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    Foxy Brown in troublePEMBROKE PINES, Florida (AP) -- Foxy Brown spent a night in jail after police said she threw hair glue at a beauty shop employee and later swatted an officer, her second legal problem stemming from a salon scuffle. The 27-year-old rapper left jail Friday afternoon after a $1,500 bond was posted for her, the Broward County Sheriff's Office said. She was charged with battery and resisting an officer with violence. Brown's lawyer, New York state Sen. John Sampson, didn't return a phone call seeking comment Friday. It wasn't immediately clear how her arrest Thursday would affect her sentence of three years' probation and anger management classes for attacking a pair of manicurists in New York City in 2004. The argument was about payment for a manicure at Bloomie Nails in Manhattan's Chelsea area. According to the Florida arrest report, Brown was applying beauty products in the bathroom when a Queen Beauty Supply employee told her the business was closed and it was time to leave. She refused and threw hair glue at the employee, the report said. Brown then spat on the man as he called 911, staining his shirt. A police officer found her in the shopping plaza and tried to get her to return to the store. When the officer placed a hand on her arm to escort her to the store, Brown swatted it away, then started swinging her arms and struggling with the officer, the report said. The officer had to "use a takedown maneuver to gain control" of Brown, according to the report. No one was injured. Brown's real name is Inga Marchand. Her albums include "Ill Na Na" and "Chyna Doll," and she is known for her sexy outfits and racy lyrics. In December 2005, Brown's lawyer said the singer was almost completely deaf. She was undergoing treatment. Melissa Etheridge: 'Dream' to be nominatedLOS ANGELES, California (AP)-- Melissa Etheridge knows all about labels. First there was the "rock goddess" with the classic hit, "Come to My Window." Then there was "lesbian singer." Then came "cancer survivor." Now there's "Oscar nominee." Etheridge, 45, competes in the best-song category for the anthem "I Need to Wake Up" from the global-warming documentary, "An Inconvenient Truth." "That was part of my dream, being a rock star and all that stuff," she recently told AP Television. "And, 'Oooo, someday, I want to have Oscar: best song.' Of course that's out there. Never, when I was presented with this -- this was a slide show. I had no idea it was going to be a film and it was going to be that sort of thing." "Inconvenient Truth" is director Davis Guggenheim's Oscar-nominated portrait of former vice president Al Gore's personal history and lifelong commitment to reversing the effects of global climate change. Gore asked Etheridge to write a song for the film, she said. It proved no easy task -- even for the Grammy-winning songstress. "Because, what do I write? Help! What do we do? 'Give a hoot, don't pollute' or something?" she recalled. "And that got to be overwhelming to a point until, actually, (to) my partner, my wife, Tammy, I said, 'Help me. I am trying to find my way to write a song.' She says, 'Just do what you do. You write about what you feel. Tell people how you feel.' " The result could add one more label to her resume. Etheridge and Tammy Lynn Michaels held a commitment ceremony in 2003. They are parents to twins: daughter Johnnie Rose, and son, Miller Steven, born in October 2006. Etheridge has two children with former girlfriend Julie Cypher, fathered by rocker David Crosby through artificial insemination. The 79th Annual Academy Awards are set for February 25 in Los Angeles. Fellini vs. porn?International Media Films Inc. accused New York filmmaker Andrei Treivas Bregman of trademark and copyright infringement for the porn films he made under his business name, Michael Lucas. The lawsuit seeks to stop sales of the movies, "Michael Lucas' La Dolce Vita" Parts 1 and 2, and to collect unspecified damages. Bregman, who moved to the United States from Moscow in 1997, called the lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Manhattan a joke. "Nobody can be confused and think they're buying Fellini's movie by buying mine," said Bregman, noting the name Michael Lucas was part of his title, which otherwise means "The Sweet Life." New York-based International Media Films said it believed the gay pornographic films, released last month, will "infringe, tarnish and dilute" its trademark rights to the highly decorated "La Dolce Vita," which won the 1961 Academy Award for costume design and the New York Film Critics Circle Award for best foreign film of that year. "La Dolce Vita," with its famously sexy scene of Anita Ekberg coaxing Marcello Mastroianni into the Trevi fountain, also won the Golden Palm at Cannes. Fellini won a lifetime achievement award in film in 1993, shortly before his death. International Media Films said it bought "La Dolce Vita" in 2001. The film introduced the term "paparazzi" as it followed the life of a tabloid journalist who covers the show business life of Rome while yearning to write about more serious subjects. Copyright 2007 CNN. All rights reserved.This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. Associated Press contributed to this report. |
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