CHICAGO (AP) – Oprah Winfrey was scheduled to tape an interview with Madonna on Tuesday about the pop singer’s planned adoption of a 13-month-old boy from the African country of Malawi.

The interview is scheduled to air Wednesday on Winfrey’s talk show, a spokeswoman for Harpo Productions Inc. said Monday. It will be Madonna’s first TV interview about the adoption.

Madonna traveled to Malawi on Oct. 4 with her husband, Guy Ritchie. They spent eight days visiting orphanages she is funding through her charity.

The child, David Banda, was taken to London last week after Malawi’s High Court granted Madonna and Ritchie an interim adoption order.

Madonna, 48, has said she acted according to the law, but the toddler’s father, Yohane Banda, said Sunday he didn’t realize he was signing away custody of his motherless son “for good.”

Madonna has two children – daughter Lourdes, 9, and son Rocco, 6.

NEW YORK (AP) – Foxy Brown will be arrested and thrown in jail if the 27-year-old rapper misses her sentencing on assault charges, a judge said Monday.

Brown, whose real name is Inga Marchand, failed to appear in Criminal Court on Monday. Her attorney, Frank Rothman, said Brown was recovering at home from a dental procedure.

“I don’t take this kindly,” said Judge Melissa C. Jackson. “I don’t believe she is incapable of being here.”

Jackson rejected a motion by Brown to withdraw her guilty plea and said the sentencing would be held Tuesday. The judge said that if Brown failed to show up, a plea deal sparing her jail time would be voided and she would be sentenced to a year behind bars.

Rothman said Brown would appear. “She’s showing no disrespect,” he told the judge.

Brown, whose albums include “Ill Na Na” and “Chyna Doll,” pleaded guilty in August to misdemeanor assault charges stemming from a fight with salon workers over a manicure.

Prosecutors said Brown, known for her raunchy lyrics and revealing clothes, kicked one employee and smacked a second in the face in 2004 in an argument over payment for a manicure.

Brown claimed she had made her plea-deal decision under duress. “I find her plea was entered voluntarily,” the judge said.

The deal would require Brown to serve three years’ probation and take anger management classes.

NEW YORK (AP) – Don Henley will be honored as the 2007 MusiCares Person of the Year.

Henley, 59, will receive the award Feb. 9 at a gala dinner and concert in Los Angeles, The Recording Academy and the MusiCares Foundation announced Monday.

The annual gala is among the festivities that will lead up to the 49th Annual Grammy Awards, to be presented Feb. 11 at the Staples Center. The awards show will air on CBS.

Henley, a founding member of the Eagles and a solo artist, was selected for his achievements as a musician and for his philanthropic work benefiting environmental issues and musicians’ rights and concerns.

MusiCares, established by The Recording Academy in 1989, provides assistance to individuals in the music industry during times of need.

James Taylor and Brian Wilson are among those who have been previously honored.

NEW YORK (AP) – Watching Conan O’Brien’s “Late Night” on Halloween may be a scary proposition – the entire episode will be in “skelevision.”

The Oct. 31 edition will be a painstakingly reconstructed rerun of a show last May, with all featured performers appearing as skeleton puppets, NBC announced Monday. The episode featured Larry King, “House” co-star Omar Epps and pole dancing workout instructor Sheila Kelley.

“Skelevision” appears a close cousin to a previous “Late Night” episode done entirely in clay animation.

“Late Night” has done a show from a Circle Line boat circling Manhattan, redid the show as an infomercial and aired a travelogue to Finland.

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) – Anna Nicole Smith didn’t appear Monday for a meeting in the Bahamas requested by the lawyer for an ex-boyfriend who claims he is the father of her 6-week-old daughter.

Photographer Larry Birkhead has filed a lawsuit in Los Angeles seeking a court order to demand Smith bring the baby to California for a paternity test. Her attorneys have argued the court does not have appropriate jurisdiction.

Debra Opri, a lawyer for Birkhead who traveled from Los Angeles to take a deposition from Smith in the Bahamas, said she would use Smith’s nonappearance Monday to argue for dismissal of that challenge.

“We’re letting her know if she wants to make it this way, we’re not going to make it easy for her,” Opri said in a phone interview from Nassau.

Smith, 38, a reality TV star and former Playboy playmate, moved to the Bahamas while pregnant with Dannielynn Hope Marshall Stern, who was born Sept. 7. Smith has said that her companion, lawyer Howard K. Stern, is the baby’s father.

A Bahamian attorney for Smith said he believed Opri needs to work through local courts to demand a test from his client, who has obtained permanent residency in the islands.

“If anyone is to be inconvenienced, let him be inconvenienced and bring this action here,” Wayne Munroe said of Birkhead.

Munroe said Smith stood by her decision not to voluntarily submit her daughter for testing.

In a statement Monday to syndicated TV show “Extra,” Stern said the meeting to take depositions was “nothing more than a publicity stunt.”

A hearing is scheduled Thursday in Los Angeles Superior Court. If Birkhead is confirmed to be the father, he could receive visitation or custody rights and possibly a large amount of child support.

Smith’s 20-year-old son Daniel died while visiting his mother in a Nassau hospital after the baby was born.

A private examiner has said Daniel Smith died from a lethal combination of methadone and two antidepressants, and local officials were expected to announce this week whether they would call a jury inquest into the death.

LOS ANGELES (AP) – Nicolas Cage is leaving Bel-Air.

The actor has put his home in the tony community on the market for $35 million.

He bought the seven-bedroom, seven-bathroom house for $7 million eight years ago.

The 11,000-square-foot Tudor-style home sits on an acre just above Sunset Boulevard. It has a two-story entrance, a front yard fountain, an Olympic-sized swimming pool and a two-bedroom guest house.

Singer Tom Jones owned the home for 20 years before Cage, and before that it belonged to crooner Dean Martin.

The 42-year-old actor won’t be lacking for places to stay. He owns other homes in Southern California, and earlier this year bought a castle in Bavaria and a private island in the Bahamas, according to People magazine.

Cage won a best actor Oscar for “Leaving Las Vegas.” Earlier this year he played a cop tracking a missing child in “The Wicker Man” and a Port Authority officer in the Oliver Stone film “World Trade Center.”