• This is exactly what the world needs now: Miley Cyrus is covering "Every Rose Has Its Thorn."

Turns out, she's a Poison fan, and Bret Michaels might play guitar on her track. As for this picture of them together, I just want to pull down her shirt and pull him away — they are too close and need to leave a little space for the Holy Ghost. [People]

• Try to keep up: Lindsay Lohan has a new man: Gucci model Adam Senn, who had a stint on The City. He's waiting for her to come back from India. [Gatecrasher]
• Oh yeah: Lindsay Lohan is in New Delhi, making a documentary about saving children from hunger and human trafficking. She tweeted: "Over 40 children saved so far… Within one day's work… This is what life is about." My admittedly cynical question is: Would she have gone if there were no cameras? [Page Six]
• MTV will air a domestic violence public service announcement after next week's episode of Jersey Shore, in which Snooki gets punched in the face. [NY Daily News]
• Tyler Perry's mom, Willie Maxine Perry — on whom he based Madea — has died at the age of 64. [NY Daily News]
• Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith will be in Norway Friday, to host the Nobel Peace Prize concert in Oslo. They got the job through a friend who is a Harvard professor before President Obama won the prize, but Jada calls that "the icing on the cake." Expect performances by Wyclef Jean, Donna Summer, Toby Keith, Lang Lang and Natasha Bedingfield. [USA Today]
• Today a Los Angeles court will decide if Roman Polanski needs to appear in person to pursue his claim that his child rape case was tainted by judicial and prosecutorial misconduct and should be thrown out. [AP]
• Sarah Jessica Parker, whose body is so obviously sculpted by some kind of yogalates, was asked how she stays slim: "By running around, stressed, no sleep. I guess I try to be disciplined." [Telegraph]
• Tiger Woods' texts and emails reveal a man who was worried women only wanted to be with him because he was famous. He did not, however, seem to be worried about adultery. [MSNBC via In Touch]
• People magazine is the only weekly to cover the Tiger Woods scandal from the perspective of his wife Elin; the headline reads: "Inside Her Ordeal." [MSNBC Scoop]
• This shit really ventures into TMI category: Tiger Woods' mistress Rachel Uchitel is freaking out after finding out how many women Tiger had unprotected sex with and plans to get tested for STDs. [TMZ]
• A breakdown of the "key players" in the Tiger Woods dramz at the link. [NY Daily News]
• Rihanna and Justin Timberlake — who was without Jessica Biel — attended the same party, but and stayed on opposite sides of the room. Subtle! [Gatecrasher]
• And! Justin Timberlake was seen at this other party, where a "source" says: "He certainly didn't look like a man with a girlfriend." He was partying with Bret Ratner and a bunch of girls; none of them were Jessica Biel. [Page Six]
• Casey Johnson and Tila Tequila are "engaged." [Page Six]
• We'd heard that Chris Cuomo was quitting Good Morning America, but here's the deal: He's leaving and being "promoted" to 20/20. [ABC News]
• Paul McCartney was asked if marrying Heather Mills was his worst mistake of the last decade. He replied: "OK, yeah. I suppose that has to be the prime contender." Harsh! But he added: "I don't want to down anyone. These things happen. I tend to look at the positive side, which is that I have another beautiful daughter out of it." [Telegraph]
• Liza Minnelli has struck a "secret" deal to end a $100 million sexual harassment suit brought against her by her former assistant. M'Hammed Soumayah claims Liza would beat him during drunk rampages and told the father of two he'd lose his job if he didn't have sex with her. [NY Post]
• No Doubt sued Activision over using the bands' likenesses in Band Hero; now Activision claims No Doubt is at fault for failing to ask for a restriction on the game. [LA Times]
• Jay Leno sill does standup shows even though he has a TV show, and says: "When you work in TV, you get these odd notes on little slips of paper that say you are or aren't doing well with boys between the ages of 9 and 13 or you need to make more cat jokes because the people with cats aren't watching often enough. But if you walk into a 1,500-seat theater and it's packed, you know you are doing fine. If it's only two-thirds full, you know you have some more work to do." [MSNBC Scoop]
• Billy Joel and Christie Brinkley are pissed about a report published in the New York Post which claimed that their daughter, Alexa Ray Joel, attempted suicide after a fight with her mother during a family vacation. Her parents are calling the story "false." [AP]
• At the link, columnist Pete Hammond attempts to answer the question: "Can Mo'Nique win without playing the Oscar game?" [LA Times]
• Cameron Diaz has been cast to star in a "raunchy comedy" called Bad Teacher. She'll play a "foulmouthed, gold-digging middle-school teacher who, after getting dumped by her boyfriend, competes with a colleague for the affections of the school's model teacher." The script was penned by two writers from The Office. [Variety]
• Tori Amos remembers that time someone tried to commit suicide at one of her shows. [Gatecrasher]
• Sherri Shepherd and MVP: Splitsville. [Gatecrasher]
• Nas and Kelis tried a reconciliation in September, but it didn't work. She was in court yesterday dealing with the divorce case. [TMZ]
• A judge ordered Nas to increase his payments to his soon-to-be ex-wife and their son to $51,101 a month. [AP]
• Nas wants overnight visits with his son. [TMZ]
• Alexa Chung, Emma Roberts and Abigail Breslin will be host Teen Vogue's party at the Louis Vuitton store in NYC tonight, because nothing says teen spirit like a $700 logo bag made of canvas. [Page Six]
• Carrie Underwood would like for you to know that her song, "Cowboy Cassanova," is not about Tony Romo. "I would never immortalize a guy that did me wrong," she tells Esquire. "I would never give him that much credit." [Us Magazine via Esquire]
• Adam Lambert might perform at the Oscars?!?! It seems Glambert's got a song at on the 2012 soundtrack. [NY Post]
• Eclipse, the third Twilight movie, will be shot for IMAX theaters, meaning you can see Sparkle Vamp and Buff Werewolf 72 feet wide and 53 feet high. *mope* [NY Daily News]
• A sick man stalking the singer Ashanti has been arrested; he had sent more than 30 text messages to her mom, in which he described masturbating while thinking of Ashanti, her mother and her sister. He also texted Ashanti's mom a picture of his exposed genitalia. [NY Post]
• Brian Bonsall, who played Andy Keating on Family Ties, was arrested in Colorado after he repeatedly hit a friend with a broken wooden stool. Also, as you can see in his mug shot, he has snakebite piercings and is heavily tattooed. What would Steven, Elyse, Alex, Mallory and Jennifer say? Also, where is Tina Yothers? [NY Post]
• "Actually, my assistant and I are now planning a pairs figure-skating dance routine based on them. It wasn't actually the image I was trying to project, but I'll go with it." — Katie Couric on her infamous dancefloor snapshots. [Page Six]
• "I can be up and down like a yo-yo. I can be depressed. I know I'm taking a big chance telling people this but you have to be honest. I used to be made a fool of at school. It was psychological bullying and that leaves a scar and it also cultivates a lot of anger. When people are a wee bit slow others pick at them. My life was made absolute hell." — Susan Boyle. [The Sun]
• "I don't think I would ever want fame like them. I have to say, I think Miley Cyrus is still quite young. She's what? Seventeen? I think she's very brave for all that fame to be thrown at her so young. She's like another Britney Spears. I don't envy her at all — or any of those girls who get that much attention. I suppose we're different kinds of actors. I focus on my work. The stuff that comes afterward — the press and premieres — it's fine, it's fun… but what I really want to do is work on my acting." — 15-year-old Saoirse Ronan, of The Lovely Bones, when asked about her peers like Selena Gomez and Miley Cyrus. Saoirse also says her passion for acting came from playing: "I used to make up stories. Little soap operas. Polly Pocket's boyfriend was Woody from Toy Story. They were together for a very long time — since high school, actually. In college, he had an affair. It was very complex — things that probably a 7-year-old shouldn't have been imagining. I was a weird gal." [LA Times]

