• Thanks to Suge Knight's self-shooting at Kanye West's VMA party, The Game is running into trouble himself. He was set to attend the Magic Marketplace fashion convention in Las Vegas to promo his Hurricane sneaker by 310, but organizers forced him to leave fearing Knight might send some goons for retribution, even though he had nothing to do with the incident.

• There certainly wasn't any Madonna-Britney kiss to buoy ratings, but Diddy didn't do much to even maintain last year's VMA ratings. The MTV broadcast slipped 22 percent over last year, averaging just 8 million viewers from 10.3 million.

• As part of his reelection campaign, Mayor Michael Bloomberg is ripping on old friend Rudy Giuliani.

• Al Pacino could use some lessons with the ladies. Instead of making young starlets feel comfortable around him, he's scaring them off with his rude 'tude.

• It doesn't matter if you're black or white — unless you're a Hurriance Katrina looter intercepted by a wire service caption.