- Ladies and gentlemen: Mickey Rourke is reportedly dating Courtney Love, and has been for a few weeks. Somehow this makes perfect sense. [Telegraph]
- Prince Harry needs some sensitivity training, ASAP. He allegedly told a comic named Stephen Amos: “You don’t sound like a black chap.” Amos says: “I wanted to say, ‘How is I supposed to sound?'” Feel free to *headdesk*. [The Sun]
- Britney Spears and Kevin Federline have worked out a custody deal and the kids will be joining Brit while she’s on tour. She’s going to rent a few homes — in New Jersey and in New Orleans — and K-Fed has the greenlight to stay there in order to minimize travel. It’s daddy day care! [Yahoo News via E!]
- Ew, Adnan Ghalib was recently overheard saying: “I still love Britney. I’m her boyfriend. Britney has a beautiful soul. We share something really special. The truth about us will come out eventually, but it’s not for me to talk about. I love her.” By “dating” does he mean “sending text messages which her dad deletes”? [ONTD]
- Was Leona Lewis the reason Chris Brown and Rihanna were arguing over the weekend? A source says Rihanna saw them flirting… [Star]
- Apparently Rihanna’s 911 call is mostly audio of a woman screaming. [Daily Mail]
- Rihanna’s grandmother says: “I don’t want people to worry. Rihanna is fine and she is doing well.” [Nation News]
- Okay, so here’s why Chris Brown is being charged for “criminal threats” (a possible nine year sentence) and not domestic violence (four years): He put his hands around Rihanna’s neck and said, “I’m going to kill you.” [E!]
- You know that Chris Brown is being represented by Mark Geragos, right? The same lawyer who lost Winona Ryder‘s shoplifting case. He did get Robert Blake acquitted, but he also repped Scott Peterson, who is on death row for killing his wife. [Fox 411]
- The subject of the octuplet mom’s resemblance to Angelina Jolie made the cover of OK!. More on this in Midweek Madness. [MSNBC Scoop]
- These “lipstick sculptures” of Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie look nothing like them. [Grazia]
- French First Lady Carla Bruni-Sarkozy in on her first trip as a goodwill ambassador for the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria. She’s in Burkina Faso today, meeting with mothers and children infected with HIV. [AFP]
- Leonardo DiCaprio was presented with an International Green Award by none other than Mikhail Gorbachev yesterday. What did you do? [Gatecrasher]
- Prepare yourself: Madonna and Demi Moore are teaming up to co-host an Oscar party. Do you have to be a foxy older lady to get in? [E!]
- By the by: Madonna’s Sticky & Sweet summer tour in Europe is already all sold out. [Perez]
- Robert Downey Jr goes off on a shrub, a la Christian Bale, sorta. [Reelz Channel]
- For crying out loud, can’t Jessica Simpson have a couple of beers without people writing that she didn’t “seem too concerned about her weight” ?!?!?! [Page Six]
- Osbournes: Reloaded is the new variety/comedy show from The Osbournes, and there’s a video preview up now. Pranks, sketches and weird dares, all with adorable accents! [Rolling Stone]
- Diablo Cody’s United States Of Tara has been picked up for a second season. [Variety]
- Angela Bassett wants to play Michelle Obama, not that there’s a movie in the works or anything. [Telegraph]
- Federal prosecutors want a judge to revoke Joe Francis’s bail as he awaits trial; he’s on house arrest, but that means he gets to watch Girls Gone Wild DVDs right? [AP]
- Forbes has named “Hollywood’s Most Bankable Stars” and Will Smith is number one. Johnny Depp and Leonardo DiCaprio follow closely, and Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt are right behind. [Reuters]
- Daniel Dae Kim, aka Jin from Lost, is spilling secrets: The Smoke Monster will be unveiled! [AP]
- Yay! Ugly Betty is thisclose to getting renewed for a fourth season. Raise your hand if you need more Wilhelmina, Marc and Amanda in your life. [EW]
