• Kate Moss says her motto is, "Nothing tastes as good as skinny feels." [WWD]

• In December Harper's Bazaar, Victoria Beckham reveals that she is itching to dress Emma Watson. [People]
• Alexander Wang is now 100,000 Euros richer, thanks to the Swiss Textiles Award. [WWD]
• Bridget Moynahan is becoming a face of Garnier Nutritioniste skincare. [WWD]
• It took a while, but someone finally got around to identifying what Sasha and Malia wore in the official White House family portrait, and putting together a press release. (Turns out it was French children's label Dino e Lucia.) [WWD]
• Miss J, on fun times with André Leon Talley: "I was working for Lars Nilsson at Bill Blass and André Leon Talley came over to the studio with Elizabeth Taylor's epic movie Boom!, which Karl Lagerfeld did the costuming for. We got down on some fried chicken, corn bread and popcorn shrimp and were in fits of hysterics well into the night. We went from working with models who don't eat all day to watching all of us get down on some soul food!" Says Miss J, "Sticks and stones may break your bones, but fabulous gets you most places." [The Moment]
• Naomi Campbell held a Fashion For Relief runway show to raise money for maternal health in Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania. (Previous stops have included Mumbai and New York, and have raised $1 million in aid for Hurricane Katrina and the Mumbai terrorist attacks.) Campbell walked the runway for the first time in the continent of Africa, and talked about the importance of diversity in fashion. "There's definitely space [for more black models] but has there been enough effort? It was getting better but it's slipped back this year," said the model. "The world is not made up of blonde hair and blue eyes. We need to share ourselves." [Reuters]
• Claudia Schiffer wouldn't rule out starting a clothing line. "I would consider it but it would have to be the right thing. They would need to be clothes that I would want to wear." [Telegraph]
• Liu Wen will be the first Asian model to walk in the Victoria's Secret fashion show. [Modelinia]
• Marc Jacobs' fiancé, Lorenzo Martone, and Ryan Brown, formerly of Elite, are starting a talent PR agency for models together called ARC NY. Lydia Hearst has signed on. [P6]
• Mango might ink a distribution deal with a U.S. department store, like JC Penney, Macy's, Bloomingdales or Saks, to help its retail expansion. [WWD]
• What other fashion house has ever inspired poetry upon its demise?
  "Luella, we will miss
  The frills
  The spills
  But know this

  Your work will live on
  In a sample sale shirt
  I once purchased
  Cheap as chips." [Guardian]

• As one exits, another enters: Biba is being revived. Again. [Catwalk Queen]
• Jimmy Choo has opened a Chinese restaurant in London. [Elle UK]
• For $8,500, you could own a sofa in the shape of the Chanel logo. [FWD]
• Bamboo fabric, though made from a plant that can be grown without pesticides and fertilizers, is processed with toxic solvents, just like rayon and viscose are made from wood. Eco-friendly it is not. [WSJ]
• Nordstrom's revenues for the third quarter jumped 17% on last year's results, but the company missed its earnings forecast by one cent, which sent the share price tumbling. [TS]
• Abercrombie & Fitch's quarterly profit fell to $38.8 million, from $63.9 million a year ago. [Reuters]
• Sales of department store fragrances fell by 11% on last year during the first three quarters, to $1.38 billion. [WWD]
• That hasn't stopped Gwen Stefani and her perfume partners, Coty, from putting out five new Harajuku Lovers fragrances. [WWD]

Citing research that stepmothers suffer from depression at higher rates than both mothers and stepfathers, and the fact that parenting advice for stepmothers is often woefully biased, Martin writes, "the woman with younger stepchildren finds herself in a position of having no say about parenting practices in her own home. The stepmother with older or even adult stepchildren is not necessarily exempt from this problem. Many women told me they had endured snippy remarks and barely veiled hostility from their adult stepchildren." Stepmothers, because they are so eager to be accepted into the family unit, are vulnerable to manipulation. This doesn't sound like a very good deal.

There are all kinds of psychological reasons why this might be so, and Martin points to them: fathers feel guilt for subjecting the kids to the disruption of divorce. Children may project their feelings of upset and loss onto the new woman they, consciously or not, consider at fault. Stepmothers are left to tolerate intentional slights because conventional wisdom encourages them to refer parenting decisions — especially regarding discipline — to the children's "real" parent.

But there are also plenty of cultural reasons for these lamentable family dynamics that came to my mind. for one thing, it's possible that stepmothers are made to feel like "interlopers" for violating that most sacred cultural bond: that between mother and child. Part and parcel with our culture's fetishization of squeaky-clean motherhood is its demonization of anything, or anyone, that gets in motherhood's way. To a lot of women, there may seem something fundamentally unfair about another woman raising their kids. (Look at the outcry that ensued when Gisele Bundchen dared tell Vanity Fair that she loved Bridget Moynahan's baby son, Jack, "the same way as if he were mine.") The abuse — whether it's the cute kid in the movie heckling the lady daddy's dating, or something altogether more serious — becomes a kind of righteous payback.

