Sideshow | Donda's doctor scrutinized

Celeb news providers TMZ.com,

Entertainment Tonight

and others continue to dig up unpleasant facts about plastic surgeon

Jan Adams

, who reportedly performed a tummy tuck and breast reduction on

Kanye West

's mother,

Donda West

, shortly before she died on Saturday.

In a report set to air last night,

ET

says that in April

David Thornton

, the director of California's state medical board, requested that the state not renew Adams' medical license, on the grounds that the doc has been arrested twice for DUI. (The board is currently investigating the case.) Adams has also been sued twice for malpractice. Both cases were settled in 2001, for $217,337 and $250,000.

Adams denies he had anything to do with the death, saying Donda West most likely died of a heart attack or other natural cause. An autopsy is scheduled to be performed on Donda West by today.

Sting

, lead singer of the

Police

, is sick with the flu, so the band's concert scheduled for tonight at the Wachovia Center has been postponed, promoter Live Nation announced yesterday. Tickets for the show will be honored at the make-up concert, but no date was announced.

The latest issue of the quality news mag the Economist, which is due out today, is a special edition called "The World in 2008," which features luminaries and brainiacs from around the globe who make predictions about the future state of their given field of expertise. USAToday.com says contributors include French President

Nicolas Sarkozy

, Mexican President

Felipe Calderón

, the

Dalai Lama

, New York Mayor

Michael Bloomberg

, Korean-born U.N. Secretary-General

Ban Ki-moon

. And, of course,

Angelina Jolie

, who wrote a piece about Darfur.

NBA superstar

Magic Johnson

has become too old to mesmerize younger consumers into buying Lincoln models: So says the company that has dumped him after three years. His replacement? The uncommon rapper

Common

who will sing the virtues of the Lincoln Navigator luxury SUV.

Former

Culture Club

front man

Boy George

has formally been charged by Scotland Yard (

Scotland Yard!

How cool is that?) with false imprisonment for allegedly grabbing, restraining and holding 28-year-old model

Auden Carlsen

at his flat on April 28.

Carlsen has told Brit tab the Sun he met

Boy George

online and agreed to go to his flat to pose for erotic photos for 400 pounds (about $827). He said while there an unnamed man grabbed him and handcuffed him to a hook in the wall, after which the man and the Boy proceeded to use S&M toys on him. Boy will be back in court on Nov. 22.

Right?

Dick Clark

and heir apparent

Ryan Seacrest

will ring in 2008 as cohosts of

Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve

" on ABC.

It will be the 36th consecutive year that

Rockin' Eve

has been on the air, though it seems like forever.

Clark, 77, who missed the show in 2004 when he suffered a stroke, has been back for the last two years with Seacrest as cohost, counting down to midnight from New York's Times Square before a TV audience of millions. Seacrest, 32, is expected to eventually succeed Clark as host.

60 Minutes

newsman and Philly's first son,

Ed Bradley

, who died last November of leukemia, was celebrated Monday night at the Jazz at Lincoln Center's gala fund-raiser in New York. A video tribute to Bradley preceded a set by the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra.

Of the many tributes to

Richard Gere

at the Kimmel Center Monday night when he received the Marian Anderson Award for his humanitarian efforts, the pithiest was from homegirl

Patti LaBelle

. Onstage, a vision in sky blue, she kicked off what looked to be ruby slippers and shouted out to the honoree, "All your movies I love. I love what you do for the world. I love your heart. And I love your face," and then proceeded to bring down the house. Gere humbly accepted his award, noting that "none of us accomplish anything alone" before asking his father,

Homer

, whose own selflessness inspired the actor to activism, to join him onstage. For an event that began with the Philadelphia Orchestra performing

La Berceuse

by

Stravinsky

, the ceremony had the intimate feel of a cross between a revival meeting and a bar mitzvah.

- Carrie Rickey

Us Weekly's headline says more than enough about this derriere-threatening faux pas Sunday at London's premiere of

Beowulf

: "

Angelina Jolie

Splits Pants at Premiere;

Brad Pitt

Covers Her Up." (It's like they say: Behind the behind of every woman who stands behind every great man, there stands some guy ready to cover her.)

Marie Osmond

, who missed last week's elimination round on

Dancing With the Stars

when her father,

George Osmond

, died, came on Monday night's live broadcast to say that the Bible had convinced her to come back to the show. She said she randomly opened the book to this passage from Ecclesiastes: "There's a time to mourn and a time to dance." Marie said, "I felt like it was almost from my dad saying, 'This is your time to dance.' "

Celine Dion

will vocalize and emote at the Wachovia Center on Sept. 5, 2008. Tix, which cost $48.50 to $188, will go on sale on Monday at 10 a.m. Info: 1-800-298-4200 or

» READ MORE: www.ComcastTIX.com

. She will also play a show hosted at Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City on Sept. 20. Tix cost $55 to $225 and go on sale Monday at 10 a.m. Info: 1-800-736-1420 or

» READ MORE: www.ticketmaster.com

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"We just say, 'Hey, baby, 2 o'clock in the attic, 6 o'clock in the closet. The front closet.' "

Thus goddess

Heidi Klum

explained to

Ellen DeGeneres

how she and her man, hottie god

Seal

, keep their love life interesting even as they continue to attend to the exigencies of their role as parents.