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MTV: Music Television will premiere its most recent original movie for television, “Wasted.” The movie, directed by Stephen Kay (The Last Time I Committed Suicide), stars Summer Phoenix [The Laramie Project, The Believer], Nick Stahl [In the Bedroom, Bully], and Aaron Paul [“Judging Amy”, Whatever It Takes]. Based on extensive research, “Wasted” chronicles the resurgence of heroin use among young people in recent years. With a cheap price tag and an enhanced purity-enabling users to snort the drug and do away with the stigma of the needle-heroin proved irresistible to high school students with money to spend, time on their… Read more »

The court has dismissed a lawsuit filed last year against singer Marc Anthony, which alleged that his award-winning hit song “I Need to Know” was not written by Anthony and composer/producer Cory Rooney. According to Anthony’s lawyer, Orin Snyder of the firm Parcher, Hayes & Snyder, the lawsuit was dismissed by United States District Judge Denny Chin after Daniel Agren determined that his claims were legally insufficient. The lawsuit had alleged that “I Need to Know” infringed the copyright of an unpublished song by Agren of the same title. “This lawsuit was frivolous from the outset and Marc should be… Read more »

Billy Joel and Elton John are back together in the new year for the continuation of the pair’s magical “Face To Face” performances kicking off on Sunday, January 13th in Washington, DC at the MCI Center. Billy and Elton first toured the successful “Face To Face” tour in the United States in 1995 and again in 1996. The tour was extended to Japan, Australia, New Zealand and Europe in 1998. The 31-date “Face To Face” 2001 tour grossed $59 million. Early sales for the Billy Joel/Elton John “Face To Face” 2002 tour of the American northeast immediately set box office… Read more »

R.E.M. and Jewel will perform short sets at the third You Gotta Have Friends benefit for the Gay Men’s Health Crisis on January 31 at New York’s Carnegie Hall. The alternative rock pioneers are expected to play a 30 to 45-minute electric set, and Jewel will play an approximately 20-minute-long acoustic set. The event will be hosted by Whoopi Goldberg and will honor AOL Time Warner for their commitment to the fight against AIDS. You Gotta Have Friends will also feature a performance by Sweet Honey in the Rock, a Grammy-winning female a cappella gospel/jazz/blues ensemble, and appearances by Rosie… Read more »

Five months after being hospitalized for what was called an “overindulgence,” Foo Fighters drummer Taylor Hawkins is healthy, happy and making music with his bandmates once again. The 29-year-old drummer was hospitalized in the U.K. in August for a health crisis that led to the cancellation of the Foo Fighters’ European tour (see “Foo Fighters’ Drummer Hospitalized; European Tour Canceled”). Hawkins came clean on the causes of his recent hospitalization this week, and admitted that the “overindulgence” was drug-related and that he has taken subsequent steps to get clean and sober. “I was just definitely a little out of control,… Read more »

Join Sway Calloway for MTV News’ weekly dose of Billboard charts, Soundscan numbers, and music analysis. This week, John Norris looks at L.A. rockers The Calling, and gets the story behind P.O.D.’s “Youth of the Nation.” In “Spins & Streams,” Suchin Pak runs the numbers on P.O.D., Offspring, Creed & Jennifer Lopez. And Iann Robinson’s “Strange Relationships” finds the cosmic connections between grammy nominees for Album of the Year & Record of the Year “Bangin’ The Charts” premiers Frday, January 11 at 5:00 p.m. and encores Saturday, January 12 at 9:00 a.m., Sunday, January 13 at 1:00 a.m., and Monday,… Read more »

Creed again has weathered the January sales drought, moving almost 166,000 copies of its Wind-up disc “Weathered” to stay atop the nation’s sales chart for the seventh week in a row. And the seven Grammy nominations India.Arie received Friday put her “Acoustic Soul” (Motown) disc back in the top 200 at No. 139 on sales of 11,000, according to SoundScan information issued Sunday. The top 10 for the week ended Sunday was jumbled a little, but the titles remained essentially the same as the previous week. Linkin Park’s “Hybrid Theory” (Warner Bros.) remained No. 2 on sales of 124,000; Ludacris’… Read more »

Madonna’s Drowned World Tour 2001 concert DVD has been deemed “too explicit” for Singapore and banned from release there, Billboard reports. The Singapore Board Of Film Censors took issue with two scenes in particular-Japanese-inspired animation sequences that depicted a monster fondling and raping an Asian-looking girl. Madonna’s management is reportedly debating whether to release an edited version of the DVD in that country. The Drowned DVD captures the Material Girl in concert in Detroit last August. Meanwhile, other visual images of Madonna are currently receiving accolades back home in the States. The Jean-Baptiste Mondino-directed video for the song “Don’t Tell… Read more »

Nelly Furtado is miffed about a midriff. The Canadian singer has complained that a photo of her on the cover of British men’s magazine FHM was digitally altered to show a bare torso – and it’s not hers. “There I am with a shirt that has actually been digitally altered to go to just below my chest, with a stomach that I don’t recognize, saying ‘Nelly Furtado – her sexiest shoot yet,”‘ the singer told British Broadcasting Corp. radio on Monday. “I don’t like being misrepresented to my fans. You work hard to represent a certain thing and have a… Read more »

Federal communications regulators said Tuesday they changed their minds about an edited version of “The Real Slim Shady,” a song by rapper Eminem, deciding it was not that offensive after all. In June, the Federal Communications Commission proposed slapping KKMG-FM in Pueblo, Colorado with a $7,000 fine for airing the song by Eminem, despite editing done by the station, which is owned by Citadel Broadcasting Co. The FCC initially said the radio station did not delete parts that referred to sexual activity. But Citadel countered the references in the edited version were not explicit or graphic enough to be offensive… Read more »