Former adult film star Jenna Jameson has been arrested in Southern California for investigation of driving under the influence after she struck a light pole with her vehicle.

Police say Jameson had driven her vehicle into a light pole early Friday in Westminster. She suffered minor injuries but refused medical treatment.

A police statement says a field sobriety test was conduct and there were signs of intoxication. Jameson was booked and later cited and released.

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The publicist for "Pirates of the Caribbean" star Keira Knightley says the actress is engaged to be married.

Publicist Sara Keene says she does not have further details about the wedding plans.

The Oscar-nominated 27-year-old actress who first won acclaim for her role in "Bend It Like Beckham" is to marry musician James Righton, a keyboardist with the Klaxons band.

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Finalists Jessica Sanchez, left, and Phillip Phillips, center, listen as host Ryan Seacrest announces the winner onstage at the "American Idol" finale on Wednesday, May 23, 2012 in Los Angeles.

Nearly 22 million TV viewers seems like a lot - but for an "American Idol" season-ender, it's a new low.

The crowd that tuned in Wednesday night when bluesy guitar man Phillip Phillips won the "Idol" crown constituted the smallest for an "Idol" finale in its history, according to final Nielsen Co. figures.

The audience of 21.5 million was down by nearly one-third from the 29.3 million viewers who saw country singer Scotty McCreery's victory a year ago, an audience total that had rebounded by 20 percent from the finale in 2010.

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Who would Michelle Obama be if she could be anyone? Beyonce.

"It looks like musicians just have the most fun," Mrs. Obama explains in an interview with People magazine.

She admitted, though, that there's one thing she's lacking - being musically gifted.

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Runner-up Jessica Sanchez, left, congratulates winner Phillip Phillips onstage at the "American Idol" finale on Wednesday, May 23, 2012 in Los Angeles.

Phillip Phillips, a bluesy Georgia guitar man, was crowned the new "American Idol" on Wednesday after defeating teenager Jessica Sanchez in record viewer voting. He was the fifth male "Idol" winner in a row.

Phillips, 21, a pawn shop worker from Leesburg, Ga., looked stunned when host Ryan Seacrest announced his name, then wordlessly accepted a hug from Sanchez and congratulations from his fellow finalists.

He dissolved into tears as he sang "Home," the song that may be his first single.

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A new off-Broadway play, "Old Jews Telling Jokes," stars, from left, Audrey Lynn Weston, Marilyn Sokol, Lenny Wolpe, Todd Susman and Bill Army.

There’s an easy trick to writing a good Jewish joke — just make the idiot at the center of it sound Jewish.

“Any joke you tell, if the character’s name is Feldman, it becomes a Jewish joke,” says Daniel Okrent. “Say you’ve got a joke about a guy on a desert island who watches Angelina Jolie float by. The guy could be named O’Hara. But if it’s Feldman, it becomes a different joke.”

Such is the wisdom that Okrent and his friend and collaborator, Peter Gethers, have gleaned by mining generations of jokes over the past three years to create their new off-Broadway show, “Old Jews Telling Jokes.”

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Tom Selleck

After eight TV movies, including the recent “Benefit of the Doubt,” there’s no doubt that Jesse Stone “has legs” like Thomas Magnum of “Magnum, P.I.,” says the man behind both characters, Tom Selleck.

It’s just that Stone’s are jean-encased — unlike Magnum’s short-shorts-exposed gams. (That dubious fashion statement is the only part of the seminal ’80s series that’s dated, Selleck jokes.)

And if Magnum flew around in a Ferrari, Stone — the Scotch-swilling, sarcasm-spewing, brow-furrowing sometimes-police chief of picturesque but puny Paradise, Mass. — lumbers along.

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Tameka Foster Raymond, ex-wife of Hip-hop artist Usher Raymond

R&B singer Usher Raymond is locked in a legal battle with his ex-wife arising from a custody fight over their two sons.

The 33-year-old testified in court on Tuesday that Tameka Foster Raymond spit at and tried to fight his girlfriend during one visit. He alleged that his ex-wife hit him during the dispute, but that he didn't press charges because "I didn't want the boys to know that their father put their mother in jail."

Tameka Raymond's attorney claims that Usher provoked her client and that his account is exaggerated.

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