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• All for a thong ... those who can't get enough of Sisqo's platinum head might
soon be seeing a lot more of it. Variety reports that the "Thong Song" thinger has signed a deal with Big Ticket Television to develop his own TV series. The company will now shop a Sisqo theries to the networks in the hopes of being given permission to film a pilot.
"We feel that Sisqo is poised to become a megastar," says Big Ticket's Larry Lyttle. He certainly wasn't feeling that when Sisqo was just the lowly lead singer of Dru Hill.
The question remains as to what the Sisqo show might be like. A sitcom in which the rapper plays a lovable construction worker bedeviled by his kooky performance artist wife and anarchist kids? Or perhaps a variation on his MTV series Sisqo's Shakedown, in which scantily clad dancers compete for a leer from the singer?
Regardless of whether the Sisqo show gets picked up, the multimedia phenom is certainly milking his 15 minutes for every last nanosecond. Future Sisqo projects include appearing in the film Getting Over Allison, doing advertisements for Pepsi and McDonald's, and pursuing his singing hobby with the new single "Incomplete."
• Mick Jagger might have to disclose just how much money he has in the bank if ex-girlfriend Luciana Morad has her way. She is asking for $33,000 a month in child support for their 14-month-old son. Mick would prefer to pay the measlier sum of $5,250 a month. Now a New York family court examiner has asked him to give the court "a recent pay stub and all of his 1999 income tax returns from all jurisdictions with all attachments." Jagger's lawyers are appealing the decision.
• A 17-year-old Oasis fan was stabbed before the group's show in Glasgow, Scotland, on Saturday, July 29. Police say he and his girlfriend were assaulted by a mob of Oasis fans who went on the rampage at a nearby school for the deaf. Between 10 and 15 hooligans - half of whom were female - "were hitting people indiscriminately and seemed to be totally drunk," said a police spokesperson. The victim remains in serious condition.
• VH1.com's favorite band, Slipknot, was involved in a little ultra-violence at the Somerset, Wis., stop of their Tattoo the Earth tour. According to the band Hatebreed, also on the tour, Slipknot member No. 6 struggled with a security guard after recklessly riding around the venue parking lot in a golf cart. No. 6 was reportedly maced. A representative for Slipknot's label, Roadrunner, says the label had no knowledge of the incident.
• The British press is currently spilling ink on a possible romance between former teen idols turned respectable solo artistes Robbie Williams (ex-Take That) and Geri Halliwell (ex-Spice Girls). Says Geri's spokeswoman, "They are on holiday together but they are just mates and there is definitely no romance."
• Not just content with releasing a single that makes a distant memory of lesser musical works like Wagner's Parsifal and David Soul's "Don't Give Up on Us," Madonna is said to be considering performing an as-yet-unscheduled London club date. The Music365 Web site alleges the "Music" maker will play a surprise gig as a warm-up for an actual tour in 2001.
• The anti-Madonna, PJ Harvey, may not be having a multimedia video and single release extravaganza, but the lachrymose singer does have a highly anticipated album entitled Stories From the City, Stories From the Sea in the works. The album is due for release in October and includes a duet with Radiohead's Thom Yorke titled "This Mess We're In."
• Papa Roach's Coby Dick on how "Last Resort" sounds like Green Day's "Brain Stew": "It's funny, someone came up to us afterward, and we were like, 'Aw sh*t, it does.' But we don't care. There's only 12 notes on a f*cking guitar. Everything's been done before. We didn't consciously say, 'That song's tight, let's bite it.' Not even close. I've tried to sing the ["Last Resort"] part to that song, and you can't. It's like the same thing, but it's not."
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