July 9, 1999
Web posted at: 6:32 p.m. EDT (2232 GMT)

• Jagger, Hall seek annulment
• Winfrey branches out from TV to magazines
• Singapore exports disco fever flick
• Hockenberry 0-for-2 at MSNBC
• Thompson flummoxed over baby naming

Jagger and Hall

LONDON (CNN) -- After more than 20 years together, Rolling Stone lead singer Mick Jagger and Jerry Hall announced Friday they're seeking to have their nine-year marriage annulled.

Attorneys for Hall and Jagger say they reached a "mutually acceptable legal and financial settlement" after a 12-minute court hearing.

Details of the deal were not disclosed, but leave it to the British tabloids. They're reporting that Hall is demanding $50 million from Jagger's estimated holdings of $240 million.

Hall, 43, filed for divorce in January after a Brazilian model said she was pregnant with Jagger's child. Jagger, 55, contested the divorce, arguing that their marriage in 1990 in Bali was not legally valid because the civil part of the ceremony wasn't completed.

Winfrey

NEW YORK (CNN) -- Oprah Winfrey is going from talk-show queen to magazine maven. She's planning to start a magazine featuring articles on community, family, relationships, health and fitness, fashion, beauty and books. The publisher, Hearst Corp., says the magazine will debut next spring.

"I love the printed word and have always appreciated the unique connection between author and reader," Winfrey says. "This magazine provides a different way for people to be informed and inspired."

Hearst publishes a variety of magazines, many for women, including Cosmopolitan, Good Housekeeping, Country Living and Harper's Bazaar.

SINGAPORE (CNN) -- Some Singaporeans are trying to change the way Americans think about their country with a celluloid tribute to disco.

Director Glen Goei and Miramax are to premier his film "That's the Way I Like It" in Los Angeles and New York on August 6. The premiere is to mark the first time a Singaporean film has been shown commercially outside the country. The film deals with the arrival of the Western disco craze in Singapore in 1977 and its impact on the city-state's society, seen by many as stodgy and repressive.

Goei says he hopes the film will counter Singapore's reputation as a dull country known for restrictions on chewing gum and its 1994 caning of American teenager Michael Fay for vandalism.

"It shows that Singapore is not that sterile," Goei says. "They don't really live in a totalitarian regime. There's disco there."

NEW YORK (CNN) -- John Hockenberry has struck out again with MSNBC.

First, his weekend newsmagazine, "Edgewise," was canceled by MSNBC in 1997. Now, the cable television network has canceled his nightly talk show. A bitter Hockenberry told his viewers Wednesday his final discussion topic might be why cable TV "sucks."

Instead, he used his final show Thursday to thank staffers and show snapshots of his children.

An MSNBC spokesman confirmed the cancellation but had no further comment. Hockenberry is expected to return to work as a reporter for "Dateline NBC."

Thompson

LONDON (CNN) -- Actress Emma Thompson says she doesn't know what to name her child.

"Every name I think of gets pooh-poohed by my partner, the young Mr. Greg Wise," says Thompson, who was divorced from actor Kenneth Branagh in 1996. "I've sort of given up thinking of names now."

Thompson made her remarks before a screenwriting awards ceremony -- her last public outing before her October due date, she says.

"I've been toying with names like Winston and Clementine, but I don't think they're going to wash," Thompson says, referring to Winston Churchill and his wife.

Thompson also says she's in semi-retirement. "Having reached 40 this year, if they were going to find someone to play opposite me they'd have to exhume him."

The Associated Press contributed to this report.