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• Teen star Zendaya finishes 1st on `Dancing’ finals

  LOS ANGELES (AP) – Four finalists are vying for the “Dancing With the Stars” title, and just one point separates the top two contestants.
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  Celebrity birthdays on May 21

  Singer Ron Isley of the Isley Brothers is 72. Guitarist Hilton Valentine of The Animals is 70. Actor Richard Hatch (“Battlestar Galactica”) is 68. Singer Leo Sayer is 65. Comedian-turned-U.S. Senator Al Franken is 62. Actor Mr. T is 61. Actor Judge Reinhold is 56. Actress Lisa Edelstein (“House”) of 47. Actress Fairuza Balk (“The Waterboy”) is 39. Rapper Havoc of Mobb Deep is 39. Actress Ashlie Brillault (“Lizzie McGuire”) is 26. Actress Sarah Ramos (“American Dreams”) is 22.
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  As seen on TV

  Ray J back on reality TV as host of Oxygen’s ‘Bad Girls All Star Battle’

  Thought Bad Girls Club: Miami was over the top? Steel yourselves for another spinoff, Bad Girls All Star Battle, which takes the rivalry out of the mansion and onto the playing field in L.A. Fourteen of the franchise’s most notorious cast members compete for $100,000 and the title of “Baddest Bad Girl of All Time.” Can’t beat that on the obituary. We talked to Ray J, host of the show, which debuts 9 p.m. Tuesday on the Oxygen Network.
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  La vida local

  ‘Glades’ star Jordan Wall to appear at fundraiser, talks season 4

  Burn Notice may be over, but we can still get our fix with The Glades. The South Florida-shot A&E cop “comedrama” picks up again Memorial Day, and one of its stars, Jordan Wall, is making the rounds Monday. The actor, who plays Daniel Green, the resident nerd in the medical examiner’s office, will appear at an event for the Crohn’s and Colitis Foundation of America 7-10 p.m. at Cafe Iguana in Pembroke Pines. Up for grabs will be an auctioned walk-on role on The Glades.
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  Scene in the Tropics

  Kris Humphries toasts; Wade & LeBron relax by the beach

  Michael Malone and Marko Gojanovic, operators of hot watering hole SL at The James Royal Palm., celebrated their birthdays Friday night with a motley crew of bold-facers including Brooklyn Nets player Kris Humphries, model Nina Agdal, martial artist Alistair Overeem and former pro tennis player Jennifer Capriati. The celebration began with a dinner at CATCH Miami before heading over to SL for the new weekly, delightfully named “FUX Friday” party, where they held court at a table next to the DJ booth. Humphries seized the mic to shout out the two men: “Happy Birthday to two of the greatest guys in the world and two of my best friends ... you guys are like brothers to me.”

• Celebrity roundup

  Baby rumors make rounds

  While Life & Style reported that Beyoncé and Jay-Z are definitely gearing up for baby No. 2, The New York Daily News is saying otherwise.
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  The fashion scene

  Sheer genius? Famous babes dare to go bare

  Fire the stylist, ladies! One too many celebrities are experiencing severe wardrobe malfunctions of late, and we’re starting to see a trend. We can’t help but wonder: Are they exposing a little bit too much for the, um, exposure?
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  Celebrity birthdays on May 20

  Singer Joe Cocker is 69. Singer-actress Cher is 67. Actor Dave Thomas (“Grace Under Fire,” “SCTV”) is 64. Actor Dean Butler (”Little House on the Prairie”) is 57. Guitarist Jane Wiedlin of The Go-Go’s is 55. TV personality Ted Allen (“Queer Eye for the Straight Guy”) is 48. Actress Mindy Cohn (“Facts of Life”) is 47. Rapper Busta Rhymes is 41. Actor Matt Czuchry (“The Good Wife,” “Gilmore Girls”) is 36.
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  Manzarek, founding member of The Doors, dies at 74

  Ray Manzarek, a founding member of the 1960s rock group The Doors whose versatile and often haunting keyboards complemented Jim Morrison's gloomy baritone and helped set the mood for some of rock's most enduring songs, has died. He was 74.
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  At the movies

  Greta Gerwig talks secrecy, relationships in ‘Frances Ha’

