Who Am I?

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"I reached out and his people got back to me. I’d love to do something for him, maybe like a performance in his hometown. We definitely very proud of it him back over here, real talk. You don’t go over there and win that many medals, man. Maybe he can lend me one for a video or something." – Rapper Young Jeezy to Rolling Stone, on plans to meet Michael Phelps, whom he calls "the Young Jeezy of the swim world.

Snap!

Sienna Miller's rather glum North London residence was defaced with the word "SLUT" and an unnerving asterisk in a circle. Police are currently searching the area for a footnote.

Asian World Gangs Up on Glitter; Molester Tricked Back to England

Another Game of Cat and Mouse?

Splendor in the grass: Is Chace acting his name or is it the other way around? Of course, the Gossip Girl roomies could just be running lines. (Photo: BauerGriffin via ASL)

Parton Parcel

Here is a gorgeous, iconic pic of Dolly Parton with Keith Haring from back in the day (like around 1983 maybe) that I found on my computer. Just a little something to tie the World of Wonder Storefront Gallery's upcoming "Dollypop" show to the artworld. Give it a little GRAVITAS, you know.

– James St James

Of Interest

Reality show hags Rachel Zoe and Dina Lohan

Covered in Gold

Simon Bruty's photo of Olympic champ Michael Phelps on the cover of the current Sports Illustrated mimics the 1972 SI cover shot of Mark Spitz by Terry O'Neill. This is the fifth time Phelps has been on the magazine's cover, the most ever for a swimmer; Spitz comes in second with three. (Farther Off the Wall)

Of Interest

Suri Cruise and Björk

Kattan Had Tutt in Common

Imagine our surprise when we heard that Chris "Mango" Kattan and his wife of only two months, Sunshine Tutt (no relation to the King, but she's kin to a queen), have split. It seemed like it was going to be one of those lasting Hollywood marriages, like Paul and Joanne or Rock and Phyllis. But according to a blabby say-for-pay source, "They’ve got issues that they’re trying to work out." Naively, we figured they'd already come to terms about those issues before they hired the hall. You know, like that she's taller than him and whatnot. "She's...very much like me," Kattan blogged on his website a year ago. Uh-huh. (Combined; photo via Life & Style)

J.Lo's in Training Too, People!

Jennifer Lopez just can't understand why everyone's so enamored of and giving all the press to whatshisname, "that swimmer," when she's training for the Malibu Triathlon only six months after giving birth to twins. Twins! Seriously, according to a Good Morning America source, Jenny from the Block came on the show and "yammered on about how she was the one training for a triathlon just six months after giving birth, and how that was the big story right now, not 'the swimmer'" – whose name she couldn't remember. She's even started a blog to share tips on training. So now she's Jenny from the Blog as well? What can't this renaissance woman do? (MSNBC via New York; t/y James; photo: Lopez and trainer Gunnar Peterson)

Mug Shot: Phelps' Beard

Here's Olympian Michael Phelps, fully clothed for a change but mugging as usual, embracing fellow mugger and longtime close friend, swimmer Amanda Beard, who Hot or Not Gossip has it on good authority randomly hooked up with Phelps at a friend's beach house a few hot summers ago.

Jolie Doesn't Pass the Barr Exam

On her Roseanne World blog, Roseanne Barr blasts Brangelina's procrastination endorsing a presidential candidate, specifically Obama. "Do you not know," she writes, "that the African daughter you hold in every picture had parents who suffered and died because of the Republican Party's worldwide economic assault on Africa?" And she has words for Jon Voight as well: "Your evil spawn and her vacuous hubby, Brad Pitt, make about $40 million a year in violent psychopathic movies and give away three of it to starving children, trying to look as if they give a crap about humanity." (Page Six)

Lily Allen Punch Drunk

After a round or five of drinks at Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club in London's Soho early this morning, Lily Allen heard some heckling on the street as she headed out, so she struck out at the closest random passerby, throwing a right hook that failed to connect – without losing the ash on the end of her cigarette. Bless her for taking up the slack in London now that Amy Winehouse is currently an infrequent hooligan. (MatrixPhotos via Mail)

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"I'm going to have cute boobs till I'm 90, so there's that. I'll have the best boobs in the nursing home. I'll be the envy of all the ladies around the bridge table." – Christina Applegate, 36, on Good Morning America, referring to the reconstruction of her breasts after her recent double mastectomy. (AP)

Famous Stamos Down Under

In honor of John Stamos' birthday today, we revisit this clip from a year ago when handsome John appeared on an Australian talk show drunk and disarmingly disorderly. Required viewing for every talk show host to see how effortlessly Keri-Anne Kennerley makes heaven out of a tentatively hellish situation.

