Madonna Adoption Faces Snag, ?Boots Were Made For Walkin?? Writer Lee Hazlewood Dies,

August 6, 2007, 02:28 PM

• Madonna has been awaiting an official visit from Malawi’s child welfare services to complete her adoption of one-year-old David Banda, however that check-in trip has been delayed. The Malawi government denied the welfare services representative assigned to review Madonna’s care of Banda permission to travel to the U.K., leading the rep to speculate to reporters, “The whole adoption process may crumble and David [may be] sent back to his village.”

• Singer-songwriter Lee Hazlewood, who penned Nancy Sinatra’s “These Boots Were Made For Walkin’” and went on to become a cult favorite as a recording artist in his later years, died at age 78.

• Jay-Z has denied reports he is leaving his role as president of Def Jam records.

• Eight months after his death, two more children of James Brown have been identified.

• After reportedly laughing off Led Zeppelin reunion rumors, Robert Plant has announced he has recorded an album with bluegrass songstress Alison Krauss.