[New York, May 8. Image via INFDaily.]

• Is Michael Jackson making a comeback with New Kids On The Block? Apparently he's in secret talks to link up with the group, and hopefully it's not just because they have the word "kids" in their name. [Mirror]
• Um, NKOTB is also doing a song with New Edition. Party like it's 1988! [Just Jared]
• Oh, dear. Michael Jackson uses a wheelchair now. And "the skin on his hands is peeling, almost like a snake’s." [The Sun]
• Tom Cruise sent ex-wife Nicole Kidman a "room full of flowers" after she gave birth last weekend. Classy, very classy. [Mirror]
• Jennifer Garner's pregnant! If you believe this report via the National Enquirer. [Contact Music]
• Christie Brinkley and Peter Cook have reached a surprise settlement in their divorce case as of 6:15 a.m. Details to come. [People]

• Uma Thurman is engaged to Arki Busson. We know that. ButhHe used to date Elle Macpherson, whom he allegedly would not marry because she was divorced and he was a staunch Catholic. Yet! Uma is also divorced and her dad is a Buddhist. So. [Daily Mail]
• Whichever mag ends up getting pictures of Brad and Angelina's babies will be banned from using the word "Brangelina." Never really liked that word anyway. I mean, I've used it, but I regret it now. [TMZ]
• Listen to Ali Lohan's new track here. Does it have a "hip hop vibe"? Or is it somewhere between "meh" and "forgettable"? [People]
• Cynthia Rodriguez spoke with Cindy Adams of the New York Post, but made no mention of Madonna. She says Alex Rodriguez has changed and is no longer the man she once loved. [NY Post]
• Robert Downey Jr. as Sherlock Holmes in a flick directed by Guy Ritchie? Yes, yes, yes! [E!]
• Ethan Hawke married his currently pregnant former nanny Ryan Shawhughes. Dear Ryan: Hire a male nanny. Love, Uma. [E!]
• Sunny day, sweeping the clouds away… David Beckham will be on Sesame Street! [Mirror]
• No surprise here: Amy Winehouse's neighbors want her evicted. [Mirror]
• Um, Amy visited Blake Incarcerated in jail and "yanked her top down, pressed her boobs against a glass booth and writhed suggestively." [The Sun]
• Leo DiCaprio wants to reduce amount of junk mail being sent. And huge envelopes full of paper and forms for the Natural Resource Defense Council's "Polar Bear S.O.S." campaign are sent with his name in the return address space. Whoops! [Page Six]
• Socialite Arden Wohl was arrested in East Hampton Saturday for writing "Ralphy Lipshits" in lipstick on the window of a Ralph Lauren store. We all know he was born with the last name Lipschitz, calm down. [Page Six]
• Will Matthew McConaughey and his new baby be in OK! magazine? [Page Six]
• The fact that there's a Dane Cook dog poop scandal is pretty shitty. [Page Six]
• This is "huge": Little people Wee Man and Wee Matt will be boxing each other in Vegas. [Page Six]
• Did Jennifer Aniston find a batch of letters from ex-girlfriend Jessica Simpson in John Mayer's guitar case? [Page Six]
• James Franco graduated from UCLA last month — at the age of 30 — after quietly taking courses in English Literature for years. And! He'll attend graduate school at NYU in the fall. Sigh. Nothing's hotter than a brain. [Rush & Molloy]
• Will Lance Bass appear on Dancing With The Stars with a male dance partner??? Because that would be awesome. And frankly, he's danced with dudes in public for years… Heard of something called 'NSync? [Rush & Molloy]
• Colin Farrell smashed into a car in Hollywood — but he totally left a note! "Did a bad thing!" it reads. "Deepest apologies." Ah, there was a time I wish he'd smash into me… Over it now, thanks. [TMZ]
• Pam Anderson doing a split. [TMZ]
• The hardest part of being in treatment for anxiety and depression is missing her daughter, Heather Locklear says. [People]
• Courteney Cox will appear on three episodes of Scrubs as the new Chief of Medicine, which should be fun. [People]
• Gwyneth Paltrow's daughter Apple makes her little brother Moses cross-dress. [People]
• Jennifer Lopez's restaurant, Madre's, has been shut down. And guess who is a madre now? [E!]
• The wedding of Sacha Baron Cohen and Isla Fisher is on hold because she hasn't converted to Judaism yet. Her Torah studies are "going slowly" because she's been working. Someone named "Bonnie" commented on this story thusly: "How sexist is that? It's wrong for her to be 'hasty' and return to work after having a baby but it's good that he "channelled his energies into work"? They should be glad the child will have a mother it can look up to who has a career and ambitions." [Daily Mail]
• Michelle Williams is is asking Heath Ledger's friends to share stories about him, because she is making a movie about Heath so Matilda can see what her dad was really like. [News.com.au]
• "I don't know why women do Botox. It doesn't make them look younger, it just makes them look like they had work done." — Julianne Moore. [People]

• We were "purchased" by Conde Nast...not. But you guys got your panties in some serious bunches about it.
  
