On most of us: a hippie curtain. On Natalia Vodianova? Sophisticated perfection.


Not sure if Amber Le Bon is channeling her mother...or Duran-Duran's "Rio" period.


Dancer Kristina Rihanoff channels the pompom, which is either always - or never - perfectly appropriate.


It's like 100% of the time, Jerry Hall's wearing an awesome neon sign proclaiming, "you can take the girl our of Texas..."


Throw in a little London, and apparently you get Georgia May Hall!


Here's the question: are Eva Herzigova ...


...and Daisy Lowe wearing very similar dresses? Okay, only sort of.


Do we love Claudia Schiffer's vaguely festive psychedelia? No. Can we admit she looks amazing it it? Yes.


It's really hard to look at Jonathan Rhys Meyers the same way after seeing The Tudors, so let's focus on Reena Hammer's "Flaming June" instead.


Pixie Geldof , or Morticia Sedgwick?


There we go! Myleene Klass is like the only one working the sequins trend - at the only time of year when it's actually festive!


Why didn't Twiggy whip out this bitch face - or these White Snake leggings - during ANTM?!


Ben Grimes sports the controversial Double Purse.


I'll admit to loving anyone who played Fanny so well in Love in a Cold Climate, but come on: Rosamund Pike's hon boho on a bender is pretty bewitching!


How much do you love Victoria Beckham's Nancy-Reagan-goes-ice-skating/goes-to-a-benefit?


The craziest thing? You know this entire ensemble will sell out at Top Shop in like five minutes. And no one is going to look remotely as crazy-cool.

[Dublin, September 23. Image via WENN]

[Dublin, July 8. Image via WENN.]

• Jonathan Rhys Meyers was detained by French police this weekend for allegedly assaulting an airport cafe bartender who refused to serve him because he was drunk. They started fighting and when a waiter intervened, Rhys Meyers punched him.

• Rhys Meyers was held in a sober lock-up area for three hours and released. He is required to appear before a French court in September to face charges of "voluntary violence, contempt, issuing death threats and assault." [People]
• Perez Hilton is suing the Black Eyed Peas' manager, Polo Molina, for battery and intentional infliction of emotional distress. He is seeking $25,000 in damages. [USA Today]
• Polo Molina may wind up in jail for six months if the charges stick because he's already on probation for a DUI. [TMZ]
• Matthew Broderick talked about his new twins while leaving a production of his Broadway show The Philanthropist last night. "I'm very happy. I don't know what else to say," he said, adding, "I've seen them already. I just got back [from Ohio]." [People]
• Yesterday a Chris Brown song called "Not My Fault" appeared online, but his people say the song is three years old and not about Rihanna. [CNN]
• TMZ has obtained a copy of the Gosselin's divorce papers. There's nothing particularly unusual or interesting about them, but why should anything about their lives be kept private? [TMZ]
• TLC has responded to claims that Jon Gosselin's alleged mistress Deanna Hummel will be on Jon and Kate Plus 8 when the show comes back from hiatus in August. The network released a statement saying, "There are no plans to use her. We are in hiatus and all future episodes haven't even been planned." But, how could future episodes of a "reality show" be planned? [TMZ]
• Michelle Obama is expected to make a cameo at Beyonce's concert in Washington, D.C. tonight. [Just Jared]
• This morning on The View Elisabeth Hasselbeck addressed the charges that she plagiarized her book The G-Free Diet, saying, "I just want to assure you the allegations are without merit and are being handled appropriately." [People]
• Emma Watson, 19, says she and her boyfriend of a year, 25-year-old Jay Barrymore, are not on the verge of a breakup. "The only reason it's 'on/off' is because the papers make up so much rubbish!" she says. [The Daily Express]
• People think Emma Watson is attending Columbia University because someone named "Charlotte E. Watson" has appeared in the student directory and her real name is Emma Charlotte Duerre Watson. She has said in the past, "I just want to keep it private [my college choice] for as long as I can. I probably sound like a paranoid nut, but I'm doing this because I want to be normal. I really want anonymity. I want to do it properly, like everyone else. As long as I don't walk in, and see, like, Harry Potter posters everywhere, I'll be fine." [Just Jared]
• Jason Alexander was speaking in Israel today as part of his work with a charity that has Israeli and Palestinian students write about what they imagine what the world may look like if a peace agreement is signed. He said the search for Israeli-Palestinian peace is similar to Seinfeld because both seemed destined not to succeed. "We were canceled, we were gone, we were a distant memory and somehow we came back and eventually everybody caught on and started paying attention," he said. [AP]
