[Los Angeles, August 10. Image via Bauer-Griffin]

• This rather banal anecdote about Michael Kors being mistaken for Marc Jacobs is enlivened by an adorable photo of the two from when Jacobs was pale and long-haired and still had those clear-framed glasses that are so totally hot. [FWD]

• Kors designed the dress for his mother's second wedding. "Who in their right mind would actually listen to their five-year-old? Though the marriage didn't last, the pictures are timeless." When pressed on his status as a top or a bottom, Kors replied, "Well, I love eveningwear and I love sportswear." [VF]
• Karlie Kloss — who just turned 17 and celebrated at Disney World — booked the fall Alexander McQueen campaign. She looks ethereal and a little frightening — perfect for McQueen's aesthetic. [Fashionologie]
• Eva Mendes does what Eva Mendes does best for Calvin Klein, with Jamie Dornan. [Sun]
• An object lesson in what happens when you refuse a reporter's questions at a press event: they get snippy! Kanye West was described as "skittish" and "visibly withdrawn" as he "avoided all questions" at an event for Casio G Shock. Even though the rapper didn't clam up entirely — he praised Amber Rose, and said she'd just done her first modeling shoot — the interaction motivated WWD to note, "When he later took to the stage, 90 minutes behind schedule, West interrupted his set with a spontaneous, free-style rant against the press, with such lines as 'I'm sorry I broke your arm/I meant to break your camera' and 'I could kill a man/I am a man/Don't forget I could kill a man' regarding his fury at the invasive nature of today's media. As he stirred the audience into a frenzy, the bevy of invited reporters and photographers at the event (marketed by Casio as a press conference accompanied by a concert), were left to fidget uncomfortably with their press passes." [WWD]
• Kanye didn't mention it, but Elle's Joe Zee pointed out that the rapper recently styled a shoot for the magazine. Could Amber possibly have been the model? [FWD]
• Fifteen-year-old Christine Staub, the eldest daughter of Danielle Staub from the Real Housewives of New Jersey, has been signed by the modeling agency IMG. [Fashionista]
• Christian Siriano is looking forward to the advent of marriage equality so that he can marry his long-time partner, photographer Brad Walsh. "Maybe we'll buy a farm or something," explains the Project Runway designer. "I want to raise alpaca or something. You know, make my own alpaca coating." [E!]
• Sarah Jessica Parker is suing a Long Island perfume distributor for allegedly selling bottles of her "Lovely" fragrance without the quality-assurance marks. Her company is accusing the distributor of selling counterfeit or stolen product. [P6]
• Padma Lakshmi had Steven Meisel shoot the fall ads for her jewelry line, and the results are lovely, if a little overly Photoshopped. [WWD]
• Banana Republic's fall campaign is modeled by — wait for it! — actors and actresses. Krysten Ritter, who used to be a working model but would almost certainly never have booked such a gig before becoming an actress, must have had a tremendous case of déjà vu. Joining her in the shots are Lauren Ambrose, Chris Messina, Scott Speedman, Florence Faivre, Nicole Fiscella and Juan Diego Botto. [WWD]
• Residents of SoHo are reportedly unhappy with the new Hollister store downtown. One building is even flying a "Go Home Hollister" banner off a balcony. [Curbed]
• Retail rents are falling all through Manhattan, but the most drastic drop is along the Manhattan shopping corridor of Madison Avenue. With many prominent brands moving out of their former flagships on the Avenue, rents there have sunk from $1,100/sq. ft. to around $500/sq. ft. [Crain's]
• Company earnings for K Swiss fell 62% in the first six months of this year, off the back of a 29% decline in sales, and the company reported a net loss of $11.5 million. [WWD]

• Rihanna has a new song, with guest vocals by Lady GaGa, titled Silly Boy. Kanye West posted it online, and the lyrics are:

"I said I'm not coming back. You fooled me once but you can't have that ego turning… Cause you had a good girl, good girl, girl. That's a keeper. You had a good girl, good girl but didn't know how to treat her… So silly boy get out my face. Why do you like the way regrets taste?" Maybe I'm old, but the vocals sound like they were performed by a GPS unit on a dashboard. [The Sun]

