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MTV TRL Awards Wrap-Up; Interview With Counting Crows Lead Singer Adam Duritz; Is the FCC Indecency Crackdown Ruining TV?, CNNHN

Aired February 21, 2005 - 19:00   ET

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KARYN BRYANT, CO-HOST: Here come the cool kids! We`re live at MTV`s TRL Awards.
A.J. HAMMER, CO-HOST: And P. Diddy lets us in on a secret, a big secret. I`m A.J. Hammer.

BRYANT: I`m Karyn Bryant, and this is SHOWBIZ TONIGHT.

HAMMER: Who`s going to show at the show? Eminem, Lindsay Lohan and Kanye West are on the list, and we`re live on the red carpet from the TRL Awards.

BRYANT: It`s a P. Diddy exclusive. SHOWBIZ TONIGHT hangs with Diddy in Miami, and he drops a bomb about his future.

HAMMER: Adam Duritz live. Tonight, we`re counting down to the Oscars with the lead singer of Counting Crows.

BRYANT: Valerie Bertinelli live. Tonight, Valerie dishes on the "One Day at a Time" reunion.

HAMMER: Tonight, ``SHOWBIZ Showdown.`` Is the FCC crackdown ruining TV?

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DONALD TRUMP, "THE APPRENTICE": I`m Donald Trump. If it happened today, it`s on SHOWBIZ TONIGHT.

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BRYANT: Hello, everybody. I`m Karyn Bryant, and you are at the top of the show.

HAMMER: And I`m A.J. Hammer. We`ll be with you live from New York City for the next hour. And starting tonight, we are live every Monday through Friday right here on Headline Prime.

BRYANT: You can catch SHOWBIZ TONIGHT at 7:00 PM Eastern, "NANCY GRACE" at 8:00 PM, and "PRIME NEWS TONIGHT" at 9:00 PM.

HAMMER: Just minutes ago here in New York City, the MTV TRL Awards were wrapped up.

BRYANT: We are giving you the very first look at what went down, the show, the backstage antics, and of course, the stars. SHOWBIZ TONIGHT`s David Haffenreffer is just a quick subway ride away at MTV studios right now. David, what a great way for you to start the week!

DAVID HAFFENREFFER, SHOWBIZ TONIGHT CORRESPONDENT: An exciting way, Karyn, indeed. And the fans had been lined outside the MTV studios all afternoon. The first award today went to Lindsay Lohan. She is TRL`s First Lady.

It was a busy afternoon (UNINTELLIGIBLE). And again, as they got around to the awards, the first award, as we said, went to Lindsay Lohan. She got the TRL First Lady Award for this year.

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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: (UNINTELLIGIBLE) Lindsay Lohan, the first winner of the First Lady Award, (UNINTELLIGIBLE) born in 1981.

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HAFFENREFFER: And the Best New Artist award for this year went to Kanye West. And winning the Lifetime Achievement Award this year was Eminem, whose new video, "Mockingbird," made its world premier today on MTV. We had an opportunity to catch up with a number of the celebrities on the red carpet.

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You know, we were down with P. Diddy this weekend down in South Beach, and we asked him who was doing it musically for him really strong. And he said you and Usher.

KANYE WEST, SINGER: Yes. That`s a good call right there.

HAFFENREFFER: Does that surprise you?

WEST: No. We really did really good this year. Like, why would that surprise me? I just won Best New Artist. Come on.

HAFFENREFFER: The album`s doing really well. Any new singles coming off it soon?

LINDSAY LOHAN, SINGER: I believe so. I think the next single`s going to be "Speed (ph)," but I`m not sure yet. So we`ll see.

HAFFENREFFER: Any new tattoos? Which I know you got your first one when you were 17, right? You have a greater love, TRL or the talk show?

CARSON DALY, TALK SHOW HOST: I mean, this is, like, home. I mean, it`s -- I, you know, helped create this show.

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HAFFENREFFER: All in all, Karyn, a very exciting and star-filled, celebrity-filled event here at MTV`s and at the TRL awards. Back to you.

BRYANT: All right. Well, we will be checking in with David again in about 30 minutes. And he just spent a wild weekend with P. Diddy, who dropped a music bombshell. We`ll tell you what that is in just a bit.

HAMMER: Oscar countdown has begun, six days until the gold statues are handed out. And it`s a busy week in Hollywood. SHOWBIZ TONIGHT has got you covered, of course. Sibila Vargas is live out front where the Oscars will take place, right there on Hollywood Boulevard. So it`s all coming together, Sibila, isn`t it.

SIBILA VARGAS, SHOWBIZ TONIGHT: Oh, sure, it is, A.J. From fashion to set designs to just about everything, everything is coming together for Hollywood`s big night. Here`s what`s happening in Hollywood.

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(voice-over): Scarlett Johansson handed out the first statues at the Oscar Sci Tech Awards.

SCARLETT JOHANSSON, OSCAR PRESENTER: I basically wondered if I could pronounce all of the words -- some kind of crane I`ve never heard before, some kind of technological advancement that I`m unaware of.

VARGAS: Finally, we see the Oscar set design, and it`s time to build. Hot off the presses, over the weekend, Oscar lines the streets of Hollywood, and so do the bleachers. This morning, 8:00 AM, here comes Oscar, delivered to the front of the Kodak Theater. Tomorrow, the deadline for the 5,800 Academy members to return their Oscar ballots so the winners can be secretly tallied. Tight security with the statues tomorrow night. Live action and animated short films get the awards. Wednesday, the LAPD`s John Miller makes sure it`s all buttoned up.

JOHN MILLER, LAPD BUREAU CHIEF: We will use hundreds of officers, 10 different LAPD divisions and bureaus, three federal agencies.

VARGAS: By Thursday, the food and fancy decor ready for the Governor`s Ball. SHOWBIZ TONIGHT went to the chef himself, Wolfgang Puck.

WOLFGANG PUCK, OSCAR NIGHT CHEF: As soon as the people come out of the theater, we have waiters there with (UNINTELLIGIBLE) and champagne and wine.

VARGAS: His menu? Salmon statuettes, caviar, Kobe beef, lobster in a puff pastry and French truffles, all topped off with a signature cake and chocolate-covered Oscar cookies. The wine? Expensive! And the flowers, gold, rust and green orchids. On Friday, off comes the plastic on the red carpet. Saturday, Valentino, Halston, Isaac, the last chance for something glammy to wear.

PATTY FOX, OSCAR FASHION COORDINATOR: Just drop-dead glamour. Drop- dead glamour.

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VARGAS: And don`t forget, the Oscar ballots from Academy members are due tomorrow. So the votes, they end there. But A.J., don`t be surprised to see a TV-14 rating on the side of your screen. That`s because ABC is taking no chances just in case things get a little too hot for the little ones.

HAMMER: Yes, and we`ll be talking about that a little later in the show, Sibila. Thanks. And we`ll look forward to hearing from you all week long as we move in towards the Oscars.

And we just found out this afternoon that Antonio Banderas is going to be singing at the Oscar ceremony. He and Carlos Santana will perform the nominated song from the movie "The Motorcycle Diaries."

You, too, can catch the Oscar fever simply by logging on to cnn.com. When you get there, click on "Inside the Envelope." Make your Oscar predictions. The grand prize winner is going to receive a 32-inch LCD HDTV and 1,000 bucks cash.

BRYANT: And all this week on SHOWBIZ TONIGHT, we`ll bring you interviews with some of the biggest nominees. Tonight, Adam Duritz. He is the lead singer of Counting Crows. The band`s "Accidentally in Love" from "Shrek 2" is up for Best Song.

The man who wrote it, of course, Adam Duritz. Thanks for joining us.

ADAM DURITZ, COUNTING CROWS: You`re welcome. How`re you doing?

BRYANT: I`m doing very well. Welcome to the fabulous studios here.

DURITZ: Thank you.

BRYANT: So I wanted to first talk about the difference in the writing process when you`re writing a Counting Crows song versus writing something specifically for a film.

DURITZ: There wasn`t really much difference. I mean, you`re still trying to write a song about yourself. They were pretty clear in talking to me they didn`t want a song about the cartoon. They wanted it to be about me, and you know, hopefully, it would fit.

BRYANT: OK. So I mean, did the filmmakers sit down with you? Did they show you any of the film first? I mean, obviously, you knew who Shrek was.

DURITZ: Yes, I`d seen most of the film. I saw about three quarters of it. They called me into the offices there to show me about three quarters of the film. You know, they`d show me scenes that were done, and they`d talk me through storyboarded sections that weren`t finished. But it was -- it was really late in the process when they called us, so it was pretty much finished.

BRYANT: Do you see -- I would imagine, too -- you know, if you`re writing for a film -- you`ve written for other films -- with live actors, you might have a little bit more leeway, but in this case, I mean, you probably have to keep it pretty tight, right?

DURITZ: I think we were their last choice, so...

BRYANT: Oh!

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DURITZ: I mean, because it was really, really late in the game. They only had about -- we had about a month-and-a-half to, like, from the day I saw it, to write it, record it. Maybe a month. It was really, really soon.

BRYANT: But luckily, fortunately for you, you were in love or you were going through some kind of thing in your own life that fit the movie?

DURITZ: Luckily for me, as far as the song goes. Wasn`t so great for my life.

BRYANT: Oh!

DURITZ: To fall in love with a girl you should never fall in love with is great for writing songs and not so great for...

BRYANT: Right. She was just...

DURITZ: ... the rest of the day.

BRYANT: ... an inconvenient choice for you, or just things weren`t working out?

DURITZ: I think I was more inconvenient for her.

BRYANT: OK. All right. I wondered, too, about writing a song that has to resonate with children and adults. Is that more or less difficult, or do you even think about that?

DURITZ: No. I mean, it couldn`t really be -- it couldn`t be a downer, obviously, I couldn`t do my usual mopey shtick.

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DURITZ: Yes, they definitely had talked to me about you know, Upbeat, upbeat, upbeat.

BRYANT: Upbeat.

DURITZ: You know? This is how I knew they`d tried a lot of things before us because he said, It`s got be upbeat. We`ve tried a million things in here, and if it`s at all a downer, it drags the whole movie down.

BRYANT: Right. Right. All right. Well, the last choice, obviously the best choice. I think you have a really good shot at taking home an Oscar on Sunday. So I wish you luck.

DURITZ: Thank you.

BRYANT: I wish you luck. And thanks for Joining us.

Now, tomorrow, our Oscar countdown continues with another edition of "The Nominee Is." Alan Alda is up for Best Supporting Actor for his role in "The Aviator," and he`ll be here live from the set of "The West Wing" tomorrow at 7:00 PM Eastern.

HAMMER: I`m going to be cheering for the Counting Crows on Sunday night.

Well, there could be a whole new FCC fine fest on the horizon tonight. The House has just voted to increase indecency fines on radio and TV stations to $500,000 per incident, and that`s from $32,000 previously. And tomorrow night, some PBS stations may risk the wrath of the FCC with a "Frontline" documentary. It`s all about soldiers in Iraq. PBS affiliates have a choice of airing a version with raw language instead of a cleaned-up show. Some of them are vowing to air the raw version and take the risk.

So our question for you. The FCC crackdown, is it ruining TV? That is the focus of tonight`s "SHOWBIZ Showdown," and we`ll kick off our debate at 15 past the hour. You can vote by going to cnn.com/showbiztonight. That`s our Web site. Check it out. Or you have some more you want to tell us, you can e-mail us by going to showbiztonight@cnn.com. Just send your e-mail there, and we will share some of what you had to say a little later in the show.

BRYANT: Time now for "SHOWBIZ Shorts," a look at more stories making news tonight. D`oh boy! Patty pulls a "Simpsons" shocker on her sister, Marge.

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UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I`m marrying a woman. I`m gay. In you I have found a soulmate.

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BRYANT: The show helped Fox out. Early ratings out today put the network at No. 2 among 18 to 49-year-olds.