• Playboy Playmate Jayde Nicole insulted Audrina Patridge on Twitter after Audrina called Nicole's boyfriend, Brody Jenner, a "whore" whom she is "way more famous than. Nicole Tweeted: "Listen CEILING eyes.. not only are you a WHORE you are the dumbest human being I have EVER met so don't talk shit about Brody." [Perez Hilton]
• Audrina Patridge says her new show for MTV will begin filming at the end of the summer, but right now she's still filming The Hills. She says of castmate Kristin Cavallari, "I know she's in it now, but it's a matter of how she fits in, and we've only filmed a couple times and I really don't know [if she'll be the focus]... I don't really know her. I don't talk to her. Like, I really don't care." [People]
• Former American Idol star Kimberly Locke is hosting the Gospel Music Channel's singing competition show Gospel Dream. She says, "It's different in that the contestants are very focused on where they want to be and the type of music they want to sing. When you are on "Idol," you are forced to fit into all of these different genres you may or may not want to do and you may or may not even be familiar with them." [CNN]
• Last week a judge ruled that a Minnesota mom, Jammie Thomas-Rasset, owes the RIAA a $1.92 million fine for illegally downloading 24 songs. Richard Marx, one of the artists whose music she downloaded released a statement saying, "It seems to me, especially in these extremely volatile economic times, that holding Ms. Thomas-Rasset accountable for the continuing daily actions of hundreds of thousands of people is, at best, misguided and at worst, farcical... I'm ashamed to have my name associated with this issue." Moby, whose music she also downloaded, wrote on his blog: "What utter nonsense... Punishing people for listening to music is exactly the wrong way to protect the music business." [Rolling Stone]
• New York Times readers have responded to Patti LuPone's email defending her decision to stop performing when she sees someone using an electronic device in the audience. Most commenters replied, "Brava, diva." [N.Y. Times]
• "Women in movies, in general, are sexy — especially in Michael [Bay]'s movies. And if you want to make movies that people want to see, that's part of it. That's part of the formula," — Megan Fox. [Reuters]
• Vanessa Minnillo is over her break up with Nick Lachey according to a random person who saw her at a party. "She certainly wasn't moping in the corner or looking upset over her breakup at all," said the partygoer. "I saw her talking to three or four really cute guys. She totally seemed to be flirting and didn't look like she was upset or anything." [Life & Style]
• Antonio Bandaras said he was uncomfortable filming his love scenes with Radha Mitchell in the upcoming film The Code. He said, "Radha was - she is a lady, so I tried to be as respectful as possible. At the same time, I'm nearly 50 years old, and even I start getting more wary of those scenes... Everything changes as you get older - your mind, your body, the way you view the world." [The Daily Express]
• Johnny Depp says he hopes people will like his character John Dillinger in Public Enemies even though he's a criminal. "Especially in that era … everything was going against the common man. People like John Dillinger came back and were anti the establishment in their own special way," Depp said. "I actually hope people root for him, too." [USA Today]
• Though Michelle Pfeiffer plays an older woman who seduces a younger man in her new period film Cheri she says she doesn't like the word "cougar." She says, "I can't wait for that word to go out of fashion. I just think it's . . . . I'm so over it. Not that I was ever really into it. Where did that start, anyway? How did that evolve? Well, it's not really what the movie's about. But if it brings people into the theater, I'm all for that." [L.A. Times]
• Gisele Bundchen says she's focusing more on family now that she's pregnant. "I am crazy about children ... I am an adoptive mother ... I've already had this experience for two years," says Gisele. "I prefer to stay at home. The big husband wins. Because of this relationship, what is most important to me is the family. Now I am creating my other family." [People]
• Jill Scott explains why she and her husband broke up shortly after the birth of their son Jett, saying, "[My husband] was there and for a couple of days afterwards while I stayed in hospital, but John and I are no longer together. When you have a baby you're dealing with a lot of emotions and I don't know how much of it had to do with us breaking up, but it happens. We definitely love our son and we are co-parenting and working on being friends. It is what it is. I have a lot of support, so I want for nothing as far as that's concerned. I know some might criticize me or the fact that my son is being raised in a single-parent home, but I wasn't raised in a two-parent home and I had a good relationship with my dad. I have hopes for him and I'm sure his father will do his part as well." [Essence]

