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Madonna tones it down at French music awards

CANNES, France -- Madonna accepted a career award from Britney Spears at a French music awards show this weekend -- but this time, no controversy. Madonna, wearing a demure green polka-dot dress, gave Spears a chaste peck on the cheek as she received the award at NRJ radio station's ceremony Saturday and got a standing ovation. The pop divas' failure to exchange an open-mouthed kiss, unlike at the MTV Video Music Awards in August, prompted inevitable cracks from French presenters later in the show.

Judge orders Weiland to return to detox

PASADENA, Calif. -- Stone Temple Pilots lead singer Scott Weiland was ordered to return to a live-in drug detoxification center after leaving early, officials said. Weiland, 36 was ordered to report to the facility last October after pleading no contest to possession of heroin. A Superior Court judge learned Friday that he had walked out or was discharged after only a month and ordered him to return, said Jane Robison, a spokeswoman for the Los Angeles County district attorney's office. Weiland reported back to the facility Friday afternoon. He is eligible for release in July but must participate in a six-month follow-up program.

'Jumpers' makes the leap back to Broadway

NEW YORK -- A revival of "Jumpers," Tom Stoppard's metaphysical murder mystery with laughs, is bouncing back to Broadway. The production, imported from England's National Theatre, stars Simon Russell Beale and Essie Davis and opens April 25 at the Brooks Atkinson Theatre. Beale, one of the London's most acclaimed stage actors in such classics as "Hamlet" and "Twelfth Night," is making his Broadway debut. First seen in London in 1972 and then in New York in 1974, "Jumpers" concerns a debate about the existence of God, the mysterious death of a Chinese acrobat and a fading musical-comedy star's extramarital affair.-- From wire reports

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MOUNT CLEMENS, Mich. -- Kimberly Mathers, the ex-wife of rapper Eminem, has been sentenced to two years' probation after pleading guilty to a drug charge and a driving offense, prosecutors said.

Mathers, 28, pleaded guilty last month to a charge of possessing 25 grams or less of cocaine and failing to give adequate space to an emergency vehicle.

In exchange for the guilty pleas, Circuit Judge Edward A. Servitto dismissed a third charge of driving with a suspended license and a charge of maintaining a drug house, said David Portuesi, chief of the drug crimes unit for the prosecutor's office.

She was sentenced Wednesday and, as conditions of her probation, she may not use alcohol or nonprescription drugs and must undergo random drug testing and substance abuse evaluation and treatment, Portuesi said.

The charges will be dismissed if Mathers successfully completes probation. Servitto told Mathers he would send her to jail if she violated any of the terms.

Defense attorney Michael Sinutko did not return a call seeking comment.