Sideshow | Rutgers student sues Imus

Poor

Don Imus

. Yesterday, the preternaturally annoying DJ reached a settlement with CBS over his threatened $120 mil breach-of-contract lawsuit. The same day, however, one of the members of the Rutgers women's basketball team - women he called "nappy headed ho's," the reason he was fired in the first place - sued Don Imus and CBS, claiming the radio personality's sexist and racist comments about the team on April 4 damaged her reputation.

Kia Vaughn filed the defamation of character lawsuit in state Supreme Court in the Bronx. Vaughn's lawsuit, believed to be the first by a player in the case, says Imus and his former cohost Bernard McGuirk along with CBS Corp. and CBS Radio are legally responsible for damage done to her character and reputation. Her lawyer told AP: "The full effect of the damage remains to be seen." The full dollar amount, too.

Meanwhile (see item below), a talking tag team has been hired to take Imus' place on the CBS airwaves.

Huntingdon Valley's

Craig Carton

, whose five-year talk tenure on New Jersey's WKXW (101.5) was marked by controversy, has landed a new gig: official replacement for

Don Imus

.

CBS Radio announced yesterday that he'll host mornings with former NFL quarterback Boomer Esiason on WFAN (660), starting the day after Labor Day. This marks the return to sports talk for Carton, 38, who worked at Philly's WIP (610) in the 1990s.

On their general-interest Jersey Guys show on NJ 101.5, he and cohost Ray Rossi ran afoul of various groups. Richard Codey, who was acting New Jersey governor after Jim McGreevey's resignation, confronted Carton in 2005 after Carton made disparaging remarks about Codey's wife, Mary Jo, who suffered from postpartum depression.

Carton has been yanked already from NJ 101.5's "Jersey Guys" site, which now features Rossi and Casey Bartholomew.

- Michael Klein

A cloudy forecast for NBC10 weathercaster

Doug Kammerer

? With the four-year veteran's contract up this month, negotiations are continuing but reportedly don't seem promising. Kammerer, seen most often on

Myphl17 News at Ten Powered by NBC10

, offered no comment. A station rep would not comment, either.

- Michael Klein

If you spend the rest of the day weeping uncontrollably once NBC's

Today

show ends at 10 a.m., rejoice. Starting Sept. 10, the show will expand from three to four hours! The 10-to-11-a.m. stretch will have its very own cohosts -

Ann Curry

,

Natalie Morales

and

Hoda Kotb

.

"At the end of the video, we're kissing and it's raining blood - and for me, that was one of the most romantic moments of my entire life." So says the deeply talented 19-year-old

Brontë

star

Evan Rachel Wood

to GQ mag about "Heart-Shaped Glasses," a music vid she made with her bf, schlock rocker

Marilyn Manson

, which has caused a stir for its -

faked!

- sex scene. (Sex, ERW says, "is not always soft. Sometimes it's somebody screaming or whatever."

Whatever

.) Evan, who's trying way too hard to out-weirdchick everyone, even the

Angelina Jolie

of yesteryear, comes off as a real sentimentalist: "You can literally be in a thunderstorm of blood - [but] if you look past that, it really is just two people holding onto each other." She said her thing with the 38-year-old singer is real "healthy [and] loving" - even though he snores. "I really feel like I'm around somebody and in an environment where I can just let go and not worry about being judged."

. . . with a subpoena on Monday.

Daimon Shippen

, who provided personal security for the singer, is the latest victim to be served with papers demanding he be deposed in the

Britney Spears

-

Kevin Federline

custody fight. Brit's bud,

Alli Sims

, 26, was served Sunday at 2:30 a.m.!

Superb veteran thesp

Joe Mantegna

will join CBS's FBI profiling drama

Criminal Minds

this fall to fill the chasm opened up by

Mandy Patinkin

's abrupt and angry departure.

CBS exec producer Ed Bernero: "We are all thrilled to have Joe . . . joining our family."

But there'll be some Mandy too! TVGuide.com says Mandy will appear on the Oct. 3 episode to do closure for his Jason Gideon character.

This afternoon at 12:30, cast members of

Wicked

will goof off on the steps of the Academy of Music on Philly's Avenue of the Arts. They'll bring free cake; they'll laugh. It's all in celebration of tonight's show at the Academy - the musical's 1,000th performance on tour.

In an interview with French mag Public,

Angelina Jolie,

who some years ago said she was bisexual, declares that since she's taken up with

Brad Pitt,

there "is no longer a place for that" in her life. Jolie had previously had relations with model

Jenny Shimizu.

As we announced,

Van Halen

has proclaimed that it'll regroup with

David Lee Roth

for a tour that opens Sept. 27 in Charlotte, N.C., and stops off at the Wachovia Center on Oct. 1 - the first time the boys will be in Philly in 23 long years (that's a lifetime in hard-rock years). Tix go on sale Saturday at 10 a.m. Info: 1-800-298-4200 or

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Authorities in Saudi Arabia gave their permission for director

Kaswara al-Khatib

to film the first music video ever made in the kingdom. It's a surpise, since the nation follows the fundamentalist Wahaabi strain of Islam, which forbids concerts and movie theaters, and views depictions of humans, including paintings and dolls, as idolatrous.

The video for the teen tune "Malak Ghair Allah" ("You Only Have God to Count On") argues that it's cool to be devout. It's about a young dude whose life goes wrong when he stops praying, starts smoking and flirts with girls. It gets so bad, he almost dies in a bike crash. But he wises up and becomes devout.

The song's like, "if things go bad . . . if your dreams have been lost . . . you only have God to count on."