Courtney Love has a New Year’s resolution–to clean up her act and turn her upcoming album into a smash hit, reports IMDB.com.
The former Hole frontwoman wants “America’s Sweetheart” to mark a turning point in her life when it is released Feb. 9, as she recovers from her battle with alcohol and drug addictions.
Love is still battling for custody of daughter Frances Bean after her arrest in November after an alleged incident in Beverly Hills.
“This coming year will be an opportunity for me to get my life back together,” Love said.
OZZY SPEAKS: Ozzy Osbourne said he “died” twice after an accident on an all-terrain vehicle that left him in a coma for eight days. Osbourne said his bodyguard Sam Ruston saved his life by rushing to his aid after the Dec. 8 crash.
“If it wasn’t for Sam I probably wouldn’t be here,” Osbourne told Britain’s Sunday Mirror newspaper. “He had to bring me back to life twice.”
Osbourne posed for photos at his estate in England where he has been recovering since checking out of the hospital on Christmas Eve. He wore a neck brace and had his left arm in a sling.
He fractured eight ribs and a vertebra in the accident and said he’ll avoid ATV riding in the future.
“The doctors tell me every day it could have been a lot worse. I could be dead.”
TALKING SHOP: He may not win Meredith’s heart on “The Bachelorette,” but hockey hunk Harold, who lives in Rock Island, is promoting himself in the meantime.
Yes, Harold Hersh has an official fan site (members. tripod.com/harold hersh) up and running, complete with pictures of Harold’s summer vacation and an online store. Be sure to pick up a “Classic Hershey Thong” for $10. Or not.
NEW DIGS? Is Nicole Kidman planning to ditch her New York home?
Kidman is rumored to be ditching her pad in the Chelsea district because it’s too noticeable and won’t allow her any privacy, the New York Daily News reports.
Kidman had previously been renting Lenny Kravitz’s loft in SoHo.
RUSH TO JUDGMENT? Rush guitarist Alex Lifeson (whose real name is Alex Zivojinovich) says his arrest at a New Year’s Eve party in Florida was unfair.
“They didn’t like the way we were dancing, apparently,” he said as he left jail Friday on $14,500 bond, wearing the same bloodied suit he wore on New Year’s Eve.
Lifeson was arrested for what police described as drunken, violent behavior at the Naples Ritz-Carlton. According to authorities, the scuffle began when his son Justin refused to leave the stage where the house band was performing.
His father spat blood on a deputy’s face and pushed a deputy down a hotel stairwell during the struggle, police said.
Justin Zivojinovich disputed that account and said deputies broke his father’s nose.
Lifeson’s arraignment is set for Jan. 26.
CASH COWS: Angelina Jolie is continuing her charitable ways by funding a program to donate cows to poverty-stricken Cambodian farmers.
Three hundred families will get one cow each to help them earn money in an effort to dissuade them from logging and hunting wildlife for a living, said Mounh Sarath, director of the Cambodian Vision in Development project.
Jolie is giving $1.5 million to the organization for its environmental protection efforts in remote parts of northwestern Cambodia.
Jolie’s love affair with the country began when she shot scenes for “Lara Croft: Tomb Raider” at the famed Angkor temple complex. Her adopted son, Maddox, hails from Cambodia as well.
SOLE SURVIVOR: Ben Affleck got a lesson in Middle Eastern etiquette when he accidentally upset a Yemeni prince during his visit to troops in the Persian Gulf.
The actor had been briefed about local customs, but in a moment of fatigue he showed the soles of his shoes, Britain’s Sky News reports.
Affleck said: “At one point, I was in one of the Middle Eastern airports, going from one place to another, and I was tired. So I was sitting there, kicking back, and apparently there was some Yemeni prince that came through, and this guard literally looks over at me and comes charging over.
“He yelled, ‘What are you doing? Your feet,’ and then he slaps my feet and puts them on the ground.”
CRASH: Dance-pop singer Daniel Bedingfield suffered head and neck injuries in a crash Friday while vacationing in New Zealand, reports BBC Online.
He was treated in a hospital and later released.
The “Gotta Get Thru This” singer didn’t break any bones but was kept in the hospital as a precaution, a spokesman for his label Polydor said. “He did have to be cut out of the car, so it was obviously in a bit of a mangled state,” said the spokesman.
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Compiled from RedEye news services and edited by Leo Ebersole (lebersole@tribune.com) and Curt Wagner (cwwagner@tribune.com)
