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'The Village' scares up No. 1 spot

Los Angeles -- Fright maestro M. Night Shyamalan claimed his latest No. 1 debut with "The Village," a tale of an isolated town menaced by bogeymen in the woods that had a $50.8 million opening weekend.

"The Village" bumped off the previous weekend's top movie, "The Bourne Supremacy," which slipped to No. 2 with $23.4 million.

Denzel Washington's remake "The Manchurian Candidate" opened at No. 3 with $20.2 million. The update of the 1962 assassination thriller co-stars Meryl Streep and Liev Schreiber.

The weekend's other wide releases flopped. "Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle," about two stoned pals on a comic quest for burgers, premiered at No. 7 with $5.15 million. The family sci-fi saga "Thunderbirds," featuring Ben Kingsley and Bill Paxton in an update of the cult TV series, debuted at No. 11 with $2.7 million.

Survey: 'Billie Jean' best song

Finally, some good news for Michael Jackson: His funky single "Billie Jean" has been voted the greatest No. 1 hit all time.

The 1983 song was chosen ahead of John Lennon's "Imagine" and Queen's "Bohemian Rhapsody" in a VH1 poll of more than 25,000 people.

Oasis came in fourth with "Don't Look Back in Anger," just ahead of Madonna's "Vogue."

Bryan Adams' "(Everything I Do) I Do It For You," which topped the charts for a record-breaking 16 weeks in 1991, was sixth, while Will Young was a surprise entry at No. 7 with his recent hit "Leave Right Now."

Kylie Minogue's "Can't Get You Out of My Head" and Madonna's "Like a Prayer" hit eight and nine. And Mariah Carey sneaked into the top 10 with the gushy ballad "Without You."

May-December wedding alert

Will Demi Moore and Ashton Kutcher get hitched in Israel?

MSNBC.com reports that Moore and Kutcher are planning to get married in a Kabbalah ceremony in Tel Aviv.

Rumor has it that Madonna and some other celeb followers of Kabbalah -- a Jewish mysticism-inspired New Age religion -- are planning a Rosh Hashanah pilgrimage to Tel Aviv, and Moore and Kutcher will be there and plan to get married at the event.

According to reports in the Israeli papers Yediot Aharonot, Ha'aretz and Israeli Insider, the Kabbalah retreat organizers have already fully booked Tel Aviv's Intercontinental and Dan Panorama hotels.

Confessions of an apolitical teenage drama queen

Don't look for Lindsay Lohan to start rocking the vote now that she's 18, reports MSN.com.

"I'm not very politically involved," she told the new issue of Rolling Stone in a cover story titled "Hot, Ready, and Legal!" "And I don't like to talk about it. I mean, if you say you're a Democrat, that'll turn off Republicans, and that's half of your fan base."

The "Freaky Friday" and "Mean Girls" star also insists that her assets, which she happily shows off in the accompanying pictures, are natural, dismissing breast-augmentation rumors as "stupid."