Dallas Austin apologizes to Aguilera, Stone

When he's not flying into Dubai with cocaine, producer Dallas Austin is making YouTube videos accusing pop divas Christina Aguilera and Joss Stone of having sex with producers in exchange for beats. Today Austin apologized for the video, which has since been taken down. In it, Austin said that Aguilera and Stone "f*** for tracks."

"Every action generates an equal and opposite reaction," Austin said in his apology. "My statement about Christina Aguilera and Joss Stone was a reaction to an incident I care not to discuss in any forum, and while I may have felt justified, I do owe an apology to Christina, Joss, and their families. The comments I made... were purely an act of retaliation not of malice or cruel intent. I sincerely apologize as this is not my character nor should I have let anyone's actions push me to this limit."

Stone's reps have not commented on the incident, while Aguilera's spokesperson told the Atlanta Journal Constitution that "she's not commenting on such ridiculous statements, and we are consulting a lawyer to explore her options."

Swedish couple names kid Metallica

Those Scandinavians have long loved their metal, but one Swedish couple has taken it to a whole new level, naming their baby girl Metallica. Not only that, but the couple, residents of Kungalv had to go to court to fight for their right to do so. The girl's parents wanted to give their daughter a name that combined their first names, and came up with Metallica. The Swedish tax agency Skatteverket objected to the move, however, saying that the name was inappropriate because a famous hard rock band bears that name and the fact that it's too close to the word "metal."

The parents filed an appeal with the district court, which last week ruled that the use of the name won't pose any problems for either the girl or anyone else. One member of the jury objected to the ruling, claiming that the name probably will cause discomfort to the person who bears it.

Flaming Lips on Broadway

Broadway has seen it all over the years, but is it ready for the Flaming Lips? In a recent interview with EW.com, Lips' frontman Wayne Coyne revealed that his band's 2002 album Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots will be made into a Broadway musical. "There's the real world, and then there's this fantastical world," Coyne told the site. "This girl, the Yoshimi character, is dying of something. And these two guys are battling to come visit her in the hospital. And as one of the boyfriends envisions trying to save the girl, he enters this other dimension where Yoshimi is this Japanese warrior and the pink robots are an incarnation of her disease. It's almost like the disease has to win in order for her soul to survive. Or something like that."

Aaron Sorkin, the mastermind behind TV shows The West Wing and Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, has signed on to write the script for Yoshimi, while Tony Award-winning director/producer Des McAnuff will take the helm.

Deschanel: Joplin biopic on hold

The long-delayed, oft-changed biopic about Janis Joplin is currently on hold, actress Zoey Deschanel, set to play the legendary singer, told MTV.com this week. "[The film's] on hold right now, so I don't know when we're going to start shooting. We were supposed to shoot in November, but it's one of these things [that] seems like it's been hard to get all the money and the rights in place," Deschanel said of the film, titled, Gospel According to Janis. "There are all kinds of different rights. You need the rights to the song, and life rights. There's a lot of legal stuff that goes into playing a real person."

Once it does get the green light, the Penelope Spheeris-directed flick takes place almost entirely on October 4, 1970, the day Joplin overdosed on heroin and whiskey and died at age 27. "There are some flashbacks, but [the flick concentrates] on her last day," Deschanel said of the film's plot. "The script makes this day a microcosm for the rest of her life. It's a sort of microscope rather than a general overview."

Robin Thicke in talks to score film

Chart-topping R&B artist Robin Thicke is in negotiations to write his first film score for the urban drama This Wednesday, with wife Paula Patton attached to star as a female pimp. Patton, known for lead roles opposite Denzel Washington in Deja vu and OutKast's Andre Benjamin in Idlewild, will portray Wednesday, the "trick baby" of a pimp father and hooker mother. With her best friend's support, she struggles to survive on the harsh streets of Philadelphia.

The feature from writer-director Christine Crokos is inspired by the true story of a female pimp in Atlanta. Wednesday will be expanded from Crokos' 2001 short, Heroine Helen, about the same character. Shooting is expected to begin late this year in Philadelphia.