Buzz Briefs: Mark Ruffalo, Dennis Yost

Mark Ruffalo's Brother Dies A Week After Shooting

The brother of actor Mark Ruffalo has died a week after he was shot in the head, police said Tuesday.

Scott Ruffalo, 39, died late Monday night at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, Beverly Hills Police Sgt. Renato Moreno said.

A phone message left early Tuesday for a Mark Ruffalo publicist wasn't immediately returned.

Two people wanted for questioning about the shooting had surrendered themselves to police earlier Monday.

Shaha Mishaal Adham was suspected of shooting Ruffalo, and authorities had issued an attempted murder arrest warrant for the 26-year-old. Brian Scofield was being held on a misdemeanor traffic warrant.

Jail records didn't indicate whether the pair had hired attorneys, but showed that a court date for Adham had been tentatively scheduled for Wednesday.

Ruffalo, a hairstylist, was found with a gunshot wound to the head in Beverly Hills on Dec. 1. Police haven't discussed a motive.

Mark Ruffalo, 41, has appeared in the films "Zodiac," "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind," "You Can Count on Me" and "Blindness."

Former The Classics IV Singer Dennis Yost Dies

Lead singer Dennis Yost of the 1960s soft rock group The Classics IV has died in an Ohio hospital. He was 65.

Yost's friend and biographer Joe Glickman said the singer died Sunday at Fort Hamilton Hospital in Hamilton, about 30 miles northwest of Cincinnati. Hospital spokeswoman Marielou Vierling said Yost died of respiratory failure at 2:25 a.m. Sunday.

The Classics IV's hits included "Spooky," "Stormy" and "Traces of Love."

Glickman said Yost, a Detroit native, had been in nursing homes since suffering a brain injury sustained in a fall in 2005.

The Classics IV got their start in Jacksonville, Fla., where Detroit native Yost was raised. Glickman said Yost and The Classics IV were inducted into the Georgia Music Hall of Fame in 1993.

Britpop Band Blur Announce Reunion

The members of Britpop band Blur announced Tuesday they are reuniting to play a concert in London next summer.

The band said the July 3 show in Hyde Park would feature the original lineup of Damon Albarn, Graham Coxon, Alex James and Dave Rowntree. Tickets go on sale Friday.

Albarn told New Musical Express magazine that more shows were likely.

The band members last performed onstage together in 2000. Their last album was released in 2003.

Blur was one of the biggest acts of the 1990s explosion of alternative "Britpop" guitar bands and had a high-profile public feud with rival band Oasis.

Since then, Albarn has had success with bands Gorillaz and The Good, the Bad and the Queen. Coxon has released solo material, James makes cheese on his farm, and Rowntree ran unsuccessfully for political office.

Robbie Knievel To Jump Vegas Volcano

Robbie Knievel has less than a month to study the fire-spewing volcanic terrain around his next motorcycle stunt. Luckily for him, it's Las Vegas, where eruptions between now and then are scheduled hourly, every night.

Knievel, the 46-year-old son of the late daredevil Evel Knievel, will jump the refurbished volcano at The Mirage hotel-casino on a motorcycle as part of a television special on New Year's Eve.

"We pretty much own Vegas," Knievel said. "I'll shut the (Las Vegas) Strip down for the third time."

Knievel said the stunt will likely be his last in the United States.

Jonas Brothers, Taylor Swift To Welcome '09 On ABC

The Jonas Brothers, Taylor Swift and Lionel Richie will ring in 2009 from Times Square on "Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve."

They will perform live during the ABC broadcast, joining Clark in New York along with his co-host Ryan Seacrest, the network announced.

Kellie Pickler also will be on hand in Times Square with live reports on the festivities.

As previously announced, Natasha Bedingfield, Fall Out Boy, Jesse McCartney, Ne-Yo, Pussycat Dolls, Solange and Robin Thicke will perform during the Hollywood Party segments, which will be hosted by Fergie.

A New Year's Eve tradition, the show will begin Dec. 31 at 10 p.m. EST.

It's A Wrap For "Twilight" Director

"Twilight" director Catherine Hardwicke won't be back for "New Moon," the sequel to the hit teen vampire romance.

Summit Entertainment, which released "Twilight" last month, says the scheduled release of "New Moon" in late 2009 or early 2010 conflicts with Hardwicke's. The film, based on the second book in Stephenie Meyer's series, continues to follow the forbidden relationship between vampire Edward Cullen and high schooler Bella Swan.

Hardwicke, whose previous films include "Thirteen" and "Lords of Dogtown," had the highest opening ever for a female director when "Twilight" made nearly $70 million in its first weekend. It's grossed over $138 million in three weeks.

Paula Abdul Gets Crafty With "American Idol" Gifts

They might not go home with a recording contract, but Paula Abdul doesn't let any "American Idol" contestant leave empty-handed. Each season she designs and distributes jewelry for the aspiring singers as a keepsake of their experience.

Beginning this month, Abdul's fans will be able to buy similar items on HSN.

"I pretty much wear my jewelry all the time now, but I end up giving it away," she says. "I'll take it off my wrist or neck and give it to someone who likes it."

Abdul has made jewelry since the first season of "Idol" in 2002.

Once she saw what the contestants had to endure from critic Simon Cowell, she wanted to do something nice for them, she says. "I wanted something the kids could touch and feel to remind themselves that their talent got them here."

She previously sold a limited jewelry collection on QVC. The new HSN Forever Your Girl line, which debuts Saturday, also includes handbags and other accessories, with a price range of $29-$200.

Belafonte To Auction Unknown Papers Of MLK

An original handwritten outline for Martin Luther King Junior's first speech condemning the Vietnam War is going on the auction block this week.

Sotheby's will offer the previously unknown document Thursday along with two others: the scribbled notes for a speech King planned to deliver in Memphis, Tennessee, three days after he was assassinated, and a letter of condolence from President Lyndon B. Johnson to King's widow.

The documents are owned by singer-actor Harry Belafonte, a friend and host on King's visits to New York beginning in the mid-1950s.

The auction house put the overall pre-sale estimate for the three documents at $750,000 to $1.13 million, with the Vietnam speech valued at $500,000 to $800,000.