LOS ANGELES — It looks like the old Dead are gettin' on.

Surviving members of the Grateful Dead say they'll regroup for a 19-city tour, their first since 2004, beginning April 12 in Greensboro, N.C.

The group, which now just calls itself The Dead, announced its plans Thursday.

Original band members Bob Weir, Phil Lesh, Mickey Hart and Bill Kreutzmann have toured sporadically since the 1995 death of guitarist Jerry Garcia, but struggled to get along personally and artistically. They told Rolling Stone in November that they've worked out their differences, aided by a successful October benefit concert in Pennsylvania for then-presidential candidate Barack Obama.

Warren Haynes joins the Dead on lead guitar, and Jeff Chimenti will play keyboards.

LOCKLEAR FINED IN RECKLESS DRIVING

SANTA BARBARA, Calif. — Heather Locklear has evaded DUI charges by pleading to a lesser offense.

An attorney for the actress entered a no-contest plea to a misdemeanor reckless driving charge in court yesterday.

Locklear was given three years of informal probation, will pay a fine and attend a driver's education program.

Tests revealed no alcohol in Locklear's system after her September arrest, but prosecutors charged her in November with driving under the influence of prescription drugs.

GEORGE BUTLER IS ALIVE, CHARLIE

NEW YORK — Filmmaker George Butler wants his friends to know he's very much alive, despite a premature obituary on "The Charlie Rose Show" this week.

During Rose's annual New Year's Eve tribute on PBS to notable figures who died during the year, he included Butler, whose 1977 film "Pumping Iron" featured a then-unknown bodybuilder named Arnold Schwarzenegger. The screen even flashed a Butler tombstone, 1943-2008.

The PBS show had confused him with another George Butler, a longtime jazz record executive who signed Wynton Marsalis. That George Butler died April 9.

SMITH BROUGHT IN THE BIGGEST BUCKS

NEW YORK — No name on the marquee was more pleasing to theater owners in 2008 than Will Smith, according to a survey of movie exhibitors.

Smith was voted the star who generated the most box office revenue for theaters in an annual survey by Quigley Publishing Co.

Smith is only the second black actor to be chosen in the Quigley poll, which since 1932 has asked movie exhibitors to vote on the 10 stars who brought in the most business. Sidney Poitier topped the poll in 1968.

Smith's superhero summer blockbuster, "Hancock," grossed $228 million.

Following Smith, in order, were Robert Downey Jr. ("Iron Man," "Tropic Thunder"), Christian Bale ("The Dark Knight"), Shia LaBeouf ("Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull") and LaBeouf's "Indiana Jones" co-star Harrison Ford.

The top 10 were rounded out by Adam Sandler, Reese Witherspoon, George Clooney, Angelina Jolie and Daniel Craig.

BRITNEY HEADS TO BROTHER'S NUPTIALS

Britney Spears' family reunited on New Year's Eve for the wedding of Britney's older brother, sometime TV producer Bryan, 31, to Graciella Sanchez, 36, who manages the career of Britney and Bryan's little sister, Jamie Lynn Spears.

Britney attended the small ceremony in New Orleans with her boys, Jayden James and Sean Preston. Jamie Lynn brought along her fiance, Casey Aldridge, and their newborn, Maddie.