Commercial venture
Madonna and film director husband Guy Ritchie, who collaborated on the pop icon's video for "What It Feels Like for a Girl," are making another team effort.
Ritchie, Madonna
The couple plan to do a commercial for BMW, Time magazine reports.
The commercial will likely be less controversial than the video, which aired only once late at night on MTV and VH1.
The video, directed by Ritchie, featured Madonna setting fire to a gas station, running over street hockey players and crashing a yellow Camaro.
Of her character in the video, Madonna says she's "acting out a fantasy and doing things girls are not supposed to do."
It's not the first time a Madonna video has run afoul of MTV censors. But this time it was because of violence, not sexual content.
In 1990, MTV refused to air "Justify My Love" because of its sexual content. And in 1992 it decided to show "Erotica" only in the wee hours of the morning.
Rechecking the numbers
"Charmed" star Shannen Doherty pleaded innocent to a drunken driving charge, and her lawyer denied she had as much alcohol in her blood as authorities contend.
The actress was arrested in Thousand Oaks in December by California Highway Patrol officers who said they saw her pickup truck weaving on Highway 101.
Prosecutors said a blood test showed her blood-alcohol level was 0.13 percent; the legal limit is 0.08 percent.
But Doherty's attorney, Trent Copeland, had part of the blood sample independently tested and said the results support his client's claim that she was not driving drunk. He declined to reveal the specific results.
The former "Beverly Hills, 90210" star plays a witch on the Warner Bros. show "Charmed."
Doherty has had previous run-ins with the law. In 1996, she was accused of throwing a beer bottle at a car window outside a West Hollywood bar. After pleading no contest to a vandalism charge, she agreed to anger-management counseling and was placed on two years probation and fined $5,400.
Day has her dog
Movie star Doris Day can't turn away a stray.
She owns several dogs, and recently took in a Maltese that someone dropped off scrawny and dirty at the Nebraska Humane Society.
The dog was taken to Omaha veterinarian Robert Bashara, who says he and his wife, Jan, became friends with Day after meeting her five years ago at her hotel in Carmel, Calif.
Day, 76, made 39 films and had two television series. In 1987, she founded the Doris Day Animal League, a national lobbying organization for animal rights issues. A priority of the league is encouraging the spaying and neutering of dogs and cats.
Bashara said he knew that Day wanted a Maltese. They grow to only about 10 pounds and are very friendly. He said Day named the dog Duffy.
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