Olympic Al and Matt: Dream Wavers

The Pedo-Files: Gary Glitter

British musician Gary Glitter aka Paul Francis Gadd, whose stirring anthem "Rock and Roll (Part 2)" unfailingly whips sports fans into a frenzy, has been released from the Thu Doc prison in Vietnam's Binh Thuan province, where he served almost three years for molesting two local girls, ages 10 and 11, who were living in his villa. After his release, he was driven for three hours to the Tan Son Nha airport in Ho Chi Minh City, given his passport, and put on a plane for England. In an interview with the Vietnam paper, People's Police, Glitter, 65, said he didn't want to return to the UK, but instead planned on resuming his music career and recording a new album, possibly in Hong Kong or Singapore. When he arrives in England on Wednesday, he will sign the sex-offenders register and his every move will be monitored forever. (t/y Clancy)

Who Am I?

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Robert Downey Jr Not a Fan of The Dark Knight

So far this year, Robert Downey Jr has starred and co-starred in two of the summer's best movies – exciting entertainments that were, in our opinion, superior to The Dark Knight in many ways. And judging from what he had to say in this interview, he agrees:

"... I saw The Dark Knight. I feel like I’m dumb because I feel like I don’t get how many things that are so smart. It’s like a Ferrari engine of storytelling and scriptwriting and I’m like, ’That’s not my idea of what I want to see in a movie.’ I loved The Prestige but didn’t understand The Dark Knight. Didn’t get it, still can’t tell you what happened in the movie, what happened to the character, and in the end they need him to be a bad guy. I’m like, ’I get it. This is so highbrow and so fucking smart, I clearly need a college education to understand this movie.’ You know what? Fuck DC comics. That’s all I have to say, and that’s where I’m really coming from."

Of Interest

Alanis Morissette and Bigfoot

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"She saw me wearing them, and she was like, 'You know, those are Drew’s.' I don’t care. He broke them in, and they fit me perfectly. I wore them on our honeymoon." – My Best Friend's Girl star Jason Biggs, to Playboy magazine, on wearing underwear previously worn by his wife's ex. (cele|bitchy)

Katy Perry Gets Kiss-Off from Parents

To say that Katy Perry’s parents, evangelical Christian preachers, disapprove of her hit song, "I Kissed a Girl," would be an understatement. They see her burning in hell for all eternity, flames licking at those sinful lips. They are deeply ashamed of her. Perry's mother, Mary Hudson, said, "I hate the song. It clearly promotes homosexuality and its message is shameful and disgusting. Katy knows how I feel. We are a very outspoken family and she knows how disappointed her father and I are. I can’t even listen to that song. The first time I heard it I was in total shock. When it comes on the radio I bow my head and pray." (Mail)

Jennifer Aniston Takes the Off-Ramp

Her friends say that Jennifer Aniston is "behaving like a lady" and "taking the high road" when it comes to countering reports made by John Mayer about the couple's breakup. But her friends are getting the details to the press for her. Isn't that like being in the high road's carpool lane? (MSNBC)

Of Interest

Million Dollar Listing's Chad Rogers sells homes and Tom Cruise's wife Katie is Holmes. (via TMZ)

James Franco: Sonny and Share

In the 2002 Nicolas Cage movie Sonny, James Franco played a prostitute (above), and to learn the moves, he hung out with the boys who work Santa Monica Boulevard. In an interview with GQ magazine, he reveals that to prove he wasn't an undercover cop, he had to pull out his dick and show it to them. Presumably for free. But the LA whores weren't as forthcoming as the Method man had hoped, so he turned to the pros in New Orleans, and hung out in a Bourbon Street sex club with a straight male stripper who serviced both men and women. Franco says that when a man came in and needed some action right away, he went along on the job and watched. Presumably for free. (Page Six)

