PASSAGES: Eminem Silent at Premiere

ZIPPED: Eminem, 30, sporting a black sweatshirt with “Detroit” splashed on the front in white letters, silently breezed past the screaming crowd and throngs of local media lining the red carpet at Thursday night’s hometown Detroit premiere of his movie “8 Mile,” the Associated Press reports. But Obie Trice, who has rapped with Eminem, was also there — and open to saying something. “I’m happy to see Eminem doing his thing on the big screen,” he said.

REVIVED: A fourth installment of the lucrative dinosaur franchise “Jurassic Park” is in development, Universal Pictures has confirmed. Steven Spielberg, 56, who directed the first two “Jurassic Park” films and produced the third, has not yet determined his role in the new project, said his spokesman. Of “Jurassic III,” PEOPLE said in its review: “Despite the fact that the digitally generated creatures look more ferociously real than ever as they thunder across the screen to chomp on yet another human … you sit there and yawn, ‘Oh, yeah, more monsters.'”

CANCELED: Guns N’ Roses’ opening night concert for its first U.S. tour in nine years was abruptly canceled Thursday when a riot ensued before the doors to the Vancouver, British Columbia, venue were even opened, MTV News reports. The cancellation was due to a delay in the L.A.-to-Vancouver flight of frontman Axl Rose, 40, due to mechanical problems. Upon hearing that the show was off, fans (who had paid up to $80 for the show, says MTV) reportedly displayed their disappointment in bursts of anger. Some threw rocks and bottles. The aborted Vancouver show may be rescheduled.

SHIFTED: Bruce Springsteen, 53, is postponing two more concerts because E Street Band sax player Clarence Clemons, 60, is recovering from surgery for a detached retina, AP reports. A concert scheduled Saturday in Columbus has been moved to Dec. 16, and a Sunday show in Indianapolis has been rescheduled for Dec. 17, according to Springsteen’s Web site.

APPREHENDED: Shea O’Brien Foley, a former employee of Lucasfilm, is accused of taking thousands of items — valued at $450,000 — from the Marin County, Calif., movie company during the 20 months he worked there as a production assistant, AP reports. The booty allegedly included previews of “Star Wars: Episode II — Attack of the Clones” that Foley was accused of giving to a movie writer for a Web review. Foley pleaded innocent Wednesday to four counts of unlawful access to a computer system and nine counts of grand theft (which could carry a prison sentence of seven years). He is free on $200,000 bail and due back in court in January.

DROPPED: “Today” show weatherman Al Roker has lost 100 pounds, or a third of his body weight in eight months, going from a 56″ jacket and 54″ slacks to a 46″ jacket and 40″ slacks, after undergoing gastric bypass surgery last March, he reveals in PEOPLE’s latest cover story. “The weight just started dropping like water,” says Roker, 48, speaking in depth for the first time about the high-risk surgery, while relaxing at the four-story Manhattan brownstone he shares with wife Deborah Roberts, 42, and kids Leila, 4, and Nicholas, 4 months. “For the fall, down to underwear, I had to buy all new stuff,” he says.

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