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Singer-musician Thomas McClary is 52. Rock singer Kevin Cronin (REO Speedwagon) is 51. Rock singer-musician David Hidalgo (Los Lobos) is 48. Singer Matthew Sweet of is 38. Actress Jacqueline Obradors is 36.

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5 II Elizabeth Hurley promotes breast cancer awareness in London. 2 Britney Spears. appears at the Gianni Versace show in Milan, Italy. 13 Tom Cruise arrives at the German premiere of "Minority Report" in Berlin. 4 George Clooney and Sophia Loren attend the Giorgio Armani show in Milan.

5 Kim Cattrall attends the Armani show. 6 Anthony Hopkins greets Republican Senate candidate Douglas Forrester outside of the CNN studios in New York. 7 Patricia Clarkson and Jennifer Esposito attend the "Welcome to Collinwood" premiere in Los Angeles. (T-rv fe iff 8 Adam Ant appears at the Central Criminal Court in London, where he was sentenced to community service and rehabilitation after an -jj incident in which he threatened pub customers with a fake pistol. 9 Tina Turner attends the Armani show in Milan, associated press photos In lug lull fli'SS uuy Story: MARK VOGER STAFF WRITER Photos: KATHY VOGLESONG WHEN Stone Temple Pilots hop off the tour bus for their gig Friday in Asbury Park, it will be a homecoming for half of the band.

The DeLeo brothers guitarist Dean DeLeo and bassist Robert DeLeo grew up at the Jersey Shore and played all over the area in their earliest bands. Bassist Robert a member of the class of 1984 at Point Pleasant Boro High School (and onetime regular reader of the Asbury Park Press) was born in Montclair and grew up in Point Pleasant Beach. DeLeo recalled his Shore roots for CELEBS. iiK I fit A oil meticulously remove my shoes and inform them I do not have box cutters; I don't plan on hijacking a plane any time soon. "The Satanic Verses" author Salman Rushdie on airport security lines.

"He beat the hell out of me. He tortured me. I don't like the guy at all. But I don 't think that going to war with him is the right thing to do right now. CBS correspondent Bob Simon, who was captured by Iraqis and interrogated in 1991, the last time the United States invaded Iraq.

"My mum said it would be really uncouth of me to talk about money, but I'm rich beyond my wildest dreams. British pop star Robbie Williams on his new multi-million dollar deal with EMI. "The worst is behind me. I got a crash course in life at 15. 1 could definitely pass a bar exam today.

Singer LeAnn Rimes. "I've had a career that has had ups and downs, like most actors' careers. I guess I thought I'd be the exception. I'm not. Actress Marisa Tomei.

thought it was important to get the boys playing new stuff. When we were recording May, I thought we might get four or five tracks down. We got 30." Keith Richards on the Rolling Stones' sessions for "Forty Licks," from which four new songs were culled. have also realized that I can't have a crack at the Tony for best revival until I close the first production. Producer Cameron Mackintosh on one reason for closing "Les Miserables" in March after a 16-year run, second only to "Catp." 'if are now in their 50s.

So I was listening to really amazing, great music first-hand. I'd go up to my sister's room and she would be playing Cat Stevens or Crosby, Stills, Nash Young. Then I'd go over to my one brother's room and he'd be playing (Jimi) Hendrix. And then I'd go over to my other brother's room and he'd be playing Cream. So I was a sponge when I was little.

I was soaking all this up. That's what really influenced me to do what I do now. I mean, these people literally raised me. I've gotten a chance to meet and hang out with Aerosmith and Keith Richards. I don't know what else to say to these people but, "Thanks for raising me." Because literally, that's what it was like.

It really meant a lot to me. I think my brother and I both were really fortunate to grow up in that era that we did. What was the music scene like in the late '80s and early '90s, when Stone Temple Pilots were coming up and getting signed? Were you up against "hair metal?" Was it hard to put your music across? Yeah, it totally was. I remember back then, I had a shaved head in the early '90s. I remember trying to "pay to play." It was tough.

It was tough. You know, the L.A. scene was really bad. That's why we kind of went down to San Diego. There was a little more appreciation for what we were doing.

People were a little more into the music. It wasn't all the "L.A. arm fold" thing -where people are just sitting there with their arms folded. You know, (laughs) that was tough. Stone Temple Pilots are scheduled to perform at 8 p.m.

Friday at Convention Hall, Ocean Avenue, Asbury Park. $35; sold out. (732) 988-9660. Web: www.concertseast.com You and Dean used to play Shore bars. What places did you play? Well, Dean is five years older than I am, so I didn't really join his band until, probably, 1981, when I was still a junior in high school.

Dean was playing around in a band called the Sages Pages back in, probably, '78. They were playing places like Big Man's West, which was Clarence demons' place, with (Jon) Bon Jovi, which was spelled B-O-N-G-I-O-V-I. When I joined, we played the Ship Wheel in Brielle and then we played the Harbor Inn in Brielle right by the boat basin there. My relatives are the Bogans the Bogan's (Brielle) Basin there. Then we played Club Xanadu, which was up in Asbury.

Remember that? On Monday nights, we played The Stone Pony. There was a bar right next to there called Mother's. Remember Mother's? We played there. Let's see there was a place on (Route) 35 that we played too; I can't remember the name of it. There was a place down in Lavallette we played.

Oh, man. That's going back a way's. Iff LmS- vm urn is, "TUMt certainly had a great clild Top left: Stone Temple Pilots singer Scott Weiland. Above: STP bassist Robert DeLeo, class of '84 at Point Pleasant Boro High School. Left: DeLeo's brother, STP guitarist Dean DeLeo.

or 3 years old, 4 years old, and totally comprehending songs like "Brown Sugar" by the Rolling Stones on the radio, and Three Dog Night and Blood, Sweat and Tears and The Beatles. I think that was due to the fact that, you know, I'm the youngest. I'm the baby of the family. I have a lot of step- and half-brothers and sisters who hood, but I think due tdmy family and where I was a in my life, I think the guitarwas a natural thing for me to ick When you say Dean played with Bon Jovl were they actually in the same band? No, no. He backed Bon Jovi.

The Sages Pages backed Bon Jovi back in, probably, '79. Was there anything about the Jersey Shore that perhaps crept into your playing style? up, to kind of be my theppy and my communication, I don't think it was necessi ily bands or New Jersey buds that really influenced me. I was born in '66. So, you I think it was more or less I'd know, I can remember beig 2 2.