· The NYDN, home to the very Lowdown column that banned Paris Hilton‘s name from its inches, has a breakdown of the socialite-cum-businesswoman’s skill at flipping on the smarts with convenient headings: Serious, Ditsy and Seriously Ditsy.
· Jeff Gannon/James Guckert just doesn’t understand why he wasn’t invited to tomorrow’s White House Correspondents Dinner. We’ll laugh when we see FishbowlDC’s Garrett Graff yucking it up.
· NYT migraine Jayson Blair scores a first-person column in bp, a magazine for bi-polar disorder. Though we’re still holding out for his debut in , which surely has a holdover article from its “third” issue.
· relays ‘ publicist’s statement of her current not-with- locale: “Her PR rep insisted yesterday that she’s just going on a “one-on-one” vacation with her mom, Kathleen.” Oh good, it’s not as if there’s photos to the contrary or anything.
· , high off the success of his No. 1 album, has finally tasted the perfect pot brownies. He was dining on them at NA after his sold-out Irving Plaza show, so expect the nightclub’s rep to deny any such “allegations.”
· has grown nervous over the attention paid to her legs, so now she’s putting plotted plants in the camera’s way. She is a serious journalist, ladies and gentlemen; don’t let her giggles fool you.
· ‘s chart-scared album Rebirth is being reborn, thanks to the help of former manager of The Firm. Not sure where he fell on the list of ex-managers she turned to.
· Former staffer revealed to friends her old boss is the “cantankerous old fool” viewers always assumed he was.
· The Pentagon flipped its policy on revealing photos of coffins of war dead, distributing American flag-draped caskets – but with few location or time credits.