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Love, Nirvana-mates battle over Cobain song

SEATTLE, Washington -- Courtney Love, the rock star and widow of Kurt Cobain, is going to court to face off against Cobain's former band mates.

Love won an injunction on June 11 against the release of a song recorded by Cobain with grunge band Nirvana before his suicide in 1994. Nirvana bassist Krist Novoselic and drummer Dave Grohl want the song to be included on a 45-track box set of the band's music, set for an October release.

Warren Rheaume, the attorney for Grohl and Novoselic, says this is more than just a fight over a song. "The fight is over control of Nirvana," he says.

According to court papers, Love is trying to dissolve Nirvana LLC, the corporation formed by the partnership between the two sides, the Associated Press reports.

The court papers state that Love says she was "emotionally overwrought and distraught" when she signed the agreement, which requires that any proceeds from the corporation's assets be split equally among the three.

Love says the song -- which has undergone several title changes and was performed at Nirvana concerts in late 1993 -- is not necessary for the box set's success. But even her attorney admits that it's valuable.

"It's a spectacular piece of music," says O. Yale Lewis, Love's attorney. "Probably one of the most important pieces of music to be released in years."

The song has been known by various titles including "On the Mountain" and "You've Got No Right." On the box set, intended for release October 23, it's called "You Know You're Right."

A trial on the issue is set for December 31, 2002.

Roseanne talks about her multiple personalities

NEW YORK -- Roseanne says it's difficult dealing with multiple-personality disorder.

In the latest issue of Esquire, the comedian and former sitcom star talks about Baby, Cindy, Susan, Nobody, Joey and Heather -- the personalities she says live inside her head.

"It comes out of being a kid," she says. "It comes out of the mind, they say, between 2 and 5 years old. When you're at that emotional-development level where you really can't tell the difference between what's in your head and what's outside your head, people-wise.

"That's why I have trouble with assistants. Because I think I tell them things, but the truth is, I told it to somebody inside my head. And then I go crazy because the assistant said I didn't tell them."

Humanitas honors 'You Can Count On Me'

LOS ANGELES, California -- Writers for "You Can Count on Me," ABC's "Once and Again" and HBO's "Wit" have been given this year's Humanitas Prizes, the Associated Press reports.

At a Thursday ceremony in Los Angeles, the organization -- now in its 27th year -- handed out its annual honors to screenwriters who "enrich the viewing public."

"It is writing itself that helps us discover what we know, writing itself that reminds us what we believe, reinforces those qualities that are noblest in us, banishes demons and encourages us to reach high, dig deeper," keynote speaker Edward Zwick said.

Zwick, a writer-producer, was honored, along with writing partner Marshall Herskovitz, for "Food for Thought," an episode of ABC's "Once and Again," which won $15,000 in the 60-minute category, one of eight prize categories.

Kenneth Lonergan won the $25,000 prize in the feature film category for "You Can Count on Me." And actress Emma Thompson won a $25,000 award in the 90-minute cable category for starring in and co-writing, with Mike Nichols, the HBO drama "Wit."

Tracy Lawrence 'glowing' over new fatherhood

NASHVILLE, Tennessee -- Country singer Tracy Lawrence is a proud papa.

His wife, Becca Lawrence, gave birth Wednesday to Skylar JoAnn Lawrence, who weighed 5 pounds, 15 ounces, according to the Associated Press.

"When he came out of the delivery room, he was carrying that baby and glowing," spokeswoman Debbie Holley said Thursday.

It is the couple's first child.

Lawrence's hits include "Sticks and Stones" and "Time Marches On."