Beyonce may be unreasonable

Get called a diva often enough, and you come to believe it.

April 27, 2011 at 3:26PM
(The Minnesota Star Tribune)
FILE - In this April 23, 2009 file photo, actress and singer Beyonce Knowles attends the Cinema Society premiere of "Obsessed", in New York.  (AP Photo/Peter Kramer, file)
(AP/The Minnesota Star Tribune)

Beyonce got sued. The summons is a bit odd, almost a cri de coeur. An excerpt:

It makes you sad, in a way; we'll never know the details. They'll probably be sealed by court order, and it she decided one day she wanted to be paid entirely in two-dollar bills whose serial numbers added up to something that ended in "7," her favorite number that morning, her secret will be safe.

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