The actress says: "‘We have to reinvest, I think, in the idea of articulacy as a form of personal human freedom and power."

• After Tweeting about retiring from acting, the beauty of black men and various existential crises, Amanda Bynes has deleted her Twitter account. Sniffle.

First of all, I hate Nanny McPhee's "Who's your nanny" slogan. But that aside, the movie's New York premiere brought out Maggie and Emma and friends, all looking pretty darn good.

• Evan Rachel Wood and Marilyn Manson have reportedly broken off their engagement, eight months after he proposed on stage in Paris.

"I find Audrey Hepburn fantastically twee...she can't sing and she can't really act, I'm afraid."-Emma Thompson, on Audrey Hepburn [DailyMail]

[Los Angeles, August 6. Image via Bauer-Griffin.]

• 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."

• Though he has struggled with alcoholism in the past, sources claim that Mel Gibson was sober during his recorded rants aimed at his girlfriend, and that he has apparently been sober for quite some time. [TMZ]

• While playing at the Nashville Pride festival yesterday, Vanessa Carlton came out to the crowd, stating: "I've never said this before, but I am a proud bisexual woman." [AfterEllen]

The 38th AFI Life Achievement Award at Culver City's Sony Pictures Studios honored legendary director, comedian (and, ahem, University of Chicago alum) Mike Nichols. Obviously, everyone came out to honor him: not just Beatty and Spielberg, but Portman, Parker, Cher...

Admit it: sometime, against your better judgment, you root for a celebrity. And then they release a single. Or a racial slur. Or a political endorsement. Or a comment about homeless people's style acumen. And ladies? That's a dealbreaker.

[New York, May 3. Image via Pacific Coast News]

"Demand bigger sizes. Go into places where you can't get a 38D bra and say, 'I want a 38D bra and give me one. If you can't, I am never coming here again."' [DailyMail]

• In an interview Michael Lohan responded to Lindsay Lohan calling him her "ex-father" on Twitter saying, "maybe she's divorcing me today, but she'll remarry me once she gets her life back."

We're ambivalent about the reported remake of My Fair Lady. On the one hand, Emma Thompson's writing it. On the other, what's wrong with the original? And we're sold on Carey Mulligan. But Hugh Grant as Henry Higgins? Discuss. [BBC]

• A paparazzo called the police today to report that Jesse James vandalized his car. Jesse told the cops the man has been stalking him, then he and the photographer put each other under citizen's arrest.

[London, March 24. Image via Getty]

• Though pictures of Michelle "Bombshell" McGee wearing a Nazi armband have been circulating on the internet, McGee claims she is not a Nazi. She also has an explanation for the "W" and "P" tattoos on the backs of her legs:

• Martha Stewart's ex-best friend has written a book, in which she claims that Martha is desperate for a new husband.

• This report claims that when Vanessa Paradis found out that her partner of 12 years, Johnny Depp, was supposed to shoot passionate love scenes with Angelina Jolie in The Tourist, she "ordered" him to quit the project.