• Amy Winehouse must be coming to her senses: she's given control of her £15 million fortune to her parents. She can't spend her own money without their approval, so drugs are probably out. [Mirror]

• Michael Phelps says of smoking that bong: "I engaged in behaviour which was regrettable and demonstrated bad judgment." And! "I'm 23 years old and, despite the successes I've had in the pool, I acted in a youthful and inappropriate way, not in a manner people have come to expect from me. For this I am sorry. I promise my fans and the public it will not happen again." [Guardian]
• Madonna, Guy Ritchie, and the kids all went to the same service at the Kabbalah Center in New York yesterday. Madge and Guy arrived and left separately, but things are "amicable." [Daily Mail]
• Madonna was spotted with that hot Brazilian model in New York on Sunday, Jesus Luz. Are Madonna and Jesus gettin' Biblical? [Perez]
• Britney's dad has obtained restraining orders against Adnan Ghalib and Sam Lutfi, who are "now working in concert to disrupt the conservatorship," according to the paperwork. Apparently Britney informs Adnan of where she's going, and he arranges for paparazzi to show up and photograph her for his financial benefit. Sam, meanwhile, tells Brit he's "trying" to "free" her from her conservatorship. [Extra]
• Get ready: Kate Moss wants to be an actress. [Elle UK]
• Wings and cupcakes: Jessica Biel threw Justin Timberlake a Super-Bowl themed surprise party in the penthouse of the Roosevelt Hotel in Hollywood. [People]
• Tommy Lee's helicopter was pulled over by LAPD. No, really. [TMZ]
• Foxy! Pix of Slumdog Millionaire's Freida Pinto as a young aspiring model. [Daily Mail]
• As for Slumdog's Dev Patel, he says: "If you asked me a year ago would I ever have been doing a movie with [director] Danny Boyle, I would have absolutely laughed in your face." [NPR]
• Aw, 9-year-old Rubina Ali, who also starred in Slumdog Millionaire and lives in a "one-room shack" with her family in a Mumbai slum, wants to be a Bollywood star. "I like films. I like poems and I like my school," she says. [Reuters]
• Jennifer Aniston's house: Still a construction site after 2 years of remodeling.
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• Ciao, Hollywood: David Beckham will leave the LA Galaxy and join AC Milan permanently, after getting approval from wife Victoria. [Mirror]
• Here's Victoria stepping out with Cruz and Romeo, who are wearing matching shirts. [Daily Mail]
• Is it really the end for Prince Harry and Chelsy Davy? A source says they are still speaking and this may just be a "blip." [Daily Express]
• Although Chelsy was out partying and kept talking about how she wants to go "home" to Zimbabwe. [Daily Mail]
• Ellen DeGeneres and Portia de Rossi had a joint birthday party where Samantha Ronson DJ'd and celebs like Jennifer Aniston and Drew Barrymore celebrated. Our invitation must have gotten lost. [ People]
• Chris Martin has been banned from recording with Coldplay for two weeks. [Mirror]
• Even though Warner Bros. didn't push for Gran Torino to win an Oscar, the movie is actually cleaning up at the box office, unlike some other nominated flicks.It's "Clint Eastwood's $110 Million Revenge." [Fox News]
• Billy Bob Thornton claims: "I’d like to do another movie with Angie one of these days. We talk all the time. She and I keep looking for something to do together; we just have to find the right thing." Sure, sure. [Daily Express]
• Even though Courtenay Semel beat up Casey Johnson last month and set her hair on fire, they are back in love and "soul partners." [Page Six]
• Kristen Johnston talks about her role on the new Absolutely Fabulous: She will indeed play Patsy, not Edina, as previously reported. And the show will be "different.": "We don’t smoke, we are hungover all the time, we chew Nicorette, we’re trying to be more PC, but I think it really works. It’s one of those scripts that’s like my favorite kind because on paper you’re like, Oh, this is funny, but when you read it out loud with two actresses, it’s, like, the funniest shit ever." [EW]
• Score: Snoop Dogg coached his Snoop Youth Football league team to victory! [UPI]
• Mary Lynn Rajskub and Janeane Garofalo get the giggles when shooting 24 scenes together. "If we make eye contact, forget it," Garofalo says. [USA Today]
• Check out Zoe Kravitz, all dolled up for a photo shoot with Annie Leibovitz. The pix will appear in an upcoming issue of Vanity Fair. [Daily Mail]
• Blind item! "Which heartthrob actor keeps turning up drunk to the set of his TV medical drama?" [Gatecrasher]
• Nick Lachey loves that his girlfriend is a sports fan, blah blah blah. [People]
• Is ABC Family, with shows that contain teenage pregnancy and underage drinking, too edgy to be called a family channel? [UPI]
• The latest ABC family shows are all "female-oriented," including one series called 10 Things I Hate About You, based on the movie. [Reuters]
• Lisa Loeb got married on Saturday! The lucky guy is Roey Hershkovitz, a music supervisor for Late Night with Conan O'Brien. The bride wore pink. [People]
• Kate Middleton's childhood home is up for sale. [Telegraph]
• Because the world could not function without his opinion, Sanjaya Malakar would like for you to know he approves of the 4th judge on American Idol. [UPI]
• John Cleese's ex-girlfriend says when Cleese dumped her via a message on her answering machine for lying about her age, she texted back: "Look, at least it wasn’t a sex tape." [Mirror]
• "To me, it's a party whenever I go to work. The writing is so wonderfully dark, and everybody's lying to everyone else, that it's funny. It was a very relaxed time for me — actually, way more relaxing than comedy. Comedy makes me uptight. Because in comedy, everything is not funny until that one thing that is. " — Ted Danson, best known for doing comedy, now getting attention of his dramatic role on Damages. [Washington Post]
• "Oh God, wasn’t that awful?" — Kristen Johnston, on Bride Wars, in which she had a small part. [EW]
• "I'm not a romantic guy at all. It’s not that I don’t believe in romance. It’s that I don’t believe in dinner for two by the ocean, walking down the beach holding hands – that version of romance. I think I'm probably romantic, but I’m not outwardly romantic. I'm not a player." — Jonathan Rhys Meyers. [People]
• "I loved [Vicky Cristina Barcelona character] Maria Elena, yes. I mean, I hope I'm not too similar to her! And I didn't want to ever think, 'Oh, I'm playing a crazy person.' Because I mean, who's normal? I don't know anybody that is normal." — Penelope Cruz. [CBS News]
• "I asked my agent if I could have my costumes in my contract – but she laughed in my face! I guess that doesn't really happen." — Isla Fisher, on Confessions Of A Shopaholic. [The Sun]
• "It was pretty tough turning 18. I realised that overnight I’d become fair game. I had a party in town and the pavements were just knee-deep with photographers trying to get a shot of me looking drunk, which wasn’t going to happen. I don’t have to drink to have a good time. The sickest part was when one photographer lay down on the floor to get a shot up my skirt. The night it was legal for them to do it, they did it. I woke up the next day and felt completely violated by it all. That’s not something I want in my life. I just kept thinking that if it had happened a day earlier people would have sued their asses off… I find the whole concept of being ‘sexy’ embarrassing and confusing… I know everyone wants a picture of me in a mini-skirt. But that’s not me. I feel uncomfortable." — Emma Watson. [Daily Mail]

[New York, January 30. Image via WENN.]