• Maybe you were just cranky because you live in New York and you're not getting any.
  
• Perhaps you just discovered your second grader is a sexual harasser.
  
• Anna and Tracie crashed the New York Weddings Showcase and all they got was some moisturizer, lobster cups, mini-hamburgers and period-blood.

• We wondered if hot chicks make dudes financially irresponsible.
• We worshipped at the altar of baseball.
• We peed on the altar of Rush Limbaugh.
• But New Kids on the Block reunited! So crack open a cold one and pour some out for Donnie, Joey, Jordan, Danny and Jonathan. It's Friday!

• Jessica Simpson has been hospitalized at Cedars Sinai for a minor kidney infection. Did she pick up something in Kuwait? Ow, ow, ow. [TMZ]
  
• Oh, she's already out of the hospital. And "doing fine." [The Sun]
  
• Amy Winehouse is moving — for the third time in four months — because her new flat has "demons." [The Sun]
  
• Despite what you may have heard, Johnny Depp will not be shilling for Magnum condoms. [Portƒolio]
  
• Denise Richards: "I'll never talk about weight around [my daughters]. And they'll never hear me say, 'Mommy's feeling fat today.' That kind of attitude just makes young girls grow up to be dissatisfied with their bodies." She will, however, include them in her new reality show! [People]
  
• Jennifer Aniston has formed a film company called Echo Films with producing partner Kristin Hahn. (Aniston was previously a partner in Brad Pitt's film company, Plan B.) [Variety]

• Meanwhile, Brad Pitt is producing a new film called Lost City Of Z, about a lost city in the Amazon. [Variety]
• Oh, Brad Pitt MIGHT be at the Kodak theater in Hollywood on Sunday for Idol Gives Back, the American Idol charity fundraising event. But will he be married? [E!]
• Director Pedro Almodovar says his inspiration is actress Deborah Kerr. [Telegraph]
• Adam Sandler: Broke his ankle playing basketball. [USA Today]
• Grammy Winning singer Nancy Wilson has been hospitalized with a collapsed lung. Be well! [USA Today]
• Dane Cook: Named unfunniest comic. Ha. [Page Six]
• Bruce Willis' girlfriend Emma Heming previously dated Sean "Diddy" Combs, Brent Bolthouse and John Stamos. Ain't sayin' she's a goldigger, but... [Page Six]
• Julia Louis-Dreyfus says she only ate egg whites on the day of the Emmy awards because she wanted to look thin. "I don't know why people thought that was so funny. I guess some people like to pretend they can eat like shit and look great in their dress." [Page Six]
• Stavros Niarchos: Seen leaving a NYC hotspot with three ladies. [Page Six]
• Ed Westwick, aka Gossip Girl's Chuck Bass, was seen playing with his band in a downtown NYC club and chugging drinks on stage. After his set, Ed stumbled out yelling "I'm so fucked up!" [Rush & Molloy]
• Blind item! "Which small-screen actress has been texting and fawning over and otherwise smothering her '90s TV megastar boyfriend, just after her PR leaked the relationship to the press? At this rate, she might have to cast a new beau for next season." [Gatecrasher]
• Kelly Lynch is sending her Road House co-star Patrick Swayze best wishes. "If anyone can get through this, it's him," she says of his fight with pancreatic cancer. [People]
• Jennifer Love Hewitt is not pregnant, she just wore a baby doll top. Leave her alone. [People]
• Rihanna says she and Chris Brown "are best friends, honestly, like brother and sister." That's cool, even though I never do this with my brother. [People]
• New Kids On The Block! On the Today show! April 4! Oh oh oh oh oh — hangin' tough! [People]
• A woman who has a restraining order against her and can't come within 500 feet of John Cusack was arrested Sunday near the actor's home in Malibu. Yikes! Stalker. [E!]
• Britney Spears is back with her former manager, Larry Rudolph, who had represented her her since she was a teen and was the one who urged her to go to rehab (after which she dropped him). Could be a step in the right direction. [ONTD]
• Meanwhile, Brit's dad is trying to keep here working since it's "therapeutic" for her. [MSNBC]
• Feuds over fashion on the set of the Sex And The City movie? You don't say. [Mirror]
• Sharon Osbourne, live, on TV at the Brit awards: Get on with it, you pisshead ... Shut up you're pissed. Piss off, you bastard. Piss off!" TV regulator Ofcom (kind of like the FCC) says her language was "acceptable." [Mirror]
• Newly-divorced Paul McCartney and his new girlfriend, Nancy Shevell (whom the UK paper calls a "millionairess") were seen "giggling and smooching" on a Caribbean beach yesterday. Love is all you need! [Mirror]
• Ray Romano: Returning to TV in a new one-hour comedic drama? [UPI]
• Daniel Craig has been named "Britain's Best Dressed Man" by the UK edition of GQ. But do we like him better fully clothed or, um, partially? [Reuters]