HEADLINES 10/12

Yay!  Start my new job tomorrow!  Let's hope I can wake up after only landing at LAX at 10pm.  Nothing like calling it close...

 

Courteney Cox and David Arquette announced Monday they have been separated for some time but said they remain committed parents and "best friends." In other news, Arquette is reportedly moving in with Jasmine Waltz, the woman who allegedly socked Lindsay Lohan. / AP, NYP5, USATD1

Mariah Carey was a no-show at the Los Angeles leg of husband Nick Cannon's 30th birthday party. / NYP14

Dozens of people will take the witness stand in a military courtroom over the next few weeks. It is a case against an Army psychiatrist accused of shooting more than 40 fellow service members and civilian works last year in Fort Hood, Texas. / NYP17
 
Work on Will Smith's "Men in Black 3" has been shut down for a second time because of arguments among Smith, director Barry Sonnenfeld and the producers, sources tells the New York Post. / NYP14

A jury is set to decide whether Anna Nicole Smith's two doctors and lawyer-boyfriend gave her too many prescription drugs, contributing to her 2007 accidental overdose death. Deliberations are scheduled to begin Tuesday morning in Los Angeles. / AP

Oprah Winfrey slammed a South African court ruling on Monday that cleared charges of a woman accused of abusing teenagers at Winfrey's leadership academy in Johannesburg. "I am profoundly disappointed by the trial's outcome," she says. / AP, NYP12

New York City kids Franciso and Bianca of the school-reform documentary "Waiting for Superman," accepted an invite to the White House on Monday. The children quickly made themselves at home on President Obama's Oval Office couch. / NYP3, DN17

Video footage of a failed attempt to rescue Linda Norgrove, a kidnapped British aid worker shows she may have been accidentally killed by a grenade thrown by US Special Operations troops, British and American officials said. / NYP11

Lady Gaga and Justin Bieber will be the first entertainers to top 1 billion YouTube views each, Gaga by October 25 and Bieber by November 3. / USATD1

Katy Perry and Akon will perform at this year's Victoria's Secret Fashion Show, which airs on November 30. / USATD1

Kelly Ripa and her husband, Mark Consuelos, are producing a new reality show for TLC designed to give female entrepreneurs a shot at selling their ideas on the Home Shopping Network. / DN64

NBC has canceled the Jimmy Smits legal drama Outlaw. / USATD1

"The Social Network" is still No. 1 at the box office, taking in $15.5 million in its second weekend. / AP, USATD1

Rhys Ifans is playing the bad guy in the next "Spider-Man," but filmmakers aren't saying yet which character he'll be. / AP

Melissa Etheridge's estranged domestic partner is claiming in an online poem on Monday that the Grammy winner has left her so broke she can't afford food. / DN19
 
Bill O'Reilly talks to Condoleezz Rice Tuesday night at 8 on the "O'Reilly Factor." / DN64

Elton John and Leon Russell will perform live on "Good Morning America" on October 20 from the Beacon Theatre. / DN64

Vanilla Ice is a home remodeler and his show "The Vanilla Ice Project" launches on Thursday at 9 p.m. on the DIY Networks. / DN64

Fifteen years before his 1981 hit "Jessie's Girl" made him a household name, rocker Rick Springfield tried to commit suicide over his looks. He writes in his new memoir, "Late, Late at Night." / NYP14

Stars Madonna, Freida Pinto, Emma Roberts all attended Natalie Portman's "Black Swan" on Sunday. In other news, at the entrance of the film, studs Alec Baldwin, Harvey Weinstein and Bruce Weber faced a mob of fans. / NYP15
 
A lawyer for rocker Vince Neil entered not guilty pleas for the Motley Crue singer on misdemeanor drunken driving and speeding charges. / AP

Paris Hilton and Brandon Davis took a bathroom break together during Seth MacFarlane's bash at his Beverly Hills home on Saturday night. A source says Hilton went into the toilet to touch up her makeup. "Then Brandon squeezed in, and the two of them ducked into the stall behind the sink together," the source said. / NYP14

George Michael was released from jail on Monday after serving almost four weeks for driving under the influence of drugs. Michael thanked those who had supported him while he was jailed and said outside his north London home: "I just want to start again." / AP

Bret Michaels, who underwent an appendectomy and surgery for a brain hemorrhage, says he's "75 to 80 percent" back to fighting form. The former Poison frontman is gearing up for his newest reality show, "Life As I Know It," which premieres next Monday. / NYP73
 
Condoleezza Rice talks about her memoir, her parents and Saddam Hussein in a cover story with USA Today. / USATD1
 
Fox is transforming the film "Napoleon Dynamite" to an animated television series. / NYP73
 
Hallmark Channel has slashed its afternoon repeats of "The Martha Stewart Show" due to low ratings. The show will be replaced with episodes of the 70's series "Little House on the Prairie." / NYP72
 
Liz Hurley shares with the New York Post why she feels so strongly about supporting the Breast Cancer Awareness Campaign. / NYP41
 
The Friars Club roast for Quentin Tarantino will take place on December 1. / NYP14
 
Macy's CEO Terry Lundgren, Diane von Furstenberg and Anna Wintour will be celebrated by NYC & Company for their contributions to the city at the Leadership Awards Gala on December 1. / NYP14
 
Sean "Diddy" Combs will throw his first Long Island "Pink Party" at Glo Nightclub in Westbury for Breast Cancer Awareness Month on Thursday. / NYP14
 
Van Morrison has reportedly been caught in California with a blonde he denied knowing and a baby he claimed wasn't his. / NYP14
 
At the New York Film Festival premiere of Clint Eastwood's "Hereafter," which strikes a very hopeful note about life after death, the actor was asked if he had a bucket list of things to do before he dies. "Don't look at me like I've gotten old or something like that," Eastwood replied. "I have nothing to say. I am just saying it in films." In other news, Eastwood joined stars Matt Damon and Bryce Dallas at the Four Seasons restaurant in NYC. / DN9
 
Francis Ford Coppola announced at a private party at Old Homestead Steakhouse that his "future film projects would be small-budget and big on his personal experiences." / NYP15

Australian-born soprano Joan Sutherland died on Sunday at 83 after a long illness. / AP, NYP45, DN38, USATD3
 
Previews for "Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown," had already been postponed twice since the original start date. On Friday night, the musical director, Bartlett Sher, took the stage to tell the audience that, they would be seeing the first run-through of the show in its entirety. / DN9
 
"Inside Edition" producer Charlie Carillo got big laughs at his Barnes & Noble reading on Friday when he told the crowd at the Lincoln Triangle store why he put a mile-high sex scene in his first chapter of his new novel, "One Hit Wonder." / DN9
 
 
Photos in the Post: Michelle Williams and Dougray Scott shooting scenes for their upcoming movie, "My Week with Marilyn," Megan Fox on her way to pickup her stepson from karate class, President Obama meets "Superman" documentary kids in the Oval Office, / NYP3, NYP15
 
Photos in the Daily News: President Obama meets "Superman" documentary kids in the Oval Office, Maggie Q at Comic Con, Hugh Jackman, wife Deborra-Lee Furness take their kids out for a bike and scooter ride in NYC, Anderson Cooper leaves The Lion after dinner with Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew Broderick, Edie Falco attends the Hamptons International Film Festival on Sunday, "Boardwalk Empire" stars Michael Pitt and Michael Kenneth Williams party at Juliet, Harvey Weinstein and Georgina Chapman enjoy a stroll with their daughter India,  / DN8, DN17