• Good morning! Obama is president, did you hear? The hat Aretha Franklin wore to sing "My Country, Tis Of Thee" was hand-molded and embellished with Swarovski crystals by Detroit milliner Luke Song. [WWD]

• Sasha and Malia's colorful ensembles were all from J. Crew kid's line Crewcuts. When consumers figured this out yesterday, traffic crashed J. Crew's site. [NY Daily News]
• Michelle Obama's gown of choice for her 10+ inaugural balls last night was by Jason Wu. The 26-year-old designer had thought he was a long shot. Says US magazine of Michelle's one-shouldered cream gown, "She's bringing sexy back." Really. Her husband wore a tux by his favorite suit maker, Hart Schaffner Marx. [US]
• The New Yorker's Judith Thurman, who profiled Isabel and Ruben Toledo last March, spoke to the designer and her husband about the First Lady's choice to wear one of her designs at her husband's swearing-in. Says Ruben, “To be woven into the thread of this historical moment is a major blessing." Making the outfit was a family affair: "Vitelio Toledo, Ruben’s father and the couple’s pattern cutter, was particularly proud to have worked on it. The seamstresses, almost all immigrant women, also took particular pride in participating in a historic moment. Ruben told me that they added a very fine inter-layer of pashmina to help keep Michelle warm on the dais." How touching. Maybe someone can please hire Isabel Toledo again now? [New Yorker]
• Regardless of whether or not that happens, Toledo's sales are sure to see a boost. Barney's Simon Doonan reports scrambling to get her wares into his windows yesterday. "It’s going to be an Isabel Toledo homage," he said, before adding, "I’m sort of annoyed that Michelle Obama has spring merchandise before us!" [WWD]
• Here is a 735-word story about Michelle Obama's eyebrows. [Chicago Tribune]
• And why not let her hairstylist in on the action? [Allure]
• Lois Cassanos has been make-up artist to every president since Nixon. Cassanos claims she never uses anything more than foundation, concealer, and powder on her charges, since the leader of the free world has got to look manly, and reveals there was nothing on George H. W. Bush's lips when he said "read my lips." Good to know! [Allure]
• Can everyone please stop with the tacky Obama tie-ins? It's opportunistic and the thought of wearing something called "Obalma" on my lips makes my toes curl. [BrandFreak]
• Kim Kardashian is thinking of forswearing fur — because when her sister Khloe agreed to do so, PETA put her in her very own naked ad. Could it be that vain entertainment personalities are more interested by the thought of appearing nude and hot on a billboard somewhere than the actual plight of farmed animals worldwide? [E Online]
• PETA nonetheless salutes Payless's decision to produce its first-ever totally non-leather shoe line. In fact the animal rights group gave the company some kind of an award they call a "proggy." [PETA]
• Audrina Patridge vamps it up in her unique Real Girl way in the campaign for her Arden B. jeans line. Jonathan Rhys Meyers and celebspawn Alexandra Richards and Ben Taylor (Carly Simon and James Taylor's son) also scored spots in the deluge of spring denim ads. [NY Mag]
• New York designer Valdemar Iodice has an approach virtually guaranteed to get editors and buyers to make it to his scaled-back Fall/Winter show, even though a showroom presentation is a little less sexy than seeing designs on the catwalk. Upping the stakes for free gifts henceforth, he's offering attendees free dresses. Funny, that's normally how they make sure the models show up. The worm turns, etc. [WSJ]
• Goldman Sachs downgraded Polo Ralph Lauren to a "sell"; shares slid 7% in the remainder of the day's trading. [WSJ]
• Another groan-inducing Kenneth Cole billboard: "In tough times, some land on their feet (others on the Hudson). — Kenneth Cole. Thank you to the pilots, crew, and N.Y.ers for all that you did, and all that you do." How is it that Cole is only able to express even totally respectable notions in the voice of your corny old uncle-to-be-avoided at the annual reunion? [WWD]

• Designer Oscar de la Renta says Hillary Clinton, whom he's dressing for the Inaugural ball, is "very prudish about the type of clothes she likes to wear." It's a constant battle! [People]

• Fergie's MAC campaign is — how do we put this? —scary. [Oh No They Didn't]
• “Did you know there’s dissent in the Gossip Girl wardrobe closet? The main costume designer is clashing with the other stylists and producers on set because they think he’s making Blake look like a “trashy whore” and they’re convinced he was responsible for her awful Golden Globes dress." [Fashionista]
• Showing a total disregard for celebrity morale, every designer seems to be canceling their fashion week parties. [WWD]
• As the financial crisis hits the luxe market hard, both Elizabeth Arden and Estee Lauder cut their profit views. [Reuters]
• Alexander McQueen and Puma are teaming up for a (tartan?!) sportswear line. [WWD]
• Edina Monsoon, take note: Christian Lacroix is selling his Paris apartment for about $2.6 million. [WSJ]
• If you were panting to see the spawn of Keith Richards, Carly Simon and James Taylor shill for Lucky jeans (us neither), sorry, Charlie, you'll have to go online. [WWD]
• Optimism? Red herring? Either way, Project Runway is on the fashion week schedule, and we want to believe! [Blogging Project Runway]
• Dolce and Gabbana's long-awaited foray into cosemtics happens next month. [WWD]
• Wait for it: Alexander Wang's diffusion line is actually cheap! [New York]
• Jonathan Rhys Meyers, currently ludicrous for Hugo Boss cologne, will be the legs of New Energie jeans. [WWD]
• Stetson, us, wants Obama to wear a fedora to the Inaugural. We can all dream on. [Brand Freak]
• Oy: Saks is laying of 1,100 employees. That's 9% of its workforce. [WWD]
• And yet Uggs, the cockroach of the clothing world, are still doing better than ever! [Telegraph]
• Michael Pitt's doing the short film thin for designer Stefano Pilati. [WWD]
• And in real news, Calvin Klein is wrangling with the preservation board over overhaulin' his Hamptons waterfront home. [Media Bistro]

• So, you know how Tina Fey called out commenters from the messageboards in her Golden Globes acceptance speech? She's started a flamewar!