• Wow. Eminem is flying 200 laid-off Toledo auto workers to L.A. to be on Jimmy Kimmel Live May 15. The idea is to "put a face on" the plight of American auto workers. [Toledo Free Press]
• Tourism peeps in St. Lucia are still glad Amy Winehouse performed, even though her set at the St. Lucia Jazz Festival was cut short because of rain. Uh, didn't she walk off the stage? [Yahoo News via AP]
• Madonna is so over Yankee Alex Rodriguez, she took her kids to a Mets game. Burn! [Page Six]
• Although Brooke Shields is calling Kiefer Sutherland a "gentleman," this report notes that one of his former co-stars claims he would "go to the bar immediately after he'd finish working. He'd sit there for hours, putting them back. When it was time to go home, he'd be cantankerous and ornery. He was not a pleasant drunk." Now he faces a $1,000 fine and a year in jail in L.A. for violating his DUI probation. [Gatecrasher]
• Heidi Klum and Seal renewed their wedding vows in a "white trash" wedding, and reporter Rosemary Black writes, "Why is it still PC to make fun of a huge segment of the Caucasian population that is frequently low income and under-educated?" [NY Daily News]
• Will Kara DioGuardi return for another season of American Idol? Seems like she doesn't even know: "I hope I'm here for another season," she says, "but I haven't been asked yet." [Gatecrasher]
• After his stint on Saturday Night Live, Justin Timberlake had dinner with girlfriend Jessica Biel and father Randy Timberlake, who "seemed really proud of him." Aww. [Page Six]
• A lady who works at a St. Louis beauty salon found the Twilight sequel script in the trash outside of a hotel. She returned the New Moon pages to the studio and has been invited to the premiere. [Breitbart]
• The National Enquirer says that Kevin Federline wants more cash from Britney: He currently gets about $40,000 a month but "can't afford the rent, his help, the food and the booze it takes to keep up (his home)." According to a source. [MSNBC]
• Speaking of Britney, Sam Lutfi may have to pay her legal fees from the courtroom battle over the restraining order; that's about $123,142. Not to mention the $72,292 her lawyers are going to try and squeeze out of Adnan Ghalib. [People]
• How will the show Jon & Kate Plus 8 — the fifth season of which premieres in two weeks — deal with the "scandal" its star, Jon Gosselin is involved in? [MSNBC]
• Oh, no. No no no no. Jennifer Aniston wants to be on Mad Men. "I like Mad Men," says Jennifer. "I would love to be in that, it's great. I love the era. I would love it if they offered me a role." But, but, that's part of the charm! That there are no "stars," except for the ones the show created! Sniff. Sob. [Daily Express]
• These drunk pix allegedly caused the marriage of Katie "Jordan" Price and Peter Andre to disintegrate. The "mystery man" makes my gaydar ping, though. [The Sun]
• On Celebrity Apprentice, Joan Rivers sniped that Annie Duke was "worse than Hitler; Hitler never had PMS." Now Rivers says: "It's just an expression. But I stand behind it." [CNN]
• This paper says Joan Rivers is "forever the comeback kid." [NY Daily News]
• In this video interview from August, Farrah Fawcett talks about her terminal cancer: "It's much easier to go through something and deal with it without being under a microscope. It was stressful. I was terrified of getting the chemo. It's not pleasant. And the radiation is not pleasant. It becomes your life. People call, 'How are you?' 'How do you feel?' 'We're praying for you.' 'Do you still have your hair?' 'What do you feel like?' When every single call is that kind of call… it's all you talk about. It's all-consuming. Then, your quality of life is never the same." [LA Times]
• In this video, Farrah Fawcett's friend Alana Stewart talks about the "cutting edge" treatment FF received in Germany. [ET]
• Ryan O'Neal recalls the moment he knew Farrah Fawcett was really really sick; they were walking on the beach: "We used to take that walk all the time to the rocks and back. And halfway there she stopped and said, 'Can we go back?' And Red and I looked at each other and we knew…" Also, Farrah doesn't realize son Redmond visits the house in shackles, since he is currently serving a jail sentence. "When you go in to her," Ryan tells Redmond, "don't rattle your chains." Ryan told Today's Meredith Vieira, "She doesn't know... she just holds him." [People]
