Mrs. Boss Is back

Patti Scialfa will release her sophomore solo album, "23rd Street Lullaby," June 15 via Columbia. The E Street Band singer/guitarist and wife of Bruce Springsteen wrote the entirety of the 12-track album, which she co-produced with Steve Jordan (Keith Richards, Jon Spencer Blues Explosion).

Jordan also played drums on the set, which also sports contributions from E Street guitarist Nils Lofgren and singer/violinist Soozie Tyrell, bassist Willie Weeks, keyboardist Clifford Carter, guitarist Marc Ribot and cellist Jane Scarpantoni. One song, "Romeo," was heard in the 1998 film "No Looking Back."

Tyrell, Carter and Lofgren also helped out on Scialfa's 1993 debut, "Rumble Doll," which reached No. 23 on Billboard's Heatseekers chart. That set boasted appearances by Springsteen, drummers Jim Keltner and Kenny Aronoff, and Heartbreakers keyboardist Benmont Tench and guitarist Mike Campbell, among others.

Scialfa is playing a showcase concert this weekend at an as-yet-undisclosed location in New York. Columbia is giving tickets away through a trivia contest on her label-based Web site.

Nine Discs of Hell

Guillermo del Toro told VideoStoreMag that he plans to release two DVD versions of HELLBOY. The director said the first edition will be a double-disc regular cut of the film, while the second will be an extended cut with 20 more minutes of footage that extends the Hellboy-Selma Blair-Agent Meyers love triangle and something about Rasputin's eyes.

MUCH NEEDED THERAPY

Weird Al Yankovic telling the Los Angeles Times that he will go ahead with his current concert tour despite the death of his elderly parents last week from carbon monoxide poisoning. The satirical singer said performing would be a "somewhat therapeutic experience" for him right now and give him a break from "sobbing all the time."

HAPPY REUNION!

The New York Post reporting that Dick Van Dyke, Mary Tyler Moore, Rose Marie, Carl Reiner and other stars of original Dick Van Dyke Show will reunite for 159th Episode, an all-new installment set in the present day and airing on CBS on May 11.

'The Simpsons' Creator to Guest Star

NEW YORK - Matt Groening, creator of "The Simpsons," will make his first guest voice appearance on Sunday's show, Fox network said.

Although Groening's image has appeared on "The Simpsons," including a framed photo on the wall of Comic Book Guy's store, this will be his first speaking role on the animated series, Fox said Wednesday.

In the episode, titled "My Big Fat Geek Wedding," Principal Skinner gets cold feet before his pending nuptials and his fiancee, Edna Krabappel, calls off the wedding. Skinner asks Homer to help him win her back, while Marge convinces Edna she can do better.

Edna rebounds into the arms of Comic Book Guy, who whisks her off to a sci-fi convention. While at the convention, they run into Groening — guest-starring as himself — who is signing autographs for his fans.

Dick Clark Has Diabetes, Says PR Firm

LOS ANGELES - Dick Clark, renowned as "America's oldest teenager," has diabetes. Clark, 74, has had type 2 diabetes, formerly called adult-onset diabetes, since 1994, but kept it a secret from everyone except close friends and family, according to the Ogilvy public relations firm, which is promoting his new role as a spokesman for the American Association of Diabetes Educators and the pharmaceutical maker Merck & Co.

Clark is working with the firms to launch "Diabetes: Know the Heart Part," a national public education campaign to alert Americans to the link between diabetes and heart attack and stroke.

Clark, the former host of "American Bandstand" and producer of the American Music Awards, declined to speak to The Associated Press Tuesday after word of his illness was first reported in a gossip column in the New York Daily News.

Rocker Courtney Love Owes Millions - Report

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Add financial woes to the long list of worries bedeviling rock star Courtney Love.

The trouble-prone musician claims in the upcoming issue of Blender magazine that she has been swindled out of $40 million, while a former business associate says she is in debt to the tune of at least $4 million.

Love, the 39-year-old widow of late Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain, is already dealing with a stack of legal and health concerns, and her music career suffered a recent blow when her long awaited debut solo album bombed.

"I'm covered with loser dust," she was quoted as telling Blender, whose May issue featuring the Love cover story will hit newsstands on April 20.

Love told Blender that "... $40 million has been stolen from me and (11-year-old daughter) Frances by a fiduciary institution."

She added, "I found out that our dog walker was making $100,000. One person put a BMW on my credit card. My daughter's trust fund has been stolen from to the point where she may have, like, nothing. I can't let this happen to Frances."

Blender said "multiple parties close to Love agree that a large sum of money is unaccounted for," while a former business associate who had access to her accounts in the past six months told Blender she is at least "... $4 million in debt."

Love faces two separate trials in Los Angeles, one for misdemeanor disorderly conduct and being under the influence of a controlled substance, and the other for two felony counts of unlawful drug possession. She also temporarily lost custody of Frances, her only child with Cobain, who shot himself in the head 10 years ago.

Love's album "America's Sweetheart," released by EMI GroupPlc's Virgin Records unit, spent just four weeks on the Billboard Top 200 chart.