And of course, throughout history, there are many examples of women's power being limited by disinformation and counterfactual stereotypes; think of how the ideal body, as presented by advertising and the fashion industry, has shrunk during the 20th Century, as real women everywhere have made great strides toward equal treatment. It's obvious that the "evil stepmother" never really existed — but it is worth asking why we had to make her up.

What Makes Stepmothering A Feminist Issue? [Psychology Today]

• Jon Gosselin is suspending his divorce proceedings for 90 days. A source says it's "not an emotional or romantic decision," but a PR strategy. Jon's rep admits he, "used poor judgment in publicly socializing with other women so soon."

• Jon's rep says he's putting a hold on the divorce because he's "like to get back with Kate as a partner in parenting." However the source says he's trying to "to force Kate to deal with Jon on many important issues relating to the welfare of his children," which doesn't sound as diplomatic. [E!]
• The NYC medical examiner has determined DJ AM's death was accidental. The cause of death was "acute intoxication" due to the combination of cocaine, oxycodone, hydrocodone (Vicodin), Ativan, Klonopin, Xanax, Benadryl and Levamisole (to cut the cocaine). [TMZ]
• Janet Jackson is planning to only wear black until the one year anniversary of Michael Jackson's death. A source says: A source said: "As a mark of respect she has decided to only wear black clothes to express her grief, and she has had to go on a number of shopping trips to find suitable items to wear." [The Mirror]
• Janet Jackson appeared at a gala in Milan to support the Foundation for AIDS Research where a Dsquared jacket signed by Janet and a pair of handmade boots made for Michael Jackson were auctioned off. [AFP]
• The law firm Mesereau & Yu, which defended Michael Jackson during his 2005 child molestation trial, has filed a claim against his estate for $341,452 in unpaid bills. [TMZ]
• Jude Law is refusing to see Samantha Burke's baby until DNA tests prove he is the father. A friend said: "Jude is still very cautious about Sam and Sophia. Until he is 100 per cent certain she is his daughter he is only communicating through lawyers." [News Of The World]
• Tori Spelling was admitted to the hospital last night with abdominal pain. "They released her last night. She wasn't feeling better today, so she returned to the hospital for more tests," said her rep. [Extra]
• Khloe Kardashian wanted a simple hairdo for her wedding. So how did a few curls and extensions wind up costing $4,500 plus a $500 tip? [TMZ]
• Bruce Jenner said of his step-daughter Khloe Kardashian's wedding, "My wife has sold this thing... We're right in the middle of shooting season four, it's great television.... It will be a one-hour special on E!" [Las Vegas Sun]
• Emmy Rossum was seen on a date with Adam Duritz the day before her husband filed for divorce. [TMZ]
• Though Marilyn Manson announced that he had been diagnosed with swine flu last week on Facebook, concert promoters for Live Nation insist he isn't infected and he's removed the posts. [NME]
• The cop who was secretly taping conversations between John Travolta's lawyers and Pleasant Bridgewater testified that he never heard anyone demand money in return for keeping documents secret. This contradicts what you can hear on the tapes. [TMZ]
• Doug Reinhardt (a.k.a. Paris Hilton's boyfriend) is suing his former landlord because he claims he never paid back his five-figure security deposit after he moved out earlier this year. [TMZ]
• Christina Milian and The Dream got married in Las Vegas recently but they're planning a second wedding for their family and friends. [People]
• When asked if her daughter Lourdes will follow in her footsteps Madonna said, "No. I don't think she wants to be a singer. I think she wants to be an actress... I'm fine with it, as long as she finishes school, and takes it seriously. She also plays piano, and she's really into clothes and fashion and style. She can go in any direction. She's got a lot of diverse interests right now. We'll see. I'm not pushing anything. We'll see what she wants to do." [Popeater]
• John Krasinski didn't plan on being in the movie he directed, Brief Interviews With Hideous Men. He explains: "There was a scheduling conflict at the last moment, and the actor - I can't name him - couldn't do it. We had two weeks left to shoot. So the producers basically decided that I should do this because I had read the book so many times. It was the most terrifying performance I ever had to give. It's stressful enough to be a director and to see it on the monitors every day, watching these actors do this awe-inspiring work … and then you jump in and go, 'I'll take us home, guys!'" N.Y. Magazine]
• Bruce Willis won't be following in the footsteps, or mouse clicks, of Demi Moore and Ashton Kutcher. When asked if he's consider Tweeting he said: "Doubtful, doubtful. I just can't live with myself if I started Twittering ... I just think that way lies madness." [People]
• "I think it's horrible for young girls and women to see all these pictures of celebrities and the way they bounce back and they're strolling around and they have all these nice things. It's all about how cute the baby looks. It's not that easy and it's not that glamorous. It's not like having the new bag or shoe." — Bridget Moynahan [5 Resolutions]
• "I've always sort of looked at stay-at-home moms and been like, 'Oh gosh, how on earth do you do that? It seems so boring!' There is not a boring moment! I'll be in the car for four hours, just from taking them to school and someone forgot a lunch and then we got to go back with the project, it's just amazing to me. I've really been enjoying that." — Angie Harmon [People]
• "There's not much pleasure in directing. I get up very early and come to the set and stand around all day while the cinematographer spends three hours lighting the set, then I get 30 seconds to do the scene and then we move on and he lights for another three hours and I get another 30 seconds. It's tedious. I don't do it in order; just a piece here and a piece there .The pleasure is when I get home and look at all the footage and sit down and put it together and put in the music and make it look like something." — Woody Allen [The Telegraph]
• "I never really thought about getting married – it just kind of happened," says Scarlett Johansson. "It seemed natural, the right thing to do. It was kind of a celebration of the time." [People]
• Sherri Shepherd says her 4-year-old son loves to flirt, especially with Elisabeth Hasselbeck's 4-year-old daughter Grace. "First thing he says to Grace is, 'Give me a kiss,' " says Sherri. "That's how he is with all the little girls: 'Give me a kiss!' If you don't kiss him, he's gonna friggin' hit you. Every little 4-year-old girl, he loves 'em." Hmm... someone needs to tell him that's no way to treat a lady. [People]
• Wendy Williams says, "I know that the show is messy, because I'm messy, But I have a staff of very talented people working with me." Joel McHale would beg to differ. [CNN]

