pledge This!, to start filming in Miami this August, reports Variety. The Simple Life star just finished House of Wax, a horror remake.
REGROUPED: With the latest reunion of Jane's Addiction petering out, Perry Farrell's three bandmates have joined forces with another vocalist to plan a new group, reports Billboard. "The deal is that (the reunion) simply didn't work out," guitarist Dave Navarro wrote in a Web post. So, Navarro, bassist Chris Chaney and drummer Stephen Perkins have formed a new band with Skycycle vocalist Steve Isaacs. The as-yet-unnamed group has written three songs and has begun recording with producer Danny Saber, who worked with Navarro on his 2001 Capitol solo debut, Trust No One. Isaacs emphasized he was not replacing Farrell as vocalist in Jane's Addiction. "Dave, Stephen, and Chris and I are just taking some time to do what is the most fun thing in the world to do – make music and write songs."
EXPECTED: Singer Chynna Phillips (the daughter of John and Michelle Phillips, of the Mamas and the Papas) and actor Billy Baldwin (Backdraft) are expecting their third child in December, reports the New York Post. Baldwin, 41, and Phillips, 36, married in 1995. A daughter, Jamison, was born in 2000; a son, Vance, in 2001.
WON: Ken Jennings, 30, is on an unprecedented winning streak on TV's Jeopardy, having emerged victorious on 17 sessions and, so far, pocketing $552,959 – $40,000 of that on Thursday night alone. Jennings, married with one child, told host Jeopardy Alex Trebek he's a movie buff, and told the New York Post he plans to buy some DVDs with his winnings.
DECIDED: Rather than continue their search to replace Hugh Jackman, 35, in Broadway's The Boy from Oz, its producers have announced that they will close the show instead, on Sept. 12, when the Tony winner's contract runs out. Jackman will go do another movie. There had been rumors that Ricky Martin would step into the role. By closing night, Oz, which was booed by the critics except for Jackman's performance, will have racked up 396 performances. There is some question over whether the show has recouped its $9 million investment.
REINVENTED: David Lee Roth, 48, former frontman for Van Halen, is living modestly in Lower Manhattan and undergoing emergency medical technician training, reports New York?s Daily News. "I used to be a surgical orderly in South Central L.A.," says Roth. "I started that when I got out of junior college in the early '70s, and that led to a variety of things in the outdoor medical fire force and training with the Green Berets. ... My father was a surgeon and uncles and my cousins were also in the medical community, so I come by it natural." He reportedly hopes to be certified by November and to volunteer once a month.