• The Gossip Girl spinoff, possibly now called Lily and not Valley Girls, appears to be BACK ON. [NY Mag]
• Heidi Montag Pratt has a new video, which involves writhing in a bikini. Also breaking: The sky is blue. [Perez]
• In this interview with Depeche Mode, Martin Gore talks about giving up drinking and Andy Fletcher comments on the band's 30th year of being together: "I think at first when we found out it was going to be 30 years, I think it was, 'Oh my God, how embarrassing. We're really old!' But I think now we've really got our heads around it, and I think it's something to be actually proud of." [CNN]
• Yoko Ono has unveiled a John Lennon exhibit at New York City's Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Annex. Included is a billboard featuring Lennon's blood-splattered glasses that marked the 30th anniversary of his death. Ono says: "I thought I might be criticized for it.. But it's very important now for people to understand what violence is about." [USA Today]
• Congrats to SNL star Maya Rudolph, who is expecting baby number 2. [People]
• Ooh, Rachel Weisz is in talks to play one of my faves, Hedy Lamarr, in a flick called Face Value. Lamarr was not only a screen siren but an accomplished scientist; she created a method of changing frequencies which is the key to modern wireless communication — which will be the subject of the film. [The Hollywood Reporter]
• Dermot Mulroney will make his directorial debut, Keep It Together, a comedy/drama about "love and divorce." Christopher Walken and Blythe Danner in negotiations to join the cast! [The Hollywood Reporter]
• Scott Speedman is in Atom Egoyan's film Adoration as a tow truck driver: "The guy teaching me didn't realize I was an actor doing it for a movie. He yelled at me up and down. I didn't use a tow double, even though I'm sure they had one at the ready." [USA Today]
• Every anniversary, Tori Spelling's husband slips a new diamond ring on her finger and this year it is a white diamond and a yellow diamond and blah blah blah being rich is awesome. [People]
• Trudie Styler, who co-founded the Rainforest Foundation, flew her hairstylist from New York to Washington, DC, last weekend on a private jet to do her hair and makeup for the White House Correspondents' Dinner. [Page Six]
• Mark Landon, eldest son of Michael Landon, has died at age 60. [Yahoo News via AP]
• The Simpsons stamp could become the nation's most popular stamp, knocking Elvis out of the top spot! [NY Post]
• Blind item! "Which buxom B-list pinup only helps out charities that ply her with cocaine?" [Gatecrasher]
• "How would you like being a young actor walking into a casting agent and the first thing they say is, 'Leave!' " — Liev Schreiber on NPR on the way people used to mispronounce his name. [Page Six]
• "As a mother, you have to read your kids a lot of these books, so it's fun to get involved in the process. I've had such a good time with this. This book is about becoming self aware and that realization in childhood. The title is my nickname, and I hated my nickname when I was seven years old. At that age, I tried to get rid of my freckles and I hated dodgeball - I still hate dodgeball." — Julianne Moore, at a reading of her second children's book, Freckleface Strawberry and the Dodgeball Bully. [WWD]
• "When David and I got to the first shoot we were both standing in our bathrobes, looking at each other and saying, 'Okay, who's going to drop their dressing gown first?' It can be a little intimidating standing half-naked in a studio full of strangers, so it's good to have the support of each other, reassuring and encouraging one another. David is always incredibly supportive of everything I do. I never used to go to the gym before working with Armani – but if you're going to be photographed in your bra and knickers you want to look as good as you can… I still work out every day. I drop the kids at school, and from the school I go to the gym and do the miles on the treadmill. I have worked hard, and if you are going to agree to be photographed in underwear you have to put the hours in, so when you turn up on the day and take off your robe you feel confident that you can do the job. As a 35-year-old mother of three, I'm looking okay." — Victoria Beckham. [The Sun]