• Seriously, Jennifer Aniston, what the hell are you doing? First you signed on for desperado babyfever flick The Baster, now you're doing a movie called Pumas. That's right: PUMAS. The plot:

"Two thirtysomething women make a habit of romancing younger men." But wait: The ladies take a French skiing vacation that "challenges their romantic expectations." What's next? Old Maid: The Musical? [Variety]

• Mel Gibson was in a scuffle with a photographer and the snapper's friend; a shirt got ripped open and someone is filing a battery report against Gibson. More to come. [TMZ]
• Mischa Barton arrived in New York on Tuesday night to start filming The Beautiful Life, but some are saying it's too soon after her hospitalization. Here's the thing: On the show, Mischa plays an aging supermodel with a drug problem. [Gatecrasher]
• Isn't it interesting that we don't know who the mother of Jude Law's love child is? Someone from the set of Sherlock Holmes perhaps? [Page Six]
• Jennifer Lopez, her luggage, her husband and her impeccably dressed children are in Rome. [Daily Mail]
• Nadya Suleman's reality show is in production. Right now, her 14 kids are being kept off camera, while work permits are being figured out. Her lawyer says: "It most likely will be aired in the UK first once it gets finished, but there has been substantial interest from a U.S. major cable network." [EW]
• Kenny Chesney is denying the Star report (from yesterday's Midweek Madness) that he and Jessica Simpson flirted on July 4, in front on Tony Romo. "Tony's a friend, and I wouldn't flirt with a buddy's girlfriend," says Chesney. "More importantly, Jessica was just being sweet and there was nothing else to it." [People]
• Liam Gallagher and Lily Allen were on an 11-hour Virgin Atlantic flight to Japan and were repeatedly told to "calm down" as they boozed it up in a "marathon drinking session." [The Sun]
• BREAKING: Kim Kardashian doing "okay" after split. [People]
• Amy Winehouse made a deal with her neighbor — he'd grill the meat she'd bought if she'd do a private gig for him one day. [The Sun]
• Here's what happens when Hollywood films a movie in your house: branches with fake leaves arrive; Betty White holds your dog; Ryan Reynolds ignores you. [NY Times]
• Michael Jackson's mother, Katherine, will get custody of his kids. Katherine and Debbie Rowe have reached an agreement which gives Rowe visitation rights — but no additional money. [CBS News]
• Debbie Rowe wants the kids to have a psychologist to help them adjust to her being in their lives… And she will get one. [TMZ]
• Michael Jackson's personal nurse and nutritionist Cherilyn Lee says she never saw him take any IV drugs. What I knew for a fact was he had very small veins. "When I met him and did his blood work he said, 'Don't feel bad because I have tiny squiggly veins, sometimes it takes 30 minutes to an hour to find my veins.'" [MSNBC Scoop]
• Michael Jackson's personal chef, Kai Chase, is still talking about being in the house the day the singer died. "I thought maybe Mr Jackson is sleeping late," she says. Also: She is sort of pushing a cookbook, tentatively titled Fit for a King. [Guardian]
• Dr. Conrad Murray was sentenced to jail earlier this year… for non-payment of child support. [Radar Online]
• Dr. Murray may lose his Las Vegas home. [NY Daily News]
• TMZ spoke to two sisters who worked for Dr. Conrad Murray — LaQuisha Middleton and LaQuanda Price — trying to get details about boxes of dirty needles and whatnot. Whatever you do, do not read the comments over there. [TMZ]
• Rumor has it Michael Jackson's will is not valid because it's not notarized; but in California, a will doesn't have to be notarized. So. [TMZ]
• Speaking of doctors and celebrities with prescription problems… Elvis' doctor has a new book in which he says: "I don't regret any of the medications I gave him. They were necessities." [UPI]
• Daniel Bark, who is charged with vehicular homicide in the death of American Idol contestant Alexis Cohen, says Cohen was drunk. [TMZ]
• The Sex And The City movie sequel is having issues attempting to shoot in Dubai, probably because the UAE authorities don't like that the word "sex" is in the title. [Daily Express]