Tina says: "DianeFan thinks I have a smug smile. I don't know her. I don't what I did to her. Sometimes (I take it personally), but not too much. I don't read it too much." Now, DianeFan has posted: "I'm famous. She mentioned BabsonLacrosse too. Sorry Tina Fey but I still don’t think you deserved to win." Sigh. Giving the interwebs a bad name. [Perez]

• Heath Ledger's Golden Globe will eventually go to 3-year-old Matilda. [News.com.au]
• Did Mickey Rourke use steroids when he was training for The Wrestler? He told Men's Journal that he trained twice a day with an Israeli cage fighter and ate 7 meals to bulk up. And yeah, maybe got some other help: "When I'm a wrestler, I behave like a wrestler." [Perez]
• At a Golden Globes after-party, some drunk lady told Brad Pitt he looks "as ugly as a dog" in The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button. She also said: "You should definitely shave that goatee because it looks just horrible." In other news, Drew Barrymore was heard saying: "My biological clock is ticking so loud it sounds like a drum. I want kids so bad, but with no husband prospects around, I am thinking of adopting." Then Angelina gave Drew her number. And! Jonathan Rhys Meyers got wasted, as we saw. Yes, he did go to rehab five years ago. [This Is London]
• OMG: Mariska Hargitay has suffered a partially collapsed lung. [Reuters]
• And: Howie Mandel has been hospitalized with an irregular heartbeat. [Yahoo News via AP]
• Fox's Roger Friedman says Jennifer Aniston is doing just fine and is "warm and funny, a nice person to talk to on a Friday night." Eyeroll. [Fox 411]
• Oh, dear: Prince William and Prince Harry "affectionately" refer to an Indian family friend as "Sooty." Someone needs to get these Royals some sensitivity training, STAT. [Daily Mail]
• Never-single Kate Hudson is currently frolicking on the beach in Hawaii with Australian PGA star Adam Scott. They look like they're having fun. [Daily Mail]
• Tom Wilkinson was asked if he had any stories of hanging out with Tom Cruise off the set of Valkyrie and answered: "No, Tom isn't the kind of guy who hangs out." [E!]
• The latest on Amy Winehouse in St. Lucia is that she broke a bed and a lamp in her room during a weekend pillow fight that got out of hand, and by the time security arrived, she was naked and giving a lap dance. She was last seen trying out the resort's trapeze and telling guests: "Josh has gone home. He was lovely. But it was a holiday thing. I still love my Blake. While he’s locked away, I’m still gonna have a good time. He can’t do anything about it." [The Sun]
• Amy's "friend" Josh Bowman has flown home, and Blake Fielder-Civil has reportedly filed for divorce. [Daily Express]
• Britney's camp is looking for a Media Manager to update her Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, etc. And they're looking on a Harvard job board. You've gotta be smart to speak for Brit Brit! [MSNBC Scoop]
• Good news and bad news: Bruce Willis and Cybill Shepherd could reunite for a Moonlighting TV movie! David Addison lovers celebrate! Oh. And. Anne Hathaway could star in a remake of Breakfast At Tiffany's. Arg. [Variety]
• Emma Thompson is one of the environmentally-minded celebrities who purchased land near Heathrow airport to keep developers from building. [Mirror]
• Jennifer Love Hewitt just got a restraining order for the 62-year-old man who is stalking her. He's sent dozens of letters describing violent and sexual fantasies involving Hewitt. [AP]
• Ewan McGregor is going to direct the true story of two Scots who fooled the music industry into believing they were American gangsta rappers. [Daily Express]
• The peeps at Findmypast.com looked up David Beckham's ancestors and found that his great-great-great-great grandad, John Beckham, born in 1846, was a rag and bone man, which means NOT that he wore $242 skinny jeans but that he went door to door collecting old clothes and stuff for resale. In other news, Amy Winehouse is descended from Russian Jews. [The Sun]
• Have you seen this clip from Renée Zellweger's new movie, New In Town? It's always a gas when regional accents keep people from understanding each other. Not. [People]
• Oh no! Two Ugly Betty stars are leaving the show. Ashley Jenson, aka saucy Scot Christina, is one of them. The other character might be new love interest Molly. [E!]
• Bollywood! This picture of Ione Sky and Ben Lee's Hindu wedding in India looks pretty freakin awesome. [People]
• Total real life dramz for Gossip Girl's Kelly Rutherford: Divorce action between her and her estranged husband has turned ugly, and she wants to bar him from leaving the country with their 2-year-old son, because she's afraid they will vanish. [People]
• Amy Poehler is not surprised her new flick, Spring Breakdown, is headed straight to DVD: "Warner Bros. doesn’t want to release it because it’s Oscar season, and I think they’re afraid it may win. It would make them look bad, because they know they were sitting on an Oscar-winning movie." [Gatecrasher]
• This is the second time we're hearing this: There are some great guys again this season on American Idol. Auditions begin tonight! [USA Today]
• Music to your ears? Alec Baldwin is the voice of the New York Philharmonic. [Page Six]
• Kylie Minogue and her Spanish hunk have been strolling the streets of Barcelona. [The Sun]
• Figure skater Sasha Cohen has become a yoga enthusiast. "I wish I had taken it up much earlier," Sasha says. "It will always be a part of my life now." [USA Today]
• Four years after Everybody Loves Raymond left the air, Ray Romano is returning to TV, but with a midlife-crisis drama. [Reuters]
• Tilda Swinton will be on Patrick Wolf's new album? Great news for those of us who loved his "Magic Position", or "The Libertine". [Guardian]
• Lauryn Hill "wandered in" to an equestrian center in New Jersey and took a riding lesson. Ready or not! [Page Six]
• Robert Downey Jr.'s dad made a film called Chafed Elbows, in which the main character has an affair with his own mother, gives birth to $1,800 in $10 bills, has a hysterectomy, impersonates a cop, is sold as a piece of living art, goes to heaven and becomes a rock singer. It was made in 1966 but is playing in NYC for two days in February. [Page Six]
• Blind item! "Which Oscar winner got tired of eating at home — and cheated on his pregnant girlfriend with their local waitress?" [Gatecrasher]
• Fess up: Which one of you stole Lady Gaga's custom-made Christian Louboutin shoes, causing her to go on Jay Leno's show barefoot? [Gatecrasher]
• "What people don’t really know is that it’s a real illness and I am not a doctor, so I cannot identify specifically what brought me down. All I know is — the truth is — that I ended up in the hospital for three days." — Jeremy Piven on his mercury poisoning. [Gatecrasher]
• "I'm 41, and I'll go to the bathroom and glimpse myself in the mirror, and I'm like: What happened?" — Philip Seymour Hoffman to London's Observer. [Page Six]
• "It was right after I graduated high school, so it was a long time ago. I worked there for three months. I had been working as a dancer and I was on my own, so I thought, 'Tights and a leotard, tights and orange shorts, it's the same thing.' It wasn't the same thing. That was one of my Giselle moments [like the clueless Enchanted character] I was talking about when I realised it was completely different. It was so long ago. It's so not a part of who I am." — Amy Adams, on working at Hooters. [Sydney Morning Herald]
• "Gravity and wrinkles that come with aging are fine with me, it means nothing compared to the new wisdom inside my head and heart. It's the best time of my life. I don't think I've ever been happier. If my breasts fall down to the floor and everything starts to sag and becomes hideous and gross, I won't worry. I'll just stop appearing in front of the camera." — Drew Barrymore. MSNBC]
• "I made a decision. I wanna make popular music, but I want less fans. I want the freedom of having less fans. It's like the freedom of having less money. If you have less money, you have less responsibility. It's like Björk. If she wanted to pose naked, you'd be like, 'Oh, that's Björk.' But if I wanted to pose naked, people would draw all type of things into it. I definitely feel like, in the next however many years, if I work out for two months, that I'll pose naked. I break every rule and mentality of hip-hop, of black culture, of American culture." — Your friend Kanye West, in Vibe. [MSNBC]