• Police believe Joshua Woodward, a restaurateur from L.A., gave his 13-weeks pregnant girlfriend an abortion inducing drug without her consent. She claims just hours before she miscarried, Woodward touched her sexually, leaving white powder in her underwear. • Conseulo Carreto Valencia, 61, has been sentenced to 10 years in prison - the maximum sentence - for forcing girls to work as prostitutes. In this rather tasteless article, the NY Daily News refers to her as a "mini-madam," due to her short stature. •  A Danish political party has fessed up to pasting yellow penis stickers all over the posters for opposing parties. "We admit we did it," said party Vice President Niels Andreasen. But it seems like their hilarious efforts paid off: "At first we figured we'd get around 200 votes. But now we've had 10,000 visitors to our Web site and we have 500 new Facebook friends." • Two cities in California have voted to outlaw the declawing of cats. Beverly Hills City Council and the Los Angeles City Council joined Santa Monica and San Francisco in the recent ban. •  A 20-year-old Somali woman was stoned to death for adultery in front of a crowd of 200 on Tuesday afternoon. She had recently been divorced, and was reportedly dating a 29-year-old man. He received 100 lashes for his part in the affair. • A research team from the UK found that almost 50% of women have a genetic variation which reduces their ability to produce vitamin A from beta-carotene. This may mean that up to half the women in England could be at risk for vitamin A deficiency. • Doctors believe that they may be able to use eggs donated by younger women to increase the chances of conception among older women. A team from Japan removed the nuclei from eggs of women undergoing IVF and injected them into eggs donated by women under 35. • The city of Sacramento, California has presented 18-year-old Margarita Vargas with an official proclamation, calling her decision to call the police after hearing about the brutal gang rape of a teen girl "a bold act of humanity." • Olivia Thomas, the oldest person in the U.S., died this week at the age of 114. Thomas was believed to be the third oldest person in the world at the time of her death. •  A police officer in Arkansas recently tasered a 10-year-old girl when she refused to get into his police car. The report says the stun was "very, very brief" and only used to bring the girl to a youth shelter. • It seems Brian Adams, the photographer who shot the picture of Sarah Palin in shorts for Runner's World violated his contract by reselling the photo to Newsweek. A spokeswoman for Runner's World said the picture was supposed to be under embargo until August 2010, and "Runner's World did not provide Newsweek with its cover image... It was provided to Newsweek by the photographer's stock agency, without Runner's World's knowledge or permission." A Newsweek spokesman responded, "We purchased the photo from an agency and were not aware of any issues with it." • Police say they're not filing any more charges in the murder of 5-year-old Shaniya Davis until it's decided which North Carolina county will handle the case. Her mother, Antoinette Davis, and Mario McNeill have already been arrested and charged with kidnapping and child abuse involving prostitution. • Katherine Sebelius addressed the confusion over new breast cancer screening recommendations saying, "The U.S. Preventive Task Force is an outside independent panel of doctors and scientists who make recommendations... They do not set federal policy, and they don't determine what services are covered by the federal government... The Task Force has presented some new evidence for consideration but our policies remain unchanged. Indeed, I would be very surprised if any private insurance company changed its mammography coverage decisions as a result of this action." • A 13-year-old boy in Alabama was arrested after he asked an undercover officer posing as a prostitute for sex. The officer says she tried to run him off more than once, but he insisted, so she had to arrest him. He was charged with a misdemeanor count of loitering while looking for a prostitute. • In its 2009 state of the world population report, the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) says the world's poor are the most vulnerable to the effects of climate change, and most of the 1.5 billion people living on less than $1 a day are women. "Poor women in poor countries are among the hardest hit by climate change, even though they contributed the least to it," said UNFPA executive director Thoraya Ahmed Obaid. • Last month the U.K.'s Law Commission proposed that unmarried couples who live together for two years should be able to claim half of their partner's estate if they die without a will. Baroness Deech, chairman of the Bar Standards Board says, "Cohabitation law retards the emancipation of women, degrades the relationship, takes away choice, is too expensive and would extend an already unsatisfactory maintenance law for married couples to another large category," adding, "Women do not need and ought not to require to be kept by men after their relationship has come to an end." • British hedge fund manager Mark Lowe is being sued for sexual discrimination by female executive Jordan Wimmer because he repeatedly forwarded the office sexist emails. She confronted him when he sent around a dumb blonde joke. He said in court: "I didn't for a moment suppose anyone would take exception to a feeble joke of this sort. It was not directed against [Ms Wimmer]. The thought never occurred to me that she'd be offended." •

