THE BUZZ LOVE WILL FACE THE JURY.Byline: - Compiled by Fred Shuster Courtney Love was back on her tour of courthouse metal detectors Monday. The newly rehabbed rocker, facing two felony drug charges for illegal possession of painkillers, was given a Sept. 30 date with a Beverly Hills judge and jury. Sporting a purple knit top over a black halter halter the simplest form of restraint for the head of farm animals. Comprises a poll strap, a nose band and a halter shank that brings the ends of the nose band together under the mandible. Made of leather or cotton or manila rope. and black heels, Love fidgeted during the 10-minute hearing. Asked whether the trial date was OK, Love replied, ``I don't know Don't know (DK, DKed) "Don't know the trade." A Street expression used whenever one party lacks knowledge of a trade or receives conflicting instructions from the other party. ,'' then agreed after a chat with her lawyer. Love, 40, could face up to three years and eight months in prison if convicted on both charges of illegally possessing Hollywood's favorite aspirin substitute, OxyContin Ox·y·con·tin A trademark for the drug oxycodone. oxycodone hydrochloride ETH-Oxydose, OxyContin, OxyFast, Oxy-IR, Oxynorm (UK), Roxicodone, Supeudol (CA) Pharmacologic class: Opioid agonist . Meanwhile, arraignment A criminal proceeding at which the defendant is officially called before a court of competent jurisdiction, informed of the offense charged in the complaint, information, indictment, or other charging document, and asked to enter a plea of guilty, not guilty, or as otherwise permitted is set Friday on a separate felony assault charge - Love is accused of battering a woman with a liquor bottle at her ex-boyfriend's home in Hancock Park. Other charges are pending in New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of . Lil' Kim decries 'witch hunt' Lil' Kim claims there's a conspiracy against her. Stated the bare-all rap star, who is set to be tried on perjury charges early next year: ``I am completely innocent of the charges I have been accused of, and am very confident that my co-defendants and I will win this case in the courtroom. This case is a witch hunt against the hip-hop industry.'' Prosecutors allege Kim fibbed to a grand jury investigating a 2001 shooting that apparently involved members of her entourage. One man from a rival rap group was injured. Lil' Kim (real name Kimberly Jones) is charged with conspiracy, perjury and obstruction. Tommy hitches to Pam's 'Star' ``Baywatch'' babe Pamela Anderson is boiling mad that ex-boy toy Tommy Lee is trying to steal her literary thunder in the U.K. by releasing his autobiography the same day as her new book. According to London Mirror gossip queens the 3 a.m. girls, Anderson is fit to be tied now that her novel ``Star'' hits the Brit shelves Nov. 1, the same day as Lee's ``Tommyland'' tome. To add insult to injury, the pair's promo skeds are practically twinsies. Quoth quoth tr.v. Archaic Uttered; said. Used only in the first and third persons, with the subject following: "Quoth the Raven, 'Nevermore!'" Edgar Allan Poe. the 3 a.m.-ers: ``She's not happy that a cheap promotional trick could overshadow o·ver·shad·ow tr.v. o·ver·shad·owed, o·ver·shad·ow·ing, o·ver·shad·ows 1. To cast a shadow over; darken or obscure. 2. To make insignificant by comparison; dominate. her appearance. She's fuming fuming /fum·ing/ (fum´ing) emitting a visible vapor. fum·ing adj. Producing or emitting smoke or vapor, as for certain concentrated nitric, sulfuric, and hydrochloric acids. that Tommy Lee's going to get publicity off the back of her when she reckons she's by far the bigger star.'' No disappearing act Harry Potter is gonna pull through. Author J.K. Rowling says the young wizard Potter will survive to the seventh book of the series, but she won't say whether Harry ever will reach adulthood. ``He will survive to book seven, mainly because I don't want to be strangled stran·gle v. stran·gled, stran·gling, stran·gles v.tr. 1. a. To kill by squeezing the throat so as to choke or suffocate; throttle. b. by you lot,'' Rowling told a group of fans in Scotland over the weekend. ``But I don't want to say whether he grows any older than that.'' Rowling, currently toiling over her sixth book, ``Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince,'' teased her fans over whether Harry's pals, Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger, would become more than pals by the end of the series. ``I'm not going to say. I can't say. I think I've given quite a lot of clues by now on this subject. You are going to have to read between the lines to infer something different from what is plainly indicated; to detect the real meaning as distinguished from the apparent meaning. See also: Read on that one.'' A royal reopening Prince's recent infusion of green has led to the reopening of his Paisley Park Studios, where the pop star and others recorded and rehearsed. Minnesota's Paisley Park has been, for the most part, shut since 1996. But a reception marked the reopening last week. ``We're essentially hanging the 'open' sign out front tonight,'' new general manager Ron Scofield said. CAPTION(S): 2 photos Photo: (1) Singer and actress Courtney Love arrives at her arraignment Monday in Beverly Hills. Frazier Harrison/Associated Press (2) LIL' KIM Mary Altaffer/Associated Press |
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