And a "Desperate" outing. Bree`s son, Andrew, was caught by Susan making out in the pool with the roommate of a gardener who had an affair with Gabrielle. Got it? Hope you can keep track. More "SHOWBIZ Shorts" coming up throughout the show.

HAMMER: Well, Karyn, long before "Desperate Housewives," there was a strong single mom on TV. Do you remember "One Day at a Time"? Certainly, you remember the theme song. Well, the gang`s getting back together for a reunion special, and Valerie Bertinelli will be here live to tell us all about it coming up.

BRYANT: Plus, getting the boot. Some more tearful good-byes are on deck for "American Idol" this week. That and more on the way in "The Five- Day Forecast."

Now, tonight`s "Entertainment Weekly" great American Oscar quiz. How many Oscars did Orson Welles` groundbreaking "Citizen Kane" win? Is it, A, one, B, three, C, five, or D, seven? Well, you can think about it. We will be right back with the answer.

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BRYANT: Welcome back. So once again, today`s "Entertainment Weekly" Oscar quiz. How many Oscars did Orson Welles` groundbreaking "Citizen Kane" win, one, three, five or seven? Well, the answer is, surprisingly, just one.

HAMMER: It`s 15 past the hour. Time now for our nightly "SHOWBIZ Showdown." I told you about the controversy surrounding a PBS documentary which is airing tomorrow night. It`s all about the Iraq war, called "A Company of Soldiers." It has some swear words in it in its original version, and PBS is releasing two versions to its stations. There`s a raw cut and a clean cut so stations can avoid possible FCC fines, as the FCC watches stations like a hawk.

So we ask in tonight`s "SHOWBIZ showdown," the FCC crackdown, is it ruining TV? Joining us live, SHOWBIZ TONIGHT`s Amy Kean, who says, No, the FCC crackdown is not ruining TV, and Julia Boorstin of "Fortune" magazine, who says, yes, the FCC crackdown is ruining TV.

And Julia, you are first tonight.

JULIA BOORSTIN, "FORTUNE" MAGAZINE: Well, A.J., I have to say that this first example, this PBS response to these new FCC higher fines, shows that this is absolutely going to be very damaging for TV, not just entertainment and the fine line between what`s art and what`s indecent but also journalism. This is a piece of documentary journalism which is a hard-hitting news piece which everyone deserves to see in its full form. And I`m all for having these fines to have things against that are patently offensive, but I think the key problem here is that what is indecent is so vague and so specific and situation-specific that it`s going to be very hard to have this FCC crackdown not do a lot of damage.

HAMMER: Amy, have at it.

AMY KEAN, SHOWBIZ TONIGHT: I couldn`t disagree more. First of all, this PBS documentary is a specific incident where they`re actually releasing two different versions, a clean version, which will just have some of the swears and expletives that the soldiers say taken out, and a raw version that`s presumably for adults. Now, I think PBS is being very responsible in this, and I think that other networks should take the lead.

And in terms of the FCC increasing the fines, I say absolutely. It`s about time the FCC do something. After the Super Bowl incident with Janet Jackson just, you know, taking her breast out, I mean, something had to be done. And when I sit down and flip around and see what`s on TV at 8:00 o`clock at night, which is supposedly the family hour, I`m absolutely outraged. And I don`t think there`s any real question about what`s art. It`s never art to take your top off in the halftime show. And I don`t think that this documentary -- I just -- there are two versions. It`s completely appropriate, Julia.

BOORSTIN: But Amy, look at what`s happened over the past couple of years. Last year, the FCC fined $7.7 million, and four years ago, it was just about $48,000 worth of FCC fines.

KEAN: So what? So what?

BOORSTIN: No, but did those extra fines make any big difference? I think that TV...

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BOORSTIN: ... has gotten more indecent in the past couple of years.

KEAN: No. No.

BOORSTIN: You have to -- this is really...

KEAN: No, Julia, if you...

BOORSTIN: ... an issue of free market.

KEAN: If you -- if you -- the thing is, the FCC, I think, should be commended on the job they`re doing. There are a lot of people with children...

BOORSTIN: They`re charging more...

KEAN: ... and we can`t...

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BOORSTIN: It is not helping at all.

KEAN: Listen! Listen!

HAMMER: Hold on a -- hold on a second, ladies. Amy, how do you justify who decides what is right and what is wrong? It always comes back to that question, which is, you know, ultimately steeped in religion.

KEAN: I don`t think it`s actually that difficult to know what`s right and wrong.

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KEAN: Let me finish, Julia! I also thi8nk that there are a lot -- I mean, for example, there are certain facts we need to think about. You know, the average American child spends between six and seven hours consumed with some form of media, mostly television, most of it cable.

BOORSTIN: Whose fault is that? That`s entirely...

KEAN: And also, two thirds...

BOORSTIN: ... the fault of the parents!

KEAN: ... of all children -- two thirds of all children have televisions in their bedrooms. Now, most parents can`t sit and watch their children 24 hours a day, Julia!

BOORSTIN: But it`s up to them whether or not...

KEAN: The FCC needs to help...

BOORSTIN: ... they let their kids watch TV.

KEAN: ... parents!

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BOORSTIN: The FCC can help parents, but even Bush said, when he was encouraging these increased fines and this crackdown -- Bush said himself that it`s up to the parents to decide how much TV...

KEAN: Right, but I`m...

BOORSTIN: ... and how much media the children are consuming.

KEAN: ... saying that we need to help parents. It`s hard enough being a parent without...

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BOORSTIN: This is about 1st Amendment rights. We want to live...

KEAN: No!

BOORSTIN: ... in a free society. We need to have free access...

KEAN: No! We need...

BOORSTIN: ... to opinions and to...

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KEAN: No, we need to pull in the reins. The stuff that`s on TV is just absolute smut. I mean, what are you worried about, not seeing...

BOORSTIN: But here`s...

(CROSSTALK)

HAMMER: Julia! Julia, go ahead.

BOORSTIN: People can also vote with their advertising dollars. Advertisers have a huge amount of power here, and they can decide not to fund the shows that they think are indecent.

HAMMER: OK, we`re going to have to end it there. This debate will continue. It`s not a done deal yet, though, absolutely, with these fines. It still has to go through a couple of more phases. Thank you, both, Amy Kean from SHOWBIZ TONIGHT, and "Fortune" magazine`s Julia Boorstin, for joining us.

And now we want to know what your thoughts are on this very, very hot topic. The FCC crackdown, is it ruining TV? Get on the Web and vote at cnn.com/showbiztonight. If you have a few more comments, and I bet you do, you can e-mail us by sending the e-mail to showbiztonight@cnn.com. And a little later on in the show, we will share some more of what you had to say.

BRYANT: Fiery debate! I absolutely love it!

Well, What could be cooler than hanging out with P. Diddy in Miami? How about getting the inside scoop on his recording career? We`ll have that coming up for you a little later.

HAMMER: Plus, Leann Rimes has a new CD coming out. We`ll check it out in "People`s" music picks and pans.

All right, let`s do the time warp in today`s "In Style Oscar Fashion Challenge." The question: Who wore pearls and cornrows and accompanied Brad Pitt to the 1992 Oscar ceremony? Was it Jennifer Aniston, Juliette Lewis or Sheryl Crow? We`ll have the answer for you a little later in the show.

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BRYANT: Jennifer Lopez conquers fashion`s final frontier, and cameras were there on every step of the runway. We`ll have more on that coming up on tonight`s "Five-Day Forecast."

HAMMER: It is time now for more "SHOWBIZ Shorts." Stop the presses! Brad and Jen have broken up tonight -- again! Well, sort of. All right, here`s the deal. Madame Tussaud`s Wax Museum in London has taken apart a figure of the couple. They had their arms around each other, but alas, no more.

Man, she smells like a woman! Shania Twain is getting a fragrance. SHOWBIZ TONIGHT found out today that it will hit stores this fall. And of course, we`ll have more "SHOWBIZ Shorts" coming up throughout the show.

BRYANT: Time now for "People" magazine`s "Music Picks and Pans." Leann Rimes and Omarion have new CDs out this week. Joining us from the magazine is editor Julie Dam. Julie, welcome.

JULIE DAM, "PEOPLE" MAGAZINE: Thank you.

BRYANT: I want to start with Leann Rimes. The album is called "This Woman." What can you tell us about it?

DAM: Well, you know, in 2002, Leann had this huge crossover pop record, and this really builds on it. You know, and while she is in the, you know, world of the Britneys and Lindsays and Hilarys, she really still shows that she has a great voice, ultimately. And though this is a country album, by any means, that her country fans may want, there are some bluegrass elements. But it`s generally a great pop record.

BRYANT: Well, I`ve heard -- I`ve heard it, and I actually spoke with her. We`re going to feature that on the show a little bit later on in the week. But she did say, you know, she moved to Nashville, and she did get a little bit more country. So that`s kind of good for those looking for the old sound again.

DAM: Right.

BRYANT: I want to move on to something totally different, Omarion. This is an R&B record, right?

DAM: It is. He is formerly of the boy band B2K. And you know, when you`re in a former boy band and you`re moving on to your solo record, there`s always the question, Are going to be Justin Timberlake or are you going to be Nick Carter?

BRYANT: Right.

DAM: And he really proves that there is life after boy bands. I mean, he`s sort of an Usher, Jr., for the PG-13 set.

BRYANT: That`s what I was going to say. I mean, it seems like he`s definitely trying to capitalize on the groundwork that Usher has laid, getting the ladies to like the slow jams.

DAM: Exactly, the slow jams, but it`s all very -- you know, very clean lyrics. And then there are also the, like, club hits.

BRYANT: Great. All right. Well, Omarion and Leann Rimes, a few records out tonight. Julie Dam, thank you for joining us. For more "Picks and Pans," you can, of course, check out her magazine. It`s this week`s "People" magazine, on newsstands everywhere.

HAMMER: Valerie Bertinelli live. She`s going to stop by to talk about the "One Day at a Time" reunion coming up in just a bit.

BRYANT: Plus, it`s a big day in Salem. They are celebrating at "Days of Our Lives." Those are my stories right there. We will tell you why.

Now we have got tonight`s "Birthday Shoutout." Kelsey Grammer turns 50 years old today. The shoutout from his former "Cheers" co-star, Ted Danson.

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TED DANSON, ACTOR: Happy birthday, Kelsey. It is indeed the good life.

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THOMAS ROBERTS, CNN HEADLINE NEWS ANCHOR: Hi, everybody. I`m Thomas Roberts with your "Headline Prime" newsbreak.

Three people trapped by 10 feet of mud have been rescued just outside of Los Angeles. The mudslide that covered their townhomes was caused by unrelenting rains throughout southern California. The storms are blamed for three deaths.

President Bush has begun mending political fences in Europe. The goal of his five-day European tour, a new era of transatlantic unity. First off was a dinner with French President Jacques Chirac in Brussels. Both leaders say despite their differences on Iraq, the two nations have an excellent relationship.

A Georgia company fooled into letting criminals access its massive database of personal information says people in all 50 states may be affected. ChoicePoint says it will notify almost all of the 145,000 people that may have been affected. The stolen information includes names, addresses, Social Security numbers and credit reports.

Those are the latest headlines for right now. SHOWBIZ TONIGHT continues next. I`m Thomas Roberts.

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BRYANT (voice-over): After all these years, still taking it "One Day at a Time." But tonight, Barbara herself, Valerie Bertinelli, joins us live.

HAMMER (voice-over): And exclusive. P. Diddy invites SHOWBIZ TONIGHT to Miami and tells us there is something he will never do again.

LINDSAY LOHAN, ACTRESS: Hi. I`m Lindsay Lohan. And if it happened today, it`s on SHOWBIZ TONIGHT.

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HAMMER: Welcome back to SHOWBIZ TONIGHT. Thirty minutes past the hour. I`m A.J. Hammer.

BRYANT: And I`m Karyn Bryant. Here are tonight`s "Hot Headlines."