  In Frances Ha, which opens Friday at Coral Gables Art Cinema, Greta Gerwig (Lola Versus, Damsels in Distress) plays Frances, a cash-strapped New York dancer involved perhaps too deeply with her roommate Sophie (Mickey Sumner, daughter of musician Sting).
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  Radar

  Hot stuff celebrities love

  Donald Trump crowned his “All Star Celebrity Apprentice” Sunday night on NBC. Was it laid-back cowboy Trace Adkins or Vegas headliner Penn Jillette? The last two standing were tasked with creating an ad campaign and flavor of ice cream for Walgreens food brand Delish. In this corner: Teller’s Magic Swurtle chocolate turtle concoction. In the other: Adkins’ Maple Macadamia MashUp. Both flavors are currently on sale at the drugstore chain, but it was Adkins’ who took home the win.
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  Celebrity birthdays on May 19

  PBS newscaster Jim Lehrer is 79. TV personality David Hartman is 78. Actor James Fox is 74. Actor Peter Mayhew (Chewbacca in “Star Wars”) is 69. Musician Pete Townshend is 68. Singer-actress-model Grace Jones is 61. Singer Jenny Berggren of Ace of Base is 41. Singer Shooter Jennings is 34. Guitarist Tim McTague of Underoath is 30. Guitarist James Richardson of MGMT is 30. Actor Eric Lloyd (“The Santa Clause”) is 27.
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  Celebrity birthdays on May 18

  Actor Bill Macy (“Maude”) is 91. Actor Robert Morse (“Mad Men”) is 82. Actor Dwayne Hickman (“The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis”) is 79. Keyboardist Rick Wakeman of Yes is 64. Country singer George Strait is 61. Actor Chow Yun-Fat (“Anna and the King,” “The Replacement Killers”) is 58. Singer-actress Martika is 44. Comedian Tina Fey is 43. Rapper Special Ed is 39. Musician Jack Johnson is 38. Actor Allen Leech (“Downton Abbey”) is 32.
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  Coming to town

  Wendy Williams gets blunt at Books & Books

  “Busy is good,” says Wendy Williams driving to her home in New Jersey. Today, her plans include grocery shopping, Pilates and cooking dinner. “The phone is on the windshield,” the TV diva admits.
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  The movie scene

  Winona Ryder back in ‘The Iceman’

  Winona Ryder is still pale, diminutive and breathtakingly pretty. She still peppers her speech with the vocalized pauses of her teen years — “you know.”

• Report: George Michael in car crash

  George Michael was involved in a single car crash in England Thursday. The singer was reportedly airlifted to a hospital with a head injury.
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  Scene in the Tropics

  Katsuya makes cocktail fit for a King (James)

  LeBron James celebrated the Miami Heat’s big win over the Chicago Bulls Thursday night with Drake at Katsuya’s Dragon Lounge at the SLS Hotel South Beach. Although James was not drinking, Katsuya has added a special victory cocktail to the list — the Heat Kanji Cocktail.
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  The music scene

  Fantasia living the dream

  Fantasia Barrino hasn’t felt this energized since winning American Idol in 2004.
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  La vida local

  Will and Jaden Smith do Miami right

  In town for the premiere of After Earth at the Miami Science Museum and the Heat game Wednesday, Will and Jaden Smith stopped by Univision’s Despierta America where the elder Smith impressed co-host Karla Martinez with his Spanish, while son Jaden went head to head in a trivia game with co-host Ana Patricia Gonzales. Earlier in the week, Jesse Eisenberg was on the show promoting his latest, Now You See Me, in between sharing magic tricks and fending off the amusing advances of Raul Gonzalez, channeling his cleaning lady character Dona Meche.
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  Celebrity birthdays on May 17

  Singer Taj Mahal is 71. Singer-guitarist George Johnson of The Brothers Johnson is 60. TV personality Kathleen Sullivan is 60. Actor Bill Paxton is 58. Actor-comedian Bob Saget is 57. Singer Enya is 52. Talk-show host Craig Ferguson is 51. Musician Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails is 48. TV personality-interior designer Thom Filicia is 44. Singer Jordan Knight is 43. Dancer Derek Hough is 28. Actress Nikki Reed is 25.

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