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"I just kept saying, 'This is too ... weird.' And Leo was like, 'Oh, get over it.' And I'm going, 'Yeah, a little reminder: You're my best friend. He's my husband. This is a bit weird.' I hadn't realized how much my chemistry with him since Titanic would still stick. It's great to discover we can just slip right into it, like muscle memory." – Kate Winslet to EW on reteaming with Leo DiCaprio for Revolutionary Road, directed by her husband. (UPI; t/y Fenton)

Nils Olav Puts the "King" in King Penguin

Nils Olav is not just any King Penguin living in Scotland's Edinburgh Zoo. He's the mascot and Colonel-in-Chief of the Norwegian King's Guard and his duty is to protect the Norwegian royal family (even though he resides in Scotland...and is a penguin). Here, he's inspecting the soldiers of his regiment, who were visiting him in Edinburgh. Yesterday, on King Harald V's command, Olav was knighted and will now be called Sir Nils Olav. The King of Norway praised Sir Nils for being a penguin "in every way qualified to receive the honor and dignity of knighthood." Yes, we're scratching our head too. Still, it's not as strange a story as the news that a couple of guys have found the body of Sasquatch. (Source; photo: David Cheskin/AP)

Methamphetamine Express

Looks like Craig Phillip Robinson could be moving from the warehouse to the big house. Robinson, who plays Darryl, the likable warehouse guy on The Office (and a hitman in the likable Pineapple Express), was stopped by traffic cops in Culver City at the end of June for a violation and turned out to be a jackpot of violations – the car was a virtual mobile pharmacy fully stocked with drugs, including ecstasy and meth, and Robinson was fully high on "amphetamines, cocaine, and cannabinoids." Yesterday, Los Angeles County prosecutors charged him with two counts of felony drug possession and a single count of being under the influence of illegal drugs. He'll appear in court on August 21, where he'll probably have a logical explanation. (MTV)

Dolly Parton: We Will Always Love Her

While the World of Wonder Storefront Gallery's circuits are still sparking from last night's wild opening of the "I Am 8-Bit" techno art show, we'd like to announce the upcoming "Dollypop" show, devoted to beloved country star Dolly Parton in conjunction with the premiere of the Broadway adaptation of Parton's 9 to 5: The Musical, opening September 3 at the Ahmanson Theater in downtown Los Angeles. For the occasion, the WOW gallery will be transformed into a scene fit for a country jamboree, a regular Hee Haw revival, replete with bales of hay and live chickens. Highlights of the exhibition include a portrait of Dolly made entirely of chewed bubblegum, an original Dolly gouache by famed New Yorker illustrator Robert de Michiell, and a Dolly painting by Bubbles The Artist (aka famed songwriter and co-writer of the Friends theme, Allee Willis). The "Dollypop" show, co-curated by Steven Corfe and Marc Malkin, senior editor and columnist at E! Online, opens Friday, September 12, at the World of Wonder Storefront Gallery, with a gala reception from 8PM to midnight.

Heeeeeeer's Donald!

We don't much like Donald Trump (at all, actually) but he seems to have done a good deed recently, buying the financially strapped Ed McMahon's house that was going into foreclosure and allowing the venerated 85-year-old TV personality to continue living in it. Or rather, Trump will buy the home from the lender and lease it back to McMahon. Still, nice. "I don't know the man, but I grew up watching him on TV," Trump told the LA Times. "When I was at the Wharton School of Business, I'd watch him every night. How could this happen?"

Who Am I?

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Snap!

Do you remember Christina Applegate and Brad Pitt dating in 1988? Pitt was guesting on Dallas and 21 Jump Street that year and Applegate was playing Kelly Bundy on Married...With Children and... guesting on 21 Jump Street. (Photo: Barry King/WireImage)

Hollywood Baracks the Vote

(via JJB.Yuku)

What a $4.5 Million Loft in Tribeca Looks Like

Cityfile says now that Hollywood producer Paula Wagner has split from longtime writing partner Tom Cruise and left her job as CEO at United Artists, and her Hollywood-agent husband Rick Nicita has left CAA for Morgan Creek Productions, the couple are probably moving to Lower Manhattan, if buying a splashy, weirdly shaped 2,241-square-foot, three-bedroom, three-bathroom Tribeca loft means anything. And we don't envy decorating that master bedroom. (Photo: WireImage)

Why Does Jessica Biel Need So Many Boxes?