Oscar countdown. Tonight, the Kodak Theater looks a lot more Oscar ready. The statue arrived at the theater earlier today. Tomorrow is the deadline for academy members to turn in their ballots.

HAMMER: Totally TRL. Kanye West, Lindsay Lohan, Eminem and Good Charlotte scooped up big at the TRL Awards, which wrapped up just a short time ago.

And he was out there earlier and he is still braving the crowd. SHOWBIZ TONIGHT`s David Haffenreffer at the TRL Awards. David is getting the chance to hang out with all the big music stars because he spent the weekend in Miami with none other than P. Diddy.

And David, I know there`s always a party going on when Puffy is around.

DAVID HAFFENREFFER, CNN HEADLINE NEWS CORRESPONDENT: You know, it`s not easy to keep up with that guy, A.J. And while Mr. Sean P. Diddy Combs may not have been at the TRL Awards here in New York City today, he was out and about in South Beach over weekend. We had a chance to catch up with him, and he told us some startling plans about his future.

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SEAN `P. DIDDY` COMBS, SINGING: I`m going nowhere.

HAFFENREFFER (voice-over): Well, actually, he is. In SHOWBIZ TONIGHT`s exclusive interview, P. Diddy tells me that he`s hanging up the mike. We caught up with him in Miami as he opened the Victor Hotel, the new hot spot in South Beach.

(on camera): Any thoughts about getting back into the studio?

COMBS: Yes. I`m in the studio now, working on my -- on my new album, and also working on Notorious BIG`s album.

HAFFENREFFER: Is your studio album going to be a new, fresh sound?

COMBS: Yes. Yes, it`s definitely -- it`s a new sound. It`s a new direction for me. And it`s probably my last studio album as an artist.

HAFFENREFFER (voice-over): Wait a minute. What?

COMBS: My last studio album as an artist.

HAFFENREFFER (on camera): And then strictly into management?

COMBS: No, I mean, after that I`m...

HAFFENREFFER: You`re producing?

COMBS: No, Hollywood. You know, hopefully do more films.

And I just did a film, "Carlito`s Way, The beginning." So, you know, there`s a lot of things on the horizon, but I`m really focusing on the music.

HAFFENREFFER: And do you see a lot of good young talent coming up, the "Making the Band 3" back at MTV?

COMBS: Yes, yes. "Making the Band" -- "Making the Band 3," it airs the first week of March. And I`m trying to put together the world`s next big female super group. This is going to be interesting to see how I put this -- put that together.

HAFFENREFFER: How is the feedback from the crowd in the Pepsi truck and the Super Bowl ad?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Hey, yo, P., check out my new ride.

COMBS: The feedback is incredible. Pepsi actually tricked out a truck for me.

HAFFENREFFER: I thought you were going to pull up in one those here tonight.

COMBS: Yes. I haven`t really got to drive it around, but it was a fun thing to do. So hopefully Pepsi will give me some stock and stop playing around.

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HAFFENREFFER: And, you know, P. Diddy tells us he is one of the newest people who live now in Miami. He lives on the same block as Shaq. They even have a date to play basketball pretty soon.

A.J., back to you.

HAMMER: He may need that stock to pay for it all or, then again, maybe not. Thanks a lot, David. Be careful out there in Times Square.

HAFFENREFFER: You bet.

BRYANT: Well, we`ve been asking you to vote on tonight`s "Showbiz Showdown Question of the Day." The FCC crackdown, is it ruining TV? So far, 70 percent of you said, yes, the FCC crackdown is ruining TV, while 30 percent of you said, no, the FCC crackdown is not ruining TV.

We want you to keep on voting at cnn.com/showbiztonight, and send us your e-mails at showbiztonight@cnn.com. We will share some of what you had to say at 55 past the hour.

HAMMER: One more day for "One Day at a Time." Tomorrow night, the cast from the classic TV comedy is back together again for a "One Day at a Time" reunion special on CBS.

And joining us live here on SHOWBIZ TONIGHT, on our premier night, Valerie Bertinelli, who, of course, played Barbara.

Welcome, Valerie.

VALERIE BERTINELLI, ACTRESS: Thank you.

HAMMER: We`re going to chat with you in just a second. But first, we want to take a look back at "One Day at a Time."

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

HAMMER (voice-over): It was a Sunday night staple for years on CBS. "One Day at a Time," the show that put the spotlight on single moms.

MACKENZIE PHILLIPS, ACTRESS, "ONE DAY AT A TIME": Our mother can get picked up, we can`t.

BERTINELLI, "ONE DAY AT A TIME": Oh, well, you see, it`s different. She`s a divorcee.

HAMMER: It debuted in December 1975 and ran for nine seasons.

BONNIE FRANKLIN, ACTRESS, "ONE DAY AT A TIME": Mothers have certainly alienable rights. The right to nag, to interfere, to lay on guilt...

HAMMER: Bonnie Franklin played Ann Romano, a working woman and recent divorcee struggling to raise her two teen daughters, Julie, played by Mackenzie Phillips...

PHILLIPS: I`m really proud of you. I mean, you`re a woman who went out into the world without nothing, without any career skills. And she made a career for herself at middle age.

(LAUGHTER)

HAMMER: ... and Barbara, played by Valerie Bertinelli.

BERTINELLI: I`m the only girl in school who doesn`t have a TV with something not dirty written on it.

(SINGING): Spend a little time with me. Spend a little time with me.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

HAMMER: And that`s exactly what we`re going to do, spend a little time with Valerie Bertinelli, who wasn`t feeling too good when that last little clip came on.

BERTINELLI: I was fine up until that one.

HAMMER: It`s the first time you`re seeing a lot of these probably since the show originally aired.

BERTINELLI: Yes. Actually, it had. Yes, they showed me a few of the clips that they were thinking of airing.

They didn`t show me that one. And I`m -- I`m -- I think I know why now.

HAMMER: Well, now you know it`s out there.

BERTINELLI: Yes, well, too late now.

HAMMER: And Valerie, when you see those clips, do you think back -- do you think kind of, "I was actually pretty good? Yes, I understand why this was such a hit"?

BERTINELLI: No.

(LAUGHTER)

BERTINELLI: I see how raw I was and how green I was. But I think, "Oh, what a cute little girl." But that`s about -- that`s about it. But now looking back, it`s -- I didn`t realize how groundbreaking the show was when it first came out.

HAMMER: Right.

BERTINELLI: I was wrapped up in my own teenage life, and now it`s pretty interesting.

HAMMER: And sometimes -- I have talked to other people who have done these reunion shows, and sometimes they`ve told me, "Oh, you know what? I did it because it was a good opportunity, publicity, a little bit of money, and it was an OK experience."

Was this a fun experience, getting together with your old cast mates? Because you haven`t seen a lot of these people, at least not in one room. You may have seen them over the years...

BERTINELLI: Right.

HAMMER: ... but getting them all together -- and Bonnie Franklin, she just kind of disappeared for awhile.

BERTINELLI: Well, she does a lot of directing. But I run into Bonnie, I`ll run into Mac. I`ll run into Pat separately. But it`s been a good 20 years since we`ve all four been in a room together. So that was very special.

And it was -- I swear, I felt like I was 15 all over again. I wanted their approval and I wanted, you know, to be the good girl again. And I wanted to make Pat, you know, laugh, and make, you know, Bonnie -- it was - - it was really surreal to be in that room again.

HAMMER: It was such an enormous part of your childhood.

BERTINELLI: Yes.

HAMMER: You grew up on television, and life, my guess, was very different back then than it was now. What was life like, you know, as a big child star back when this show was a hit in the mid-`70s and early `80s?

BERTINELLI: You know, I don`t think I was quite aware, again, of what was really going on in my life. Because I had a very good family that really protected me from everything, and it was a different era.

The late `70s, early `80s, the paparazzi weren`t as stalkish.

HAMMER: Right.

BERTINELLI: So I wasn`t being followed everywhere. And my celebrity was -- for as big as it was at that time, it was at a time that it was a little bit safer. At least for me it was.

Now, I don`t know how the teenagers do it and have all of these people follow them around and write everything that they ever do and don`t do and make up stories. You know, I`ve had stories made up about me, but wow.

HAMMER: What is the one biggest misconception about you that you`ve heard that, you know, maybe you want to take this opportunity here on the debut of SHOWBIZ TONIGHT to clear up?

BERTINELLI: Misconception? I don`t know. I don`t know. That I`m a good girl. But I am pretty much.

HAMMER: Actually not true.

BERTINELLI: I don`t know, because I don`t know all of the misconceptions that are out there. I try not to listen.

HAMMER: OK. And you`ve done so much, you`re certainly well accomplished with what you`re -- what you`re doing now. Did it at all prepare you for what you do now in terms of the acting earlier in your life?

BERTINELLI: It did. I mean, that was my college of acting basically, that and the acting classes that I would take. But basically, I mean, I`m really a full-time mom right now and a part-time actress.

HAMMER: Right.

BERTINELLI: So I don`t think about acting a lot until this comes up, and publicizing the show.

HAMMER: And I understand your son has turned into quite the musician. And for better or worse, that`s the directions he`s probably going to wind up going?

BERTINELLI: Yes, he`s got the gene. And I can`t do anything about it.

HAMMER: All right. We`ll be watching tomorrow night. Thanks a lot for stopping by.

BERTINELLI: Thank you.

HAMMER: Appreciate it.

You can catch Valerie and her former cast mates tomorrow night on the "One Day at a Time" reunion special. They`ll be on CBS.

BRYANT: Well, maybe one day we`ll see an "American Idol" reunion show. But first, they have some business to take care of this week. We`ll have that for you in the "5 Day Forecast" coming up.

Plus, it`s a Salem celebration. When there are possessed doctors and serial killers around the corner, you need to have a little party every once in awhile.

(COMMERCIAL BREAK)

Time now to take a look at the SHOWBIZ TONIGHT "5 Day Forecast," just like we`ll be doing every Monday night. We highlight what you won`t want to miss this week.

HAMMER: And we always doing do it by going to our "Buzz Bench." With us tonight, comedian and TV personality Chuck Nice -- and yes he is -- "Entertainment Weekly`s" Jessica Shaw, and CNN pop culture correspondent, Toure.

So, at 5:00 p.m. on Tuesday, that marks the deadline for the nearly 6,000 Oscar ballots to be completed and sent over to PricewaterhouseCoopers. You know, the guys with the suitcase and everything. All of the buzz, of course, right now is about Chris Rock.

Toure, your take.

TOURE, CNN POP CULTURE CORRESPONDENT: I`m so excited. I mean, this is the only person in America that will make you like want to watch the Oscars. They did perfect in casting him. And they`ve asked him three times before, and he`s consistently said no. So if he said yes this time, he really wants to do it.

BRYANT: Isn`t it because Jamie is up for an award and Don Cheadle and he figures this year one of his buddy`s is going to take one home?

JESSICA SHAW, "ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY": Yes. He keeps threatening, exactly, if Jamie doesn`t win, he`s going to -- he`s going to take the Oscar from someone else.

CHUCK NICE, COMEDIAN: I`m sorry, I believe when it`s all over, this Oscar year will be known as the year of the Negro.

(LAUGHTER)

TOURE: That`s about right, though.

BRYANT: Wow!

TOURE: We`ve got all the nominations. We`ve got Chris Rock up top. Absolutely.

BRYANT: I know, but we have Don Cheadle up against Jamie Foxx. So how are they going to work out?

NICE: Now, see, wouldn`t it just work that way? Coincidence? I think not!

(LAUGHTER)

HAMMER: And is all of the worry about Chris Rock dropping the F bomb, or whatever people are worried about, is this all just a bunch of nonsense?

TOURE: Oh, it`s totally nonsense. He knows how to perform without cursing. He can be funny without cursing. So that`s not going to be a problem.

SHAW: He`s the one who can save the show this year. I think these -- do you kind of feel like these movies have been out forever? I feel like the buzz about like "Sideways" or...

TOURE: "Million Dollar Baby" just came out.

