• TV anchors don't really want to cover Mardi Gras in New Orleans. [TVNewser]

• Russel Crowe and Nicole Kidman are hooking up again — chill guys, it's just for a movie. [People]

• After leaving her shoeless and alone on Valentine's Day, Ron Perlman throws some cash at Ellen Barkin, hoping he won't look like such an ass. [NYDN]

• Vice found Osama Bin Laden and nobody even noticed. Damn fake Anthrax. [Fishbowl, NY]

• Lee Tamahori, the cross-dressing hooker/director, pleads no contest to prostitution charges. His punishment? He has to go and learn about how prostitutes and trannies get AIDS. [TMZ]