[Beverly Hills, January 11. Image via INF]

[Poissy, France; December 18. Image via Flynet]

[Poissy, France; December 17. Image via Bauer-Griffin]

• Heidi and Spencer are going to Iraq to "perform" for the troops. And Meghan McCain — John's daughter — may be helping with the travel arrangements. Head. Exploding. [People]
• Omarosa went on Wendy Williams' new talk show Monday and shit got heated. Omarosa didn't like the way Wendy introduced her; when Wendy held Omarosa's book up to the camera, Omarosa snatched it out of Wendy's hand. Omarosa attacked Wendy's appearance, asking whether she'd had a nose job and saying she shouldn't wear wigs. "Omarosa wished her career was my career," Wendy says. "Omarosa is a delusional, D-list, pathetic woman." [Breitbart]
• Ooooh! Video of Omarosa and Wendy! [E!]
• This confusing report seems to hint that Christian Bale's mother and sister have accused him of assault. Say it ain't so. [The Sun]

• Was the Madonna/A-Rod kerfluffle engineered by manager Guy Oseary to give the Yankee a higher profile? [TMZ]
• Is Madonna overdoing it? Apparently, between the A-Rod drama and tour rehearsals, she is anemic, has a knee injury and is "down, physically and mentally." Call a waaamubalnce. [The Sun]
• Peaches Geldof, 19, nearly died from a drug overdose. The daughter of Former Boomtown Rats singer Sir Bob, 56, stopped breathing and was given mouth-to-mouth resuscitation by a pal. The party girl refused to go to the hospital when an ambulance arrived, fearing her dad would find out. Peaches felt well enough to attend the premiere of the Dark Knight the next day. [The Sun]
• Chinese star Tony Leung Chiu-Wai's wedding to Hong Kong actress Carina Lau Kar-ling is causing a "frenzy" in the entertainment news media in Hong Kong. Related: That is one hot couple. [International Herald Tribune]
• A Boston couple denied producers permission to shoot a film in their apartment building because Mel Gibson is in the movie. Ouch! [UPI]
• This blood-covered woman holding a gun is Nicole Richie. No, really! It's a still from her stint in the NBC show Chuck. [EW]
• Look out below! Bill Murray plans to jump out of a plane at the Chicago Air and Water Show next month. [UPI]
• When asked about the historical inaccuracies in The Tudors, Jonathan Rhys Meyers responded thusly: "We're not making a documentary for universities. Having actors with an appealing look is what an audience demands today – especially when there's quite a bit of sexual activity involved." [Telegraph]
• May 29, 2009 — Jay Leno's last day as host of The Tonight Show. [Reuters]
• Denise Richards went to court yesterday and the commissioner denied the majority of her requests regarding her custody battle with Charlie Sheen. It was a closed door hearing so we actually don't know what the hell the requests were. [USA Today]
• Remember back in October when Kid Rock was in a brawl at Waffle House? There's video now. Kid has a bodyguard and some pals, the dude he punched was alone. Seems like the fight was 4 on one…Scattered, smothered, covered, etc. [TMZ]
• Bloc Party frontman Kele Okereke claims he was the recipient of a racist tirade from the Sex Pistols' Johnny Rotten. Rotten, whose real name is John Lydon, denies everything, calls Okereke a liar and says: "Grow up and learn to be a true man." [LiveNews, Guardian]
• Girls Gone Wild mogul Joe Francis pleaded not guilty to tax evasion — he claims he's being targeted by the IRS because of how he makes a living. What's wrong with plying underage girls with alcohol and filming them in the shower? [LA Times]
• Does Miley Cyrus want to "transition" into adulthood with a racy film role? [MSNBC]
• Shanna Moakler vs. Kim Kardashian: Kim turns out to be the classy one in this fight. Imagine that. [Perez Hilton]
• Because Blake Incarcerated has already served most of his 27 month sentence, he should only remain in jail 18 more weeks — Christmas with Amy! [The Sun]
• Holy smokes: Britney left her lighter and cigarettes out on a table and Sean Preston, 2, picked 'em up. Playing with a lighter for 2 seconds might not kill a kid but it's a bad idea, no? [NY Post]
• Oh yes. There are pictures. The kid is holding the lighter. [Egotastic]
• Britney's Britney Spears Foundation has a $200,000 deficit, uh-oh. [Fox News]
• If you're rich, fashionable celebrity, you're in Portofino, Cap D'Antibes or St. Tropez right now. [Page Six]
• Al Reynolds has a new lady and she looks like Star Jones. [Page Six]
• Alec Baldwin: Pissed Diane Sawyer had to reschedule an interview because her husband, Mike Nichols, had heart surgery. [Rush & Molloy]
• Sam and Lindsay were in New York! They were seen on Mulberry street on Friday night and were in the Hamptons over the weekend. [Rush & Molloy]
• Taye Diggs was asked about that N-word debate that brought Elisabeth Hasselbeck to tears. "She doesn’t understand, and, no offense — I don’t think any white person has the right to tell a black person or to even weigh in on subject matter such as that. They don’t know what it’s like to be called that word; they don’t know what it’s like to be black," Diggs says. "They can have an opinion, but… don’t take a word that you created and called me for many, many years, and then me being in my position, have the strength to change what it means in my own culture. Don’t try to take it back now. Now it’s ours. Leave it alone." [Perez Hilton]
• "The breakdown of a marriage is a very difficult and painful experience especially when children are involved. In light of the fact that many pictures have surfaced in print and on the Internet which has caused myself and my family great embarrassment, I felt it necessary to at least acknowledge publicly that yes indeed my wife and I have separated and I will not be commenting any further." — Balthazar Getty. [Yahoo News]

