Brad and Jennifer break up in London, too
LONDON, Feb. 18 (UPI) -- The fallout from the breakup of Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston reached Madame Tussauds of London where a wax statue of the couple had to be broken up.
A wax replica of the celebrity couple had been the London attraction's first joined-together figures, holding each other in a tender embrace, the Sun reported Friday.
Now officials at Tussauds have had to spend $18,900 to replace one of Pitt's arms and Aniston's torso. Less intimate versions of the two were scheduled to go on display Friday.
"It was all a bit embarrassing so they had to change it," a museum source told the Sun.
Phil Spector gets court date in shooting
LOS ANGELES, Feb. 18 (UPI) -- A Los Angeles judge has set Sept. 16 as the court date for music producer Phil Spector trial for the shooting death of B-movie actress Lana Clarkson.
Spector, 64, pleaded innocent to the murder count and remains free on $1 million bail until his court date, E! Online said Friday.
Spector says the 40-year-old Clarkson "kissed the gun" in front of him inside his suburban Los Angeles mansion Feb. 3, 2003.
But an officer at the scene testified to a grand jury that after Spector was handcuffed, he said, "What's wrong with you guys? What are you doing? I didn't mean to shoot her. It was an accident."
Clarkson's mother, Donna Clarkson, filed a lawsuit earlier this month -- on the two-year anniversary of her daughter's demise -- charging Spector with wrongful death.
Report says Jones tried to warn Jackson
LOS ANGELES, Calif., Feb. 18 (UPI) -- Music producer Quincy Jones tried to talk Michael Jackson into stopping "sleepovers with boys," "Celebrity Justice" reported Friday.
Quoting sources connected with both men, "CJ" said Jones tried to warn Jackson "disaster looms" over the sleepover practice two years before the scandal broke.
"We are told Quincy Jones actually did an intervention on several occasions," Harvey Levin, executive producer of the TV tabloid news show, said. "Going to Michael Jackson and saying, 'Look, this is inappropriate, it's wrong and it could bring you down if you don't stop.' It was that serious."
But, sources said Jackson "didn't take it seriously."
Jones is on the defense witness list for Jackson's California criminal trial for the alleged sexual abuse of a youth.
Lloyd Webber Broadway opening delayed
LONDON, Feb. 18 (UPI) -- British theatrical composer Andrew Lloyd Webber's latest musical, "The Woman in White," will open on Broadway but not on Nov. 10 as previously announced.
The musical instead is now set to open sometime in the spring of 2005, it was announced by the show's producers Thursday.
The musical based on Wilkie Collins' 1860 ghost thriller has been playing to sold-out houses in London even though its star, Michael Crawford of "Phantom of the Opera" fame, is currently on vacation. No reason was given for the delay but pre-Broadway performances of the show in Chicago at the LaSalle Bank Theater were announced from Nov. 15 through Jan. 8.
Lloyd Webber, 56, has a history of Broadway hits including "Jesus Christ Superstar," "Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat," "Evita," "Cats," "Starlight Express," "Phantom of the Opera," currently in its 17th year in New York, and "Aspects of Love."