(Photo: JFXOnline via Just Jared)

Tom Cruise: Mission: Inevitable

Tom Cruise, recently replaced by Angelina Jolie for the lead in the spy thriller Edwin A Salt, now learns he's finally reached the age when he's considered too old and too expensive for any more Mission: Impossible sequels, though he's 20 years younger than Harrison Ford. "Cruise is begging for MI4," said a source, "but Paramount wants a younger, cheaper guy." So Cruise is turning to comic roles; he plays a fat, bald studio exec in Tropic Thunder, and has just signed on for Food Fight, a comedy about an upscale New York chef forced to cook in a school cafeteria. In a related story, his writing partner Paula Wagner has quit as CEO at UA.

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"Did you really just ask me that? She is a 14 year old girl, and you are a pedophile! ... All i am trying to say is, is that, i was raised with a wonderful family surrounding me, of course we have our ups and downs, but all in all my mother taught us to appreciate what we have been given. Nor would she ever encourage, or allow a 14 year old child to alter her body. i am not judging people that do, but i am just saying that its not something that my family finds necessary to do, especially when you're not even fully developed yet!" – Lindsay Lohan, responding on her MySpace Celebrity Blog to a paparazzo asking about sister Ali's breast implants.

Roast Leftovers

Spies Are Us

What do French chef Julia Child, Chicago White Sox catcher Moe Berg, and Supreme Court Justice Arthur Goldberg have in common? Not much, except that they were in the 24,000-strong international spy ring operated by the Office of Strategic Services (OSS), an early version of the CIA, created during World War II by President Franklin Roosevelt. Tomorrow, the National Archives will make public all 750,000 previously classified pages identifying the sprawling network of military and civilian operatives during the Nazi era/error. Also in the spy ring were actor Sterling Hayden; Arthur Schlesinger Jr; and Miles Copeland, father of The Police drummer Stewart Copeland. (Source)

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"Who could have sex the longest. I think that's an event I can do well in. And probably who could stay up the longest. Just so you know, that's supposed to be funny. Even though I am serious." – Sean Diddy Combs, to New York magazine, when asked what new Olympic sport he might have a chance of winning.

Of Interest

Sir Edmund Hillary, first explorer to reach the top of Mount Everest, and Michael Phelps, winner of the most-ever Olympic gold medals in the history of ever. (t/y Wendy)

Lucas and Grenier Split

What took so long? Entourage star Adrian Grenier and Transformers 2 actress Isabel Lucas broke up three weeks ago, not long after Lucas was pulled from the wreckage of Shia LaBeouf's truck. Nice bedside manner, Adrian. Seems her sitting in the shotgun seat that fateful night didn't sit well with him. "It wasn't working out," said a source, regarding the split. "Adrian saw her with Shia and that was kind of it – the crash, their hanging out. He obviously didn't appreciate it." If there is in fact an "it," maybe it's that Lucas found Grenier not Beouf eneouf. (UPI; photo: Getty Images)

Jennifer and John: Friends

Is Jennifer Aniston prescient when it comes to choosing her movies? She made The Break Up with Vince Vaughn and they broke up. She's filming He's Just Not That Into You right now and serious boyfriend John Mayer just dumped her. It's sad, but it's no wonder. A friend of Jen's has blabbed that "contrary to reports, Jen didn't want to have kids or marry this year, but she did want to set a timetable for their future together. She also wanted him to assure her he would cut down his tours in the future when they did eventually have children." (via Mirror)

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"I'll admit I was not a team player. A lot of it, I think, just had to do with being obnoxious when the camera was on someone else. Maybe I'd eat a banana in the background that would take focus away from the other actors. I didn't think about it that way, but now I could say, 'Look, the scene's not about me, it's about them, just chill out, James. Don't eat a fucking banana.'" – James Franco, to the NY Post, on alienating himself from the cast of Freaks & Geeks.