[New York, March 19. Image via Splash.]

Do we hold women to different standards? Is it rough/sexy/dangerous when a man battles with drugs and alcohol, but disgusting/sad/inappropriate when a woman does? A new study has found that young, single, poorly-educated or mentally ill females are at a higher risk for suicide. And that's not just in this country: The study included data from 85,000 people around the world. Put aside your Britney fatigue for a moment and consider the implications of her being stalked by a 15-man crew 24 hours a day, whereas Owen Wilson is free to swim or what have you: "There are jackals at the gate just waiting for her to commit suicide," Ms. Roy says. "It's a travesty." Why are we ready to give the guys another chance, but cruel, pitiless unforgiving and when it comes to how we expect women to behave?

Therapist: Troubled Male Stars Get A Pass [UPI]
Suicide risks common across borders: study [Reuters]
Suicide Risk Factors Consistent Across Nations [EurekAlert]
Eva Mendes In Rehab [TMZ]

• Paris Hilton rescued an Oompa Loompa at the Art Basel Miami show. Seriously! The little person (in costume) fell; she screamed for help and stayed with him until an ambulance came. [Gatecrasher]
  
• Jennifer Lopez has spent a shitload of cash on her unborn twins already, surprise surprise. Two $349 cashmere outfits; two strollers at $429 each and a Balmoral enameled black carriage: $3,495. [Rush & Molloy]
  
• Random truck driver to Sex And The City's Chris Noth: "Marry Carrie!" [Gatecrasher]
  
• Jessica Simpson: Totally pissed that Eva Longoria was hanging out with John Mayer. [Page Six]
  
• Ryan Gosling was seen hugging and exchanging numbers with actress Hayden Panettiere, sigh. [Rush & Molloy]

• Spencer Pratt and Heidi Montag of The Hills say their wedding is off. Did anyone think it was actually going to happen? [TMZ]
• Aerosmith singer Steven Tyler's girlfriend got in a catfight with a Seminole Indian woman at a nightclub in Florida. I go cray-zay... [Page Six]
• Music producer Scott Storch: broke? [Page Six]
• Blind item! "Which reality 'star' tried to take advantage of room service on a recent press junket to Atlantic City? The heartthrob repeatedly called a staffer's cell phone at 6 a.m. to demand that she 'or any of the other bitches get over to my room' for sexcapades." [Rush & Molloy]
• Gavin Rossdale says 1-year-old son Kingston is his "greatest triumph" and is already into music: "He's big on drums." [People]
• "She has a real sense of style that I just love. She's very much a fashion icon and I adore what she wears. She's so unique and original." — Victoria "Posh Spice" Beckham on Amy Winehouse. [Mirror]
• Led Zeppelin played "Stairway To Heaven" 90 minutes into their sold-out show last night in London and the crowd went crazy. [USA Today]
• Kate Moss' new nanny is Sadie Frost's mother. She'll replace Kate's present nanny, who is Sadie Frost's younger sister. Go with what you know! [Mirror]
• Shirley MacLaine, 73, whose film, Poor Things was held up when Lindsay Lohan, 21, went to rehab, says "the addiction to fame is a disease. Some of these girls are addicted to having their picture in magazines." [Mirror]
• A pathologist says Anna Nicole Smith's son was killed by a combination of methadone, Zoloft and Lexapro. [USA Today]
• The lead singer of Quiet Riot, who was found dead Nov. 25 at his home in Las Vegas, died of a cocaine overdose, the toxicology reports reveal. [USA Today]
• Uh-oh. Jonathan Rhys Meyers and Pete Doherty might be sharing a flat together. Can any good come of this? [MSNBC]

