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• Today on The Gayle King Show, Wyclef Jean responded to Sean Penn bashing his run for President of Haiti saying, "I am not absent in Haiti, maybe the tent city you're in, maybe I'm absent in that."

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• Tina Fey won the Emmy for Best Guest Actress in a Comedy last night for her portrayal of Sarah Palin on Saturday Night Live.Accepting the award, Fey thanked her parents, "who are lifelong Republicans, for their patience." [AP]

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Newsweek has a roundup of famous people who died in 2008 — here are some of the ones we'll miss the most, along with a few additions from our archives. More »
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• Miley Cyrus's YouTube account was hacked yesterday and a video was posted, claiming that the star is dead. The description reads: "Miley died this morning after being hit by a drunk driver. She always told us if anything ever happened to her then tell her loyal fans first before the public. R.I.P Miley, we'll never forget you!" It's all a lie and has since been pulled down. [Perez Hilton]
• Prince goes door-to-door in LA to preach the word of the Jehovah's Witnesses. Ahem. [Page Six]
• Jessica Alba is delighted by motherhood: "Everything is cute, everything is fun," say says, "including the explosive diarrhea — the best ever." Ew, sounds… shitty. [UPI]
• Sienna Miller and Balthazar Getty have split; she's back in London, alone and he may want to get back with his wife, Rosetta. Who will Sienna date next? [Daily Mail]
• Wanda Sykes was at a gay rights rally in Las Vegas on Saturday; she told the crowd: "You know, I don't really talk about my sexual orientation. I didn't feel like I had to. I was just living my life, not necessarily in the closet, but I was living my life. Everybody that knows me personally they know I'm gay. But that's the way people should be able to live their lives." But, Sykes said, Prop 8 made her feel like she was being attacked. "Now, I gotta get in their face," she said. "I'm proud to be a woman. I'm proud to be a black woman, and I'm proud to be gay." [Breitbart]

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• Cloris Leachman was booted off of Dancing With The Stars. "I'm not leaving," she said. "I'm going to get a pretty costume and be here next week. I'm going to sit over there. I can't go home. Are you serious? This is a joke." [UPI]
• Despite at first being told she was too old, Cloris might be Frau Blucher in Young Frankenstein on Broadway! Producer Mel Brooks originally told her she didn't have the "stamina" and said "We're afraid the show could kill [Leachman]. We don't want her to die onstage." [Page Six]
• Dina Lohan on Dancing With The Stars? Just the kind of trainwreckery this country needs. [New York Mag]
• Speaking of Lohans, Lindsay's former bodyguard has settled a lawsuit he filed against her. [TMZ]
• This report claims that Lindsay has lost 14 pounds and is "thinner than ever." Really? She doesn't look the way she did when she was hanging with Nic Rich back in the day. [Boston.com]
• By the by, Dina Lohan calls the reports of a Lindsay/America Ferrera feud on the set of Ugly Betty "just silly." She says: "America's a doll. And they said [Lindsay] brought a posse. It was my mother and myself, and [sister] Ali. It was not a posse. We had sushi and no one trashed the room." Dina does admit: "It was long hours and when you're on a movie set it's a lot different. She's not used to television, but it was fun." [People]
• Britney Spears, Paris Hilton and Lindsay Lohan in a sitcom together??? Sign, apocalypse. [News.com.au]

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If this article about Bernie Mac's wife, Rhonda, doesn't make you tear up, you are made of particularly unyielding stone. The couple met in high school and had their first kiss there. According to People, "On Valentine's Day, he asked her to come to his shop class so he could give her something. When she got there, 'I said, 'What do you have for me?' And he kissed me. That was our first kiss.'" Aw! • Dear Rumer Willis, we wish you felt better about yourself. After being named one of People's 50 Most Beautiful People, Rumor said, "After being compared to Jay Leno for so long, you don't think of yourself in that way." • Was Madonna's marriage in turmoil 5 years ago? Her brother's tell-all claims Madge and Guy Ritchie were briefly separated in 2003.. [People, Perez, Fox News] More »
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• Screenwriter Kurt Wimmer is rewriting the script of a spy thriller called Edwin A. Salt: It was supposed to star Tom Cruise and now Angelina Jolie is replacing him. Oh, and Angie will also star in an adaptation of the Ayn Rand novel Atlas Shrugged. Next, Angelina will adopt Suri. Unstoppable. [Hollywood Reporter]
• Uh, apparently Angelina Jolie and porn star Tera Patrick have an e-mail relationship? And have been talking about who should play Catwoman in the next Batman movie? [Page Six]
• Nikki Blonksy's dad, who's been locked up in a Turks and Caicos jail for over a week, has just been released. He's due to appear in court on August 19 at 9:00 a.m. [ET]
• Carl Blonsky can't leave the island because authorities have his travel documents. [TMZ]
• Um, this report says Carl is back in New York. [Page Six]
• Jake Gyllenhaal is "all bulked up and 'bear' chested for his role in the fantasy flick Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time." No, really, He looks like Conan. [E!]
• Director Malcolm Lee heard about the deaths of Bernie Mac and Isaac Hayes and was in shock: They're both in his film Soul Men, which opens November 14. "It had to be some sort of bad dream that these two giants would die on the same weekend, and both would be in my movie." Lee says that Mac would entertain the crew and bystanders between takes. "He said, 'These people made me what I am,' " Lee says. "He said that if it weren't for the fans of his stand-up comedy, he wouldn't have the career he had." Samuel L. Jackson is also in the film. [USA Today]

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I don't tend to cry over the deaths of famous people, but, for some reason, the news that comedian/actor Bernie Mac had passed away on Saturday morning was enough to send me back to bed in tears. (I got no sympathy from my main man or my two cats.) Ten minutes later, I got back up again and starting rifling through my DVDs to find one of my two (!) copies of the 2000 concert film The Original Kings Of Comedy, which first introduced me to Mac's work. Personally, I think his entire set is brilliant, but, in the interest of brevity, I cut a clip of the bit in which he talks about taking care of his drug-addicted sister's daughters and son...the youngest of whom, he explains, is an agent of the devil. Clip (language NSFW) above. More »
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Bernie Mac's public memorial will take place on Saturday at Chicago's House of Hope, which has the capacity to hold 10,000 people. For Mac megafans or people who were just saddened by his death, donations can be made to The Bernie Mac Foundation for Sarcoidosis, 40 E. 9th St., Suite 601, Chicago, IL 60605. • Are John McCain and Barack Obama really reaching out to Angelina Jolie to get her endorsement? If that rumor is true it's a sad state of affairs. • Urm, not really sure what Brooke Hogan is trying to say with this photo but it's disturbing. [Us, Dlisted, TMZ] More »
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We'd like to think that this — footage from Bernie Mac's appearance on a North Carolina stage in the Original Kings of Comedy — is the sort of reception he got in heaven this morning. More »
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Really sad Saturday news: "A publicist says Emmy and Golden Globe nominated actor and comedian Bernie Mac has died at age 50. Publicist Danica Smith says Bernie Mac died early Saturday at a hospital in the Chicago area of complications due to pneumonia. The comedian suffered from sarcoidosis, an inflammatory lung disease that produces tiny lumps of cells in the body's organs, but he had said the condition went into remission in 2005. He recently had been hospitalized and treated for pneumonia." This man made us laugh like no one else and was a constant reminder that "fun is fun, jokes is jokes." An embed of part of his brilliant Original Kings Of Comedy performance — in which he famously breaks down the word "motherfucker" — after the jump. More »
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