Doherty no longer 'Dancing'

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LOS ANGELES - After two weeks on Dancing With the Stars, Shannen Doherty is leaving the ballroom.

The actress was the first celebrity eliminated from the new season of the hit ABC show. She and professional partner Mark Ballas were axed during last night's episode.

"Dancing isn't really my thing," she said after learning her fate. "I did it for my dad."

The 38-year-old star of Charmed and 90210 said on last week's season premiere that she joined the Dancing cast to honor her father, a big fan of the show who recently suffered a stroke. He sat in the audience, watching his daughter perform.

Judges' scores are combined with viewer votes to determine which celebrity is eliminated each week.

Viewer votes saved the lowest-scoring contestant, astronaut Buzz Aldrin, who earned 14 points out of 30 for his cha-cha last week and 12 points for his foxtrot on Monday's episode.

Besides Aldrin, remaining competitors include Olympic figure skater Evan Lysacek, actors Niecy Nash, Pamela Anderson, and Aiden Turner, reality stars Jake Pavelka and Kate Gosselin, singer Nicole Scherzinger, sportscaster Erin Andrews, and football star Chad Ochocinco.

Attention Twilight fans: Stephenie Meyer has a new book coming out.

Little, Brown Books for Young Readers will release The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner on June 5.

The novella is told from the viewpoint of Bree, a newborn vampire featured in Eclipse. That's one of the books in Meyer's best-selling teen-vampire saga.

Meyer said in a statement yesterday the novella had originally been planned for The Twilight Saga: The Official Guide, but it became too long to fit into the guide.

Actor Rip Torn has pleaded not guilty to burglary and firearms charges during a court hearing in Connecticut.

Torn's attorney says his client, currently appearing in the movie Happy Tears, is also making progress in alcohol rehabilitation and has moved from an inpatient to an outpatient program.

State police say the 79-year-old was so intoxicated on the night of Jan. 29 that he broke into a bank with a loaded gun thinking the bank was his home in Salisbury in northwestern Connecticut.

Torn received probation last year in a separate Connecticut DUI case.