Cee Lo Green is in trouble, but he’s innocent til proven guilty. He will be arraigned at 4:30pm EST in Los Angeles on a charge of giving Ecstasy to a young woman. Note in the following press release that prosecutors decided not to file a rape charge.

Press release:

Singer-songwriter CeeLo Green was charged today with furnishing ecstasy to a female victim, the District Attorney’s Office announced.

Green, whose real name is Thomas DeCarlo Callaway, was charged with one felony count of furnishing a controlled substance in case BA417464. He is expected to be arraigned at the Foltz Criminal Justice Center, Department 30, sometime after 1:30 p.m. Prosecutors asked that his bail be set at $30,000.

Green, 39 (dob 5-30-75), allegedly slipped ecstasy to a 33-year-old female while the two were dining at a downtown Los Angeles restaurant sometime between July 13 and July 14, 2012. The two later went back to the woman’s hotel. Prosecutors declined to file a charge of rape of an intoxicated person, citing insufficient evidence.

If convicted, Green faces up to four years in state prison.

Dan Rather, whose report on CBS News of the Kennedy assassination 50 years ago is of historical importance, will not be looking back on his home network. Much the way Walter Cronkite was forced off CBS in his later years, Rather can’t go back. So he’ll be talking about the Kennedy assassination on a special “Today” show on NBC with Tom Brokaw on the morning of November 22nd. Rather and CBS parted company rather bitterly a few years ago.

CBS has planned its own special anniversary programming about the Kennedy assassination. They’ll undoubtedly tout the Cronkite material even though their senior news man was banned, ironically, all during the years Rather anchored the news. For CBS to ignore the Rather clips will be quite extraordinary, just as his appearance on NBC certainly blows a hole in their plans.

The Wikileaks movie, known as “The Fifth Estate,” is a bigger bomb than anyone could have imagined. The Disney release did $587,000 on Friday night, and will be lucky to hit $1.5 mil for the total weekend. The number of screens isn’t high– just 1,769. But new Disney chief Alan Horn must have sensed trouble brewing with the lukewarm to bad reviews.

On top of “The Lone Ranger,” Disney has had a trying year certainly. They’re waiting for Tom Hanks and Emma Thompson in “Saving Mr. Banks” to give them a good run. All signs are good for that one, and for “Thor” through Marvel. But “The Fifth Estate” is done. Julian Assange must be very happy.

Daniel Bruhl co-stars in “The Fifth Estate” and in “Rush.” Neither movie is going to be a box office hit, although “Rush” is a great film. The poor guy is so good, and he must be wondering what the heck is going on.

Elsewhere, “12 Years A Slave” opened in very limited release to very good but not breathtaking numbers. This one may have to percolate a bit. But the Steve McQueen drama is not to be missed.

More tomorrow afternoon…

UPDATE SATURDAY 12:27AM: I’ve confirmed independently that Roseland is indeed history. “The owner is developing the property,” a source who’s on the inside told me. Roseland opened in 1922 and moved to its current location on West 52nd St. in 1956. Albert Ginsberg bought in 1981 and promised everyone he wouldn’t shut down. Thirty two years later, it seems the Ginsbergs are cashing in. Or cashing out. Ironically, across the street last year there was a threat of Gallagher’s Steak House shutting down. It was saved at the last minute. New York’s rare and storied history is disappearing quickly.

FRIDAY NIGHT:

Billboard is reporting that New York City’s famed Roseland Ballroom is set to close in April 2014. The article says the information comes from an internal memo. So far nothing’s been confirmed. But if true, it would be yet another tragedy for landmarks in New York– and one closure of a famed historic site under the rein of Mayor Michael Bloomberg.

It’s not like the cavernous Roseland on West 52nd St. isn’t busy. It’s used all the time for concerts, dances, and Broadway show openings. But the space must be coveted by real estate developers, Bloomberg’s favorite New Yorkers, for use as yet another skyscraper of condos with a CVS and large, anonymous restaurant in its base.

Fifty years from now, people can say they made great memories inside a Bank of America lobby…PS this version of Roseland was built in 1956, but the original was built in 1922. When Albert Ginsberg bought it in 1981, there was speculation that he’d raze it then. Thirty two years later, here we are, it seems…

Since Bloomberg was elected, Tavern on the Green, the Bottom Line, Elaine’s, and CBGB, not to mention a lot of Greenwich Village, have all been erased. The Russian Tea Room operates as a facsimile of itself. The Cedar Tavern closed in 2006 and is now a nail salon. No knows what happened to Chumley’s. And coffee shops and diners have mostly vanished, replaced by franchises so that tourists from Kerplunk will feel like they’re at home…

Stay tuned for more details…