New York, NY -- Usher will help usher in the New Year on Friday by premiering a mini-movie called "Rhythm City Volume 1: Caught" "Up" during Fox's New Year's Eve countdown show. The film features four songs and a cameo by "American Idol" host Ryan Seacrest.

NEW YORK -- New Year's Day is a time for beginnings and TV Land plans to celebrate by airing reruns of famous TV firsts. For instance, the network will air an episode of "The Fresh Prince Of Bel Air" showing Will Smith's first day in prep school and a "Who's The Boss?" show where Alyssa Milano's character gets her first hickey.

LOS ANGELES -- Drug companies don't want their employees talking to documentary filmmaker/rabble-rouser Michael Moore, who is now making a movie about the health care industry. Six pharmaceutical companies, including Phizer, have sent out memos instructing employees that any questions posed by Moore -- who has targeted General Motors, the gun lobby and President George W. Bush in previous documentaries -- should be handled by corporate communications.

NEW YORK -- Jessica Simpson and The Olsen Twins are the queens of magazine covers, according to the 2004 sales figures for popular celebrity mags like "US Weekly" and "In Touch." Reps at "US Weekly" tell the "New York Post" the best-selling issue of the past year was a July 12 Olsen cover titled, "Saving Mary Kate" Meanwhile, the worst-selling cover featured former big seller Britney Spears with the headline, "Britney Out of Control."

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