SHAW: ... or "The Aviator, " I don`t know. I feel like that that`s really sort of, I don`t know, going down a little bit. Like I need Chris Rock to liven up this award ceremony.

TOURE: Yes, absolutely.

BRYANT: Because this year, the films that are up for the awards have actually grossed the least amount of money, I think, and I forget in how many years. But there`s no huge "Lord of the Rings." There`s no super huge blockbuster.

(CROSSTALK)

TOURE: For there to be a suspenseful Oscar (UNINTELLIGIBLE) that we don`t know who`s going to win. I mean, I think that that is a draw, rather than watching the coronation of "Lord of the Rings."

BRYANT: Sure, some people think it is a more artistic year. Now, speaking of art, some people consider it art, some people don`t.

TOURE: What?

BRYANT: Toure, let me set it up.

(CROSSTALK)

BRYANT: Thank you.

I want to talk about "American Idol." Some people say it`s art, the performances, some people say it`s not. Either way, this year, Jessica, how are you feeling about the season and...

SHAW: I`m -- over here on this part of the couch, we are very excited about the art of "American Idol." And this year, men perform on Mondays, women perform Tuesdays, and on Wednesdays, two people get voted out of there. And I`m going to predict my winner.

TOURE: Go ahead.

SHAW: Nadia.

BRYANT: Nadia.

(CROSSTALK)

NICE: We`re finally on the same page.

SHAW: Nadia is going all the way.

NICE: We were talking about this right in the break, and I have a winner that I think is going to happen, too, and I think it`s going to be Mario Vasquez (ph).

BRYANT: He`s very good. I also think the young blond woman who sings the country pretty well has a very good chance.

SHAW: Yes.

HAMMER: So wait a second, are all of the rockers out? Because there were a lot of rocker dudes who made it to this cut.

SHAW: Yes.

HAMMER: No chance for rocker guys?

SHAW: You know, they`re all -- they`re both -- there are two guys with long hair.

BRYANT: Constantine (ph) and...

HAMMER: Right.

SHAW: And they`re both 28, 29.

HAMMER: Right.

SHAW: Isn`t it a little sad to be 28, 29 and still on "American Idol?"

TOURE: No. What`s sad? Come on. You watch the show. Come on!

SHAW: I love the show. But I want to see like 21-year-olds and 20- year-olds. I want to see their voice crack. I want to see Peter Brady, you know?

HAMMER: So do you think they did that just for flavor?

SHAW: And for the long hair. You`ve got to love a guy with long hair.

NICE: Well, being a rocker on "American Idol" is like being a blockbuster at the Oscars. You`re not going to win, I`m sorry.

(LAUGHTER)

SHAW: You`re not going to win.

NICE: No.

BRYANT: All right.

HAMMER: Let`s talk about another blockbuster, Jennifer Lopez.

NICE: Ah!

TOURE: Look at the segues tonight.

(CROSSTALK)

HAMMER: You know, we work these out ahead of time. Her "Beyond the Runway" is going to be on MTV, and it`s going to give viewers a sneak peek behind the big fashion show. I was there last week, and we`re going to have a little something on her own empire a little...

SHAW: Are you wearing J.Lo ensemble?

HAMMER: I`m not wearing J.Lo, but I am wearing J.Lo Glow.

(LAUGHTER)

BRYANT: Oh, that`s heavy. That`s a little heavy.

SHAW: Will you be watching, Jessica?

SHAW: You know, I don`t know. I don`t buy this whole, like, I`m just a girl from the Bronx but I like fashion. I think -- you know, after I saw Jenny at the Grammys in that get-up, I would not be looking to her for fashion sense.

BRYANT: Chuck, what is your take?

NICE: I can`t get enough of J.Lo. I don`t care when it happens, how it happens. As far as I`m concerned, America is a crack head and J.Lo is the pipe.

(LAUGHTER)

BRYANT: Oh, my!

NICE: We can`t get enough of J.Lo.

TOURE: And it`s interesting you make that analogy, because crack is far less a big even than it used to be, and I think that J.Lo is trending downward. I think that she hasn`t had a big film in years, she hasn`t had a hit song in years. At a certain point, we started saying, "Where`s the beef?" I think that her 15 minutes is trending over.

BRYANT: Wow!

(CROSSTALK)

BRYANT: I`m not sure about that one. Either way, we want to say thanks to you guys. And I`m sure we`ll have you back, CNN`s pop culture correspondent, Toure; Jessica Shaw from "Entertainment Weekly"; and television personality and comic Chuck Nice.

HAMMER: Thanks, guys.

BRYANT: So, of course, finishing off the "5 Day Forecast," on Friday, Wes Craven`s thriller "Cursed" hits theaters. It stars Christina Ricci.

And on Saturday, catch the Independent Spirit Awards on Bravo, hosted by Salma Hayek and Quentin Tarantino.

HAMMER: Well, Oprah is someone who really has it all. She`s rich, she`s famous, but until her show today, she didn`t have something that 83 percent of American women do have.

BRYANT: I have it.

HAMMER: You`ve got to check this out. We`re going to show you coming up in our "Talk of the Day."

BRYANT: Plus, Keanu Reeves new movie, "Constantine," is hot off of the presses, but can anyone stop Will Smith at the movies?

(COMMERCIAL BREAK)

HAMMER: Welcome back to SHOWBIZ TONIGHT. Fifty minutes past the hour. Time for another "Showbiz Short."

Johnny Carson`s boyhood home has been sold. Tonight we learned that a Georgia-based real estate company bought the house which is located in Norfolk, Nebraska, but there is no word on what it went for.

BRYANT: They have been talking all day and we`ve been listening. Now, as we do every night on SHOWBIZ TONIGHT, the best from today`s talk shows.

Wincing Winfrey. The queen of talk cringed and cried out as she experienced a first on "The Oprah Winfrey Show."

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: You see, now it`s all warmed up and everything. You`re going to see -- there`s going to be two pricks. Here`s the first.

OPRAH WINFREY, TALK SHOW HOST: Ahh!

(CHEERING)

WINFREY: OK. You got -- you sure you got the right spot?

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Yes. OK. Just...

WINFREY: Wait a minute.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I`m just holding your ear.

WINFREY: OK, OK, OK. Wait just a minute. Let me breathe again. OK.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Hold on to the (UNINTELLIGIBLE).

WINFREY: OK. This is no big deal. Go ahead.

(CHEERING)

WINFREY: It does not that you were much. I`ve got two of them.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

BRYANT: I know. I do, too. That`s what I`m saying. I can`t believe that`s one thing that I have that Oprah doesn`t have. It`s unbelievable.

HAMMER: Not anymore.

BRYANT: Well, good for you, girl.

HAMMER: Well, it`s time once again to take the "InStyle Challenge." It`s our Oscar fashion challenge.

So, oho was it that wore pearls and cornrows and accompanied Brad Pitt to the 1992 Oscar ceremony? Was it Jennifer Aniston, Juliette Lewis or Sheryl Crow?

Anyone? Anyone? It`s Juliette Lewis. She dated Pitt for almost three years.

BRYANT: Well, there is still time for you to sound off in tonight`s "Showbiz Showdown Question of the Day." The FCC crackdown, is it ruining TV?

HAMMER: Go to cnn.com/showbiztonight, or e-mail us what`s on your mind, showbiztonight@cnn.com., and we`ll read some of what you had to say coming up next.

(COMMERCIAL BREAK)

ROBERTS: Hi, everybody. I`m Thomas Roberts with your "Headline Prime" newsbreak.

An Amber Alert issued for a pregnant Texas woman and her 7-year-old son has been expanded. New Mexico, Oklahoma, Arkansas and Louisiana were added. Investigators found Lisa Underwood`s SUV in a creek north of Dallas today. She and her son have been missing since Saturday.

Rescuers have pulled a third person from 10 feet of mud that slammed into a townhouse east of Los Angeles. At least three deaths are blamed on storms that have soaked southern California.

The White House is calling secret audiotapes of then-Governor Bush talking about his past drug use "casual conversations" with somebody he considered a friend. The tapes were made between 1998 and 2000. On them, Bush expresses his concern that he`s made mistakes that youth would pick up on, and that would disqualify him from running for president.

Those are your headlines. I`m Thomas Roberts.

HAMMER: Well, it`s a four-day weekend for many, and it looks like the Fresh Prince is the king of the box office. In preliminary figures released today, Will Smith`s romantic comedy "Hitch"...

BRYANT: Just slid by the premier of Keanu Reeves` "Constantine." Because of Winn-Dixie," starring Dave Matthews, took the third spot. "Son of the Mask," the follow-up to the 1994 Jim Carrey film, was in fourth. And "Are We There Yet?" round out the top five.

Well, "Days of Our Lives" hitting a milestone.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Through the hourglass, so are the days of our lives.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

BRYANT: The NBC soap broadcast its 10,000th episode today. Original cast member Francis Reid, who plays Alice Horton -- you know, she makes the doughnuts -- she opened and closed the show.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

FRANCIS REID, ACTRESS: Stay tuned and find out, as we begin our next 10,000 episodes.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

BRYANT: Well, I`ll tell you, A.J., our SHOWBIZ TONIGHT math wizards say that it will take more than 38 years for us to reach 10,000. Today is our first. I`m up for it if you are.

HAMMER: If security lets me back in the building tomorrow, I`ll be here.

Well, throughout the show, we have been asking you to vote online on our "Showbiz Showdown Question of the Day." Is the FCC crackdown ruining TV?

So far, 70 percent of you say, yes, the FCC crackdown is ruining TV, while as you see 30 percent of you said, no, the FCC crackdown not ruining TV.

You`ve also been sending your e-mails on this question. We thank you for that.

Daniel from Crane, Texas, says, "If you`re concerned that what`s being watched by your child or you`re being offended personally by what`s being showed, simply don`t watch it."

And we have a viewer from Worthington, Ohio, who tells us, "Is the FCC ruining TV? No. Those who produce TV shows are ruining television. Perhaps it is time for the FCC to step in to protect the individual rights of those who are targeted by this hate."

And remember, you can continue to vote -- and we would like you to -- by going to cnn.com/showbiztonight. Send us your e-mails to showbiztonight@cnn.com.

BRYANT: Well, let`s see what Nancy Grace has got coming up tonight.

How are you doing, Nancy?

NANCY GRACE, "SEEKING JUSTICE": Hi, guys. Breaking news out of Fort Worth, Texas.

A Fort Worth woman, 34-year-old Lisa Underwood, seven months pregnant, and her 7-year-old little boy, missing. We want to help find them.

And we go live to Idaho for the latest in a case where a 16-year-old girl is facing...

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

ANNOUNCER: Alan Alda is up for an Oscar, but he`s also on "The West Wing." And the show must go on.

ALAN ALDA, ACTOR: I`ll have them dragged here to Washington if I have to.

ANNOUNCER: Tomorrow, Alan Alda, live from the show, "The West Wing" show, we mean, on SHOWBIZ TONIGHT.

She used to have a little, but now she does have a lot. And a lot of it is up for sale. Inside J.Lo`s empire Wednesday on SHOWBIZ TONIGHT.

His name is Barry, he is a singer.

BARRY MANILOW, SINGER: This is the biggest show I`ve ever done.

ANNOUNCER: SHOWBIZ TONIGHT is behind the scenes with Barry Manilow in Vegas, baby. That`s Thursday. You better show up.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

HAMMER: Have you ever seen Barry Manilow in concert?

BRYANT: I never have. I`ve interviewed him once, but I`ve never seen him in concert.

HAMMER: It`s going to be fascinating to see what the Vegas thing is all about because he`s all about the glitz.

BRYANT: I`ll tell you, you know who I did see in Vegas was Elton John. Unbelievable! Unbelievable. Can we get him on the show, anyone, anyone?

HAMMER: It`s our premier week. Anything is bound to happen. And we appreciate you watching. That is it for SHOWBIZ TONIGHT.

BRYANT: Nancy Grace is next, so be sure to stay tuned.

