• Supporting both AIDS research and PETA is an over-extension for Charlize Theron, at least according to Patient Advocates Against PETA supporters, who claim animal rights activists are hindering the search for an AIDS cure.

• While media companies are offering modest sums to the Hurricane Katrina relief effort, New Orleans native Ellen DeGeneres alone pledged $500,000 (well, from her studio) and will use her talk show to raise even more cash.

• It probably won't make the season, but the cast of Real World: Key West has one unhappy neighbor. Production company Bunim/Murray is facing a lawsuit from Edwin O. Swift III, who lives next door to the Real World house in Key Haven. The bright lights are brighter than a "high school football stadium" and that taping has interfered with his family's activities like "relaxing and sleeping," which says nothing of the extramarital, unprotected sex.

• American Idol canceled its Memphis auditions not because Paula Abdul needed more time to nurse a contestant but because the hurricane relief efforts there take precedent.

• Staffers continue to flee Harper's Bazaar, though that doesn't mean September's Demi Moore cover is a pussy issue.