Court drama
T.I.’s lawyers asked a federal judge Friday to release the rapper on $2.2 million bond and allow him to have monitored home confinement while he awaits trial on weapons charges. Defense attorney Ed Garland proposed putting a person in T.I.’s home 24 hours a day to monitor activities there. T.I. also would have to submit to electronic monitoring.
Prosecutors countered that because of his criminal history, and because he was arrested while allegedly trying to buy machine guns, he poses a flight risk and danger to the community.
Spears train wreck: Chapter 37
Hours after losing child-visitation rights Thursday, Britney Spears apparently ran over a photographer’s foot with her car. Web site hollywood.tv claims Spears was pulling out of a Beverly Hills medical building around 5 p.m. when the incident occurred, but online video doesn’t show the tire of her car actually rolling over the cameraman’s foot. Messages left with Spears’ attorney by The Associated Press were not immediately returned.
The good professor
Call him Professor Marr. Johnny Marr, the co-founder and guitarist of 1980s icons The Smiths, is turning to academia as a visiting professor of music at Salford University in northwest England. The university said Marr would deliver a series of workshops and master classes to students in its popular music and recording course.
