July 7, 1999
Web posted at: 4:48 p.m. EDT (2048 GMT)

• Kubrick didn't love LA, friend says
• Court decides who reigns 'Supreme'
• Tabloids vie for Spice-y wedding photos
• Tiger's tomfoolery changes Nike commercial
• Osmond gives birth to No. 7

Kubrick

NEW YORK (CNN) -- The late director Stanley Kubrick is said to have hated Los Angeles. An article in the August edition of Vanity Fair magazine says that's why Kubrick left the United States in 1968 to live and make films in Great Britain.

That opinion comes to Vanity Fair from writer Michael Herr, friends for almost 20 years with the renowned director. The Bronx-born Kubrick died in his sleep of a heart attack March 7 at age 70 in Harpenden, England, shortly after completing the film "Eyes Wide Shut." It's set for a North American release July 16 -- August 27 in the United Kingdom.

"God knows, it's all he ever talked about," Herr recalls in Vanity Fair. "It wasn't America he couldn't take. It was LA. The only other two places he knew of to make movies in were New York and London, and New York was too hard and too expensive."

Herr's comments are blunted somewhat by Kubrick's third wife in the July 4 New York Times Magazine. Christiane Kubrick, who married the director in 1958, says, "I suppose he wasn't really happy to be in Hollywood, but he didn't say, 'I'm never going back to California again,' or anything. But we enjoyed living in England."

SAN FRANCISCO (CNN) -- Mary Wilson, an original member of The Supremes, has lost her appeal in a trademark-infringement lawsuit against three women who perform as the group Former Ladies of the Supremes.

The Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled the rights to the group's name are owned by Motown -- not by former members such as plaintiff Wilson. The court says Motown has given permission to the Former Ladies of the Supremes -- and another spinoff group, Sounds of the Supremes -- to keep their names, and there's nothing Wilson can do about it.

Wilson maintains such groups mislead the public into believing they feature the original Supremes members. Wilson's attorney declined comment on Tuesday's lost appeal, saying he hadn't yet seen the ruling.

LONDON (CNN) -- Pictures have appeared from the wedding of Victoria "Posh Spice" Adams and David Beckham, a sports star in England with the Manchester United football club (that's soccer to Americans). The tabloids that trade in such images seem to be as boisterously competitive as the country's football fans, who argue constantly on the Internet about Beckham and all other aspects of the game.

The magazine OK! is said to have paid $1.5 million for exclusive rights to marriage shots, but the Mirror and the Sun published some snaps too.

Headlines trumpeting the achievement read: "We've got you ... OK!" in the Mirror and "We always rule OK!" in the Sun.

Woods

ORLANDO, Florida (CNN) -- Some pretty tricky moves with a golf ball by Tiger Woods have prompted Nike to rethink an advertisement.

The original commercial was to feature Woods and about a dozen golfers swinging in sequence at a driving range in Orlando. But that changed when Woods started goofing around.

"These people were dying in the heat out there," he says. "I said, 'You know what? I'm just going to try to entertain them.' So I went over there and just started juggling the ball and doing weird stuff, and they were entertained."

The director was equally amused. He captured Woods on tape bouncing the ball off his wedge for 28 seconds, then taking a full swing as the ball was in the air. He made tremendous contact.

"It's really not as hard as you might think if you grew up playing baseball," Woods says. "Hand-to-eye coordination -- same principle."

Osmond

PROVO, Utah (CNN) -- Singer and TV host Marie Osmond gave birth early Tuesday to her seventh child, a boy named Matthew R. Blosil. He weighed 8 pounds, 4 ounces, and was born 20 inches long, according to Melissa Kates of PMK, a publicity firm.

Kates says Osmond and the baby are doing fine, and the six siblings already have met their new brother.

Osmond, who is married to Brian Blosil, is expected to return to Los Angeles in August to prepare for her second season with her brother on the "Donny and Marie" talk show.

The Associated Press and Reuters contributed to this report.