HAMMER: Thanks very much for watching.

BRYANT: See you.

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KARYN BRYANT, CO-HOST: Here come the cool kids! We`re live at MTV`s TRL Awards.
A.J. HAMMER, CO-HOST: And P. Diddy lets us in on a secret, a big secret. I`m A.J. Hammer.

BRYANT: I`m Karyn Bryant, and this is SHOWBIZ TONIGHT.

HAMMER: Who`s going to show at the show? Eminem, Lindsay Lohan and Kanye West are on the list, and we`re live on the red carpet from the TRL Awards.

BRYANT: It`s a P. Diddy exclusive. SHOWBIZ TONIGHT hangs with Diddy in Miami, and he drops a bomb about his future.

HAMMER: Adam Duritz live. Tonight, we`re counting down to the Oscars with the lead singer of Counting Crows.

BRYANT: Valerie Bertinelli live. Tonight, Valerie dishes on the "One Day at a Time" reunion.

HAMMER: Tonight, ``SHOWBIZ Showdown.`` Is the FCC crackdown ruining TV?

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

DONALD TRUMP, "THE APPRENTICE": I`m Donald Trump. If it happened today, it`s on SHOWBIZ TONIGHT.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

BRYANT: Hello, everybody. I`m Karyn Bryant, and you are at the top of the show.

HAMMER: And I`m A.J. Hammer. We`ll be with you live from New York City for the next hour. And starting tonight, we are live every Monday through Friday right here on Headline Prime.

BRYANT: You can catch SHOWBIZ TONIGHT at 7:00 PM Eastern, "NANCY GRACE" at 8:00 PM, and "PRIME NEWS TONIGHT" at 9:00 PM.

HAMMER: Just minutes ago here in New York City, the MTV TRL Awards were wrapped up.

BRYANT: We are giving you the very first look at what went down, the show, the backstage antics, and of course, the stars. SHOWBIZ TONIGHT`s David Haffenreffer is just a quick subway ride away at MTV studios right now. David, what a great way for you to start the week!

DAVID HAFFENREFFER, SHOWBIZ TONIGHT CORRESPONDENT: An exciting way, Karyn, indeed. And the fans had been lined outside the MTV studios all afternoon. The first award today went to Lindsay Lohan. She is TRL`s First Lady.

It was a busy afternoon (UNINTELLIGIBLE). And again, as they got around to the awards, the first award, as we said, went to Lindsay Lohan. She got the TRL First Lady Award for this year.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: (UNINTELLIGIBLE) Lindsay Lohan, the first winner of the First Lady Award, (UNINTELLIGIBLE) born in 1981.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

HAFFENREFFER: And the Best New Artist award for this year went to Kanye West. And winning the Lifetime Achievement Award this year was Eminem, whose new video, "Mockingbird," made its world premier today on MTV. We had an opportunity to catch up with a number of the celebrities on the red carpet.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

You know, we were down with P. Diddy this weekend down in South Beach, and we asked him who was doing it musically for him really strong. And he said you and Usher.

KANYE WEST, SINGER: Yes. That`s a good call right there.

HAFFENREFFER: Does that surprise you?

WEST: No. We really did really good this year. Like, why would that surprise me? I just won Best New Artist. Come on.

HAFFENREFFER: The album`s doing really well. Any new singles coming off it soon?

LINDSAY LOHAN, SINGER: I believe so. I think the next single`s going to be "Speed (ph)," but I`m not sure yet. So we`ll see.

HAFFENREFFER: Any new tattoos? Which I know you got your first one when you were 17, right? You have a greater love, TRL or the talk show?

CARSON DALY, TALK SHOW HOST: I mean, this is, like, home. I mean, it`s -- I, you know, helped create this show.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

HAFFENREFFER: All in all, Karyn, a very exciting and star-filled, celebrity-filled event here at MTV`s and at the TRL awards. Back to you.

BRYANT: All right. Well, we will be checking in with David again in about 30 minutes. And he just spent a wild weekend with P. Diddy, who dropped a music bombshell. We`ll tell you what that is in just a bit.

HAMMER: Oscar countdown has begun, six days until the gold statues are handed out. And it`s a busy week in Hollywood. SHOWBIZ TONIGHT has got you covered, of course. Sibila Vargas is live out front where the Oscars will take place, right there on Hollywood Boulevard. So it`s all coming together, Sibila, isn`t it.

SIBILA VARGAS, SHOWBIZ TONIGHT: Oh, sure, it is, A.J. From fashion to set designs to just about everything, everything is coming together for Hollywood`s big night. Here`s what`s happening in Hollywood.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

(voice-over): Scarlett Johansson handed out the first statues at the Oscar Sci Tech Awards.

SCARLETT JOHANSSON, OSCAR PRESENTER: I basically wondered if I could pronounce all of the words -- some kind of crane I`ve never heard before, some kind of technological advancement that I`m unaware of.

VARGAS: Finally, we see the Oscar set design, and it`s time to build. Hot off the presses, over the weekend, Oscar lines the streets of Hollywood, and so do the bleachers. This morning, 8:00 AM, here comes Oscar, delivered to the front of the Kodak Theater. Tomorrow, the deadline for the 5,800 Academy members to return their Oscar ballots so the winners can be secretly tallied. Tight security with the statues tomorrow night. Live action and animated short films get the awards. Wednesday, the LAPD`s John Miller makes sure it`s all buttoned up.

JOHN MILLER, LAPD BUREAU CHIEF: We will use hundreds of officers, 10 different LAPD divisions and bureaus, three federal agencies.

VARGAS: By Thursday, the food and fancy decor ready for the Governor`s Ball. SHOWBIZ TONIGHT went to the chef himself, Wolfgang Puck.

WOLFGANG PUCK, OSCAR NIGHT CHEF: As soon as the people come out of the theater, we have waiters there with (UNINTELLIGIBLE) and champagne and wine.

VARGAS: His menu? Salmon statuettes, caviar, Kobe beef, lobster in a puff pastry and French truffles, all topped off with a signature cake and chocolate-covered Oscar cookies. The wine? Expensive! And the flowers, gold, rust and green orchids. On Friday, off comes the plastic on the red carpet. Saturday, Valentino, Halston, Isaac, the last chance for something glammy to wear.

PATTY FOX, OSCAR FASHION COORDINATOR: Just drop-dead glamour. Drop- dead glamour.

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VARGAS: And don`t forget, the Oscar ballots from Academy members are due tomorrow. So the votes, they end there. But A.J., don`t be surprised to see a TV-14 rating on the side of your screen. That`s because ABC is taking no chances just in case things get a little too hot for the little ones.

HAMMER: Yes, and we`ll be talking about that a little later in the show, Sibila. Thanks. And we`ll look forward to hearing from you all week long as we move in towards the Oscars.

And we just found out this afternoon that Antonio Banderas is going to be singing at the Oscar ceremony. He and Carlos Santana will perform the nominated song from the movie "The Motorcycle Diaries."

You, too, can catch the Oscar fever simply by logging on to cnn.com. When you get there, click on "Inside the Envelope." Make your Oscar predictions. The grand prize winner is going to receive a 32-inch LCD HDTV and 1,000 bucks cash.

BRYANT: And all this week on SHOWBIZ TONIGHT, we`ll bring you interviews with some of the biggest nominees. Tonight, Adam Duritz. He is the lead singer of Counting Crows. The band`s "Accidentally in Love" from "Shrek 2" is up for Best Song.

The man who wrote it, of course, Adam Duritz. Thanks for joining us.

ADAM DURITZ, COUNTING CROWS: You`re welcome. How`re you doing?

BRYANT: I`m doing very well. Welcome to the fabulous studios here.

DURITZ: Thank you.

BRYANT: So I wanted to first talk about the difference in the writing process when you`re writing a Counting Crows song versus writing something specifically for a film.

DURITZ: There wasn`t really much difference. I mean, you`re still trying to write a song about yourself. They were pretty clear in talking to me they didn`t want a song about the cartoon. They wanted it to be about me, and you know, hopefully, it would fit.

BRYANT: OK. So I mean, did the filmmakers sit down with you? Did they show you any of the film first? I mean, obviously, you knew who Shrek was.

DURITZ: Yes, I`d seen most of the film. I saw about three quarters of it. They called me into the offices there to show me about three quarters of the film. You know, they`d show me scenes that were done, and they`d talk me through storyboarded sections that weren`t finished. But it was -- it was really late in the process when they called us, so it was pretty much finished.

BRYANT: Do you see -- I would imagine, too -- you know, if you`re writing for a film -- you`ve written for other films -- with live actors, you might have a little bit more leeway, but in this case, I mean, you probably have to keep it pretty tight, right?

DURITZ: I think we were their last choice, so...

BRYANT: Oh!

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DURITZ: I mean, because it was really, really late in the game. They only had about -- we had about a month-and-a-half to, like, from the day I saw it, to write it, record it. Maybe a month. It was really, really soon.

BRYANT: But luckily, fortunately for you, you were in love or you were going through some kind of thing in your own life that fit the movie?

DURITZ: Luckily for me, as far as the song goes. Wasn`t so great for my life.

BRYANT: Oh!

DURITZ: To fall in love with a girl you should never fall in love with is great for writing songs and not so great for...

BRYANT: Right. She was just...

DURITZ: ... the rest of the day.

BRYANT: ... an inconvenient choice for you, or just things weren`t working out?

DURITZ: I think I was more inconvenient for her.

BRYANT: OK. All right. I wondered, too, about writing a song that has to resonate with children and adults. Is that more or less difficult, or do you even think about that?

DURITZ: No. I mean, it couldn`t really be -- it couldn`t be a downer, obviously, I couldn`t do my usual mopey shtick.

(LAUGHTER)

DURITZ: Yes, they definitely had talked to me about you know, Upbeat, upbeat, upbeat.

BRYANT: Upbeat.

DURITZ: You know? This is how I knew they`d tried a lot of things before us because he said, It`s got be upbeat. We`ve tried a million things in here, and if it`s at all a downer, it drags the whole movie down.

BRYANT: Right. Right. All right. Well, the last choice, obviously the best choice. I think you have a really good shot at taking home an Oscar on Sunday. So I wish you luck.

DURITZ: Thank you.

BRYANT: I wish you luck. And thanks for Joining us.

Now, tomorrow, our Oscar countdown continues with another edition of "The Nominee Is." Alan Alda is up for Best Supporting Actor for his role in "The Aviator," and he`ll be here live from the set of "The West Wing" tomorrow at 7:00 PM Eastern.

HAMMER: I`m going to be cheering for the Counting Crows on Sunday night.

Well, there could be a whole new FCC fine fest on the horizon tonight. The House has just voted to increase indecency fines on radio and TV stations to $500,000 per incident, and that`s from $32,000 previously. And tomorrow night, some PBS stations may risk the wrath of the FCC with a "Frontline" documentary. It`s all about soldiers in Iraq. PBS affiliates have a choice of airing a version with raw language instead of a cleaned-up show. Some of them are vowing to air the raw version and take the risk.

So our question for you. The FCC crackdown, is it ruining TV? That is the focus of tonight`s "SHOWBIZ Showdown," and we`ll kick off our debate at 15 past the hour. You can vote by going to cnn.com/showbiztonight. That`s our Web site. Check it out. Or you have some more you want to tell us, you can e-mail us by going to showbiztonight@cnn.com. Just send your e-mail there, and we will share some of what you had to say a little later in the show.

BRYANT: Time now for "SHOWBIZ Shorts," a look at more stories making news tonight. D`oh boy! Patty pulls a "Simpsons" shocker on her sister, Marge.

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UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I`m marrying a woman. I`m gay. In you I have found a soulmate.

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BRYANT: The show helped Fox out. Early ratings out today put the network at No. 2 among 18 to 49-year-olds.

And a "Desperate" outing. Bree`s son, Andrew, was caught by Susan making out in the pool with the roommate of a gardener who had an affair with Gabrielle. Got it? Hope you can keep track. More "SHOWBIZ Shorts" coming up throughout the show.

