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By Times staff report Performances added to Jackson rebroadcastCBS will add star power to the rebroadcast of Michael Jackson: 30th Anniversary Celebration, scheduled to air Jan. 9 against the American Music Awards on ABC. The rerun of the network's successful November sweeps special will feature new footage, the Hollywood Reporter says, including Jackson's duet with Britney Spears on Jackson's 1987 hit The Way You Make Me Feel. Also added will be a performance by Lil' Romeo. The Jackson-Spears duet was not included in the original broadcast because of increasingly tough exclusivity agreements networks are placing on top music acts. Spears briefly dropped out of Jackson's Sept. 10 anniversary concert at Madison Square Garden because of her exclusive deal with HBO, which prohibited her from appearing anywhere else on TV within a month of her live HBO concert special Nov. 18, the Reporter said. She rejoined the lineup days before the event after reaching an agreement that her performance would not be included in the first televised special on Nov. 13. Movie notesAmerican McGhee's Alice, the adaptation of the popular action fantasy video game from director Wes Craven, will be produced as a computer-animated feature for Dimension Films. Craven told Sci Fi Wire the project will be "very close" to the video game. The game, released by Electronic Arts last year, is a dystopic variation on Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland. It pits a gothic, grownup Alice against the Mad Hatter, an emaciated Cheshire Cat, a bloodthirsty Red Queen and other sinister characters. . . . Star Trek: Nemesis, the 10th installment in the franchise, has landed a new villain, with Ron Perlman signing to play the Romulan Viceroy, Variety says. Perlman, best known for his TV work on Beauty and the Beast, recently appeared in the World War II movie Enemy at the Gates. Perlman joins the reunion cast of TV'sStar Trek: The Next Generation, including Patrick Stewart and Jonathan Frakes. It is scheduled for a November 2002 release. Orbison's widow suesRoy Orbison's widow has filed a $10-million lawsuit, charging that documentary production companies owe her money and misrepresented their relationships with TV networks. Barbara Orbison Productions Inc. filed the suit last week in Nashville, Tenn., against three companies that Barbara and Gregory Hall own. Orbison says the Halls owe her $42,500 under a contract for her cooperation with two documentaries and an anthology of live performances by her late husband, famed for the hits Only the Lonely and Pretty Woman. The anthology and one documentary were completed and aired. One on Barbara Orbison has not been finished, according to the lawsuit. Randle Davis, attorney for the Halls, declined to comment.
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