UNDATED (AP) – Justin Timberlake is teasing that new music may be on the way. Timberlake’s site plays a video of him walking through the halls of a studio. Timberlake says in a voiceover he’s obsessive about his music and doesn’t want to put out anything he doesn’t love. He says he can’t “physically torture” himself that much year after year — but the video ends with him walking into the studio in front of a microphone and saying, “I’m ready.” A clock then counts down to Monday at midnight, when presumably Timberlake will make an announcement.

NEW YORK (AP) – Justin Bieber is putting out an acoustic album of his hits. “Believe Acoustic” comes out January 29. It includes three new songs, including “Nothing Like Us,” written and produced by Bieber alone. Bieber will also serve as both host and musical guest on the February 9th edition of “Saturday Night Live.”

LOS ANGELES (AP) – Psy (SY) is pushing pistachios. He will star in the Wonderful Pistachios commercial that will debut during the Super Bowl on February 3. Psy says he agreed to the commercial because the company is fun like him and, in his words, “I love pistachios and I look good in green.”

NEW YORK (AP) – Crystal Bowersox says she’s learned a lot since being the runner-up on “American Idol.” She says she’s learned she can’t wear the same outfit twice on TV and “not to burp and curse so loudly in public.” She says she’s also learned “forgiveness starts with forgiving and accepting yourself as you are. It makes it easier to accept others as they are.” Bowersox is working on a new album that comes out in March. Jakob Dylan is a guest musician, and the album will be produced by Steve Berlin of Los Lobos.

PASADENA, Calif. (AP) – Jenny McCarthy is promising her late-night talk show will be sexy. She says it’ll be a “an after hours party” like Hugh Hefner’s old series “Playboy After Dark.” She wants to combine that with “really great conversations with celebrities.” One way she plans to break the mold is by interviewing the stars lying on the ground. The segment will be called “Groundbreaking Interviews.” “The Jenny McCarthy Show” premieres February 8 on VH1.

NEW YORK (AP) – Actress Lindsay Lohan is scheduled to appear in court to face assault charges in connection with a fight at a Manhattan nightclub.

She’s charged with misdemeanor assault in the Nov. 29 incident at Club Avenue.

The “Mean Girls” and “Liz and Dick” star allegedly struck a woman in the face during an argument.

She’s due in criminal court Monday where she’ll learn whether prosecutors will pursue the case against her.

At the time of her arrest, her attorney, Mark Heller, said Lohan was “a victim of someone trying to capture their 15 minutes of fame.”

In September, she was involved in an NYPD investigation after alleging a man assaulted her in a hotel. Charges against the man were later dropped.

 

LOS ANGELES (AP) – Neither Nicki Minaj nor Mariah Carey immediately jumped at the chance to be a judge on “American Idol.” Minaj tells the Hollywood Reporter she didn’t know if it was cool to be that accessible, someone on TV every week. She says she’s still surprised she said yes. Carey says she hesitated, too, until her husband Nick Cannon said she should do it because “it’s the top.”

LOS ANGELES (AP) – Justin Bieber says something has to be done to protect both celebrities – and the people who get paid big bucks to take pictures of them. The singer has issued a statement in the wake of the death of a photographer who died after getting shots of The Beeb’s white Ferrari on a Los Angeles street. The photographer was struck by a car as he crossed a busy boulevard after taking the photos. In his statement, Bieber says his prayers are with the family of the man who died. But he says he hopes the tragedy will “finally inspire meaningful legislation” to protect those who end up in harm’s way when photographers go after shots of celebrities. He says not only does that include the celebrities and photographers, but also police and innocent bystanders.