HAMMER: Well, Karyn, long before "Desperate Housewives," there was a strong single mom on TV. Do you remember "One Day at a Time"? Certainly, you remember the theme song. Well, the gang`s getting back together for a reunion special, and Valerie Bertinelli will be here live to tell us all about it coming up.

BRYANT: Plus, getting the boot. Some more tearful good-byes are on deck for "American Idol" this week. That and more on the way in "The Five- Day Forecast."

Now, tonight`s "Entertainment Weekly" great American Oscar quiz. How many Oscars did Orson Welles` groundbreaking "Citizen Kane" win? Is it, A, one, B, three, C, five, or D, seven? Well, you can think about it. We will be right back with the answer.

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BRYANT: Welcome back. So once again, today`s "Entertainment Weekly" Oscar quiz. How many Oscars did Orson Welles` groundbreaking "Citizen Kane" win, one, three, five or seven? Well, the answer is, surprisingly, just one.

HAMMER: It`s 15 past the hour. Time now for our nightly "SHOWBIZ Showdown." I told you about the controversy surrounding a PBS documentary which is airing tomorrow night. It`s all about the Iraq war, called "A Company of Soldiers." It has some swear words in it in its original version, and PBS is releasing two versions to its stations. There`s a raw cut and a clean cut so stations can avoid possible FCC fines, as the FCC watches stations like a hawk.

So we ask in tonight`s "SHOWBIZ showdown," the FCC crackdown, is it ruining TV? Joining us live, SHOWBIZ TONIGHT`s Amy Kean, who says, No, the FCC crackdown is not ruining TV, and Julia Boorstin of "Fortune" magazine, who says, yes, the FCC crackdown is ruining TV.

And Julia, you are first tonight.

JULIA BOORSTIN, "FORTUNE" MAGAZINE: Well, A.J., I have to say that this first example, this PBS response to these new FCC higher fines, shows that this is absolutely going to be very damaging for TV, not just entertainment and the fine line between what`s art and what`s indecent but also journalism. This is a piece of documentary journalism which is a hard-hitting news piece which everyone deserves to see in its full form. And I`m all for having these fines to have things against that are patently offensive, but I think the key problem here is that what is indecent is so vague and so specific and situation-specific that it`s going to be very hard to have this FCC crackdown not do a lot of damage.

HAMMER: Amy, have at it.

AMY KEAN, SHOWBIZ TONIGHT: I couldn`t disagree more. First of all, this PBS documentary is a specific incident where they`re actually releasing two different versions, a clean version, which will just have some of the swears and expletives that the soldiers say taken out, and a raw version that`s presumably for adults. Now, I think PBS is being very responsible in this, and I think that other networks should take the lead.

And in terms of the FCC increasing the fines, I say absolutely. It`s about time the FCC do something. After the Super Bowl incident with Janet Jackson just, you know, taking her breast out, I mean, something had to be done. And when I sit down and flip around and see what`s on TV at 8:00 o`clock at night, which is supposedly the family hour, I`m absolutely outraged. And I don`t think there`s any real question about what`s art. It`s never art to take your top off in the halftime show. And I don`t think that this documentary -- I just -- there are two versions. It`s completely appropriate, Julia.

BOORSTIN: But Amy, look at what`s happened over the past couple of years. Last year, the FCC fined $7.7 million, and four years ago, it was just about $48,000 worth of FCC fines.

KEAN: So what? So what?

BOORSTIN: No, but did those extra fines make any big difference? I think that TV...

(CROSSTALK)

BOORSTIN: ... has gotten more indecent in the past couple of years.

KEAN: No. No.

BOORSTIN: You have to -- this is really...

KEAN: No, Julia, if you...

BOORSTIN: ... an issue of free market.

KEAN: If you -- if you -- the thing is, the FCC, I think, should be commended on the job they`re doing. There are a lot of people with children...

BOORSTIN: They`re charging more...

KEAN: ... and we can`t...

(CROSSTALK)

BOORSTIN: It is not helping at all.

KEAN: Listen! Listen!

HAMMER: Hold on a -- hold on a second, ladies. Amy, how do you justify who decides what is right and what is wrong? It always comes back to that question, which is, you know, ultimately steeped in religion.

KEAN: I don`t think it`s actually that difficult to know what`s right and wrong.

(CROSSTALK)

KEAN: Let me finish, Julia! I also thi8nk that there are a lot -- I mean, for example, there are certain facts we need to think about. You know, the average American child spends between six and seven hours consumed with some form of media, mostly television, most of it cable.

BOORSTIN: Whose fault is that? That`s entirely...

KEAN: And also, two thirds...

BOORSTIN: ... the fault of the parents!

KEAN: ... of all children -- two thirds of all children have televisions in their bedrooms. Now, most parents can`t sit and watch their children 24 hours a day, Julia!

BOORSTIN: But it`s up to them whether or not...

KEAN: The FCC needs to help...

BOORSTIN: ... they let their kids watch TV.

KEAN: ... parents!

(CROSSTALK)

BOORSTIN: The FCC can help parents, but even Bush said, when he was encouraging these increased fines and this crackdown -- Bush said himself that it`s up to the parents to decide how much TV...

KEAN: Right, but I`m...

BOORSTIN: ... and how much media the children are consuming.

KEAN: ... saying that we need to help parents. It`s hard enough being a parent without...

(CROSSTALK)

BOORSTIN: This is about 1st Amendment rights. We want to live...

KEAN: No!

BOORSTIN: ... in a free society. We need to have free access...

KEAN: No! We need...

BOORSTIN: ... to opinions and to...

(CROSSTALK)

KEAN: No, we need to pull in the reins. The stuff that`s on TV is just absolute smut. I mean, what are you worried about, not seeing...

BOORSTIN: But here`s...

(CROSSTALK)

HAMMER: Julia! Julia, go ahead.

BOORSTIN: People can also vote with their advertising dollars. Advertisers have a huge amount of power here, and they can decide not to fund the shows that they think are indecent.

HAMMER: OK, we`re going to have to end it there. This debate will continue. It`s not a done deal yet, though, absolutely, with these fines. It still has to go through a couple of more phases. Thank you, both, Amy Kean from SHOWBIZ TONIGHT, and "Fortune" magazine`s Julia Boorstin, for joining us.

And now we want to know what your thoughts are on this very, very hot topic. The FCC crackdown, is it ruining TV? Get on the Web and vote at cnn.com/showbiztonight. If you have a few more comments, and I bet you do, you can e-mail us by sending the e-mail to showbiztonight@cnn.com. And a little later on in the show, we will share some more of what you had to say.

BRYANT: Fiery debate! I absolutely love it!

Well, What could be cooler than hanging out with P. Diddy in Miami? How about getting the inside scoop on his recording career? We`ll have that coming up for you a little later.

HAMMER: Plus, Leann Rimes has a new CD coming out. We`ll check it out in "People`s" music picks and pans.

All right, let`s do the time warp in today`s "In Style Oscar Fashion Challenge." The question: Who wore pearls and cornrows and accompanied Brad Pitt to the 1992 Oscar ceremony? Was it Jennifer Aniston, Juliette Lewis or Sheryl Crow? We`ll have the answer for you a little later in the show.

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BRYANT: Jennifer Lopez conquers fashion`s final frontier, and cameras were there on every step of the runway. We`ll have more on that coming up on tonight`s "Five-Day Forecast."

HAMMER: It is time now for more "SHOWBIZ Shorts." Stop the presses! Brad and Jen have broken up tonight -- again! Well, sort of. All right, here`s the deal. Madame Tussaud`s Wax Museum in London has taken apart a figure of the couple. They had their arms around each other, but alas, no more.

Man, she smells like a woman! Shania Twain is getting a fragrance. SHOWBIZ TONIGHT found out today that it will hit stores this fall. And of course, we`ll have more "SHOWBIZ Shorts" coming up throughout the show.

BRYANT: Time now for "People" magazine`s "Music Picks and Pans." Leann Rimes and Omarion have new CDs out this week. Joining us from the magazine is editor Julie Dam. Julie, welcome.

JULIE DAM, "PEOPLE" MAGAZINE: Thank you.

BRYANT: I want to start with Leann Rimes. The album is called "This Woman." What can you tell us about it?

DAM: Well, you know, in 2002, Leann had this huge crossover pop record, and this really builds on it. You know, and while she is in the, you know, world of the Britneys and Lindsays and Hilarys, she really still shows that she has a great voice, ultimately. And though this is a country album, by any means, that her country fans may want, there are some bluegrass elements. But it`s generally a great pop record.

BRYANT: Well, I`ve heard -- I`ve heard it, and I actually spoke with her. We`re going to feature that on the show a little bit later on in the week. But she did say, you know, she moved to Nashville, and she did get a little bit more country. So that`s kind of good for those looking for the old sound again.

DAM: Right.

BRYANT: I want to move on to something totally different, Omarion. This is an R&B record, right?

DAM: It is. He is formerly of the boy band B2K. And you know, when you`re in a former boy band and you`re moving on to your solo record, there`s always the question, Are going to be Justin Timberlake or are you going to be Nick Carter?

BRYANT: Right.

DAM: And he really proves that there is life after boy bands. I mean, he`s sort of an Usher, Jr., for the PG-13 set.

BRYANT: That`s what I was going to say. I mean, it seems like he`s definitely trying to capitalize on the groundwork that Usher has laid, getting the ladies to like the slow jams.

DAM: Exactly, the slow jams, but it`s all very -- you know, very clean lyrics. And then there are also the, like, club hits.

BRYANT: Great. All right. Well, Omarion and Leann Rimes, a few records out tonight. Julie Dam, thank you for joining us. For more "Picks and Pans," you can, of course, check out her magazine. It`s this week`s "People" magazine, on newsstands everywhere.

HAMMER: Valerie Bertinelli live. She`s going to stop by to talk about the "One Day at a Time" reunion coming up in just a bit.

BRYANT: Plus, it`s a big day in Salem. They are celebrating at "Days of Our Lives." Those are my stories right there. We will tell you why.

Now we have got tonight`s "Birthday Shoutout." Kelsey Grammer turns 50 years old today. The shoutout from his former "Cheers" co-star, Ted Danson.

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TED DANSON, ACTOR: Happy birthday, Kelsey. It is indeed the good life.

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THOMAS ROBERTS, CNN HEADLINE NEWS ANCHOR: Hi, everybody. I`m Thomas Roberts with your "Headline Prime" newsbreak.

Three people trapped by 10 feet of mud have been rescued just outside of Los Angeles. The mudslide that covered their townhomes was caused by unrelenting rains throughout southern California. The storms are blamed for three deaths.

President Bush has begun mending political fences in Europe. The goal of his five-day European tour, a new era of transatlantic unity. First off was a dinner with French President Jacques Chirac in Brussels. Both leaders say despite their differences on Iraq, the two nations have an excellent relationship.

A Georgia company fooled into letting criminals access its massive database of personal information says people in all 50 states may be affected. ChoicePoint says it will notify almost all of the 145,000 people that may have been affected. The stolen information includes names, addresses, Social Security numbers and credit reports.

Those are the latest headlines for right now. SHOWBIZ TONIGHT continues next. I`m Thomas Roberts.

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BRYANT (voice-over): After all these years, still taking it "One Day at a Time." But tonight, Barbara herself, Valerie Bertinelli, joins us live.

HAMMER (voice-over): And exclusive. P. Diddy invites SHOWBIZ TONIGHT to Miami and tells us there is something he will never do again.

LINDSAY LOHAN, ACTRESS: Hi. I`m Lindsay Lohan. And if it happened today, it`s on SHOWBIZ TONIGHT.

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HAMMER: Welcome back to SHOWBIZ TONIGHT. Thirty minutes past the hour. I`m A.J. Hammer.

BRYANT: And I`m Karyn Bryant. Here are tonight`s "Hot Headlines."

