Custody of Dannielynn remains undecided

Anna Nicole Smith's mother and ex-boyfriend left a Bahamian court disappointed yesterday as the latest closed hearing in the custody dispute over the late Playboy Playmate's infant daughter, Dannielynn, ended without resolution. Larry Birkhead, the baby's father and Smith's former boyfriend, said he hoped to be leaving the Bahamas "soon," though the court set another hearing for Wednesday. "On my behalf, everything went well," Birkhead told reporters after the hourlong hearing.

"I'm moving toward starting a life with my daughter outside of the Bahamas."

Film-crazy India held its breath yesterday as two of its biggest stars, the emerald-eyed former Miss World Aishwarya Rai and Abhishek Bachchan, a romantic hero and son of an Indian cinema legend, celebrated their wedding. The affair, hyped by Indian media as "the wedding of the century," was filled with the melodrama so beloved in Bollywood, India's flamboyant Hindi film industry: secrecy, dance routines and even a suicidal fan who claimed to be the groom's jilted lover.

He then made his way to a huge, flower-filled, air-conditioned tent encircled by gold curtains in the garden adjoining the Bachchan family home -- where -- to the sound of trumpets, drums and clanging cymbals -- he and Rai reportedly exchanged garlands and wedding vows. Rai remained hidden inside the barricaded venue, but the Indian media were split down the middle with reports that she either wore a red-and-gold, intricately embroidered sari, or a gold-and-cream creation.

Brandy is being replaced by Sharon Osbourne as a judge on NBC's America's Got Talent.

Osbourne, the 54-year-old wife/manager of rocker Ozzy Osbourne, will make her debut May 29, when the reality competition returns for its second season, NBC announced this week. Osbourne will join returning judges David Hasselhoff and British media figure Piers Morgan. Jerry Springer is the new host of the $1 million-prize contest.

Brandy, 28, was involved in a Los Angeles freeway crash in December that killed a 38-year-old woman. "Brandy ..

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