Britney Spears is in a zone, all right — and it’s at the top of the album chart. The pop star’s sexy fourth album, In the Zone, debuted at No. 1 with more than 609,000 copies sold in its first week, according to industry figures.
Ready for more dirt? According to TV Guide, the boys in Motley Crue say they might reunite the hard-partying metal band for a tour next year to coincide with the movie The Dirt, based on the band’s 2001 autobiography.
STAGE
Take Me Out, which won the 2003 Tony Award for best play, will close Jan. 4 on Broadway after a 10-month run. The play by Richard Greenberg will have played 356 performances when it closes at the Walter Kerr Theatre. The drama won three Tonys, including prizes for featured actor, Denis O’Hare, and for direction of a play, Joe Mantello. The plot concerns a gay baseball player who comes out of the closet and the ramifications his decision has for his teammates and other players.
THEY SAID IT
‘I’m stepping into new territory. It’s very exciting.’
’80s rocker Joan Jett, on being named a potential delegate to the Democratic convention
TELEVISION
Expect Richard Pryor’s hourlong Comedy Central special at 10 p.m. Sunday to be irreverent. The 62-year-old entertainer, who has multiple sclerosis, is hosting Richard Pryor: I Ain’t Dead Yet, and he’s invited a few friends, including Dave Chappelle, Margaret Cho, Jamie Foxx, Whoopi Goldberg and Steve Harvey.
Brooke Shields has signed up to guest star on three episodes of Fox’s That ’70s Show, according to the trade paper Variety. The Suddenly Susan star and ’70s icon will play the long-lost mother to Mila Kunis’ character, Jackie. The episodes are expected to air in February.
Las Vegas hottie Josh Duhamel recently tore his Achilles’ tendon in what an NBC spokesman characterizes as a “sports-related injury.” As reported in ABC Soaps In Depth magazine, Las Vegas producers are writing the actor’s injury into the show. TV Guide reports his character gets shot in the leg.
Tru Calling is still alive. Fox has ordered seven more episodes of the series, which stars Eliza Dushku as a morgue attendant who can turn back time.