• Russell Brand "was seen being propositioned by a member of staff from naughty undercracker shop Agent Provocateur." He was in the store chatting with the young lady; and as he left, she ran after him with her phone number. In other words: Just another Wednesday. [The Sun]
• Are Lil' Kim and Scott Storch back on? [Page Six]
• "There's a better fight in the season opener of The Real Housewives of Atlanta than there was in the recent finale of The Real Housewives of New Jersey. [NY Daily News]
• Balthazar Getty: Back with his wife? [Daily Mail]
• The casting of Bryce Dallas Howard and the ousting of Rachelle Lefevre = Twilight dramz. [E!]
• Put it this way: Rachelle Lefevre was "stunned" that her role in Eclipse was cast with someone else. [AP]
• Bridget Moynahan will star with Aaron Eckhart in Battle: Los Angeles, a flick about a Marine platoon in a face off against aliens attacking L.A. [Variety]
• Matthew McConaughey and Eva Mendes are in talks to star in Southbound, in which he'd play a a patrol officer on the border between California and Mexico who accepts a bribe from a beautiful Mexican woman. Eva was born in Miami to Cuban-American parents but whatever. [Variety]
• Russell Crowe will star in The Next The Days, directed by Paul Haggis (Crash). Crowe will play a teacher whose wife is arrested and convicted of a murder she says she did not commit. [Variety]
• By the by, while filming Robin Hood, Russell Crowe popped into a charity shop and donated £1000. [The Sun]
• Interested in ESPN reporter Erin Andrews' 911 call? [TMZ]
• Shakira is back! Her new album and first single are called She Wolf, and the video airs tonight on MTV. You'll see her dancing in a golden cage: "It was improvisation. I went crazy," she says. "They said 'Action!' and I just started hanging from the bars. I felt so inspired, maybe because I felt like I was a living metaphor trapped inside the cage." [USA Today]
• Weird: Val Klimer owes $538,858 in unpaid taxes in New Jersey, even though he is originally from L.A. and has been living in New Mexico for the last 20 years. [TMZ]
• Audrina from The Hills has a new man, an "Aussie BMXer" named Corey Bohan. [E!]
• Gretchen Wilson plans to start her own label which, of course, she will call Redneck Records. [USA Today]
• Men At Work: Still facing plagiarism charges, from a song that was a hit in 1981. [BBC News]
• "I think it's brilliant that Leno is at 10 p.m., because America can get bored more easily and go to sleep earlier. When was the last time you heard, 'Did you hear what Leno said last night?'" — Joan Rivers. [Yahoo News via Reuters]
• "I can't wear a skirt that's too short any more. It's not that my legs are bad, it just looks silly. I feel less pressure to dress youthfully. I'm 50 and everyone knows I'm 50 – who are you kidding? Jeans are my uniform. I have about 15 pairs." — Michelle Pfeiffer. [Daily Express]
• "You just read it. Seriously. It is an incredible document. I think people either forget about it or have been taught it too early in their lives. It's a document worth reading and rereading every single year because it's the principles in that document that we should be loyal to and fight for and struggle for, rather than whichever government is in power." — Matt Damon, on making reciting the Declaration of Independence exciting for a History Channel movie. [AP]
• "I love my curves, I embrace them, but I have to walk a fine line. I think it comes down to being voluptuous, and if your body's a certain way, then things can go distasteful in a second… I love therapy! I'm very in touch with my feelings... there's nothing like going in and sitting down and talking to someone who has no emotional tie to your life." — Eva Mendes. [NY Daily News]
• "I want a part so bad. Any part's fine. I will be the vampire who carries Robert Pattinson's luggage in the airport. That is the part that I will play if they need it. I'd pass out [if I met Robert]. I can't talk about it, 'cause I'd pass out. It's because he's Edward. Listen, Edward can fly you through the forest. He's like Aladdin with vampire teeth - there's magic-carpet rides. He can sing. He can watch you sleep. He plays music. He sniffs your neck. I mean, please!" — Jennifer Love Hewitt really really really wants to be in a Twilight movie, poor thing. [MSNBC]

• Madonna is making moves in Malawi: This picture at the link shows 4-year-old Mercy, the girl she's trying to adopt, holding hands with possible new sister Lourdes. [Daily Mail]