[Los Angeles, May 14. Image via Bauer-Griffin]

• Angelina Jolie let her sons, Maddox and Pax, attend her sonogram, so the kids could see their new siblings — the twins. [MSNBC]
  
• The Beyoncé pregnancy rumors have begun. [Page Six]
  
• Oooh! One of the first reviews of Sex And The City: "It can feel like a never ending dinner party: however pleasant the courses, after a while you can hardly eat another one." Ugh. [Times Of London]
  
• And! "It is Kim Cattrall as sex mad Samantha who steals the show with all the big laughs... The product placement is less than subtle... There is a totally pointless visit to New York fashion week which has nothing to do with the plots. It is much, much too long for a romantic comedy... More than two hours spent with four air kissing, shopping, screaming women will surely tire out most men." [The Sun]
  
• Cynthia Nixon says: "Because of the show, I have wonderful clothes, but I never even used to wear high heels." [Telegraph]
  
• Candace Bushnell says: "When I began dating at 17, I assumed that men would be nice." [Times Of London]

• Felicity's Scott Speedman hearts pot. Maryjane. Ganja. Weed. Pakalolo. [Perez Hilton]
• Three jurors have been chosen for the R. Kelly trial. Six years after the tape surfaced, there's actual progress in the case. [Yahoo News]
• Did you know that Joaquin Phoenix is recording an album? He's working with the Charlatans frontman Tim Burgess. "Once he learned guitar [for Walk The Line], he found that he had quite a lot of demons inside himself that he wanted to expel through music," Burges explains. But! Before you start clearing a spot next to your Scarlett Johansson CD, know this: "All the tracks that [we] worked on were brilliant," says Burgess. "But I think he just keeps scrapping everything or redoing everything. I'm sad to say that I think it's one of those records that may never come out, to be honest with you." [Reuters]
• Katie Holmes will make her Broadway debut in Arthur Miller's All My Sons this fall. Does that mean she and Suri will move to NY? [Just Jared]
• Miley Cyrus has a new single, "7 Things," you're probably dying to hear. (Listen here.) It's a list of all the things she hates about her ex. "You're vain, your games, you're insecure/You love me, you like her/You make me laugh you make me cry." It's kind of country punk, slow and then fast. Maybe teenage girls will love it? It's perfect for jumping up and down on the bed to. [People]
• Noel Gallagher of Oasis doesn't think Jay-Z should play the Glasonbury Festival because it has "a tradition of guitar music." Jay says, "We have to respect each other's genre of music and move forward." The times, they are a-changin'. [The Sun]
• The season finale party for The Hills was held last night and guess who didn't show up? Photo-op lovers Heidi Montag and Spencer Pratt. Montag's rep had tow words: "Not invited." That is ice cold. [E!]
• Amy Winehouse stumbled home at 1 am and accidentally left her friend Kristian Marr outside, so he broke into her garage to sleep. Cops showed up at 2am and removed him. Whoops! [The Sun]
• Tom Breihan of the Village Voice says Scarlett Johansson's album is't so bad! "Everything on the album comes submerged in a viscous shoegaze amber that honors the faraway mystery of the Waits originals without ever attempting to replicate their sound," he writes. "It's not a masterpiece, but it unfolds like a long, luxuriant, theatrical sigh, and I'll take that." [Village Voice]
• Scott Weiland is in jail right now. He checked in yesterday and will serve eight days for his DUI conviction. [People]
• Pete Doherty says he knew he needed to be drug free when he tried to murder one of his kittens. "I got a shovel and was going to kill one of the cats. That was when I was, like, you know, 'I'm a bit of a mess.' It was a bit of a crazy time." Ya think? [The Sun]
• Socialites throw themselves at Shia LaBeouf, and he doesn't mind a bit. Also, he says "I've been in love with every woman I've ever worked with." [Rush & Molloy]
• Blind item! "Which young star — who plays gay on his hot TV show — has a taste for significantly older women?" [Rush & Molloy]
• Pictures of the guy who knocked out Suge Knight! He's a 5'10" 173 lb. barber. (Suge is 6'3" and weighs 315 lbs. The barber is hardcore.) [TMZ]
• Britney was on How I Met Your Mother again last night. She wasn't funny. [TMZ]
• In this picture of Samantha Ronson and Lindsay Lohan shopping in Paris, you can see Samantha's hickey really well. [Dana's Dirt via ONTD]
• Rapper Remy Ma was set to marry rapper Papoose, despite the fact that she is jailed. But! Someone smuggled a handcuff key into the prison and now the wedding has been canceled! [The.Life Files]
• "As a kid, I considered suicide and even attempted [it] a couple of times because I thought it would be easier to be dead." — Tyler Perry, writer/director/actor of Meet The Browns. [Rush & Molloy]

• A source says Jake Gyllenhaal is not OK following the death of his good friend Heath Ledger. He's "taking it harder than most people" and it's "obviously a major trauma." So sad. [People]
  
