Thornson says he has passed a polygraph test and he'd be happy to testify at Jackson's child-molestation trial.
Jackson attorney Steve Cochran tells the New York Daily News the report is "false trash."
Cruise's largesse
* The New York Rescue Workers Detoxification Project, cofounded by Tom Cruise, has raised $1.2 mil to expand a program to treat rescue workers exposed to potential hazardous materials released in the air after the Sept. 11 attacks in New York.
The program, which consists of exercise, sauna sweat-out, and vitamins to help cleanse the body of toxic residues, was developed by L. Ron Hubbard, founder of the Church of Scientology, of which Cruise is a member. More than 200 workers have been treated so far.
"I could not get out of my mind that huge cloud billowing across Manhattan," Cruise said. "I . . . knew immediately that not only would people be getting ill, very ill, but that it would be sooner rather than later."
Sawallisch's ailment
* The Jerusalem Post reports that Philadelphia Orchestra conductor laureate Wolfgang Sawallisch has canceled a planned trip to conduct the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra next week in Jerusalem. The newspaper had no details about the 80-year-old German conductor's ailment.
Sawallisch has had ongoing problems with erratic blood pressure. Philadelphia Orchestra spokeswoman Katherine Blodgett said Sawallisch's blood-pressure problems continue, but that the orchestra knows of nothing more seriously wrong with his health. "As far as we know," she said, "there isn't anything new."
The Post said Sawallisch would be replaced in the Jerusalem concert by conductor Steven Sloan, musical director of the Bochum Symphony Orchestra in Germany.
Beckham's loves