[Charikar, Afghanistan; May 11. Image via Getty]

An Afghan schoolgirl lies in hospital after being admitted with symptons of poisoning in Charikar, some 50 kms north of Kabul on May 11, 2009. More than 60 Afghan schoolgirls were admitted to hospital with symptoms of poisoning, apparently from gas, in the second incident in the same town in two weeks, officials said. Concerned relatives crowded the hospital in the town of Charikar, about 50 kilometres (30 miles) north of Kabul, after the apparent mass poisoning at the Hora-i-Jalali Girls' High School. AFP PHOTO/Massoud HOSSAINI (Photo credit should read MASSOUD HOSSAINI/AFP/Getty Images)

• Amy Winehouse arrived at Pentonville prison for a visit with the hubs wearing a puffy heart-shaped pin that read "Blake." Unfortunately, she was turned away, because she was late and visiting hours were over. These tears dry on their own. [The Sun]
  
• Rikki Rockett of Poison was arrested on a rape warrant as he stepped off of a flight from New Zealand at LAX on Monday. Can Bret Michaels stop frenching blow-up dolls long enough to help an old friend out? [TMZ]
  
• Grey's Anatomy hottie Justin Chambers speaks out about his sleep disorder: "It's a biological sleep disorder. Your mind keeps racing, and your body is tired. It wants to go to sleep, but it can't." Hmm, maybe that's why he has 5 kids? [People]
  
• "I'm not sure I can sing 'Holiday' or 'Like A Virgin' ever again. I just can't. Unless somebody paid me like $30 million or something. [Like if] some Russian guy wants me to come to the wedding he's going to have to a 17-year-old." —Madonna. [People]

