• Sony is ready to spend $50 million for 80 hours of footage from Michael Jackson‘s last rehearsal to turn into a feature film.
• Warner Bros and Leonardo DiCaprio‘s production company have hired Rand Ravich to write the script for a movie based on the Twilight Zone TV series.
• Jon Gosselin has a new girlfriend.
• Sienna Miller says she almost burned “the bit in between” her breasts on the set of her new movie GI Joe: The Rise of Cobra. “It got a bit burned when an explosion got a bit close.”
• John Mayer‘s ego – on a loop.
• The mysterious case of Mischa Barton, who’s still under court-ordered psychiatric evaluation, gets mysteriouser and mysteriouser.
• Los Angeles hates David Beckham.
• Almost a hero. In his upcoming memoir, Talking Heads frontman David Byrne recounts the time he nearly ran over a jaywalking Paris Hilton with his bicycle.
• American Idol judgette Paula Abdul is demanding $20 million to not vote herself off the show.
• The Purple One, Prince, was spotted flying first-class from Minneapolis to New York, reading Elle, carrying a gold-and-diamond-encrusted cane, and wearing flip-flops with sparkly silver socks. Socks with flip-flops? Really, Prince?