Jimmy Page becomes first on fame walk

Jimmy Page becomesfirst on fame walk
LONDON -- Jimmy Page hasn't yet made it up the stairway to heaven, but he's the first to reach the new British Walk of Fame.
The former Led Zeppelin guitarist cast his hand prints in cement Monday as the first music legend to be featured on London's answer to the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
"It's a real privilege and a great honor to be the first. I'm really chuffed," said Page, 60. "A Walk of Fame is a fantastic idea, and it's high time we had one in London."
The site of the British version, which will feature popular music giants, is taking shape outside the new Virgin Music superstore on Piccadilly Circus, London's landmark crossroads.
Page predicted it would soon become crowded with hand prints. "If you started putting in all the people I think are deserving, you could cover the whole of London," he said.
Led Zeppelin -- which included singer Robert Plant, bassist John Paul Jones and drummer John Bonham, who died in 1980 -- was one of the top rock bands in history and produced nine chart-topping albums from 1969 to 1979.
Their most famous song was "Stairway to Heaven," which was never released as a single but became one of the most requested radio songs of all time.
Led Zeppelin was back on top of the U.S. rock chart last year with a greatest hits album, "How the West Was Won."
Page frequently is rated as one of the greatest rock guitarists in history. In 2002, a poll conducted by Total Guitar magazine rated him No. 2 to the late Jimi Hendrix.
Paternity tests refuteMarc Anthony is father
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico -- A third paternity test has confirmed that Marc Anthony didn't father a child with a Cuban dancer as she has claimed, the singer's lawyer said.
Elizabeth Leyva, who lives in Miami, brought a paternity lawsuit in a Florida court, alleging that Anthony is the father of her son, who was born late last year.
Orchid GeneScreen, which has labs in Dallas and Dayton, Ohio, conducted the most recent DNA test Aug. 13, concluding that Anthony wasn't the father, lawyer Orin Snyder said Monday.
"The three leading paternity labs in the world have confirmed scientifically that he is not the father," Snyder said. "There is no reality to this claim whatsoever."
Snyder said he has contacted Leyva's lawyers, asking her to drop the lawsuit.
Leyva's lawyers couldn't immediately be reached to comment.
In June, a judge in the Dominican Republic approved a divorce for Anthony and Dayanara Torres, a Puerto Rican who was crowned Miss Universe in 1993. They have two children.
Pretty harsh wordsabout pretty boys
LOS ANGELES -- We may be witnessing the beginning of another beautiful pseudo-feud between two very beautiful boys, Johnny Messner and Orlando Bloom.
The folks at MSNBC.com's "The Scoop" have scooped up some choice words by Mr. Messner about Orlando from the Ottawa Citizen. "Orlando Bloom's a hermaphrodite," Messner, a seriously B-list actor ("Anacondas: The Hunt for the Blood Orchid"), says. "I don't want to be prettier than the woman I'm walking with."
Messner's redoubtable "mots de guerre" are apparently inspired by the lack of real manly men in Tinseltown: "Right now, what I feel in Hollywood is that they're so pretty and dainty and so metro that it's repulsive to me!"
But he doesn't quite play fair, even dissing his bud, the man's man of a man's man, Vin Diesel: "Nobody wants a one-note actor. ... I couldn't even watch 10 minutes of 'XXX."'
Today's birthdays
Composer-musician Mason Williams is 66. Rhythm and blues singer Marshall Thompson (The Chi-Lites) is 62. Rock musician Jim Capaldi (Traffic) is 60. Rock musician Ken Hensley (Uriah Heep) is 59. Actor Joe Regalbuto is 55. Actor Stephen Fry is 47. Actor Steve Guttenberg is 46. Baseball player Cal Ripken Jr. is 44. Talk show host Craig Kilborn ("The Late Late Show") is 42. Rock singer John Bush (Anthrax) is 41. Country singer Kristyn Osborn (SheDaisy) is 34. Actor-comedian Dave Chappelle is 31. Actor Rupert Grint ("Harry Potter" films) is 16.