Courtney Love faces drug charge in L.A.
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Singer-actress Courtney Love was charged with a misdemeanor drug count Tuesday, less than a week after she allegedly tried to break into a Los Angeles home.
Love is scheduled to be arraigned Friday in Los Angeles, said Frank Mateljan, spokesman for the city attorney's office. Love's drug tests were still pending, he said.
Love, 39, was arrested Oct. 2 outside a Los Angeles home where she had allegedly broken the windows in an attempt to enter, according to police.
She was arrested and booked for investigation of using illegal drugs, posted $2,500 bail and was released.
Hours later, police and paramedics in Beverly Hills responded to an emergency call and took Love to a hospital to receive treatment for an overdose, police said.
Her representatives did not return a call for comment Wednesday, and had refused to discuss the case previously.
The performer is the widow of Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain, who committed suicide in 1994. She received a Golden Globe nomination for her role in the 1996 movie "The People vs. Larry Flynt."
Spears not 'some kind of sex thing'
NEW YORK (AP) -- Is 21-year-old Spears trying to attract a more mature audience with her upcoming album, In the Zone?
No, the pop singer says. "The record label wanted me to do certain kinds of songs, and I was like, 'Look, if you want me to be some kind of sex thing, that's not me,"' she tells Esquire magazine in its November issue. "I will never do that. I'm still doing what I love to do."
Spears appears on the cover in a short white sweater and high heels, re-creating a famous pose by actress Angie Dickinson.
But she doesn't see herself as super famous. "I'm famous, but I'm not famous like freaking Brad Pitt or Jennifer Aniston. But in my weird little head, I just think we're all here to inspire each other. We're all equal. We just bounce off each other and show the world what we can do."
Spears said if she didn't have a career in music, she "probably would have gone to college and become a schoolteacher.
"That was my dream, because I love kids," she said. "Either that, or an entertainment lawyer."
Phil Spector Might Flee The Country
The New York Daily News reports that legendary '60s record producer Phil Spector, who was arrested in February on suspicion of killing actress Lana Clarkson at his California mansion, may have plans to flee the U.S. before his October 31 hearing.
Los Angeles law enforcement officials reportedly received a tip from a member of Spector's camp. A source told the newspaper, "Spector has a private jet. The sheriff's office has been told that he might use it to take off. The police said they appreciated the information, but that they didn't have the manpower to keep watch on him 24 hours a day." Just last week, a Los Angeles Superior Court judge extended Spector's $1,000,000 bail to the date of his hearing.
Despite the tip, some L.A. officials are not too concerned with Spector leaving the country. Captain Frank Merriman, head of the L.A. sheriff's homicide bureau, said, "If we felt it was necessary to watch him, we would. I'm not worried about him. If he's charged, he'll either turn himself in or he'll flee. But where's he's going to go? Let him run. We'll catch him."
In September the L.A. County coroner ruled Clarkson's death a murder. Spector is the only suspect in the case.
Spector is known for his "Wall Of Sound" production technique that fueled the hits of many '60s pop acts including the Beatles, the Ronettes and the Shirelles.