Usher: No rivalry with Justin

Boston — R&B crooner Usher swears he has no beef with Justin Timberlake.

“I’m not in competition with Justin. I’m not in competition with anyone but myself,” he told The Boston Globe in Friday’s editions. “I’m not looking for that bad-boy image. I’m not a person who goes out looking for trouble.”

It’s been suggested that the two singers are less-than-friendly rivals, especially after Timberlake, the former ‘N Sync leader, was anointed by Rolling Stone magazine as “the new King of Pop” over Usher.

“It’s not just about a hit record, it’s not just the marketing behind an album, it’s about the talent, and I go out there and I work hard,” Usher said.

Scrubbing in again

Julianna Margulies will appear on an NBC hospital show during November sweeps — but it’s not ER.

The Emmy-winning actress has signed on to do a two-episode arc on TV’s comedy “Scrubs,” TV Guide Online reports.

Margulies will not, however, be playing a nurse. Rather, she’ll portray a malpractice attorney.

Stairway to fame

Jimmy Page is the first to reach the new British Walk of Fame, ABC News reports.

The former Led Zeppelin guitarist cast his handprints in cement Monday as the first music legend featured on London’s response to the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

“It’s a real privilege and a great honor to be the first. I’m really chuffed,” said Page, 60. “A Walk of Fame is a fantastic idea, and it’s high time we had one in London.”

The site of the British version, which will feature popular music giants, is taking shape outside the new Virgin Music superstore on Piccadilly Circus, London’s landmark crossroads.

Led Zeppelin, which included singer Robert Plant, bassist John Paul Jones and drummer John Bonham — who died in 1980 — was one of the top rock bands in history and produced nine chart-topping albums from 1969 to 1979.

Sarajevo film fest opens

Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina — Sarajevo kicked off its annual film festival with the help of such guests as John Malkovich, Mike Leigh and Gerard Depardieu.

This year’s festival, which began over the weekend, celebrated the 10th anniversary of a cultural event that began as a simple act of defiance during the country’s 3 1/2-year war.

It started when this Balkan capital was besieged by Serb forces positioned on the mountains surrounding the city during the 1992-1995 war. With people cut off and under attack, the festival was created to remind the world that Sarajevans were starved for culture as well as food.

People lined up to obtain tickets, and organizers said over 100,000 would watch 180 movies from 44 countries.

The festival gives moviemakers from southeastern Europe the chance to network and find distributors.