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Singer PayCheck diesCompiled from Times wires© St. Petersburg Times published February 20, 2003 NASHVILLE -- Country singer Johnny PayCheck, the hard-drinking hellraiser best known for his 1977 working man's anthem Take This Job and Shove It, has died at 64. Mr. PayCheck had been bedridden in a nursing home with emphysema and asthma. He died Tuesday, Grand Ole Opry spokeswoman Jessie Schmidt said. Specializing in earthy, plainspoken songs, Mr. PayCheck recorded 70 albums and had more than two dozen hit singles. His biggest hit was Take This Job and Shove It, which inspired a movie by that name, and a title album that sold 2-million copies. Other hits included Don't Take Her, She's All I Got, (revived 25 years later in 1996 by Tracy Byrd), I'm the Only Hell Mama Ever Raised, Slide Off Your Satin Sheets, Old Violin and You Can Have Her. Born Donald Eugene Lytle on May 31, 1938, in Greenfield, Ohio, he took the name Johnny Paycheck in the mid 1960s about a decade after moving to Nashville to build a country music career. He began capitalizing the "c" in PayCheck in the mid 1990s. Cats on the brainAshley Judd has been attached for years to the upcoming Catwoman, but she's now passed up the Batman spinoff in order to make her Broadway debut this fall, reports Entertainment Weekly. Onstage, she'll play another feline role, Maggie the Cat, in a revival of Tennessee Williams' classic Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. Judd will play the role -- made famous in the film version by Elizabeth Taylor -- of a hot-tempered Southern wife fighting for status and power within her extended family. Response included in trialLOS ANGELES -- A judge ruled that Michael Jackson's response to a lawsuit brought by his former business manager will be included in the pop singer's upcoming trial. Myung Ho Lee, head of Union Finance and Investment Corp., claims in a lawsuit that Jackson owes him $13-million in back pay. In response, Jackson alleges that Lee breached contracts and did not act in good faith while giving him business advice. Superior Court Judge Andria K. Richey rejected Lee's request Tuesday to dismiss the entertainer's claims and the argument that Lee exerted "undue influence" on Jackson. If the matter isn't settled in mediation scheduled for April 17, it will go to trial on June 18.
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