Show Biz: Apple pie man is flavour of the day

Since Jason Biggs found a new use for apple pie in the teen smash American Pie, the 22-year-old has been in big demand. Now he's starting to worry he's too much of a good thing.

"Everywhere you turn, you see me in a movie - and I'm sorry," Biggs tells People magazine. "People must be saying, 'God, Biggs again? Can't we get away from this guy?"'

Besides American Pie Biggs appeared in Boys and Girls, and he has a new comedy, Loser, in which he plays a nerd opposite Pie sweetheart and American Beauty vixen Mena Suvari.

Biggs can easily identify with his Loser role, as he got picked on a lot at his New Jersey high school for being a child actor.

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A New York publicist has filed a $US7 million ($15.33 million) lawsuit accusing the mother of teen singer Christina Aguilera and others of cheating her out of her share of the star's fortune.

Ruth Inniss says in papers filed in the Supreme Court that she is owed at least $US2 million from the singer's earnings from her self-titled debut album. The album, which reached No 1 on pop sales charts, produced the hit singles Genie in a Bottle and What a Girl Wants.

Inniss claims she saw Aguilera's potential in 1993 when the singer was a Mouseketeer on The Mickey Mouse Show. Court papers say Aguilera's mother, Shelly Kearns, agreed Inniss would act as Aguilera's manager but Inniss was later cut out of the singer's career.

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Jonathan Taylor Spielberg, who enrolled in a Catholic high school pretending to be a nephew of Steven Spielberg, has been sentenced to two years' probation for forgery. He got an 11-month suspended jail sentence and was ordered to receive mental health counselling, perform 100 hours of community service and avoid contact with anyone under age 18.

Spielberg, who is about 27 years old, was born Anoushirvan D. Fakhran in Iran but changed his name two years ago. For more than a year he attended high school classes in Fairfax, claiming to be a 14-year-old freshman.

He said he did it "just for fun."