| Britney Spears walks out on Mexico City audience |
Britney Spears cut short her final show in Mexico City Sunday night, adding insult to injury after she made an obscene gesture upon arrival there last week. The 20-year-old pop princess sang four songs in the last show of her "world tour", but during the set's fifth song, "Stronger," Spears apologized, saying "I'm sorry Mexico. I love you. Bye," and left the stage, Mexico City daily Milenio reported. Boos greeted an announcement asking fans to leave the stadium. Some concertgoers began throwing pop diva paraphernalia and chanting "fraud, fraud," the newspaper reported. Concert organizers could not be reached for comment. Mexico City was the last leg of a so-called world tour in the United States and Canada. Spears attracted plenty of attention during her visit. She was caught by cameras extending her middle finger in a universally recognized insult after she arrived last Tuesday night at Toluca airport, some 40 miles from Mexico City. Spears later said the gesture was an angry response to paparazzi, who she said nearly caused a wreck with her vehicle.KRAVITZ CANCELS: Tonight's sold-out concert by Lenny Kravitz and opening act Pink at the Molson Amphitheatre has been postponed, along with shows in Indianapolis and Wambaugh, N.Y., due to illness. Sunday night's show by Kravitz and Pink at the Amphitheatre will, however, go ahead as scheduled. A make-up date for tonight's show will take place in early September, according to promoter House of Blues Concerts. Tickets will be honoured at the later date, but fans who desire refunds can obtain them at point of purchase. Tickets are also still available for the Sunday-night gig through Ticketmaster.BOY OH BOY: Rosie O'Donnell may have to do some explaining to her friend Madonna now that the former talkmistress wants to bring Boy George to Broadway. O'Donnell recently went to London to see Madonna onstage in Up For Grabs. But the show she really gobbled up was Taboo, George's campy musical about his band, Culture Club, and the "New Romantic" scene of the '80s. Rosie is now in talks to bring Taboo to New York next spring, New York Daily News columnists George Rush and Joanna Molloy report. Madonna probably loves the Boy somewhat less. Shortly after Taboo opened, her lawyers forced him to cut a number that featured her fashion anthem, "Vogue." He's been hissing at her ever since. Recently, he accused her of Botox abuse, claiming there is "no motion in her face whatsoever." A MODEL BABY: German übermodel Claudia Schiffer is pregnant with her first child, three months after marrying British movie producer Matthew Vaughn, her London spokesperson said yesterday. She would not give any further details, or say exactly how far through the pregnancy Schiffer was. ISRAELI ORCHESTRA CANCELS TOUR: The Israel Philharmonic Orchestra has cancelled a U.S. tour, saying it has been unable to find an American security firm willing to guard its 100 musicians, the Israeli newspaper Yediot Ahronot reported from Jerusalem yesterday. The orchestra was scheduled to perform next month in Los Angeles, San Francisco and Chicago, but called off the U.S. leg of its international tour when "Our American agent called to tell me that he was unable to find a company that would agree to guard the concert and the audience," Avi Shoshani, chief executive of the orchestra, told the newspaper. DOVES FLY AGAIN: Epic Manchester rockers the Doves return to Toronto with a date at Kool Haus Sept. 9. Tickets for the all-ages show go on sale Thursday through Ticketmaster outlets, Rotate This and Sonic Temple at $22 apiece.WRITER AND CRITIC KILLS SELF: Louis Owens, a leading Native American writer and literary critic, shot himself to death last week at the Albuquerque, N.M., airport, hospital officials said yesterday. He was 53. The author of novels Bone Game, Dark River, The Sharpest Sight, Wolfsong and Nightland died of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound to the chest just after midnight on Thursday. A note found beside him asked that his wife be notified, police said. A professor at the University of California at Davis, Owens was a leading critic on the work of John Steinbeck. REPRESENTING CANADA: Artist Jana Sterbak, who integrates objects, film and video into her installations, will be Canada's official representative at the 2003 Venice Biennale Exhibition of Art, the Canada Council announced yesterday. Sterbak, of Montreal, has for 20 years been exhibiting in solo and group shows in Canada, Europe and the United States. MORE THAN JUST A PRETTY BOY: Nick Carter wants to prove he's more than just a pretty boy pop singer. The youngest member of the Backstreet Boys has been recording his first solo album, scheduled for release in October, on which he plays the drums. "I'm trying to put my rock influence in, big time," Carter told Teen People. | WITH FILES FROM THE STAR'S WIRE SERVICES |
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