Oscar countdown. Tonight, the Kodak Theater looks a lot more Oscar ready. The statue arrived at the theater earlier today. Tomorrow is the deadline for academy members to turn in their ballots.

HAMMER: Totally TRL. Kanye West, Lindsay Lohan, Eminem and Good Charlotte scooped up big at the TRL Awards, which wrapped up just a short time ago.

And he was out there earlier and he is still braving the crowd. SHOWBIZ TONIGHT`s David Haffenreffer at the TRL Awards. David is getting the chance to hang out with all the big music stars because he spent the weekend in Miami with none other than P. Diddy.

And David, I know there`s always a party going on when Puffy is around.

DAVID HAFFENREFFER, CNN HEADLINE NEWS CORRESPONDENT: You know, it`s not easy to keep up with that guy, A.J. And while Mr. Sean P. Diddy Combs may not have been at the TRL Awards here in New York City today, he was out and about in South Beach over weekend. We had a chance to catch up with him, and he told us some startling plans about his future.

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SEAN `P. DIDDY` COMBS, SINGING: I`m going nowhere.

HAFFENREFFER (voice-over): Well, actually, he is. In SHOWBIZ TONIGHT`s exclusive interview, P. Diddy tells me that he`s hanging up the mike. We caught up with him in Miami as he opened the Victor Hotel, the new hot spot in South Beach.

(on camera): Any thoughts about getting back into the studio?

COMBS: Yes. I`m in the studio now, working on my -- on my new album, and also working on Notorious BIG`s album.

HAFFENREFFER: Is your studio album going to be a new, fresh sound?

COMBS: Yes. Yes, it`s definitely -- it`s a new sound. It`s a new direction for me. And it`s probably my last studio album as an artist.

HAFFENREFFER (voice-over): Wait a minute. What?

COMBS: My last studio album as an artist.

HAFFENREFFER (on camera): And then strictly into management?

COMBS: No, I mean, after that I`m...

HAFFENREFFER: You`re producing?

COMBS: No, Hollywood. You know, hopefully do more films.

And I just did a film, "Carlito`s Way, The beginning." So, you know, there`s a lot of things on the horizon, but I`m really focusing on the music.

HAFFENREFFER: And do you see a lot of good young talent coming up, the "Making the Band 3" back at MTV?

COMBS: Yes, yes. "Making the Band" -- "Making the Band 3," it airs the first week of March. And I`m trying to put together the world`s next big female super group. This is going to be interesting to see how I put this -- put that together.

HAFFENREFFER: How is the feedback from the crowd in the Pepsi truck and the Super Bowl ad?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Hey, yo, P., check out my new ride.

COMBS: The feedback is incredible. Pepsi actually tricked out a truck for me.

HAFFENREFFER: I thought you were going to pull up in one those here tonight.

COMBS: Yes. I haven`t really got to drive it around, but it was a fun thing to do. So hopefully Pepsi will give me some stock and stop playing around.

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HAFFENREFFER: And, you know, P. Diddy tells us he is one of the newest people who live now in Miami. He lives on the same block as Shaq. They even have a date to play basketball pretty soon.

A.J., back to you.

HAMMER: He may need that stock to pay for it all or, then again, maybe not. Thanks a lot, David. Be careful out there in Times Square.

HAFFENREFFER: You bet.

BRYANT: Well, we`ve been asking you to vote on tonight`s "Showbiz Showdown Question of the Day." The FCC crackdown, is it ruining TV? So far, 70 percent of you said, yes, the FCC crackdown is ruining TV, while 30 percent of you said, no, the FCC crackdown is not ruining TV.

We want you to keep on voting at cnn.com/showbiztonight, and send us your e-mails at showbiztonight@cnn.com. We will share some of what you had to say at 55 past the hour.

HAMMER: One more day for "One Day at a Time." Tomorrow night, the cast from the classic TV comedy is back together again for a "One Day at a Time" reunion special on CBS.

And joining us live here on SHOWBIZ TONIGHT, on our premier night, Valerie Bertinelli, who, of course, played Barbara.

Welcome, Valerie.

VALERIE BERTINELLI, ACTRESS: Thank you.

HAMMER: We`re going to chat with you in just a second. But first, we want to take a look back at "One Day at a Time."

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HAMMER (voice-over): It was a Sunday night staple for years on CBS. "One Day at a Time," the show that put the spotlight on single moms.

MACKENZIE PHILLIPS, ACTRESS, "ONE DAY AT A TIME": Our mother can get picked up, we can`t.

BERTINELLI, "ONE DAY AT A TIME": Oh, well, you see, it`s different. She`s a divorcee.

HAMMER: It debuted in December 1975 and ran for nine seasons.

BONNIE FRANKLIN, ACTRESS, "ONE DAY AT A TIME": Mothers have certainly alienable rights. The right to nag, to interfere, to lay on guilt...

HAMMER: Bonnie Franklin played Ann Romano, a working woman and recent divorcee struggling to raise her two teen daughters, Julie, played by Mackenzie Phillips...

PHILLIPS: I`m really proud of you. I mean, you`re a woman who went out into the world without nothing, without any career skills. And she made a career for herself at middle age.

(LAUGHTER)

HAMMER: ... and Barbara, played by Valerie Bertinelli.

BERTINELLI: I`m the only girl in school who doesn`t have a TV with something not dirty written on it.

(SINGING): Spend a little time with me. Spend a little time with me.

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HAMMER: And that`s exactly what we`re going to do, spend a little time with Valerie Bertinelli, who wasn`t feeling too good when that last little clip came on.

BERTINELLI: I was fine up until that one.

HAMMER: It`s the first time you`re seeing a lot of these probably since the show originally aired.

BERTINELLI: Yes. Actually, it had. Yes, they showed me a few of the clips that they were thinking of airing.

They didn`t show me that one. And I`m -- I`m -- I think I know why now.

HAMMER: Well, now you know it`s out there.

BERTINELLI: Yes, well, too late now.

HAMMER: And Valerie, when you see those clips, do you think back -- do you think kind of, "I was actually pretty good? Yes, I understand why this was such a hit"?

BERTINELLI: No.

(LAUGHTER)

BERTINELLI: I see how raw I was and how green I was. But I think, "Oh, what a cute little girl." But that`s about -- that`s about it. But now looking back, it`s -- I didn`t realize how groundbreaking the show was when it first came out.

HAMMER: Right.

BERTINELLI: I was wrapped up in my own teenage life, and now it`s pretty interesting.

HAMMER: And sometimes -- I have talked to other people who have done these reunion shows, and sometimes they`ve told me, "Oh, you know what? I did it because it was a good opportunity, publicity, a little bit of money, and it was an OK experience."

Was this a fun experience, getting together with your old cast mates? Because you haven`t seen a lot of these people, at least not in one room. You may have seen them over the years...

BERTINELLI: Right.

HAMMER: ... but getting them all together -- and Bonnie Franklin, she just kind of disappeared for awhile.

BERTINELLI: Well, she does a lot of directing. But I run into Bonnie, I`ll run into Mac. I`ll run into Pat separately. But it`s been a good 20 years since we`ve all four been in a room together. So that was very special.

And it was -- I swear, I felt like I was 15 all over again. I wanted their approval and I wanted, you know, to be the good girl again. And I wanted to make Pat, you know, laugh, and make, you know, Bonnie -- it was - - it was really surreal to be in that room again.

HAMMER: It was such an enormous part of your childhood.

BERTINELLI: Yes.

HAMMER: You grew up on television, and life, my guess, was very different back then than it was now. What was life like, you know, as a big child star back when this show was a hit in the mid-`70s and early `80s?

BERTINELLI: You know, I don`t think I was quite aware, again, of what was really going on in my life. Because I had a very good family that really protected me from everything, and it was a different era.

The late `70s, early `80s, the paparazzi weren`t as stalkish.

HAMMER: Right.

BERTINELLI: So I wasn`t being followed everywhere. And my celebrity was -- for as big as it was at that time, it was at a time that it was a little bit safer. At least for me it was.

Now, I don`t know how the teenagers do it and have all of these people follow them around and write everything that they ever do and don`t do and make up stories. You know, I`ve had stories made up about me, but wow.

HAMMER: What is the one biggest misconception about you that you`ve heard that, you know, maybe you want to take this opportunity here on the debut of SHOWBIZ TONIGHT to clear up?

BERTINELLI: Misconception? I don`t know. I don`t know. That I`m a good girl. But I am pretty much.

HAMMER: Actually not true.

BERTINELLI: I don`t know, because I don`t know all of the misconceptions that are out there. I try not to listen.

HAMMER: OK. And you`ve done so much, you`re certainly well accomplished with what you`re -- what you`re doing now. Did it at all prepare you for what you do now in terms of the acting earlier in your life?

BERTINELLI: It did. I mean, that was my college of acting basically, that and the acting classes that I would take. But basically, I mean, I`m really a full-time mom right now and a part-time actress.

HAMMER: Right.

BERTINELLI: So I don`t think about acting a lot until this comes up, and publicizing the show.

HAMMER: And I understand your son has turned into quite the musician. And for better or worse, that`s the directions he`s probably going to wind up going?

BERTINELLI: Yes, he`s got the gene. And I can`t do anything about it.

HAMMER: All right. We`ll be watching tomorrow night. Thanks a lot for stopping by.

BERTINELLI: Thank you.

HAMMER: Appreciate it.

You can catch Valerie and her former cast mates tomorrow night on the "One Day at a Time" reunion special. They`ll be on CBS.

BRYANT: Well, maybe one day we`ll see an "American Idol" reunion show. But first, they have some business to take care of this week. We`ll have that for you in the "5 Day Forecast" coming up.

Plus, it`s a Salem celebration. When there are possessed doctors and serial killers around the corner, you need to have a little party every once in awhile.

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Time now to take a look at the SHOWBIZ TONIGHT "5 Day Forecast," just like we`ll be doing every Monday night. We highlight what you won`t want to miss this week.

HAMMER: And we always doing do it by going to our "Buzz Bench." With us tonight, comedian and TV personality Chuck Nice -- and yes he is -- "Entertainment Weekly`s" Jessica Shaw, and CNN pop culture correspondent, Toure.

So, at 5:00 p.m. on Tuesday, that marks the deadline for the nearly 6,000 Oscar ballots to be completed and sent over to PricewaterhouseCoopers. You know, the guys with the suitcase and everything. All of the buzz, of course, right now is about Chris Rock.

Toure, your take.

TOURE, CNN POP CULTURE CORRESPONDENT: I`m so excited. I mean, this is the only person in America that will make you like want to watch the Oscars. They did perfect in casting him. And they`ve asked him three times before, and he`s consistently said no. So if he said yes this time, he really wants to do it.

BRYANT: Isn`t it because Jamie is up for an award and Don Cheadle and he figures this year one of his buddy`s is going to take one home?

JESSICA SHAW, "ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY": Yes. He keeps threatening, exactly, if Jamie doesn`t win, he`s going to -- he`s going to take the Oscar from someone else.

CHUCK NICE, COMEDIAN: I`m sorry, I believe when it`s all over, this Oscar year will be known as the year of the Negro.

(LAUGHTER)

TOURE: That`s about right, though.

BRYANT: Wow!

TOURE: We`ve got all the nominations. We`ve got Chris Rock up top. Absolutely.

BRYANT: I know, but we have Don Cheadle up against Jamie Foxx. So how are they going to work out?

NICE: Now, see, wouldn`t it just work that way? Coincidence? I think not!

(LAUGHTER)

HAMMER: And is all of the worry about Chris Rock dropping the F bomb, or whatever people are worried about, is this all just a bunch of nonsense?

TOURE: Oh, it`s totally nonsense. He knows how to perform without cursing. He can be funny without cursing. So that`s not going to be a problem.

SHAW: He`s the one who can save the show this year. I think these -- do you kind of feel like these movies have been out forever? I feel like the buzz about like "Sideways" or...

TOURE: "Million Dollar Baby" just came out.

