Chris Brown says he still loves Rihanna

Los Angeles — Chris Brown says he remembers beating Rihanna and that a brief interview clip making the rounds online Monday in which he said he didn’t recall the incident “is not representative of what I said.”

The R&B singer tells People magazine in a lengthy statement that he “misspoke” during the 30-second clip and that he was asked “something like 4 or 5 times” about the altercation with Rihanna during an hourlong interview.

“Of course I remember what happened,” Brown said in a statement late Monday. “Several times during the interview, my mother said that I came to her right afterwards and told her everything. But it was and still is a blur.”

In his first public interviews on the subject, Brown told People magazine and CNN’s Larry King that his feelings haven’t changed for Rihanna since the February beating that left her bloody and bruised.

“I never fell out of love with her,” Brown told People. “That just wouldn’t go away.”

Brown told King in an interview scheduled to air on Wednesday night that he is still in shock about his actions.

Rolling Stones guitarist death to be reviewed

London — Forty years after the body of Rolling Stones guitarist Brian Jones was found floating in his swimming pool following a binge of drugs and drinking, police said Monday they are reviewing the case in light of new evidence turned over by a journalist.

Jones’ 1969 drowning was ruled an accident, though friends and fans have long insisted the 27-year-old rock star was murdered, and reports have swirled of a deathbed confession by a building contractor.

Sussex police in southeast England said they will examine the new documents and have not yet decided whether to officially reopen the case.

Police did not give further details or name the journalist. The Mail on Sunday identified him as Scott Jones — a freelancer who is not related to the musician — and said he had handed over 600 documents to police.

Brian Jones was a founding member of the Rolling Stones and reportedly came up with the band’s name, taking it from a song title on a Muddy Waters album cover.

Pat Robertson on mend after heart surgery

Richmond, Va. — Christian broadcaster Pat Robertson underwent 10 hours of surgery to repair an irregular heartbeat that put the 79-year-old at higher risk of a deadly stroke or heart attack, his lead surgeon said Monday.

Robertson was back at home in Virginia Beach after his release on Thursday from a hospital in North Carolina. He ultimately will be fitted with a heart monitor, Dr. Andy C. Kiser said.

Robertson, founder of the Christian Broadcasting Network, underwent what his surgeon said was a new approach to dealing with atrial fibrillation, called convergence procedure. It involves cauterizing the continually beating heart muscle with heat generated by a radio frequency. It rewires a portion of the heart, in a sense, to correct the irregular beat.

Institution to end when ‘Guiding Light’ turns off

New York — You don’t have to be a fan of the show, or of the soap opera genre it pioneered, to feel a sense of gravity at the demise of “Guiding Light.”

“It’s been reflecting American life back at America since before World War II,” said “Guiding Light” executive producer Ellen Wheeler.

“We are the history of so many people,” added veteran leading lady Tina Sloan. “They watched it for so long.”

But Sept. 18, they will watch its final hour, after 72 years and more than 15,700 weekdays on television and radio. It’s a run, an institution, that has never been matched and never will.

A revival of “Let’s Make a Deal,” the what’s-behind-the-curtain game show, this time hosted by Wayne Brady, will inherit the slot left by “Guiding Light” beginning Oct. 5. (Repeats of “The Price Is Right” will air in the interim.)

It’s the latest chapter in the doomsday scenario that has plagued soaps for decades and has now claimed “Guiding Light.”

Used to be, at any given time there were a dozen-odd daytime dramas on the schedule. Soon there will be only seven. The oldest now becomes CBS’ “As the World Turns,” which began in 1956 (and, like “Light,” is owned by Procter & Gamble, whose line of household cleaning products inspired the “soap opera” term).

Former Miss California sues over firing

Los Angeles — Former Miss California USA Carrie Prejean sued pageant officials Monday for libel, slander and religious discrimination, accusing them of telling her to stop mentioning God even before her controversial remarks against gay marriage.

Prejean sued California pageant executive director Keith Lewis and actress and former Miss USA Shanna Moakler, who served as a co-director before resigning in protest of Prejean.

Prejean was fired in June by pageant officials who said she missed several scheduled appearances.

Her attorney, Chuck LiMandri, said that wasn’t true, and Prejean was ousted because of controversial remarks in April during the Miss USA pageant that marriage should be between a man and a woman.

She was named first runner-up, and many believe she lost her shot at the Miss USA crown because of her answer.

Moakler’s attorney, Mel Avanzado, said in a statement that Prejean’s lawsuit was without merit.