Sean Paul shot the video for his next single, "Like Glue," on Monday night in the East New York section of Brooklyn. Benny Boom directed the shots, which were filmed at the Elite Arc Nightclub. ...

The song "Rosa Parks" is continuing to haunt Outkast members Andre 3000 and Big Boi. While a lawsuit filed against the duo by the civil-rights legend for using her name for their 1998 cut was dismissed in 1999, a panel of three judges overturned the ruling on Monday. ... Jay-Z is filming the video for his "Bad Boys 2" soundtrack cut, "La, La, La (Excuse Me Again)," on Wednesday at an undisclosed location. Chris Robinson will direct. ...

Noel Redding, the bassist for the Jimi Hendrix Experience, died Sunday at his home in Ireland of unknown causes. He was 57. Redding joined the Experience in 1966 and recorded three albums with the band before leaving in 1969. He subsequently formed various groups including Fat Mattress, Road and the Noel Redding Band. ...

Former Screaming Trees singer Mark Lanegan will release a new solo album called Bubblegum this summer. The disc will feature guest appearances by Guns N' Roses alumni Izzy Stradlin and Duff McKagan, fellow Queens of the Stone Age members Josh Homme and Nick Oliveri, PJ Harvey, Dean Ween, former Afghan Whigs frontman Greg Dulli and others. ... Though there is still no word on what's happening with his band, reclusive guitar virtuoso Eddie Van Halen will join such celebrities as Jackie Chan, Chris Tucker and Kenny G along with members of the Los Angeles Police Department for the 32nd annual LAPD/ Celebrity Golf Tournament. The event, intended to raise money for the Police Memorial Foundation, takes place Saturday at the Rancho Park Golf Club in Los Angeles. ...

You're never too young to start playing "Oye Como Va." Carlos Santana has introduced a line of children's drums, which will be sold this month at Borders Books and Music stores in and around San Francisco. On Saturday, seminars will be held in which instructors will use Santana's music to teach kids to make noises to annoy their unsuspecting parents. Santana won't partake in the cacophony, however, since he'll be at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California, protecting his hearing. A portion of the profits from sales will benefit the Milagro Foundation, which serves disadvantaged youth through educational programs and health services. ... Roger Daltrey will take the stage for a one-off performance of "My Fair Lady" in Los Angeles. The Who singer will play the role of Eliza Doolittle's father in the play on August 3. ...

The Murderdolls are shooting a video for their cover of Billy Idol's "White Wedding" in Los Angeles on Sunday, and have announced that two upcoming shows in the Southern California area — including an L.A. appearance on Monday with former Buckcherry vocalist Josh Todd supporting and a show the following night in Anaheim — will be their last performances in 2003. ...

Boy Sets Fire have been added to several Lollapalooza dates on the East Coast in late July and early August. The politically charged Delaware hardcore band recently released its big-label debut, Tomorrow Come Today, through Wind-Up Records, home to Evanescence, Drowning Pool and Creed. ... Boston indie Bridge Nine Records will release a new three-song 7"/CD EP single this summer from New York hardcore veterans Sick of It All, who are currently in the studio working on their next album for Fat Wreck Chords. The CD version of the EP will be available on July 29 (7" vinyl will come later) while Fat is eyeing a September release for Life on the Ropes. ...

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A monument to Lisa "Left Eye" Lopes will be erected on land the TLC rapper purchased in the Honduran town of La Ceiba before she was killed in a car accident there a year ago. The memorial will be unveiled on May 27. ...

Michael Jackson, who went to war last year with Sony Music, is now suing his old record label Motown, seeking unpaid royalties and rights to his catalog. The lawsuit, filed on Thursday in Los Angeles Superior Court, accuses Motown Records and its Universal Music parent company of reneging on the terms of a 1980 agreement that settled an acrimonious split from Motown by Jackson and his brothers in 1976. ...

Stevie Wonder, Musiq, Erykah Badu and Babyface are scheduled to join P. Diddy, Nappy Roots, Jaheim and Maze, among others, at the three-day Essence Music Festival. Taking place July 3-5 at New Orleans' Superdome, the festival covers five stages and will be emceed by a variety of hosts including Jamie Foxx and A.J. Jamal. Previously announced appearances by Nelly and the St. Lunatics and Luther Vandross have been canceled, as Vandross remains hospitalized following last month's stroke and Nelly is spearheading a national bone-marrow drive to save the life of his sister Jackie Donahue, who is suffering from leukemia. Various other celebrities will be involved in the "Jes Us 4 Jackie" program, which will set up nine donor test locations on June 21 in New York, Los Angeles and Nelly's stomping grounds of St. Louis. The drive will be publicized in public service announcements on radio and television. ...

AFI are shooting a video this week for "The Leaving Song, Pt. 2," the next single from their major-label debut, Sing the Sorrow. ... Alien Ant Farm have set an August 19 release date for their as-yet-untitled follow-up to 2001's ANThology. Robert and Dean DeLeo of Stone Temple Pilots produced the album. ...

