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Britney: 'I want to keep a personal life'

NEW YORK - Britney Spears still isn't telling, even though Us Weekly magazine was apparently asking.

The teen pop diva, whose sex life - or lack thereof - has been the subject of rampant speculation among gossipmongers, deferred answering whether or not she and boyfriend Justin Timberlake of 'N Sync have had sex.

"Have we had sex? That's something that, you know, I'd like to keep personal. I want to try to keep a personal life," Spears, 19, says. "I want to wait to have sex until I'm married. I do. I want to wait ... But it's hard."

Spears and Timberlake, 20, have been friends since the early '90s, when both were cast members of "The Mickey Mouse Club."

"We were, like, 12 or 13 and it was like, 'Hi, do you like me?' " Spears remembers. "It was just like puppy love."

Dylan gives 'Shelter' to World Wildlife

LOS ANGELES, California - While the music world was marking Bob Dylan's 60th birthday on Thursday, the rock legend was apparently giving away at least one present, according to Reuters.

The World Wildlife Fund said Dylan had donated his song "Shelter from the Storm," from the 1975 album "Blood on the Tracks," to the Fund for use in public service announcements on radio and television.

The group said it was the first time Dylan has allowed his words and music to be used for charitable purposes and that the song would be used in ads that stress how animals need shelter from environmental storms created by mankind.

'Sex and the City' to keep winter warm

HOLLYWOOD, California - Viewers of HBO's "Sex and the City" will get a little bonus this year.

HBO will offer a six-episode mini-season of the popular comedy this winter, following a 12-episode summer season of scheduling, according to Variety.

The reason: HBO was forced to split the normal 18-episode season because of the threatened strike by the Writers Guild of America - since resolved - and the pending strike by the Screen Actors Guild.

Twelve episodes were completed for this summer season, which premieres June 3.

King, Copeland win blues awards

MEMPHIS, Tennessee -- Blues legend B.B. King and rising star Shemekia Copeland were both double-winners at the 22nd Annual W.C. Handy Awards on Thursday night, Reuters reports.

King took home entertainer of the year honors and the contemporary album of the year prize along with Eric Clapton for "Riding With The King."

Copeland, 22, daughter of late blues great Johnny Copeland, won for best contemporary female artist and for blues album of the year with "Wicked."

Etta James was inducted into The Blues Hall of Fame during the ceremonies and won a Handy as "Soul Female Artist of the Year."

The Handy Awards, named after William Christopher Handy, considered by many the father of the blues, are presented by The Blues Foundation, a Memphis-based organization dedicated to the preservation and promulgation of the music.