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NEW YORK (AP) -- Time is running out for interviewers who keep asking former child star Gary Coleman about his 1970s sitcom "Diff'rent Strokes."

"I've come up with the policy that, come 2001, I'll answer no more questions. We're in the 21st century here," he said.

The 32-year-old actor, whose next movie is "The Flunky" with Dean Stockwell, does not even watch much television anymore.

Instead, the sometime security guard occupies himself with model trains, DVDs, video games and the Internet, the New York Daily News reported Tuesday.

ATHENS, Georgia (AP) -- City officials are trying to decide what to do with an old trestle pictured on R.E.M.'s first album.

Fans of the rock band deluged the mayor's office with e-mail after they heard the trestle was to be torn down. The structure spans a creek near downtown Athens, the band's hometown, and is depicted on the back cover of "Murmur," the influential 1983 rock album.

Athens-Clarke County commissioners responded by voting in October to buy the trestle for $25,000.

Though several uses were proposed for the trestle, no plans have been approved. Possibilities include a bike trail, interpretive railroad history site and a landmark for the band.

Several groups have worked to raise money -- so far, a little more than $2,500 -- to help restore the trestle.

An R.E.M. fan in San Diego raised most of the money by selling shirts and other R.E.M. paraphernalia on his Web site, www.murmurs.com.

RADNOR, Pennsylvania (AP) -- Filmmaker Ken Burns says jazz has something that pop music never will have, and that's why jazz is the subject of his new 10-part documentary.

"Let's be honest: Most of pop music is about sex," Burns said in the upcoming issue of TV Guide. Britney Spears and Madonna "can lead you to the bedroom door, but they don't tell you what to do about human intimacy. Then you need Miles Davis and Duke Ellington."

Burns said jazz is one of America's most important contributions to the world.

"I knew all the musicians, but I didn't know how powerful their stories were," he says. "In their own right, they're just as important as the founding fathers."

NEW YORK (AP) -- Madonna and new husband Guy Ritchie are said to be honeymooning with rock star Sting and his wife, Trudie Styler, the friends who introduced them.

The singer and her movie-director husband arrived at Sting's estate in Wiltshire, England, late Saturday, and spent a quiet Christmas there after dropping in at a local pub for a pint and attending midnight Mass on Sunday, The New York Post reported Tuesday.

Madonna and Ritchie married on Friday at a castle in Scotland.