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Posted on: Friday, March 16, 2007

Lee leaving acting for environment

Advertiser News Services

Actor Jason Scott Lee is closing his Ulua Theatre to focus on natural farming and sustainable agriculture on his property, known as Pu Mu.

The final performance will be a concert by guitarist Chris Yeaton and Bolo tomorrow.

Concerned about melting glaciers, rising ocean levels and global warming, Lee has decided to focus on reforestation in tune with environmental concerns. For more about Pu Mu's mission, go to: www.Ulua.org.

— Wayne Harada, Advertiser entertainment writer

THE WHO WILL BE BACK IN BUSINESS

MEXICO CITY — The show will go on for The Who, despite lead singer Roger Daltrey's recent bout of bronchitis. The band will play in Mexico City tomorrow.

"We just talked to the band's manager, and he assured us the singer will have recovered and be in good form for the concert," the spokesman for the concert organizer said Thursday.

Daltrey abandoned the stage in the middle of his opening song Tuesday in Tampa, Fla.

The Tampa concert was rescheduled for March 25.

COWELL CROWING HE'S THE BOSS

NEW YORK — Simon Cowell says he's bigger than The Boss.

In an interview to air Sunday on CBS' "60 Minutes," the "American Idol" judge says he's worth five times more to Sony BMG than Bruce Springsteen.

"I sell more records than Bruce Springsteen, sure," Cowell says of the 57-year-old rocker, who signed a contract that was reported to be in the neighborhood of $100 million.

"I mean, in the last five years, I've probably sold over 100 million records. If (Springsteen) got one hundred (million dollars), I should have got five hundred (million dollars)," he says.

Cowell says he sells all those records because he's signed "the biggest artist on the planet" — Fox network's "American Idol."

LEO BODYGUARDS MAY BE CHARGED

JERUSALEM — Israeli police said yesterday they were deciding whether to charge two bodyguards in a scuffle with photographers during Leonardo DiCaprio's visit to the Western Wall earlier this week. Three photographers were injured Monday as DiCaprio, Israeli supermodel Bar Refaeli and Refaeli's family were touring a tunnel near the Western Wall, the holiest site where Jews can pray.