• Oprah faces yet another scandal involving her Leadership Academy for Girls in South Africa; seven students allegedly engaged in "inappropriate behaviors." [Socialite Life]
• This report says that even though girls at Oprah's school were expelled, this is not a sex scandal. [MSNBC]
• Lisa Ling's sister Laura and another journalist being detained in North Korea are headed for a trial on the basis of "already confirmed suspicions," which doesn't sound good. [People]
• Bridget Moynahan is furious with Gisele Bundchen for telling Vanity Fair she loved Tom Brady's son like he was her own. Someone close to Bridget says: "If Gisele loved Bridget's child like he was '100 percent her own,' then she would not talk about him in the press. Discretion and respect are not either of Gisele or Tom's virtues, as was evidenced even when the child was still unborn and they publicly flaunted their relationship without any discretion whatsoever." [Page Six]
• Kate Moss is supposedly in New York to open the new TopShop here and OMGCLOTHESOMG. [Daily Mail]
• Shocker: Britney's Candie's ads have been Photoshopped! Won't someone think of the children? [Daily Mail]
• Josh Holly, the dude who hacked into Miley Cyrus' email and had his apartment raided by the FBI back in October is still being investigated. Special Agent Scott Augenbaum says: "We're still working on it. He hasn't been arrested." Guess what Holly has been doing in the meantime? Hacking celeb MySpace accounts and spamming their "friends." [E!]
• Speaking of Miley, she looks ever so uncomfortable on the May cover of Glamour. [Just Jared]
• Stephen Colbert is warning NASA to name a new wing of the international space station after him or he will "seize power as space's evil tyrant overlord." [CNN]
• Holy crap yay! Taye Diggs and Idina Menzel are expecting their first baby! [Socialite Life]
• Singer Natalie Cole is in desperate need of a kidney; she went on Larry King last night to talk about it and dozens of emails came in, with offers from people saying they would get tested to see whether their kidney could be donated. Sometimes TV redeems itself. [CNN]
• In this photograph, Robert Pattinson looks like a folkie singer with long hair and a guitar. Scarier than a vampire? [E!]
• Kelly Rowland has left Columbia Records, the label she's been with since her Destiny's Child days. Good luck out there! [E!]
• American Idol's emo musical theater rocker, Adam Lambert, has a fan in Neil Patrick Harris: The How I Met Your Mother Star was in the audience last night and says, "No male in this competition has sung so well. He really hit those notes." [E!]
• A TV station in Panama City, FL decided that Osbournes: Reloaded was "not keeping with community standards" and declined to air the show after American Idol. [E!]
• A sneak peek at the new Sherlock Holmes flick: "Leave it to Robert Downey Jr. to turn Sherlock Holmes into a wisecracking action hero who ends up handcuffed naked to a bed." [Yahoo News via AP]
• Rachel McAdams says filming the Sherlock Holmes movie was "cold and dirty." "The 1800s were kind of dirty, I realized. I didn't think about that before." [Mirror]
• Gavin Rossdale and Gwen Stefani will never collaborate musically: "We come from such band mentalities that it's something we've really done well to avoid," Gavin says. [Mirror]
• Dreamworks animated flicks like Kung Fu Panda and Monsters Vs. Aliens will be shown on FX, thanks to a deal between the channel and the distributor. [USA Today]
• Star Jones says her mind and body are not in sync: I'm still 300 lbs. in my head some days," she told Oprah. [People]
• Wanda Sykes and the Fox network are finalizing a deal for a Saturday late-night show. Bring it! [Yahoo News via Reuters]
• Some Slumdog Millionaire DVDs were released without the "making of" feature and "deleted scenes," which were advertised on the box. Buyers are bitching to Amazon about it; Amazon is blaming Fox. [Deadline Hollywood]
• Pedro, a film about the HIV positive Real World castmember Pedro Zamora, premieres tonight on MTV and LOGO. [LA Times]
• The Seattle home where Jimi Hendrix grew up has been destroyed; preservation efforts failed. [Mirror]
• Liam Neeson has completed Chloe, the film he was working on when his wife Natasha Richardson died. [CBS News]
• R.I.P Andy Hallet, who played the demon Lorne on Angel. [Yahoo News via AP]
• Blind item: "Which Academy Award winner, who constantly denies his philandering ways, was outed after sleeping with a publicist who blabbed to everyone?" [Gatecrasher]
• "I'm going to get smashed after doing this." — Ed Westwick, at the Dressed To Kilt show, before which he apparently stripped down to his underwear in a corner to change into his kilt. [Gatecrasher]
• "I break down a couple of times a week, at least. It gets overwhelming. Sometimes I think that I can't take this anymore. I just want to live a normal life. Olivia [Palermo] kind of mothers me and looks at me as a pet project…I'm not some country bumpkin. I'm from Los Angeles." — Whitney Port on The City. [Page Six]
• "If women look like her, that would be the perfect world. She doesn't need to change anything. Who likes stick skinny girls? Where's the flavor? Whoever likes those stick skinny girls never had sex before in their life." — Dancing With The Stars' "star" Gilles Marini, on people talking about Cheryl Burke's weight gain. [E!]
• "I want my dogs to be in my wedding, I am so serious." — Jennifer Hudson. [Mirror]
• "Girls are scary. Large groups of girls scare the (crap) out of me." — Kristen Stewart. [USA Today]
• I haven't read the books, but I saw the movie… I thought the movie was really bad." — Whitney Port, on Twilight. [Perez]

• Did a knock down, drag out fight with Lilo land Samantha Ronson in the hospital for "exhaustion"?