• Pete Doherty says he speaks to Amy Winehouse "almost every day." He says they are helping each other battle drugs and Amy's been clean since her husband, Blake Fielder-Civil, has been in prison. Uh, is this a good idea? [The Sun]
  
• Meanwhile, Amy's mom says of Blake, "Thank God he's gone [to jail]. Everyone else can see it. Amy chooses not to." Janis Winehouse also says Blake introduced Amy to drugs. Amy, listen to your mother! [Mirror]
  
• Dr. Jan Adams appeared on Larry King Live last night — only to tell Larry King that the family of Dr. Donda West had asked him not to go on. Dr. Adams shook King's hand and walked off the set. [TMZ]

• Meanwhile, Dr. Donda West's funeral was held yesterday in Oklahoma City, OK. Kanye West reportedly said he wanted his mother not to "rest in peace, but rest in paradise." [TMZ]
• Hospital staff at Cedars-Sinai in L.A. accidentally gave Dennis Quaid's newborn twins the wrong medication, and the babies are in the neo-natal intensive care unit. [TMZ]
• Heather Mills and her crazytown publicist Michele Elyzabeth are cutting off any news outlet that dares to make fun of Mills. Ooh, threats! [Page Six]
• Media mogul Mark Cuban may join forces with Mario Lopez to put together a celebrity martial arts program — where the stars "beat the heck" out of each other. Karate Chopping With The Stars? [Page Six]
• Terrence Howard will debut on Broadway as Brick in Cat On A Hot Tin Roof. Don't forget the baby wipes! [Gatecrasher]
• George Clooney sympathizes with Britney Spears: "You look at the footage of Britney running the red light - there's eight guys with cameras at night in the middle of the street. There are no rules now," he says. Also, Clooney was involved in a recent near-collision with paparazzi while riding his motorcycle in the Hollywood Hills. [People]
• A few days ago we heard that powerhouse producer Timbaland was expecting a baby, but wasn't in "a couple" with the mother. Guess what? The baby's been born (it's a girl) and Timbaland is engaged. That was quick! [People]
• Actress Rebecca Romijn and hubby Jerrry O'Connell adopted a German Shepherd puppy from a rescue organization — and had to euthanize him one week later. They claim he had a terminal case of pneumonia; the rescue organization says they should have had a chance to nurse the dog back to health. [E!]
• Jonathan Rhys Meyers' mother has died, days after he was arrested in Ireland. She had been "suffering from a short illness." Maybe that's why JRM turned to booze? [BBC News]
• Madonna's daughter Lourdes may appear in the next Harry Potter movie. No eyebrow jokes! [The Sun]
• Tiger Woods has bulldozed his $47 million Florida waterfront estate to make way for a "mega home." The new mansion will be 10,000 square feet, have three bedrooms, a master suite, wine cellar, cinema and games area, boat house, golf training studio, three car garage, guest house, tennis court, gym, pool, lap lane, boat docks and small golf course. Our tiny apartment just got smaller. [Telegraph]

• Jonathan Rhys Meyers was arrested and charged with public drunkenness at Dublin Airport on Sunday. Meyers, 30, has been in rehab twice, most recently in April of this year. [Breitbart]
  
• The Hollywood Prayer Network is praying for troubled starlets like Britney Spears and Lindsay Lohan. Every little bit helps. [ABC News]
  
• Megaproducer Timbaland is about to be a baby-daddy. A woman who works at his record label is due in November and while they are not a couple, Timbaland will be "very involved in the child's upbringing." Raise your hand if you think the kid is destined to have a hit single at an early age! [Page Six]
  
• The headline reads "Nicole Richie's Oz-Themed Baby Shower" but not Oz the prison drama! The Wizard Of Oz. Also, is Nic having a boy? [People]
  
• Britney Spears told a reporter that she will indeed have Thanksgiving dinner with Miley and Billy Ray Cyrus. Mmm, tryptophan. [TMZ]

• Paris Hilton at the Victoria's Secret Fashion Show bash: "There are no guys at this party - or in LA in general. New York has so much better guys." Uh, is that a compliment? [Page Six]
• A "new" Paris Hilton sex tape is actually old Paris Hilton video of her in a bubble bath from when her storage locker stuff was up for sale, but if you didn't see it then, now's your chance. [News.com.au]
• Eva Longoria pissed off the management at the Chateau Marmont recently: she disrupted the dining room by moving chairs around so that she and her buddies could sit next to Victoria "Posh Spice" Beckham. Hollywood is so high school. [Page Six]
• Serena Williams has a new man, rapper Common. [Page Six]
• Blind item! "Which leading man has aged a bit since his last major starring role — and so, in an effort to freshen up, got a dye job and an eye lift? Studio execs on the sure-to-be-blockbuster movie he's in are relieved." [Page Six]
• Nicole Kidman testified in an Australian court in the case against a paparazzo a newspaper described as "Sydney's most disliked freelance photographer." [Sydney Morning Herald]
• Tom Cruise's lawyer sent letters to weekly celeb magazines, threatening legal action if the tabloids used pictures of Cruise in a fat suit on the set of Tropic Thunder. Well, now we feel the need to see these pix. [MSNBC]
• Kanye West broke down on stage at a concert in Paris Saturday. The band started to play "Hey Mama," West said, "This song is for my mother..." and could get no further. [People]

[New York, November 11. Image via Splash.]