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Former American Idol producer Nigel Lythgoe has fired back at criticism by Paula Abdul that the show put her in peril by allowing an alleged stalker to audition.

Lythgoe says in an interview posted on People magazine's website: "You do not take somebody in that room that you believe is a danger to herself or a danger to Paula. That would not enter our heads."

Abdul, one of the Idol judges, claimed during an interview with Barbara Walters on her Sirius XM radio show that producers knew Paula Goodspeed had stalked her, and allowed her to audition anyway.

Goodspeed was found dead of an apparent suicide in a car near Abdul's Los Angeles home last month.

Lythgoe says he remembers Goodspeed as "a lovely girl" and "a great fan of Paula."

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The Boss's stuff is back.

More than 1,100 pieces of Bruce Springsteen memorabilia have been returned to the Asbury Park Public Library in New Jersey after library officials filed a police complaint against the men who had taken out the items.

Members of the Friends of the Bruce Springsteen Special Collection took hundreds of books, articles and tour programs to be microfilmed in 2007.

The group says they, not the library, own the stuff. The library disagrees.

But the Friends group returned the materials after the police complaint was filed Tuesday against two members.

Library officials say the charges won't be pursued as long as the memorabilia is in good shape.

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Luke Skywalker's light sabre has been on Star Wars fans' Christmas lists for more than 30 years.

On Thursday, one fan spent $240,000 to get the real thing: the prop that Mark Hamill used in the first two movies in the original Star Wars trilogy.

The light sabre highlighted several Hollywood memorabilia sold at an auction in Los Angeles by Profiles in History. The auction house said it sold about $3.5 million in memorabilia.

The droid helmet worn by Anthony Daniels to play C-3PO sold for $120,000, and the costume Marlon Brando wore in the Superman movie went for $72,000.

The first British edition of You Only Live Twice inscribed by Ian Fleming sold for $84,000. Roald Dahl's handwritten screenplay for the film of the same title sold for $96,000.