Janet Jackson video hits the Internet

Janet Jackson videohits the Internet
NEW YORK -- Janet Jackson has been exposed -- and this time, Justin Timberlake is nowhere to be seen.
A video clip showing Jackson sunbathing naked has been circulating on the Internet and was still playing on some Web sites Thursday. The 40-second paparazzi video was shot from bushes near the singer.
Jackson's publicist didn't return a call Thursday from The Associated Press for comment.
Her lawyers were reportedly attempting to have the video taken off the Web. On one site, a freeze-frame was still up Thursday, but the video link had been taken down -- replaced with the message "removed because lawsuits aren't really my thing."
The exact source of the video and when it was shot was unclear. Photos taken at the same time popped up online last year.
Jackson found herself in the middle of controversy when Timberlake revealed her right breast -- the now infamous "wardrobe malfunction" -- at the end of their set during the halftime show of the 2004 Super Bowl.
'Mr. Sulu' declareshis homosexuality
LOS ANGELES -- George Takei, who as helmsman Sulu steered the Starship Enterprise through three television seasons and six movies, has come out as a homosexual in the current issue of Frontiers, a biweekly Los Angeles magazine covering the gay and lesbian community.
Takei told The Associated Press on Thursday that his new onstage role as psychologist Martin Dysart in "Equus," helped inspire him to publicly discuss his sexuality.
Takei described the character as a "very contained but turbulently frustrated man." The play opened Wednesday at the David Henry Hwang Theater in Los Angeles, the same day that Frontiers magazine featured a story on Takei's coming out.
The current social and political climate also motivated Takei's disclosure, he said.
"The world has changed from when I was a young teen feeling ashamed for being gay," he said. "The issue of gay marriage is now a political issue. That would have been unthinkable when I was young."
The 68-year-old actor said he and his partner, Brad Altman, have been together for 18 years.
iKelli O'Hara to playBabe in 'Pajama Game'
NEW YORK -- Harry Connick Jr. has found his Babe.
Kelli O'Hara will play Babe Williams to Connick's Sid Sorokin in the upcoming Broadway revival of "The Pajama Game."
The Roundabout Theatre Company production of one of the biggest musical hits of the 1950s begins preview performances Jan. 19 and opens Feb. 23.
O'Hara now stars as the troubled daughter in the Tony-winning musical "The Light in the Piazza." She also appeared on Broadway in musicals such as "Sweet Smell of Success," "Dracula" and the Roundabout revival of "Follies."
"The Pajama Game," which has a score by Richard Adler and Jerry Ross, tells the story of labor unrest in an Iowa pajama factory and the romantic involvement between Sid, the plant supervisor (the role Connick will play), and Babe, a union activist.
The production will be directed and choreographed by Kathleen Marshall, who recently directed the Broadway show "Wonderful Town."
Today's birthdays
Bluegrass singer-musician Sonny Osborne (The Osborne Brothers) is 68. Country singer Lee Clayton is 63. Rock musician Denny Laine is 61. Singer Melba Moore is 60. Musician Peter Green is 59. Actor Richard Dreyfuss is 58. Actress Kate Jackson is 57. Idaho Governor Dirk Kempthorne is 54. Country musician Steve Kellough (Wild Horses) is 48. Singer Randy Jackson is 44. Rock musician Peter Timmins (Cowboy Junkies) is 40. Actress Joely Fisher is 38. Rapper Paris is 38. Rock singer SA Martinez (311) is 35. Musician Toby Smith is 35. Actress Winona Ryder is 34. Actress Tracee Ellis Ross is 33. Actor Trevor Lissauer is 32. Actress Gabrielle Union is 32. Actor Brendan Fehr is 28.