Two tales of Hollywood

Call these two City News Service wire items the opposite sides of Hollywood Boulevard:

Country duo gets a star

Grammy winners Brooks & Dunn received the 2,367th star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame Monday, the latest in a series of honors for county music’s bestselling duo. “This really is a dream come true,” Kix Brooks said at the late-morning ceremony on Hollywood Boulevard. Brooks recalled a walk along the street in the 1980s after signing his first contract with Capitol Records and having “your name on a star in Hollywood seems so out of reach.”

Pickford Oscar battle rages on

Three women being sued over the rights to sell an Oscar that once belonged to Mary Pickford are not entitled to information regarding Yoko Ono’s donation of an Oscar statuette that belonged to her late husband John Lennon, a judge has ruled. Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Joseph Kalin, who heard arguments in the case on July 9, issued his decision several weeks after taking the motion under submission. The dispute over the Lennon Oscar arose out of a lawsuit filed in August 2007 by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in a bid to stop the possible sale of two Pickford Oscars, as well as an award given to her third husband, Charles “Buddy” Rogers, whom she married in 1935. AMPAS maintains that the three heirs of Beverly Rogers -- the second wife of Buddy Rogers -- must give the Academy the first option to buy the Pickford-Rogers statuettes if they are ever put up for sale.

Photo: Mary Pickford. Credit: Los Angeles Times file photo