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FlashBy Times staff and wire reports © St. Petersburg Times, published January 23, 2001 Britney Spears to join Madonna for duetPop princess Britney Spears has finally announced she will join forces with Madonna. Spears' record company, Virgin Records, says the two -- who are mutual fans -- plan to sing a duet. "The duet with Madonna is going to happen. Madonna is great. I grew up listening to her in my room. ... I was really happy when she said she admired me," Spears told reporters in Brazil at the Rock in Rio music festival. Spears will be in Tampa for the Super Bowl. ‘Save the Last Dance’ still No. 1 at theatersInterracial teen romance meets hip-hop flick Save the Last Dance finished number one at the box office again this weekend, grossing $16-million in its second week. Dance beat out Cast Away, which earned $11.3-million, and the critically acclaimed Traffic, which ranked third at $8.2-million. Brad Pitt's new film Snatch and Mel Gibson's What Women Want rounded out the top five. SNL to say goodbye to Mary K. GallagherSaturday Night Live's favorite Catholic schoolgirl is graduating. Molly Shannon, the actor best known for playing the hyperactive Mary Katherine Gallagher on a recurring basis on NBC's comedy, said Monday she's leaving the show. Shannon, 36, has been a regular on SNL since 1995. Her last show will be Feb. 17. She leaves the show in the midst of a renaissance: Saturday's episode with Mena Suvari as host drew the highest ratings since a May 1999 show with Monica Lewinsky and Ricky Martin. Shannon, who most recently portrayed Betty Lou Who in the movie Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas, has completed roles in three upcoming feature films. Supremes snub Michael Bolton’s appealThe Supreme Court refused Monday to get involved in pop singer Michael Bolton's long battle to avoid a $5.4-million judgment for allegedly stealing a 1960s Isley Brothers tune. The court, without comment, let stand a federal appeals court ruling that Bolton must pay. Bolton denied lifting his 1991 hit Love is a Wonderful Thing from a 1966 Isley Brothers release of the same name, and testified that he had never heard of the earlier song. But the 1994 trial jury found that Bolton and a collaborator, Andrew Goldmark, had opportunity to hear the earlier song when it came out, and that the two songs shared five distinctive elements. The jury awarded Ronald and Marvin Isley 66 percent of all past and future royalties from the single and 28 percent of past and future royalties from Bolton's Time, Love and Tenderness album, which contained the song.
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