People: No Duets With Nicolas?

TROPHY WIFE
SINGING LES BLEUS
Carla Bruni-Sarkozy has shared the world stage with Britain's queen, the pope and the Dalai Lama. But on Tuesday night, France's first lady appeared on a different kind of stage, this time with rock royalty — the Kings of Leon and Metallica. Introduced simply as Carla Bruni, she sang live on the British Broadcasting Corp. program "Later Live ... With Jools Holland."

CURTAINS
NEON LEG WARMERS TO ROLL OUT OF FASHION ON BROADWAY
After 528 performances, "Xanadu," the roller-disco musical loosely adapted from the cult 1980s film starring Olivia Newton-John, will close Oct. 12 at Broadway's Helen Hayes Theatre, producer Rob Ahrens has announced.

LETTERS
CONFUSED MOTHER WAITS 7 MONTHS FOR PUNCHLINE
The mother of Britney and Jamie Lynn Spears says Jamie Lynn told her she was pregnant in a note. "I thought it was a joke," Lynne Spears said in an interview. "I kept waiting for the punch line."

EDUCATION
TEACHER WINS 'BIG BROTHER 10' FAILS TO IMPRESS PARENTS
Dan Gheesling, a high school teacher from Dearborn, Mich., won the CBS reality show's $500,000 prize Tuesday after outlasting 12 other contestants inside a makeshift house on a Studio City soundstage. The jury unanimously voted him the winner.

» Pictured right: Fifteen minutes for you, Mr. Gheesling!

BUSTED
TATUM RELAXES IN THE SHADE
Authorities say they have arrested actor Ryan O'Neal and his son on suspicion of having drugs in their Malibu home. Authorities went to O'Neal's home Wednesday morning for a routine check on his son Redmond, who was given three years probation after pleading guilty to drug possession charges in June. Both men remain in custody on $10,000 bail.

CHICK-LIT
WHEN SHE DATED MR. NOT-SO-BIG
"Sex and the City" author Candace Bushnell is writing a pair of teen novels, "The Carrie Diaries," that "takes readers back to Carrie Bradshaw's formative years in high school, giving an inside look at Carrie's friendships, romances and how she realized her dream of becoming a writer," HarperCollins announced Wednesday. The first book is due in 2010. Bushnell's fifth book, "One Fifth Avenue," comes out this month.

With contributions from The Associated Press
Photos by Peter Lueders/AP; John P. Filo/AP