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> Tori Spelling has quit the new 90210 before she even started. Initially tapped to resurrect her role as boutique owner Donna Martin in the series, which premieres on September 2nd on the CW, Spelling is apparently miffed by salary differences between her and the show's other actors. It seems that Spelling was to be paid $10,000-$20,000 an episode while co-stars Shannen Doherty and Jennie Garth would be pulling in $35,000-$50,000. A representative for Spelling told Usweekly.com, "At this time, there are no plans for Tori to appear in the 90210 spin-off," even though Donna Martin was mentioned in the original press release for the new show. "She thought she deserved parity, and she's got a point," an insider told DeadlineHollywoodDaily.com. Damn straight! Tori's series Tori & Dean: Home Sweet Hollywood is the highest rated show on the Oxygen network right now, she's written a best-selling book, and she has the Spelling name behind her! What more will it take for this woman to taken seriously and paid the big bucks? A hunger strike? Riots in the streets? Just say the word, Tori, and we'll start the Molotov cocktail assembly line.
> Twin lesbian Canadian singer-songwriter sisters Tegan and Sara are heading back on the road. The poppy, new wave-ish duo will play a couple festivals in September, including SF's Treasure Island Musical festival on the 21st and the Austin City Limits Festival on the 28th, before kicking off their fall tour at the Tabernacle in Atlanta, GA, on the 30th. On September 4, Tegan will play a special solo Spin.com benefit show at the Housing Works bookstore in New York City alongside members of Circa Survive and Anberlin and authors Elizabeth Seward and Augusten Burroughs. Tegan contributed a song to the soundtrack for Burroughs latest book, A Wolf at the Table. For more info and the sisters' full fall tour schedule check out PitchForkMedia.com or Tegan and Sara's MySpace page.
> Amy Winehouse isn't merely a Grammy Award winner, now she's also the star of a video game. Created to promote the new spoof film Disaster Movie, Escape from Rehab's tag line reads in part, "[Amy] is drunk, she's drugged up, and she's in heat!" In the game, an animated Winehouse beats down Batman and The Hulk with a crack pipe and her deadly "Beehive attack" and reveals "I haven't had a crap in two weeks!" Further into the game Winehouse attempts to break her husband, Blake Fielder-Civil, out of prison. But don't take our word for it -- log onto Escapefromrehabgame.com and be the big ol' mess you've always wanted to be without actually having to go to spend weeks in rehab, jail, or the dentist's chair.
-- NOAH MICHELSON
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