• According to TMZ: "Neighbors tell us [Lindsay and Sam] were going at it for a long time, but it reached a crescendo at around 4:00 AM after one of them screamed at the other, 'You never say you love me.'" [TMZ
• Gwyneth Paltrow, Madonna and Stella McCartney had a girls night out in London after Madge handed over her kids to ex-husband Guy Ritchie for the evening. Madge obviously knows that the best break up medicine (besides an affair with A-Rod) is a night out with the ladies. [Daily Mail]
• Lance Armstrong is expecting another child with girlfriend Anna Hansen. He has three children from his first marriage to ex-wife Kristin. [People]
• Girl Next Door Kendra Wilkinson is engaged to NFL player Hank Baskett. The wedding is slated for June 27 at, where else? The Playboy mansion. Initially she wanted ex-sugar daddy Hugh Hefner to give her away, but now Kendra is having second thoughts. [People]
• DJ AM, aka Adam Goldstein, is taking a page from fellow plane crash survivor Travis Barker and suing a bunch of people. "DJ AM is suing the estates of the two pilots who died in the crash as well as Clay Lacy Aviation, Global Exec Aviation, Inter Travel & Services Inc, Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co, and Learjet." He claims the pilots knew that the tires were shot and attempted to take off anyway. "Damn," says Michael K. of Dlisted. "I can understand suing companies and shit, but suing the estates of the pilots? I wonder if the pilots left behind any kids that need food, clothes and a roof over their heads. It seems a little extreme to try to fuck with the families, but I don't know the details and shit, so I will leave it at that." Word to that entire sentiment. [Dlisted]
• Marisa Tomei, 44, was conspicuously canoodling with Logan Marshall-Green, 32 (otherwise known as "Trey" from the O.C.) at the LA premiere of the Wrestler. You go Marisa! [Page Six]
• Apparently Suri Cruise gets 100 pieces of fan mail a day from all around the world. She is egregiously adorable. [Star]
• Slow gossip day, guys: Page Six reports that Bridget Moynahan uses the same dentist as her estranged baby daddy, Tom Brady. Riveting! [Page Six]
• Scar Jo's snot-filled Kleenex eventually went for $5,300 on eBay. Merry Christmas…sorta. [NYDN]
• Jennifer Hudson will perform a gospel song for her departed mom at the 2009 Grammys. [NYDN]
• Long dead drug kingpin Pablo Escobar loved Elvis, and even played his records when he was in the clink. Jailhouse rock indeed! [Page Six]
• Spencer Pratt keeps running his mouth about Heidi Montag's momma. "I just had visions of her mom trying to kill me in my sleep so I saw that as a possibility," he said at the Hills season finale party. Dear Momma Montag: we hope you have a Spencer-free Christmas and a happy New Year. [ASL]
• Ricky Martin: living la vida loca for 37 years as of today. [Dlisted]
• Though he's making a government salary now, from his Christmas shopping spree at Hermès, it's obvious that Arnold Schwarzenegger used to make the big movie star buckies. [ASL]
• Mariah Carey and Nick Cannon are in Aspen for Christmas, and Mariah says she always gets holiday-themed lingerie. “Honestly, I always get Santa lingerie. Even if nobody’s going to see it! I mean, why not? But this year I’m definitely excited because it’ll be appreciated!” Mimi says. Cant'…won't…make this lame joke…sigh. Ho ho ho, Mariah! There. I said it. [Just Jared]
• Poor Ben Stiller has to spend Christmas in a cast. He broke his hand snowboarding over the weekend. [E! Online]

Maybe, just maybe, had Mr. Vass worn a condom, these "oopsings" wouldn't happen with such frequency. But for these snip-happy dudes, asking them to use condoms is just preventing the increased pleasure they think they deserve. Vass says his post-vasectomy, condom-free banging is "like eating junk food and knowing you're not going to get fat."

Um, except junk food doesn't ever give you STDs. The vasectomy enthusiasts, according to Morgan, are also "spurred by a philosophical argument: Why should women be in control of when—and if—they have children?" Perhaps because we're the ones who carry the children around for nine months and expel them out our vaginas? But you know, if these guys are just going to have sex without condoms, it's probably best that they have to deal with a painful and possibly irreversible procedure to do so. And the guys interviewed for this piece don't seem to be getting vasectomies because they never want children: they're getting them solely to absolve themselves of responsibility. I guess what's so troubling about the piece is the way these men talk about the women they fuck. There's an underlying current of hatred and of distrust. Again: maybe it's best that these guys don't reproduce in the first place.

The Birth-Control Extremists [Details]

The Good:
Eve is elegant in basic black.

Let me admit right now that I've always been confused as to when exactly Nicole Richie became respectable. Is it when Rachel Zoe styled her? When she hooked up with Joel Madden? Neither of these things seems like the a passport to elegance, but that's why I'm not an A-lister. Anyway, I really like the caftans she's been working lately.