• Madonna was also heard bitching about traffic congestion charges in London, LOL. [Mirror]
• Oh, and Madonna is on the cover of the new "green" issue of Vanity Fair, looking like she will fucking eat you for breakfast. [The.Life Files]
• Have Kate Moss and Jamie Hince set a date? A source says they'll get married in September. [The Sun]
• Heath Ledger's will has been released. The 2003 document leaves 50% of his assets to his sisters and the rest to his parents. [TMZ]
• Britney Spears is on a health kick and has been having colon cleaning sessions at a Beverly Hills clinic, TMI!!! [Mirror]
• Gwen Stefani and Gavin Rossdale: Hoping Gwen's unborn will be a girl! Harajuku girl, hollaback girl, just a girl, etc. [Mirror]
• Jennifer Aniston and Orlando Bloom: Seen having dinner, oooh. [Page Six]
• Dancing With The Stars Karina Smirnoff: Dating Mario Lopez? Or R&B singer Mario? Or both? [Page Six]
• Hillary and Bill Clinton are in the new Martin Scorsese Rolling Stones movie, rocking out. [Rush & Molloy]
• The Hills resident dude Brody Jenner was kicked out of a Los Angeles club for grabbing a bottle of vodka from behind the bar when he wasn't served fast enough and then squirting lemon in the bartender's eyes. Asshole. [Rush & Molloy]
• Rapper T.I. pleaded guilty to federal weapons possessions charges and will spend one year in prison, sigh. Still like his cheekbones. [TMZ]
• Heidi Montag and Spencer Pratt were both in Vegas this week, but stayed in different hotels. You know, it used to feel like, she's an idiot for being with that douche; now it's like, naw, they deserve each other. [People]
• Will Ivana Trump and her 24-years-younger fiancé, Rossano Rubicondi, stop fighting long enough to get married on April 12? He nearly got arrested during a domestic disturbance last week. But OK! magazine has the rights to the wedding pix, so they'd better say I do even if they don't. [Page Six]
• Pete Doherty is into Scientology now? For the love of Xenu. [The Sun]
• Paris Hilton was a judge in the Miss Turkey pageant in Istanbul, and honestly, it hurts to think of her as representing us internationally. But anyway here's video of her bellydancing, sigh. [People]
• Counting Crows singer Adam Duritz has been battling severe depression and mental illness. Not to make light of the situation but a haircut might help. [People]
• Celine Dion has postponed a series of Australian concerts due to a throat infection — but her heart will go on! [Reuters]
• Tom Cruise joining the cast of the upcoming J.J. Abrams Star trek movie? No. [MSNBC]
• But! Tom Cruise is trying to get back in the game: He dined with onetime nemesis Sumner Redstone of Viacom yesterday. [WSJ]
• Is Jessica Simpson secretly married to Tony Romo? Or is her mom just effing with us? [News.com.au]
• Actress Morgan Fairchild is campaigning to raise awareness about the warning signs of a stroke. [UPI]
• There's some weird (Czech?) rumor that Kylie Minogue will announce her engagement to Olivier Martinez at a concert on May 12. [PopDirt]
• Tina Fey! Spilling about what's next on 30 Rock! "Both of Liz's former boyfriends, Dennis the Beeper King [Dean Winters] and Floyd [Jason Sudeikis] will be back briefly. And Liz does have a little bit of a pregnancy scare. She probably hooks up once every seven years, yet when it rains, it pours. We have a storyline coming up where Jack tries to enlist Tracy to be the new black face of the Republican Party." All this and more! [LA Times]

"Lead builds up in the body over time and lead-containing lipstick applied several times a day, every day, can add up to significant exposure levels. The latest studies show there is no safe level of lead exposure."

One thing to note about the findings: The researchers purchased lipstick in different stores in different states, and lead levels varied from state to state, even within the same brand or color. So you can't really use the report as a shopping list. But to find out some brands that were safe, download the report and go to page 9.

Here's a list of the lipsticks that were found to have unsafe lead levels (i.e., higher than the 0.1ppm that the FDA says is safe for candy):

• Maybelline NY Moisture Extreme Scarlet Simmer (0.11)
  
• Cover Girl Incredifull Lipcolor Maximum Red (0.12)
  
• Peacekeeper Paint Me Compassionate (0.12)
  
• Maybelline NY Moisture Extreme Midnight Red (0.18)
  
• Maybelline NY Moisture Extreme Cocoa Plum (0.19)
  
• Dior Addict Positive Red (0.21)
  
• Cover Girl Continuous Color Cherry Brandy (0.28)
  
• LʹOreal Colour Riche True Red (0.50)
  
• Cover Girl Incredifull Lipcolor Maximum Red (0.56)
  
• LʹOreal Colour Riche Classic Wine (0.58)
  
• LʹOreal Colour Riche True Red 0.65

60% Of Lipsticks Contain Lead [Consumerist]

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