Of Interest

The lion from Bedknobs and Broomsticks and Michael Phelps. (t/y Brett)

Who Am I?

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Rolls on Film: Simon Le Bon Bon

Looks like Duran Duran frontman Simon Le Bon has been making too many trips to the pastry shop of late. The 49-year-old former pinup is photographed here adjusting his trunk, er, trunks, on an Italian beach over the weekend. (Photo; MCP/Rex Features via Daily Mail)

Of Interest

Olympic gymnast Raj Bhavsar and actor Kal Penn. (t/y David)

Who Am I?

Stop us if you've seen this one. Reveal after the jump.

Jonathan & Simon: The Mod Couple

Longtime mates Jonathan Adler, 42, potter to the stars, and Simon Doonan, 56, window dresser to the stores stars shop, are officially tying the marital knot because they can. And because they can only in California at the mo, they'll be tying it in California. But it will be a nothing-special, ho-hum affair. "The two have strikingly low-key plans," writes Erin Weinger, in a delightfully fluffy interview with the men in Sunday's LA Times. "The Manhattanites have channeled their knack for fabulousness into dinner for four and an equally intimate ceremony in Big Sur." Some excerpts:

How many guests are you having?

SD: Two: Jonny's mom, Cynthia, and his sister Amy are flying out.

JA: Any helicopters circling overhead are going to be very disappointed.


Who is doing the flowers and what kind?

SD: Since we will be in Big Sur, I am seeing us having a hippie moment.

JA: Daisies in the hair, etc.


What are you wearing?

SD: We have been joking about wearing matching caftans.

JA: Except I'm not joking. I want matching caftans.


Are you exchanging rings? What kind?

JA: We bought silver Georg Jensen wedding rings about 12 years ago. I lost mine in a cab, so we are going to replace them with something.

SD: I want something more than a gold band. I can see us dithering about it and ending up with string.


What do you fight over?

JA: We fight over stupid things like the air conditioning.


Are you taking a honeymoon?

JA: We are getting married at the Post Ranch Inn – it's called the Elopement Package -- so that we can combine the two.

(Photo:Trish Lease/Getty Images)

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"I’m enjoying myself. But I’m not great with women, dude. I’m not a closer. I can chat all night long, but I’m not the guy who goes, ‘Okay, back to my room.’ I’ve never been that way. It’s not my presence, I just can’t do it. But it’s not been a priority of mine for a while." – Shia LaBeouf on his incompetence when it comes to coaxing women into his bedroom. (The Sun)

Madonna and Bono: Musical Footnotes

Madonna has mysteriously sprained her ankle and postponed the party for her 50th birthday. Lame excuse, literally, for putting off the inevitable. Meanwhile, the cocky Bono, 5' 6", enjoys that extra one- or two-inch lift he gets from his shoes.

Jake Gyllenhaal: He's Fit for a Prince

Jake Gyllenhaal holds hands with a frowny Reese Witherspoon on the set of his movie Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time, shooting in Morocco. He built up quite a rugged exterior for the role of Dastan, a 6th-century prince determined to keep the god-given magic sands on the side of right. Meanwhile, the couple are staying at the luxurious five-star Amanjena hotel in Marrakech. (Just Jared; photo: SplashNewsOnline)

Snap!

Is Lohan sniffing her fingers in this WireImage shot?

Who's Suri Now?

After a couple of cocktails, Katie Holmes lets loose about her daughter Suri's name. Or does she? (t/y Eve)

Heroes Dad No Hero

During what must have been a tense family outing last night at a party with their daughter Hayden, at Eva Longoria's restaurant, Beso, in Hollywood, Mr and Mrs Panettiere got into an altercation that eventually resulted in the mister (above left) slugging the missus (at right). Alan Panettiere is said to have seen Lesley Panettiere spending time with someone and felt she was "disrespecting" him. There were words, some action, and at home later he allegedly engaged in some wife beating. Hayden's dad was arrested this morning on a felony count of domestic violence and is currently being held on $50,000 bail. On a lighter note, earlier in the evening Hayden's boyfriend Milo Ventimiglia ran over a photographer's foot outside the restaurant. (Fox News)