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Tommy Lee and Pamela Anderson have agreed to end their bitter custody battle over their two sons, a lawyer for the actress said Tuesday. Lee’s lawyer, Lance Spiegel, did not immediately return calls for comment. Suzanne Harris, Anderson’s attorney, said the couple signed an agreement and submitted it to the court, where it is expected to be signed by Superior Court Judge Lee Smalley Edmon. “(The filing) contains everything you could possibly think of about how to raise the children and where they will live,” Harris said. Harris said Anderson, 35, now has the option of moving Brandon, 6, and… Read more »

Melissa Joan Hart, television’s “Sabrina, The Teenage Witch,” is engaged to rocker Mark Wilkerson of the band Course of Nature, Wilkerson’s publicist said. Wilkerson proposed the day after Christmas, and no wedding date has been set. It will be the first marriage for both. “I knew she was the one a week after we started going out and it’s been that way ever since,” the band’s guitarist and lead vocalist said in a statement. Publicist Jonathan Wolfson said Tuesday that Hart contacted Wilkerson’s manager after meeting the 25-year-old musician at a concert last year. Wilkerson, a former University of North… Read more »

The recording industry and several high-tech groups battling over copyright laws declared a tentative truce on Tuesday and said they would try to hash out rules to govern how to protect digital movies and music from widespread bootlegging. The two sides hope to avoid a big lobbying battle this year in Congress over whether to enhance digital copyright protection or preserve the rights of users to make copies. They said they will try to settle their differences and devise rules to govern how movies and music may be used, instead of looking to Congress or the Federal Communications Commission. But… Read more »

A peace treaty announced Tuesday between the record business and Silicon Valley could reshape the debate over what role Capitol Hill should play in mandating antipiracy technology being sought by Hollywood, making it more difficult for the movie biz to pursue its legislative agenda. The landmark pact among the Recording Industry Assn. of America (RIAA), the Business Software Alliance (BSA) and the Computer Systems Policy Project (CSPP) launches a new chapter in the music industry’s fight to recover from devastating levels of computer piracy. For its part, Silicon Valley will actively help the RIAA, the lobbying arm of the major… Read more »

The biggest winners turned out to be MIAs at the 30th annual AMAs, including Eminem, winner of a leading four American Music Awards. Others absent when their names were called at Monday night’s American Music Awards were the bands Creed and the Dixie Chicks, who won two awards apiece. Tim McGraw, who sang a “Tiny Dancer” duet with Elton John at the start of the nationally televised show, left for Nashville before winning favorite male country artist, and Mary J. Blige – another absentee – was named favorite female hip-hop artist. Eminem won in every category in which he was… Read more »

With Steve Case set to leave as chairman of AOL Time Warner in May, industry observers said Monday that CEO Richard Parsons was the front-runner to further consolidate his power base and take on the additional chairman title. However, with Case gone as a scapegoat for investor gripes, Parsons must produce proof of a turnaround at the ailing America Online unit or else risk becoming a target for angry investors, they said. “He’s now the man in charge with no one to blame,” said Hal Vogel, head of media investment firm Vogel Capital Management. “He’ll get to take the praise… Read more »

Mon Jan 13,12:26 AM ET Add Entertainment – Hollywood Reporter to My Yahoo! By Nellie Andreeva The Simpsons will get a surprise visit for their 300th show from old neighbors on the Fox schedule – the Bundys. Fox will air a one-hour “Married… with Children” reunion special Feb. 16, the night “The Simpsons” marks its 300th episode milestone. The first get-together of the cast of Fox’s first hit series from Sony Picture Television will coincide with the Feb. 4 release of one of two “Married… with Children: The Most Outrageous Episodes” DVDs by Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment. Five episodes will… Read more »

After scoring a hit in 2000 with their first single, “Flavor of the Weak,” American Hi-Fi were showered with praise and press. The experience of playing stadiums and landing mainstream radio play influenced frontman Stacy Jones to write the title track of the band’s new album, The Art of Losing. “We started out playing these sh-ty little clubs all over the country, and it was f-ing great,” explained Jones. “Then when ‘Flavor of the Weak’ started getting played, we found ourselves on these bills where we were playing between Dream and the ‘Moulin Rouge’ chicks. I just remember looking at… Read more »

Clear Channel Worldwide has begun turning off Internet streams of some of its music stations. The company has offered simulcasts of several hundred broadcasting properties. For example, the company’s Houston-based KTBZ dropped its stream, blaming “costly fees now required from online broadcasters by the music licensing organizations BMI and ASCAP.” Other Clear Channel stations in Los Angeles, Miami and Dallas also halted their Net casts, according to Radio and Records, a trade publication. The latest weekly Arbitron MeasureCast rankings of Internet listening show Clear Channel the most popular radio network on the Web, reaching 321,330 people during the week ending… Read more »

Ozzy and Sharon Osbourne renewed their wedding vows during a New Year’s Eve party at the Beverly Hills Hotel that included hundreds of guests. The couple got married on July 4, 1982, but delayed their 20th anniversary celebration because of Sharon’s battle with colon cancer. They announced their plans in November. Sharon wore a cream-colored wedding gown and diamond tiara as she was escorted down the aisle by her father, Entertainment Tonight said. The couple’s youngest daughter Kelly served as flower girl. Music was provided by the 1970s group “Village People.” Guests included singer Justin Timberlake and comedian Chris Rock,… Read more »