• George Clooney is in Sudan — along with an NBC news team and Ann Curry — trying to raise awareness about the upcoming election in January.

[Wurzeburg, September 22. Image via Pacific Coast News Online.]

[Wuerzburg, Germany, September 21. Image via Flynet.]

• For an episode that will air today, Jane Lynch visited Ellen and talked about coming out in Hollywood.

• Carole White, Naomi Campbell's former agent, was questioned in the Charles Taylor war crimes trial yesterday, and further contradicted Naomi's testimony.

Today, even those celebrities whom we don't think of as political expressed their joy at the overturning of California's Proposition 8. Well, most of them...

• WWD writes that Angelina Jolie needs to up her style game because Salt had boring clothes. Jolie is failing in her duty to all womankind because, "fashion needs aspirational icons; it always has. Michelle Obama can't do it alone." [WWD]

[Berlin, July 9. Image via WENN.]

• Brittany Murphy's husband, Simon Monjack, was found dead last night in the couple's Hollywood home.

[Cannes, May 22. Image via Getty.]

• "Working with these incredible hair and makeup teams, you go in looking like a schmoe, and you come out like a movie star," Scarlett Johansson tells V. "You're like this perfectly prepared sausage…no one ever sees what goes in." [People]

• In a "scathing expose" airing tomorrow on Entertainment Tonight, baseball coach Hector Penate claims he had an affair with Shawn Southwick while Larry King was cheating with her sister. He says the couple's young sons knew about both affairs.

• Abercrombie & Fitch was named one of America's worst companies by Corporate Responsibility Magazine. Weight Watchers also earned the dubious plaudit. [NYTimes]
• The new L'Officiel is a tribute to Alexander McQueen, and includes over 1000 photos of his work. [DesignScene]

[Paris, March 17. Image via Bauer-Griffin]

[Los Angeles, February 22. Image via Pacific Coast News]

The Calvin Klein Collection & Los Angeles Nomadic Division 1st Annual Celebration For L.A. Arts Monthly and Art Los Angeles Contemporary - yes that's the name - was star-studded and typically understated...except when it wasn't. Like when Jared Leto appeared.

• An Australia's Next Top Model judge rejected a plus-size applicant who had made it to the second round of competition because "she would end up doing catalogues for Target." [NineMSN]
• Milla Jovovich might've booked the next Ann Taylor campaign. [P6]

[Toronto, November 10. Image via INFDaily.]

• Lindsay Lohan is in Morocco for the opening of some resort and was spotted kissing Gerard Butler at the launch party. She allegedly said:

Irina is clearly talented, and will probably be in the top 3. So why is it so hard to like her?