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A judge said Thursday that he will review police video made shortly after Justin Bieber’s recent Miami Beach arrest to determine whether some parts should be withheld from the public, particularly clips showing the singer urinating into a cup as part of a drug test. Miami-Dade County Judge William Altfield said after a hearing that he will privately review some of the roughly 10 hours of police video taken after Bieber’s Jan. 23 arrest. The Associated Press, The Miami Herald and other media organizations are seeking release of the video, arguing there is no exemption in Florida’s open-records law allowing it to be kept under wraps.Altfield said he would hold another hearing on the matter March 4, meaning the current March 3 trial date for Bieber would be delayed. But he said that if the various sides could agree on release of nonobjectionable video material, that should be done by Wednesday. Bieber, 19, has pleaded innocent to misdemeanor charges of DUI, resisting arrest and driving with an expired license.

B.J. Novak said his plan of action after nine seasons of writing, producing and acting on NBC’s popular workplace comedy The Office was a bit random. He decided his next project would be to write - not a film, another series, a memoir or a novel but a book of short stories, which is just out. “It sounded like a crazy thing to do,” Novak said in a recent interview. “‘Oh, what are you doing after The Office? Are you doing a movie? Are you writing a new TV show?’ To say, ‘No, no. I’m writing a book. Just odd little short stories,’ it sounds like you’ve lost your mind and no one’s ever gonna hear from you again. It sounds like, you know, a crazy, old man in a cabin. And I wondered if I was a crazy, old man in a cabin.” Novak, 34, said the ideas for One More Thing: Stories and Other Stories, which debuted at No. 4 on The New York Times best-seller list, had been floating around in his head for a while. Still, the guy responsible for writing some of the funniest episodes of The Office was apprehensive about sharing those ideas. To keep himself on track, he set up gigs at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre, where he read his stories to an audience. From there, he gauged what worked and what needed work.