An unfortunate instance of pee-pee stance, but the simple elegance of Rosario Dawson's Little Black shines through.

I think we can all acknowledge that at times Chloe Sevigny's embrace of the avant-garde can be… Less than flattering. This frock provides interest, but remains wearable.

The Bad:

I think Eva Mendes' coral-colored velvet sack speaks for itself.

I just don't get it. I mean, these women's stylists must bring them, like, multiple options, right? And Fergie put this one on and everyone gasped and was like, "That's it!"?

Kimora Lee Simmons (does she still go by "Simmons?") eschews quiet good taste. Or loud good taste.
Words cannot express the depth of my hatred for this shoe trend. And if there were nothing else horrid about it, it foreshortens the leg of a petite dame like Hilary Duff.

The Ugly:

"The Ugly is kind of like the grand prize," mused a friend of mine the other day. If this is true, Lady Victoria Hervey wins it.

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[Venice, California; September 15. Image via Flynet]

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• Yesterday we read that Lindsay Lohan was seen buying beer — now there's a report that she failed a drug test in rehab. What the hell is going on? Seriously. [The Sun]
  
• Amy Winehouse texted her father from the Caribbean, claiming to be "right as rain." We don't know much about British sayings but we're pretty sure that doesn't mean "high as a kite," which is a plus. [Mirror]
  
• Meanwhile, Amy's dad says he prays for her every other day. Also, he's a cabbie in London; did you know that? [The Sun]
  
• James Blunt: Chasing models, singing karaoke with Paris Hilton, continuing to exist. [Page Six]
  
• Mischa Barton can't dance. Shocker. [Page Six]
  
• Bridget Moynahan refused to see Tom Brady after she gave birth to his son — but he was allowed to see the baby. That's one tough mama! [Gatecrasher]

• OK! magazine was going to cover Dannielynn's first birthday party, but now fear that they were "tricked" by Larry Birkhead and Howard K. Stern. [Gatecrasher, 2nd item]
• Hayden Christensen and Rachel Bilson are on a "romantic getaway" in Turks and Caicos and you're not. [Gatecrasher, 3rd from bottom]
• Blind item! "Which struggling new glossy is so out of money that staffers are having to pay for photos on personal credit cards?" [Gatecrasher, last item]
• Blind item! "Which repeat rehabber helps her hotel staffers earn extra points when they wait on her? The upscale hotels, who require staffers to earn points based on rooms they tend to, get three times the amount to pick up her panties, scores of condoms and tidy up the room after she trashes it." [Rush & Molloy, 6th item]
• David Letterman, who very rarely appears on shows other than his own, will be on Oprah! [YahooNews]
• Ashley Olsen will play a "sexually promiscuous girl" in a movie based on a Bret Easton Ellis novel. Superman's Brandon Routh will play a vampire. [Reuters]
• David Beckham down! Becks sprained his knee Wednesday night in something called the SuperLiga final. We just had a vision of Posh tending to him in a nurse's outfit. [SportsIllustrated]

• Owen Wilson's suicide attempt came on the heels of a three-day binge on crystal meth and "hillbilly heroin," aka Oxycodone, reports the Mirror. Yikes. [Mirror]
  
• Also, Owen has dropped out of Ben Stiller comedy Tropic Thunder, which starts shooting in two weeks. [Variety]
  
• Madonna is adopting a second orphan from Malawi: a 13-month-old girl named Mercy. The singer said she wanted a sister for her adopted son, David Banda, "to redress the balance." What about Lourdes? Or does she mean she wants to balance out her family, color-wise? We're confused. [The Sun]
  
• Britney Spears has hired a private investigator to spy on Kevin Federline. We sooo want to see the files! [Page Six]
  
• Lindsay Lohan and her mother, Dina, have decided to let Michael Lohan visit Lindsay in rehab. "It's part of the healing process," says a source. Dina's having her restraining order lifted and counselors will be present. We predict a breakthrough. [Page Six]