• The story of the impostor pretending to be Heath Ledger's father — talking to Tom Cruise and getting rooms booked at a fancy hotel — will just make your blood boil. [NY Post]
  
• Reports are coming in that Michelle Williams drove Heath Ledger to rehab last March; Heath refused to get out of the car. [Us Magazine]
  
• Reclusive actor Wes Bentley (American Beauty) has issued a rare statement, remembering his friend Heath as a "a Vibrant Man, a Brave Actor, a Passionate Father and a Friend Forever." The two starred in the 2002 film Four Feathers. [People]
  
• Sarah Jessica Parker is getting into the reality TV game: Her pitch is to create a Project Runway-type show, but for the art world. Ooh, highbrow. Um, Sketch And The City? [Variety]

• Britney Spears recovered from her chaotic Monday night by buying a new Mercedes on Tuesday. Beep beep! [TMZ, TMZ]
• Meanwhile, Britney's mom is visiting her (maybe trying for an intervention?) and things are not going well — they've been arguing the whole time. [People]
• Of course, Sam Lutfi, Britney's Great Manipulator™, is saying that Brit's parents have "an agenda" and "don't fit in" and only see her three times a year. [The Sun]
• Joan Collins, 74, was seen checking out a valet's backside after lunch in Beverly Hills last week. Frisky minx! [Page Six]
• Cameron Diaz is hooking up with Scott Speedman? The two were seen "frolicking on the beach" and "smooching" in the Bahamas. Any Ben Covington fans here? [Gatecrasher]
• LOL blind item! "Which model-turned-actress, who is on her second actor husband, relaxes between shoots with a bong made from an enormous two-liter plastic soda bottle?" [Gatecrasher]
• A flight attendant says that when Lindsay Lohan was on her plane, she drank like a fish: "I served her double vodkas." Sober, shmober. [Rush & Molloy]
• Jessica Alba's unborn spawn: Apparently a boy. [Rush & Molloy]
• Amy Winehouse's father: "I'm not sure the Grammys are going to happen. I don't want her to go — I think it might be a bit too soon for her." Crap! Well she needs to get well, so as long as it takes... [Mirror]
• Paula Abdul will not perform live during the Super Bowl — due to her stage jitters and fragile emotional state. Wow. Is anyone else in shock that she has a new single? [MSNBC]
• Jessica Simpson and Tony Romo are still hot and heavy, can't keep their hands off each other, etc., if you care. [MSNBC]
• A witness claims that Daniel Smith, son of Anna Nicole, was not a drug addict but a "brilliant" young man unhappy living in his mother's shadow. [AP]
• Ducati has made a new motorcycle: A $72,500 titanium, magnesium and carbon fiber superbike; Tom Cruise us the first on the lest to get one. He feels the need, the need for speed. Obvs. [MSNBC]
• Actress Julie Christie, 66, seems to have secretly married her partner, journalist Duncan Campbell, whom she has been with for 28 years. Romantic, no? [Daily Mail]
• The artist who sculpted Britney Spears giving birth naked and Paris Hilton nude and dead has now rendered Oprah in bronze on an Egyptian sarcophagus. Nude, of course. [Daily Mail]
• Something about Verne Troyer's ex-wife being addicted to drugs and on the verge of suicide? Or just some crazy dude shouting stuff. [Perez Hilton]
• Fire broke out at the Duchess of York's home! Someone left a scented candle burning in the bathroom... Fergie wasn't at home so maybe her teenage daughters are to blame? [Telegraph]
• David Beckham's face is on the best-selling condom in China. He doesn't endorse the brand but really ought to be flattered that dudes want him on their junk. As do ladies. [News.com.au]

Naomi Campbell asserts that she is a mature, responsible adult; adds that she doesn't brag about her "charity work", then does just that. [People.com]

Justin Timberlake begs Brit to stop drinking. Unfortunately, it was the wrong Brit. [People.com]

Jennifer Lopez receives human rights award. No, seriously. [USA Today]

Ugly Betty's America Ferrara engaged? We were so hoping for an on-set affair with Eric Mabius. [PerezHilton.com]

Yes, it's true: Keri Russell got hitched yesterday. To a carpenter. Scott Speedman, here we come!