• Lauren Conrad‘s novel, LA Candy, has taken the top spot on the New York Times bestseller list two weeks in a row.

• Leonardo DeCaprio was prowling for ladies at all the New York hotspots last week.

• Barney Frank in a pool. 

• Sienna Miller passed her driving test and is now sleeping with the examiner.  

• Dope on a rope: Tony Romo broke up with Jessica Simpson the day before her 29th birthday. Wiping away tears, she tweeted, “Everyone needs to know that hope floats… grab the strings and pull it back to you.”

• Green Day drummer Tré Cool plans to have Banksy tattoo his chest with a scene featuring “rats that are like bouncers” guarding the entrance to his heart.

• Trophy husband David Arquette plans to spend eight hours each day tomorrow and Wednesday in a plexiglas box above Madison Square Garden. Though he’ll be fed, he’s doing it for the hungry.

• Slain actress-director Adrienne Shelly has had a garden in New York’s Abingdon Square Park named for her.  

• San Francisco Zoo resident Pepper the penguin was devastated when longtime gay partner Harry, also a penguin, up and dumped him for fag hag turned homewrecker, Linda, who’d had her beak in Harry behind Pepper’s back for a while.   

• Vanessa Hudgens will be nude for more than just her boyfriend this time when she strips naked in the movie Sucker Punch.