- Kevin James, Chris Rock, Adam Sandler, Rob Schneider and David Spade may star in a comedy about five best friends from high school who reunite 30 years later on a Fourth of July weekend. Not to be confused with Paul Blart Mall Cop 2: Electric Boogaloo. [Variety]
- Anthony Hopkins and Josh Brolin will star in a Woody Allen film; the plot is under wraps. [Variety]
- Elaborate, tangled negotiations behind the Sundance hit Push — based on the novel by Sapphire — will make your head spin. The Weinsteins are involved. [Hollywood Reporter]
- Here’s a picture of Bee Gee Robin Gibb, who got his housekeeper pregnant, standing with his wife, Dwina. The housekeeper just gave birth and the baby’s name is Snow Robin; Gibb says “New life is heaven-sent and is a blessing. That’s what I can say about children and life.” What do you say about cheating on your wife? [The Sun, Daily Mail]
- Breaking: John Cleese seen with “mystery redhead.” [Daily Mail]
- First of all, Gretchen Mol and her son are on the cover of Cookie. Second of all, her son’s name is Ptolemy. Third of all, she says: “When he’s having a tantrum, I am not going to look it up in a book and say, ‘Okay, 14 months old? Check.’ I just deal with whatever is thrown at me.” [People]
- Blind item! “Which hard-partying starlet lost her virginity to her best friend’s stepdad?” [Gatecrasher]
- “Watching David Letterman after 9/11, I was like, ‘Wow, that’s exactly how I feel.’ And hopefully I can be a voice of America like that; hopefully people will say, ‘I wonder what Jimmy Fallon thinks.’ When it’s like, ‘Jimmy Fallon’s a douchebag,’ what am I gonna do? I don’t wanna be one. But I don’t know what to do differently to make that guy like me.” — Jimmy Fallon, in W. [Page Six]
- “I actually made the choice to be straight as a kid. Early on I knew [being gay] wasn’t gonna fly. No way. And from the teachers and church and all it was, This is wrong! What’s wrong with me? And you pray and ask God to take it away, and you bury it and bury it, and you shut that part of yourself off. Then you try to live the life that you’re supposed to live.” — Wanda Sykes, in an amazing interview with The Advocate. [ONTD]
- “I was out at work, I was out to my family, I was out to my friends. I lived my life as a lesbian. But because I’m a celebrity I have to do this additional step, which is to tell total strangers that I’m a lesbian. I didn’t know it would be this liberating. I hate identifying myself as a celebrity… I’m still not there. I’m a closeted celebrity.” — Wanda Sykes. [ONTD]
- “I read the instructions, which is like you’ve got to put your top five in order and if the number one that you’ve chosen isn’t really doing very well, then they move on to your number two and include that with the one that is doing well, if you see what I mean. I did get a say on that form. I got to put a vote in. I voted for Mickey Rourke. Isn’t he great in that film?” — Chris Martin, on “helping” wife Gwyneth Paltrow cast her Oscar ballots. [Telegraph]
- “I do a lot better if I sit around and think about a character for a couple of months. Before I climb into him for a run, I’ve just sat on my ass thinking about him, just reading, plodding around my house, driving my girls to school, fixing eggs. Like that. There’s not a lot of transformation in it. I’m still just a driver to my children.” — Clive Owen, from a feature in Esquire with lovely photos. [Esquire]
- “She has the potential to be the greatest artist of all time and, in that sense, I feel like that’s my baby sis and I would do any and everything to help her in any situation. I don’t want to speak more into the specifics with that situation, but all I’ll say is it’s just so devastating. I feel like, just as a person, I don’t care how famous she is or even if she just worked at McDonald’s, that should never happen. It should never come to that place.” — Kanye West on Rihanna. [Concrete Loop]
- “I’m not that big a fan of marriage as an institution and I don’t know why women need to have children to be seen as complete human beings” — Marisa Tomei to Manhattan. [Page Six]
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