Can't Brit catch a break?

People

Poor Britney Spears. It's not enough that she's locked in a custody battle with Kevin Federline. Now she's being sued by her ex-manager, Johnny Wright, for more than $15,000. The suit was filed Monday in Orlando, Fla., but Brit didn't get served with the papers until Thursday. Celeb gossip site TMZ.com got it all on video: A white-haired, white-bearded guy wearing a faded ball cap walks up to Brit's white Mercedes convertible, which is surrounded by paparazzi as she leaves a Beverly Hills medical building. He opens the passenger door and drops a manila envelope inside, just before the stony-faced pop star drives off. The lawsuit contends that Brit must pay Wright and his professional group through February 2008, but hasn't made a payment since December 2006.

In the driver's seat

Like David Hasselhoff before him, Justin Bruening will leap from daytime TV into the front seat of "Knight Rider," reports the Hollywood Reporter. The new "Knight Rider," a two-hour TV movie, is intended to be a backdoor pilot, according to the Reporter, meaning that if the movie does well, it could lead to a series. Bruening, 28, who will play the son of Hasselhoff's "Knight Rider" character, Michael Knight, played Jamie Martin on "All My Children" until recently. The Hoff was a star on "The Young and the Restless" when he was tapped for "Knight Rider" in 1982, according to the Reporter.

Worth a try

Let it mellow

Fans who had their fill of beer at the University of Georgia's homecoming football game on Saturday were warned not to flush to conserve water. Earlier this week, crews put up signs in bathrooms asking people not to flush "if it's yellow" and to leave the handle-pulling to attendants, who did the job for the estimated 93,000 people at Saturday's game. It's part of the university's "Every Drop Counts" water-conservation effort in the drought that's struck Georgia and much of the Southeast.

Winging it

A South Korean businessman plans to begin a fried-chicken delivery service in North Korea, an unusual business venture in a country that struggles to feed its own people. Choi Won-ho, head of a franchiser with about 70 shops across South Korea, said Friday he is opening a 50-table chicken restaurant in Pyongyang on Nov. 15 that also would deliver chicken and draft beer to homes by phone order. It will be the first foreign-run restaurant in North Korea, according to an official of South Korea's Unification Ministry.

Today in History

1922: The entrance to King Tutankhamen's tomb was discovered in Egypt.

1924:Nellie T. Ross of Wyoming was elected the nation's first female governor to serve out the remaining term of her late husband, William B. Ross.

1979: The Iran hostage crisis began as militants stormed the U.S. Embassy in Tehran, seizing its occupants. For some of the hostages, it was the start of 444 days of captivity.

1987:Elizabeth (Lisa) Steinberg, 6, was pronounced dead at a New York City hospital in a child-abuse case that sparked national outrage; her illegal adoptive father, Joel Steinberg, served 17 years in prison for manslaughter.

1995: Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin was assassinated by a right-wing Israeli minutes after attending a festive peace rally.

Today's Birthdays

Former CBS News anchorman Walter Cronkite, 91. Actress Doris Roberts, 77. First lady Laura Bush, 61. Actress Markie Post, 57. Actress-comedian Kathy Griffin, 47. "Survivor" host Jeff Probst, 46. Actor Matthew McConaughey, 38. Rapper-producer Sean "Diddy" Combs, 38. Actress Heather Tom, 32. R&B/gospel singer George Huff, 27.

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