• Speaking of Michael Lohan, you're aware he's shopping a reality show, right? [ONTD]
• The following sentence made us feel poor: "Budweiser beer heir Andy Busch is in mourning for his favorite polo pony." [Page Six]
• Bruce Willis will star in an Oliver Stone drama set in 1968 Vietnam. Uh, sounds uplifting! [Page Six]
• Quentin Tarantino, on a flight from the Phillippines last week, boarded in a wheelchair due to a back injury and wanted to sit on the floor. He was with a "D list actress" he called his "wife." [Page Six]
• Blind item! "Which famous lady is going to be asked for a substantial financial contribution by the hospital where she recently had major surgery? Or maybe the administrators will settle for her hosting a fund-raiser." [Page Six]
• So you know how shoe and handbag company Hogan designed a line of bags named after rock chicks? The pony-skin "Chrissie" is not a hit with anti-leather campaigner Chrissie Hynde. "At first, I thought this must be a joke, it's so outrageous and thoughtless," Chrissie says. She's considering a lawsuit. [Gatecrasher]
• When Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie stayed at a resort in the Caribbean, they "only wanted to deal with one staff member during their entire stay," an insider claims. The resort sent a marketing exec from NY to be the go-to guy, except he didn't know how to cook and was "freaking out." [Gatecrasher, 2nd item]
• Blind item! "Which international sex symbol had to return to her own country to terminate a pregnancy that was the result of a brief fling with a U.S. hip-hop titan?" [Gatecrasher, last item]
• Hot couple alert! Shia LaBeouf and Rihanna: dating. (BTW, Perez spelled his name wrong.) [PerezHilton]
• That was quick! Angelina Jolie is back from Iraq and Syria. Angelina wore a blue flak jacket and a helmet when she arrived unannounced at the camp. [Yahoo!News]
• Is Kate Moss going to marry Pete Doherty? She's "run back into his needle-scarred arms." [Rush & Molloy, 2nd item]
• OK! Magazine is auctioning off the Versace gown Britney Spears wore during her disastrous photo shoot — proceeds go to Mothers Against Drunk Driving, which is kind of genius. [Rush & Molloy]
• Britney Spears was in her car, riding around Beverly Hills yesterday — someone else was driving and the kids were in the back — when the Mercedes ran out of gas. Seriously. You can't make this stuff up. [TMZ]

• Paris Hilton and Entourage star Adrian Grenier are hanging out because he's making a documentary about the paparazzi — although they "looked pretty couple-y at her Malibu house party last Saturday." [Rush & Molloy, 2nd item]
  
• The Obama Girl might vote for Hillary Clinton. Also, she'll be in the October issue of Playboy. Of course. [Rush & Molloy]
  
• At a tennis clinic in East Hampton, Vogue's Anna Wintour asked Roger Federer what he was going to wear to the U.S. Open. (Answer: blue and white for day matches, black for night.) [Rush & Molloy, 9th item]
  
• Sandra Bernhard thinks being famous today is without dignity. "You have to be like Paula Abdul and fall all over yourself and pretend you're strung out on something and behave like a freak," she says. "Paris Hilton and all these sorts of people can be famous now?" Crap, she's right. [The Sun]

• Foxy Brown is headed to NYC's Rikers Island. She'll stay in the Rose M. Singer Center, a women's jail, but we're sure it's still absolutely horrifying. Good luck, Foxy! [TMZ]
• When Warren Beatty's 8-year-old daughter asked what an orgasm is, he told her it's "a sexual sneeze." Man, it is too early to be thinking about this. [Page Six]
• Jeff Bridges wears an "complexly coiffed wig" to play a character based on Vanity Fair editor-in-chief Graydon Carter in the movie version of How To Lose Friends And Alienate People. Bridges will always be "The Dude" to us! [Page Six]
• Richard Gere doesn't need a butt double. Man, it is way too early to be thinking about this. [Page Six]
• Paris Hilton paid $2 million to make a lawsuit filed by Zeta Graff, Paris Latsis' ex-girlfriend, go away. Isn't there a more fun way to settle an heiress vs. heiress lawsuit? Arm wrestling, maybe? [Page Six]
• Joanna Krupa, a model we've never heard of, says other models are too thin. Thanks for the news flash! [Page Six]
• Bridget Moynahan gave birth to a boy yesterday, as we predicted. Tom Brady, the father, was either there or not there. The Post doesn't know, or they don't want to piss off Gisele. [PageSix]
• Vivica Fox's 43rd birthday party was kind of a mess, with a missing Rolls-Royce, an uninvited guest with a pending attempted murder charge, and a bounced check for $2500. Happy Birthday! [Gatecrasher]
• Actress and Tommy Hilfiger model Joy Bryant is engaged to a man named Sade. No need to ask, he's a smooth operator. [Gatecrasher, 2nd item]
• Blind item! "Which Oscar-winning actor was recently spotted enjoying a summer cocktail with a male friend at the very gay Ramrod Club in Mykonos?" [Gatecrasher, last item]
• Pete Doherty news! The junkie rock star is accused of attacking a photographer. She claims she was "left with bruises and lost clumps of hair after she was assaulted by Doherty." Seriously? Honestly? How come Pete doesn't have a reality show? A fun romp with musical interludes, like The Monkees? [The Sun]
• Britney Spears: dissed by Swedish pop duo, who won't work with her because it could tarnish their image. [Daily Express]
• New MTV awards rumor: Justin Timberlake and Madonna, together. We'd actually rather see Britney Spears and Criss Angel Mindfreak, because that's the kind of crap you tell your grandkids about, but whatevs. [E!]

[Santa Monica, June 27. Image via Flynet]

Earlier: Bridget Moynahan Is Expecting A Boy

"It doesn't affect anyone but me anyway," he says, "so why is it a big deal?"

Tom Brady Says Fatherhood Will Be A 'Challenge' [People via Details]
Earlier: Tom Brady Clearly Missed Some Health Classes In High School [Deadspin]

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