'Toy Story' a spectacular No. 1
LOS ANGELES, June 20 (UPI) -- "Toy Story" led the U.S. box office during the weekend, raking in a spectacular $109 million.
"The Karate Kid" was a respectable but far distant second with $29 million.
"The A-Team" was third with more than $13.77 million.
All gross receipt estimates are from the studios via Box Office Mojo.
"Get Him to the Greek" was fourth with more than $6.11 million; "Shrek Forever After" fifth with $5.52 million; "Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time" sixth with more than $5.27 million; "Killers" seventh with $5.1 million; "Jonah Hex" eighth with more than $5 million; and "Iron Man 2" ninth with more than $2.67 million.
"Marmaduke" rounded out the top 10 with $2.65 million.
Pontiac stage collapse injures 10 roadies
PONTIAC, Mich., June 20 (UPI) -- Firefighters say 10 people were hurt Saturday when a stage being set up at the Pontiac Silverdome near Detroit collapsed.
The victims were stagehands and production personnel for a performance by A.R. Rahman, who did the musical score for the movie "Slumdog Millionaire."
The show was called off and two of the injured workers were kept overnight at Pontiac Osteopathic Hospital, the Detroit Free Press said Sunday.
About 100-150 people were setting up for the show. The cause of the collapse was under investigation.
Lady Gaga takes show to Yankee Stadium
NEW YORK, June 20 (UPI) -- The New York Yankees say pop star Lady Gaga is officially blackballed from the team locker-room after making an unannounced visit that turned into a spectacle.
The New York Post said Sunday that Yankees co-Chairman Hal Steinbrenner was reportedly outraged at Lady Gaga's behavior in the clubhouse after Saturday's game against the cross-town Mets.
The Post said the 24-year-old singer apparently smooth-talked her way into the restricted area with a few of her girlfriends after the game and spent about 30 minutes mingling with the team.
It was no ordinary pop-in, the Post said. Gaga was dressed in a half-buttoned Yankees jersey and fishnet stockings. She also knocked back swigs of Irish whiskey and reportedly had some slurred-speech issues.
Lady Gaga's growing penchant for New York baseball has gotten her in the headlines before. Although she apparently behaved herself during Saturday's game, she was captured on film at Citi Field earlier this month making an obscene gesture with one hand and holding a beer in the other during a Mets game.
Actor Nicholas Brendon gets probation
LOS ANGELES, June 20 (UPI) -- Actor Nicholas Brendon has pleaded no contest to charges in a scuffle with police and was given probation, Los Angeles prosecutors said.
The Los Angeles City Attorney's office said Brendon, who starred in "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" was given a 1-year suspended sentence, 36 months probation and will have to spend 10 days on a state highway work crew.
On top of that, TMZ.com said Sunday, Brendon may not drink in public during the 36 months and must attend anger-management class.
The sentence stemmed from a March altercation with Los Angeles police in Venice that ended with him being Tasered and then arrested.
Brendon pleaded guilty Friday to four misdemeanor counts, including vandalism and resisting arrest.
