Lil Wayne trumps The King on hits - Mon, 01 Oct 2012 PST
October 1, 2012 in Nation/World
From Wire Reports
Lil Wayne is not only making rap history, hes making rock n roll history: The rapper has surpassed Elvis Presley as the male with the most entries on Billboards Hot 100chart.
Lil Wayne now has 109 songs on that chart with Thursdays debut of Games song Celebration, where he is a guest alongside Chris Brown, Tyga and Wiz Khalifa. Of his 109 charted songs, only 42 are led by Lil Wayne; 67 are songs where he is the featuredact.
Thursday is the rappers 30thbirthday.
Presley totaled 108 songs on the Hot 100 since it launched in 1958. Presleys career kicked off before that and several of his songs like Heartbreak Hotel could not be included in his totalnumber.
The Glee cast has the most Hot 100 entries with204.
Lewis will film Vegas show forTV
Comedy king Jerry Lewis plans to film a television special forPBS.
The Las Vegas Review Journal reports that the 86-year-old entertainer is returning to the spotlight Nov. 18 at The Orleans Hotel &Casino.
PBS plans to broadcast An Evening With Jerry Lewis Live from Las Vegas! in March around Lewisbirthday.
Lewis has been busy preparing a Broadway musical version of The Nutty Professor based on the 1963 movie that Lewis directed and starredin.
Fan tries taking bite out ofBonaduce
Former child TV star Danny Bonaduce says a crazed fan bit him during an event at a Washington statecasino.
The former Partridge Family actor told the News Tribune of Tacoma the woman asked him if she could kiss him and then sank her teeth into his cheek for about a minute until others pulled heroff.
Bonaduce, who works these days as a radio DJ in Seattle, said the woman was taken into custod! y Friday, but he doesnt plan to presscharges.
His face had a bright red mark a day later, when he said that what he was thinking during the attack was, Bath salts, referring to a designer drug linked to bizarre and violent behavior inusers.
Bonaduces wife, Amy, said her husband was treated withantibiotics.
The birthdaybunch
Actress-singer Julie Andrews is 77. Actress Stella Stevens is 74. Saxophonist Jerry Martini (Sly and the Family Stone) is 69. Actor Stephen Collins is 65. Actor Randy Quaid is 62. Singer Youssou NDour is 53. Actor Esai Morales (NYPD Blue) is 50. Actor Zach Galifianakis (The Hangover) is 43. Actress Brie Larson (United States of Tara) is23.
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