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Thursday, January 21, 1999 2:17:39 PM EST
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Weiland
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LOS ANGELES (CNN) -- Five days after his arrest on a possible probation violation, Stone Temple Pilots lead singer Scott Weiland was released from jail. Weiland was put on probation for three years last summer after pleading guilty to felony heroin possession. He was arrested Friday for unlawful possession of a controlled substance; he was at a Los Angeles court trying to modify his driving privileges at the time of his arrest.
Superior Court Judge Larry Fidler, at a hearing on Wednesday, released Weiland and put him back on probation, reinstating him in an outpatient rehab program. The judge warned that "rules are rules," and told Weiland that if he breaks them he will go to jail. The singer has had a series of drug arrests dating back to 1995. His band won a Grammy Award in 1994 for the song "Plush."
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Guillaume
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LOS ANGELES (CNN) -- Actor Robert Guillaume was recuperating after suffering a stroke, his publicist said. The 71-year-old Guillaume suffered the stroke on January 14 in his dressing room on the set of his ABC series "Sports Night," his publicist, Marcy DeVeaux, said Wednesday. Guillaume was released from the hospital on Tuesday.
Doctors described the stroke as mild and said the actor was talking and walking without any problem, DeVeaux said. A full recovery is expected, and Guillaume will return to his series within a month.
Guillaume won Emmys for his roles as the level-headed butler on "Soap" and "Benson." On "Sports Night," he plays Isaac Jaffee, the boss of a nightly cable sports program with anchors played by Josh Charles and Peter Krause.
NEW YORK (CNN) -- A pioneering woman comedy writer -- the only female in the stable of writers behind Sid Caesar's "Your Show of Shows" -- has died of cancer at age 76. Lucille Kallen died Monday at her home in Ardsley, a suburb of New York. The legendary "Your Show of Shows," which starred Caesar and Imogene Coca, was broadcast live on Saturday nights between 1950 and 1954. Kallen was among a handful of women TV comedy writers working in that period.
She also wrote six novels -- the C.B. Greenfield mystery series and "Outside There, Somewhere," a 1964 novel about the competing demands of career and motherhood. Kallen's colleagues on the "Your Show of Shows" writing staff included Neil Simon -- who wrote the play "Laughter on the 23rd Floor" about the experience -- as well as Mel Brooks, Carl Reiner, Larry Gelbart and a young Woody Allen. When Reiner created "The Dick Van Dyke" show, he based the character of comedy writer Sally Rogers, played by Rose Marie, in part on Kallen.
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Cash
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LOS ANGELES (CNN) -- At the Grammys next month, Johnny Cash, Mel Torme, Smokey Robinson, Otis Redding and Sam Cooke will be honored for a lifetime of work. Each will receive a Lifetime Achievement Award. For Redding and Cooke, the awards will be posthumously awarded.
The National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences announced those awards Wednesday, along with its intention to give Trustees Awards (for non-performing industry contributors) to the songwriting teams of Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe, Kenneth Gamble and Leon Huff, and Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller. The 41st annual Grammy Awards will be presented on February 24.
(CNN) -- The International Lyrics Server, a Web site containing the words to more than 100,000 songs, was shut down last week after music publishers accused the site's Switzerland-based operators of copyright violations and police seized their computers, The New York Times reported and the site's creators confirmed on their site.
Karl Aschminn, the prosecutor in charge of the case, confirmed that a criminal investigation was underway but declined to respond to other questions, the paper said. Pascal De Vries, a Basel network consultant who founded the site in 1997, said that the Lyrics Server received an average of a million hits per day when it was active, from visitors looking for the lyrics to songs by bands like the Rolling Stones and Aerosmith as well as to show tunes and obscure ditties.
De Vries told the Times that police confiscated his computer equipment in response to a criminal complaint filed by lawyers for the Harry Fox Agency, on behalf of Warner/Chappell Music, Polygram Music Publishing and six other music publishing companies. DeVries also told the newspaper that lyrics were entered into the site by its users at a rate of between 200 and 300 new songs a day, and that he was merely making them available in an organized fashion. He said he did not enter any of the lyrics himself.
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