SHAW: ... or "The Aviator, " I don`t know. I feel like that that`s really sort of, I don`t know, going down a little bit. Like I need Chris Rock to liven up this award ceremony.

TOURE: Yes, absolutely.

BRYANT: Because this year, the films that are up for the awards have actually grossed the least amount of money, I think, and I forget in how many years. But there`s no huge "Lord of the Rings." There`s no super huge blockbuster.

(CROSSTALK)

TOURE: For there to be a suspenseful Oscar (UNINTELLIGIBLE) that we don`t know who`s going to win. I mean, I think that that is a draw, rather than watching the coronation of "Lord of the Rings."

BRYANT: Sure, some people think it is a more artistic year. Now, speaking of art, some people consider it art, some people don`t.

TOURE: What?

BRYANT: Toure, let me set it up.

(CROSSTALK)

BRYANT: Thank you.

I want to talk about "American Idol." Some people say it`s art, the performances, some people say it`s not. Either way, this year, Jessica, how are you feeling about the season and...

SHAW: I`m -- over here on this part of the couch, we are very excited about the art of "American Idol." And this year, men perform on Mondays, women perform Tuesdays, and on Wednesdays, two people get voted out of there. And I`m going to predict my winner.

TOURE: Go ahead.

SHAW: Nadia.

BRYANT: Nadia.

(CROSSTALK)

NICE: We`re finally on the same page.

SHAW: Nadia is going all the way.

NICE: We were talking about this right in the break, and I have a winner that I think is going to happen, too, and I think it`s going to be Mario Vasquez (ph).

BRYANT: He`s very good. I also think the young blond woman who sings the country pretty well has a very good chance.

SHAW: Yes.

HAMMER: So wait a second, are all of the rockers out? Because there were a lot of rocker dudes who made it to this cut.

SHAW: Yes.

HAMMER: No chance for rocker guys?

SHAW: You know, they`re all -- they`re both -- there are two guys with long hair.

BRYANT: Constantine (ph) and...

HAMMER: Right.

SHAW: And they`re both 28, 29.

HAMMER: Right.

SHAW: Isn`t it a little sad to be 28, 29 and still on "American Idol?"

TOURE: No. What`s sad? Come on. You watch the show. Come on!

SHAW: I love the show. But I want to see like 21-year-olds and 20- year-olds. I want to see their voice crack. I want to see Peter Brady, you know?

HAMMER: So do you think they did that just for flavor?

SHAW: And for the long hair. You`ve got to love a guy with long hair.

NICE: Well, being a rocker on "American Idol" is like being a blockbuster at the Oscars. You`re not going to win, I`m sorry.

(LAUGHTER)

SHAW: You`re not going to win.

NICE: No.

BRYANT: All right.

HAMMER: Let`s talk about another blockbuster, Jennifer Lopez.

NICE: Ah!

TOURE: Look at the segues tonight.

(CROSSTALK)

HAMMER: You know, we work these out ahead of time. Her "Beyond the Runway" is going to be on MTV, and it`s going to give viewers a sneak peek behind the big fashion show. I was there last week, and we`re going to have a little something on her own empire a little...

SHAW: Are you wearing J.Lo ensemble?

HAMMER: I`m not wearing J.Lo, but I am wearing J.Lo Glow.

(LAUGHTER)

BRYANT: Oh, that`s heavy. That`s a little heavy.

SHAW: Will you be watching, Jessica?

SHAW: You know, I don`t know. I don`t buy this whole, like, I`m just a girl from the Bronx but I like fashion. I think -- you know, after I saw Jenny at the Grammys in that get-up, I would not be looking to her for fashion sense.

BRYANT: Chuck, what is your take?

NICE: I can`t get enough of J.Lo. I don`t care when it happens, how it happens. As far as I`m concerned, America is a crack head and J.Lo is the pipe.

(LAUGHTER)

BRYANT: Oh, my!

NICE: We can`t get enough of J.Lo.

TOURE: And it`s interesting you make that analogy, because crack is far less a big even than it used to be, and I think that J.Lo is trending downward. I think that she hasn`t had a big film in years, she hasn`t had a hit song in years. At a certain point, we started saying, "Where`s the beef?" I think that her 15 minutes is trending over.

BRYANT: Wow!

(CROSSTALK)

BRYANT: I`m not sure about that one. Either way, we want to say thanks to you guys. And I`m sure we`ll have you back, CNN`s pop culture correspondent, Toure; Jessica Shaw from "Entertainment Weekly"; and television personality and comic Chuck Nice.

HAMMER: Thanks, guys.

BRYANT: So, of course, finishing off the "5 Day Forecast," on Friday, Wes Craven`s thriller "Cursed" hits theaters. It stars Christina Ricci.

And on Saturday, catch the Independent Spirit Awards on Bravo, hosted by Salma Hayek and Quentin Tarantino.

HAMMER: Well, Oprah is someone who really has it all. She`s rich, she`s famous, but until her show today, she didn`t have something that 83 percent of American women do have.

BRYANT: I have it.

HAMMER: You`ve got to check this out. We`re going to show you coming up in our "Talk of the Day."

BRYANT: Plus, Keanu Reeves new movie, "Constantine," is hot off of the presses, but can anyone stop Will Smith at the movies?

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HAMMER: Welcome back to SHOWBIZ TONIGHT. Fifty minutes past the hour. Time for another "Showbiz Short."

Johnny Carson`s boyhood home has been sold. Tonight we learned that a Georgia-based real estate company bought the house which is located in Norfolk, Nebraska, but there is no word on what it went for.

BRYANT: They have been talking all day and we`ve been listening. Now, as we do every night on SHOWBIZ TONIGHT, the best from today`s talk shows.

Wincing Winfrey. The queen of talk cringed and cried out as she experienced a first on "The Oprah Winfrey Show."

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UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: You see, now it`s all warmed up and everything. You`re going to see -- there`s going to be two pricks. Here`s the first.

OPRAH WINFREY, TALK SHOW HOST: Ahh!

(CHEERING)

WINFREY: OK. You got -- you sure you got the right spot?

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Yes. OK. Just...

WINFREY: Wait a minute.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I`m just holding your ear.

WINFREY: OK, OK, OK. Wait just a minute. Let me breathe again. OK.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Hold on to the (UNINTELLIGIBLE).

WINFREY: OK. This is no big deal. Go ahead.

(CHEERING)

WINFREY: It does not that you were much. I`ve got two of them.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

BRYANT: I know. I do, too. That`s what I`m saying. I can`t believe that`s one thing that I have that Oprah doesn`t have. It`s unbelievable.

HAMMER: Not anymore.

BRYANT: Well, good for you, girl.

HAMMER: Well, it`s time once again to take the "InStyle Challenge." It`s our Oscar fashion challenge.

So, oho was it that wore pearls and cornrows and accompanied Brad Pitt to the 1992 Oscar ceremony? Was it Jennifer Aniston, Juliette Lewis or Sheryl Crow?

Anyone? Anyone? It`s Juliette Lewis. She dated Pitt for almost three years.

BRYANT: Well, there is still time for you to sound off in tonight`s "Showbiz Showdown Question of the Day." The FCC crackdown, is it ruining TV?

HAMMER: Go to cnn.com/showbiztonight, or e-mail us what`s on your mind, showbiztonight@cnn.com., and we`ll read some of what you had to say coming up next.

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ROBERTS: Hi, everybody. I`m Thomas Roberts with your "Headline Prime" newsbreak.

An Amber Alert issued for a pregnant Texas woman and her 7-year-old son has been expanded. New Mexico, Oklahoma, Arkansas and Louisiana were added. Investigators found Lisa Underwood`s SUV in a creek north of Dallas today. She and her son have been missing since Saturday.

Rescuers have pulled a third person from 10 feet of mud that slammed into a townhouse east of Los Angeles. At least three deaths are blamed on storms that have soaked southern California.

The White House is calling secret audiotapes of then-Governor Bush talking about his past drug use "casual conversations" with somebody he considered a friend. The tapes were made between 1998 and 2000. On them, Bush expresses his concern that he`s made mistakes that youth would pick up on, and that would disqualify him from running for president.

Those are your headlines. I`m Thomas Roberts.

HAMMER: Well, it`s a four-day weekend for many, and it looks like the Fresh Prince is the king of the box office. In preliminary figures released today, Will Smith`s romantic comedy "Hitch"...

BRYANT: Just slid by the premier of Keanu Reeves` "Constantine." Because of Winn-Dixie," starring Dave Matthews, took the third spot. "Son of the Mask," the follow-up to the 1994 Jim Carrey film, was in fourth. And "Are We There Yet?" round out the top five.

Well, "Days of Our Lives" hitting a milestone.

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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Through the hourglass, so are the days of our lives.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

BRYANT: The NBC soap broadcast its 10,000th episode today. Original cast member Francis Reid, who plays Alice Horton -- you know, she makes the doughnuts -- she opened and closed the show.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

FRANCIS REID, ACTRESS: Stay tuned and find out, as we begin our next 10,000 episodes.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

BRYANT: Well, I`ll tell you, A.J., our SHOWBIZ TONIGHT math wizards say that it will take more than 38 years for us to reach 10,000. Today is our first. I`m up for it if you are.

HAMMER: If security lets me back in the building tomorrow, I`ll be here.

Well, throughout the show, we have been asking you to vote online on our "Showbiz Showdown Question of the Day." Is the FCC crackdown ruining TV?

So far, 70 percent of you say, yes, the FCC crackdown is ruining TV, while as you see 30 percent of you said, no, the FCC crackdown not ruining TV.

You`ve also been sending your e-mails on this question. We thank you for that.

Daniel from Crane, Texas, says, "If you`re concerned that what`s being watched by your child or you`re being offended personally by what`s being showed, simply don`t watch it."

And we have a viewer from Worthington, Ohio, who tells us, "Is the FCC ruining TV? No. Those who produce TV shows are ruining television. Perhaps it is time for the FCC to step in to protect the individual rights of those who are targeted by this hate."

And remember, you can continue to vote -- and we would like you to -- by going to cnn.com/showbiztonight. Send us your e-mails to showbiztonight@cnn.com.

BRYANT: Well, let`s see what Nancy Grace has got coming up tonight.

How are you doing, Nancy?

NANCY GRACE, "SEEKING JUSTICE": Hi, guys. Breaking news out of Fort Worth, Texas.

A Fort Worth woman, 34-year-old Lisa Underwood, seven months pregnant, and her 7-year-old little boy, missing. We want to help find them.

And we go live to Idaho for the latest in a case where a 16-year-old girl is facing...

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ANNOUNCER: Alan Alda is up for an Oscar, but he`s also on "The West Wing." And the show must go on.

ALAN ALDA, ACTOR: I`ll have them dragged here to Washington if I have to.

ANNOUNCER: Tomorrow, Alan Alda, live from the show, "The West Wing" show, we mean, on SHOWBIZ TONIGHT.

She used to have a little, but now she does have a lot. And a lot of it is up for sale. Inside J.Lo`s empire Wednesday on SHOWBIZ TONIGHT.

His name is Barry, he is a singer.

BARRY MANILOW, SINGER: This is the biggest show I`ve ever done.

ANNOUNCER: SHOWBIZ TONIGHT is behind the scenes with Barry Manilow in Vegas, baby. That`s Thursday. You better show up.

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HAMMER: Have you ever seen Barry Manilow in concert?

BRYANT: I never have. I`ve interviewed him once, but I`ve never seen him in concert.

HAMMER: It`s going to be fascinating to see what the Vegas thing is all about because he`s all about the glitz.

BRYANT: I`ll tell you, you know who I did see in Vegas was Elton John. Unbelievable! Unbelievable. Can we get him on the show, anyone, anyone?

HAMMER: It`s our premier week. Anything is bound to happen. And we appreciate you watching. That is it for SHOWBIZ TONIGHT.

BRYANT: Nancy Grace is next, so be sure to stay tuned.

HAMMER: Thanks very much for watching.

BRYANT: See you.

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