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Page Says Led Zeppelin Is Ready For World Tour

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The Tampa Tribune

Published: January 29, 2008

Led Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy Page said Monday he was ready to take the iconic band on a world tour after burning up the stage at last month's reunion concert in London. But it probably won't be before September.

"The amount of work we put into O2 was what you would normally put into a world tour anyway," Page, 64, said of the intense rehearsing the band did for the Dec. 10 concert at London's O2 Arena.

The band's three surviving members - Page, singer Robert Plant and bassist-keyboardist John Paul Jones - were joined at the sold-out benefit show by the late John Bonham's son Jason on drums.

Page, who was in Japan to promote the new Zeppelin release, "Mothership," said the two-hour-plus concert was proof that Led Zeppelin can still perform at its best.

He said the band, which formed in 1968, was ready musically to get back together and take it out on a wider run, but it was not clear when it would go on tour.

Walters Told Britney Spears Getting Help

Barbara Walters received a call from Britney Spears' manager and "very good friend" Sam Lutfi, the TV host told her cohorts on Monday's "The View" - reporting that Lutfi said the pop star was seeking help for what Walters termed "mental issues which are treatable."

"She has been to a psychiatrist," Walters, 78, said, recounting Lutfi's explanation over the phone. "She, I assume, is starting some kind of treatment."

Walters also reported that Spears was having trouble sleeping and was suffering from "mood swings," but that she was back in touch with her mother, Lynne Spears.

When those at the table challenged the veracity of Lutfi's report, Walters's response was, "I don't know if anybody is telling the truth or not telling the truth." But she noted, "He has been with her constantly. He seems to be enormously supportive."

Savage And Wife Awaiting Baby

Fred Savage, who made his feature directorial debut on "Daddy Day Camp," is looking forward to new daddy duties this year.

The actor-director and his wife, Jennifer Stone, have another baby on the way, reports People.

"We've got No. 2 cooking right now," Savage said at Saturday's 60th annual Directors Guild of America Awards in Los Angeles. "We're due in May."

The baby's sex will remain a surprise. The couple is already the parents of a son, Oliver, born in August 2006.

Director Tries To Save Ledger's Last Movie

Director Terry Gilliam is feverishly working to figure out how to keep Heath Ledger alive on film, according to one of the late actor's costars in "The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus," which Ledger was still shooting when he died last week.

"Terry's throwing himself into the job of trying to salvage the picture," veteran actor Christopher Plummer told People magazine over the weekend.

"Terry was a very good friend of Heath's," adds Plummer. "He very much wants to go on with the movie, and I can very much understand why. Because he wants to dedicate it to Heath, of course."

Today's Birthdays

Actor John Forsythe is 90. Author Germaine Greer is 69. Actress Katharine Ross is 68. Rock musician Tommy Ramone is 56. Talk show host Oprah Winfrey is 54. Actress Heather Graham is 38.

Sources: The Associated Press, People.com, Zap2it.com

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