Entertainment News 914

Survivor: Apartheid begins tonight at 8 on CBS. Actually, the 13th round of the American version of the popular European reality show is set in the Cook Islands of the South Pacific. Twenty castaways have been divided into four tribes...this time by race. Whites vs. African-Americans vs. Asians vs. Hispanics. Being one of the last few people who watches this show, I'm more than a little surprised they did this, but we'll see how it pans out.

In other reality TV news, Rock Star: Supernova has a singer...but now they might need a different name for the band. Lukas Rossi was tapped last night to front the supergroup of Motley Crue vet Tommy Lee, Metallica and Ozzy vet Jason Newstead...who grew up in Michiana, by the way...and Guns N' Roses castaway Gilby Clarke. A San Diego Court ruling has put the name Supernova on hold, because a band with that name has been playing and recording albums in Orange County, California, since the mid-1990s.

Rumors are floating that part of the excesses that led to Paramount's dumping of Tom Cruise had to do with his desire for a new toilet seat being installed in his private bathroom every day he showed up at the office.

And Whitney Houston & Bobby Brown are finally splitting up. Whitney filed for separation...which she calls "a legal technicality" on the way to divorce. The troubled couple were together for 14 years, and have a 13 year-old daughter.