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ITTY BITTY BITS: 'Legend' DVD; Bey & Jay-Z to marry today?; Timbaland and Ne-Yo help LiLo?; Glover's 'Alpha'; ?uestlove helps Al Green; Bengals cut Henry; Lincoln letter.
*Will Smith's "I Am Legend" his taken over the national DVD sales chart this week, swapping spots with the fairy tale spoof "Enchanted," which drops to No. 2. The sci-fi film has generated an estimated $20 million in rental revenue alone. "I Am Legend" also was the top-selling Blu-ray Disc in the week ended March 30, with "No Country for Old Men" No. 2.
*If the rumor mill is correct, look for Beyonce and Jay-Z to make use of the marriage license they took out earlier this week. Supposedly the nuptials will go down today at a secret location and secret time in NYC.
*Timbaland and Ne-Yo were mentioned in a New York Daily News column as possibly contributing to a new album from Lindsay Lohan. "Universal is trying to make her new album a success by lining up great producing talents, and, recently, they even hooked Timbaland. But Lindsay has canceled their planned meetings twice," a source told the paper's Gatecrasher column. The source also said Lohan had turned down some initial tracks submitted by Ne-Yo, but "he is still in talks to work with the rehabbed pop star, and staffers hope that one song will make the cut."
*Danny Glover has been booked to voice a character in the new animated family film "Alpha and Omega," about two kidnapped wolves trying to get back to their pack, reports Variety. Production is under way in Los Angeles under director Anthony Bell ("The Boondocks"). Key animation will be created at Crest's India-based studio with a debut anticipated for 2010. Actors voicing other characters include Christina Ricci, Dennis Hopper, Larry Miller and the two lead wolves Justin Long and Hayden Panettiere.
*Al Green is teaming with Roots drummer Ahmir "?uestlove" Thompson and keyboardist James Poyser for his new studio album, "Lay It Down," due May 27 on Blue Note Records. ?uestlove and Poyser have previously worked together on projects by Erykah Badu, Common and Jill Scott. "The reason why we are doing this is because we all idolize Al Green," ?uestlove said, according to allhiphop.com. "Even today, nobody has range like him."
*Wide receiver Chris Henry was cut by the Cincinnati Bengals Thursday following his fifth arrest in nearly three years. The 24-year-old pleaded not guilty to charges of misdemeanor assault and criminal damaging. He was arrested for punching an 18-year-old man in the face and breaking his car window with a beer bottle. Municipal Court Judge Bernie Bouchard set bond at $51,000. Noting Henry's previous arrests involving drugs, guns and alcohol, the judge called Henry "a one-man crime wave." Bengals president Mike Brown said: "His conduct can no longer be tolerated."
*A letter written by late U.S. president Abraham Lincoln in response to a children's petition to end slavery sold for a record 3.4 million dollars at auction in New York on Thursday. The letter, an emotional response to a "Children's Petition to the president asking him to free all the little slave children in this country," dates from 1864 and was the highlight of a sale of historical American manuscripts. The top lot, which was bought by an anonymous US buyer bidding by phone, set a record price for a US manuscript at auction. "Please tell these little people I am very glad their young hearts are so full of just and generous sympathy," Lincoln wrote in the letter. "While I have not the power to grant all they ask, I trust they will remember that God has, and that, as it seems, He wills to do it."
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