After doing two movies in the U.K., Melanie Brown, a.k.a. Scary Spice, has relocated to Hollywood to advance her film career. "I did a BBC drama, where I play a very loose woman, to put it that way, so maybe something more straight this time," Brown said of the sorts of roles she is looking for. When asked the odds of a Spice Girls reunion, she said, "I doubt it. Maybe when we're like 40." ... Rev Run will double as Father Fashion when his Run Athletics clothing company launches its men's active wear line in the fall. The urban outfits will consists of T-shirts, fleece wear, caps and jogging suits. ...

This fall, shooting begins on the film "Miss June," a new adaptation of William Shakespeare's "Macbeth," starring Courtney Love as Lady Macbeth. The movie will be produced by Luc Besson and directed by Vincent Regan. ... June Carter Cash, wife of Johnny Cash and member of pioneering country group the Carter Family, is in critical condition in a Nashville hospital following complications from heart surgery on Wednesday. June co-wrote Johnny's 1963 hit "Ring of Fire," about the couple's love for one another, and married the man in black five years later. ...

Organizers of the U.K.'s long-running Glastonbury Festival are asking for help selecting which of the main-stage artists they've captured on film since 1994 should be included on an upcoming Glastonbury DVD. Music fans are being invited to visit www.glastonburyfestivals.co.uk/dyn/dvd/ and vote from an extensive list of performers that includes Beck, Beastie Boys, the Verve, Oasis, Foo Fighters, PJ Harvey, Page & Plant, Prodigy, Radiohead, Tori Amos, Hole, Moby, Coldplay and the White Stripes. This year's festival, featuring Radiohead and R.E.M., among several others, will take place in late June. ...

Punk, hardcore, indie rock and metalcore merchants Reggie and the Full Effect, Black Cross, Midtown, Bouncing Souls, the Explosion, Burnt By the Sun, the Hope Conspiracy and A Static Lullaby are just a few of the bands scheduled to take part in this summer's Krazy Fest 6. Initial Records' annual event will take place the weekend of August 1 at the Waterfront Park in Louisville, Kentucky. ... Former Marvelous 3 singer Butch Walker, who has produced albums for Injected and SR-71, will work with Sevendust on the band's fourth release, due in the fall. Sessions will begin in two weeks in Walker's Ruby Red Studios in Atlanta. ... Walker recently logged three songs with Bowling for Soup, including "Punk Rock 101," the follow-up single to "Girl All the Bad Guys Want." The song will be included on a three-song EP, along with "Smile" and a cover of A Flock of Seagulls' "I Ran." ...

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Reese Witherspoon in "Sweet Home Alabama"
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Funny fluff and a shocking documentary about the rough and tough are hitting theaters this weekend.

Reese Witherspoon's "Sweet Home Alabama" and the Jackie Chan/ Jennifer Love Hewitt action/comedy team-up "The Tuxedo" will open nationwide, while the decidedly more serious "Biggie and Tupac," a controversial documentary that takes a look at the unsolved murders of both rappers, will open in select cities.

"Sweet Home Alabama" is a light-hearted romantic comedy that centers on the "Legally Blonde" star as an Alabama gal who left behind her family and friends for a booming fashion career in New York City, where she gets engaged to a fabulous guy played by Patrick Dempsey ("Scream 3"). There's just one problem: Before she can get married, she'll have to finish getting divorced from the stubborn Alabama husband (Josh Lucas of "A Beautiful Mind") she left behind. (Click for photos from "Sweet Home Alabama.")

Jennifer Love Hewitt, who recently took some time away from Hollywood to complete a new album (see "Jennifer Love Hewitt Makes Rock Record, But Won't Be Doing Weird Hair Streaks"), gets a chance to strut her action/comedy stuff in a return to the big screen. "The Tuxedo" features martial-arts film legend Jackie Chan as a taxi driver who becomes a chauffeur for a secret agent. When that agent is wounded, Chan bumbles his way into impersonating him and following up on his latest case, aided by a high-tech, super-powered tux and a brainy but butt-kicking agent played by Hewitt.

In sharp contrast to the light tone of each of those comedies, "Biggie and Tupac" is a sober and often complex examination of the various facets of the ongoing investigation and speculation about the murders of the two iconic rappers.

"Biggie and Tupac" is comprised of a jailhouse interview with Suge Knight as well as chats with Biggie's mother and former LAPD homicide detective Russell Poole, whose Suge Knight-centered murder theory was also the basis of Rolling Stone writer Randall Sullivan's book "LAbyrinth." The film was put together by British filmmaker Nick Broomfield.

Broomfield, the man behind the "Kurt and Courtney" documentary that suggested that Courtney Love conspired to murder her late husband Kurt Cobain, conducts all of the interviews himself. He finished much of the film before the L.A. Times published allegations implicating Biggie in Tupac's murder (see ).

"Biggie and Tupac" will open in select cities over the weekend, as will "Moonlight Mile," a drama starring Dustin Hoffman ("Rain Man"), Susan Sarandon ("The Banger Sisters") and Jake Gyllenhaal ("The Good Girl").

For a feature interview with Reese Witherspoon check out "Reese Witherspoon: America's Sweetheart."

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