TRENTON, N.J. — Bruce Springsteen is angry at Ticketmaster and called its selling practices a conflict of interest.

When tickets for Springsteen's show at New Jersey's Meadowlands went on sale Monday, some fans got an error message on their computer screen that shut them out. The potential ticket-buyers then saw an ad for Ticketmaster subsidiary TicketsNow, offering tickets for hundreds of dollars more than face value.

Springsteen said on his Web site yesterday that he and the E Street Band are "furious."

TicketsNow allows people to trade or sell tickets at marked-up prices. The band said Ticketmaster has promised to stop redirecting Springsteen fans to Tickets- Now. On Tuesday, a company spokesman said only a few fans reported problems.

The incident prompted U.S. Rep. Bill Pascrell to call on the Federal Trade Commission and Justice Department to investigate Ticketmaster. The New Jersey attorney general's office is also investigating whether Ticketmaster violated consumer fraud or ticket resale laws.

AUCTION TROVE OF POP MEMORABILIA

LOS ANGELES — He always vowed that he wouldn't die unless he could take it with him.

But now that Forrest J Ackerman is gone, the grand old man of science fiction's memorabilia collection is on the auction block.

Thousands of items, including the Count Dracula ring worn by Bela Lugosi in the 1931 horror classic "Dracula," the vampire cape Lugosi wore for decades, and even the actor's outfit from the "worst film ever made," Ed Wood's cheesy "Plan 9 From Outer Space," are going up for bid.

So are a signed, first-edition copy of Mary Shelley's novel "Frankenstein" and a first-edition copy of Bram Stoker's "Dracula" signed not only by Stoker but also Lugosi, Boris Karloff and other horror film notables.

The auction, tentatively set for the last week of April, is expected to raise $500,000, according to Profiles in History, which is handling the sale.

Ackerman, a science-fiction writer, editor and literary agent widely credited with coining the term sci-fi, died in December at age 92.

'FRINGE' ACTORS TIE THE KNOT

NEW YORK — Life imitates the Fox series "Fringe," where cast members Anna Torv and Mark Valley have wed.

Torv's representative, Jen Turner, says the two married in December. She provided no details.

Torv, 29, plays FBI agent Olivia Dunham. Valley, 44, plays agent John Scott, who was Dunham's partner and lover. Though Scott has been seemingly killed and exposed as a bad guy, he continues making mysterious appearances to Dunham.

WILSON TO HOST NEW 'NEWLYWED'

LOS ANGELES — Here comes the next "Newlywed Game" host.

Carnie Wilson, the Wilson Phillips singer who hosted her own talk show and appeared on VH1's "Celebrity Fit Club," will host 40 episodes of a new GSN version of the show where newlyweds are quizzed on how well they know each other. It premieres April 6.

The original show, hosted by Bob Eubanks, debuted in 1966 on ABC, and spent more than 20 years on the air.

"I loved watching 'The Newlywed Game' when I was younger," said Wilson, 40, who also co-hosts the "GSN Live" game show.