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The three-alarm blaze that caused $1.1 million in damage to a warehouse filled with rock legend Neil Young's music equipment and memorabilia appears to have started in a one-of-a-kind hybrid car stored at the site, a fire official said Monday. Flames began in a 1959 Lincoln Continental dubbed LincVolt, which runs on electric batteries and a biodiesel-powered generator, and then spread to the warehouse at 593 Quarry Road in the early morning of Nov. 9, according to Belmont-San Carlos Fire Marshal Jim Palisi and a website devoted to the car. Young assembled a team of workers in 2008 to convert...

The rapper - who was arrested in October for possession of drugs and a firearm - wishes the planet could be free of guns so no more lives could be unnecessarily cut short. [LAY DOWN YOUR ARMS: Snoop Dogg, who was arrested in October for possession of a firearm, has called for a world gun amnesty.] He said: "I would like everyone to be able to put down their guns. Guns are not good. When I was growing up I knew my life could be taken in a second by a gun." In October, Snoop was stopped by police for...

Comedian Andy Dick reportedly went berserk backstage at the Comedy Central "Roast of William Shatner" on Sunday, licking stars and biting a journalist. New York Post reporter Mandy Stadtmiller claims she watched Dick lick actresses Farrah Fawcett and Carrie Fisher and comedian Patton Oswalt before turning his attentions to her. He allegedly groped her, tried to kiss her, proclaimed his love for her and then bit her hand, telling her, "Baby, please, put in something nice. They're so mean. I'm not weird. Maybe I'm a little weird, they make me out to be a monster, I'm not a monster. I...

Justin Timberlake has spoke openly about his use of drugs. The singer, who is currently in the UK to promote his second album, admitted that he has taken drugs in private and is careful not to be caught on camera. "The drugs that I do have been done in my own private time," he told the Observer Music Monthly magazine. "I've never been arrested - though that's not to say that I won't. I've done way too many drugs already. I've already inhaled and I've already - who knows?" "Some drugs haven't been legalised because it will ruin the other...

Actor Christian Slater was arrested early today for allegedly groping a woman on a Manhattan street, police said. Slater, 35, was accused of touching the woman's buttocks about 1.50am (1500 AEST) said a police spokesman, Detective John Sweeney. The woman, who was not identified, flagged down police to report the incident, Sweeney said. Slater was found nearby and the woman identified him as the man who groped her. Slater, who's appearing on Broadway in The Glass Menagerie, was arrested on a charge of third-degree sexual abuse. Slater starred in the 1980s classic Heathers, as well as True Romance, and Untamed...

Right now, as you read these words, I am helping to kill something I love. Although I had heard often about this quandary in the country-western songs that blared out of my mother's car stereo while I was growing up, I never really faced it myself until last week, when Da Ali G Show: The Complete First Season DVD showed up in my mailbox. For the uninitiated, Da Ali G Show is a spoof reality show in which British comedian Sacha Baron Cohen travels America in one of three guises — Ali G, a "hip-hop journalist" clad in a yellow...

Yoko Ono is not making fans of John Lennon very happy right now. She's been busy editing Lennon's videos and changing songwriting credits. Call it her revenge on old enemies like Paul McCartney and May Pang. Ono's weirdest piece of video trickery comes on the recently released DVD "Lennon Legend: The Very Best of John Lennon." On one film, for the classic song "#9 Dream," Ono has edited herself into the original video. There you will find her mouthing the backup vocals that were sung on the original hit recording by Lennon's girlfriend at that time, May Pang. Pang, of...

<p>For the longest time, as right-wing pundits mercilessly mocked lefties and Ann Coulter demonized liberals as "traitors," it seemed that a cowed left had lost its voice and its spirit. Michael Moore ranted, Gore Vidal issued a pair of scathing anti-Bush pamphlets, but it wasn't until Al Franken came along that the left regained some of the breath that got knocked out of it by the Florida election of 2000.</p>

<p>Rather than starting last night's concert at Shea Stadium in Queens with an upbeat Beatles tune, Bruce Springsteen instead unleashed a recording of President Bush, with a tape loop repeating the words "mass destruction, war and peace."</p> <p>Then, Springsteen and the E Street Band kept up the somber tone, with Springsteen singing, "This is a prayer for the souls of the departed."</p>

Costner brands Dubya a cowboy Kevin Costner loves a good cowboy flick as much as the next guy. But he doesn't think President Bush should treat the world like it's the O.K. Corral. The actor, who directed and stars in the new Western "Open Range," has been friendly for some time with the first President Bush. Having played golf with "41" up in Kennebunkport, he tells us: "I don't want to turn my back on that family. They've been gracious to me." But he's troubled by what he considers Dubya's squinty-eyed Wyatt Earp posturing. "We're supposed to evolve from frontier...