All I want for Christmas is my true frontal lobe
So what do rock stars want for the holidays? Peace? Joy to the world? Nope. Not even close. Turns out most of them are a lot like the rest of us – they want stuff, often pricey stuff, under the tree:
•Audioslave singer Chris Cornell wants his own jet plane. His fellow bandmates were are a bit more reasonable – a mountain bike and a canoe.
•”American Idol” runner-up Bo Bice says he wants another year like this one (but no more emergency surgeries, we presume).
And oh, yeah, he also wants a really expensive guitar.
•Def Leppard’s Phil Collen had to think for a moment.
“A Starbucks card,” he finally volunteered. “I already have everything else.”
•On a more sentimental note, R&B bad boy Bobby Brown just wants to spend time with wife Whitney Houston and their child.
•And Velvet Revolver singer/rehab veteran Scott Weiland says he wants another year like the one he just had – a sober one.
Rivers still running dry
Weezer frontman Rivers Cuomo, who had vowed to remain celibate for two years, is still going strong.
“It’s been two and a-half years now, actually,” Cuomo, 35, tells Blender magazine. “The vow is over, but I wanted to keep cruising.
“Abstinence doesn’t require as much self-discipline anymore,” he says, adding: “We never had any serious groupies, anyway.”
Party of one, Wayne
“Austin Powers” star Mike Myers and his wife, writer/actress Robin Ruzan, announced Friday that they’re ending their 12-year marriage.
Myers’ publicist said the couple “remain committed and caring friends.” They have no children.
Myers, 42, an alum of NBC’s “Saturday Night Live,” starred in the “Austin Powers” and “Wayne’s World” films, “Dr. Seuss’ The Cat in the Hat,” and voiced the giant green ogre in the “Shrek” movies.
Playing the client, again
Actor Brad Renfro was arrested after allegedly trying to buy heroin from an undercover officer near downtown Los Angeles’ Skid Row.
The star of the 1994 film “The Client” was caught during a random sting operation Thursday that resulted in the arrests of 14 other suspects.
Renfro, 23, was charged in 1998 with possession of cocaine and marijuana, but avoided jail time in a plea deal. He then was arrested for underage drinking in 2001 and driving without a license and public intoxication in 2002, and was ordered into rehab.
Merry Christmas, Day
Singer Howie Day was arrested for rowdy behavior on a Boston-bound flight after he became intoxicated from a mix of alcohol and a sleeping pill.
Authorities said Day, 24, smoked a cigarette in the airplane lavatory, verbally abused the flight crew and kept kicking the backs of the seats of the passengers in front of him.
Day’s lawyer said he was returning home for the holidays and took a pill to help him sleep on the flight, which interacted with a couple of drinks he had consumed.
The birthday bunch
Singer-bassist Lemmy (Motorhead) is 60. Actor Clarence Gilyard (“Walker, Texas Ranger”) is 50. Actress Stephanie Hodge (“Unhappily Ever After”) is 49. Actor Mark Valley (“Boston Legal”) is 41. Actor Diedrich Bader (“The Drew Carey Show”) is 39. Singer Ricky Martin is 34. “American Idol” host Ryan Seacrest is 31.