• Vivica A. Fox didn't just wake up one morning, pound a few drinks and decide to get behind the wheel. Racism made her do it!

• Bruce Willis apparently enjoys flirting with twenty-something model types while his daughter, Rumer watches. Kinky!

• Usher knocks up his fiancee, Tameka Foster. Naturally, Usher's mom, and ex-manager (thanks to Foster!) must be understandably thrilled.

• Despite being physically attractive and sounding like a phone sex operator, Ivanka Trump may nonetheless have some trouble finding a suitor willing to accept The Donald as an inlaw.

• Brittany Murphy claims she and her ex-boyfriend are being stalked by a mysterious kidnapper who occasionally moonlights as a U.S. immigration authorities worker.

• Brooklyn State Assembly member apparently refuses to accept his big, gay son.

• Rohan Marley gets busted for smoking a joint at Stereo. Dude, a bunch of NYU freshman can toke in bars but Bob Marley's kid can't? [Page Six]

• The New York Times tries (yet again) to keep up with the hip music trends, this time catching up with the Arctic Monkeys. We heart the band, and especially giggled at the NYT's ridic praise of them. [NY Times]

• The Grammy nomination process is complicated, political, and "secretive" — maybe Kanye West should be a little less whiny about a bunch of old while dudes enjoying his music. [Billboard]

• Brittany Murphy uses her celeb pull to land a music contract. Maybe she'll finally find something to be successful at? After all, she does have all those engagements/broken engagements to use for inspiration. [Page Six]

• Speculation about a possible Google music service is using "Google Tunes" as the "secret code name" when talking about it. Um, we think even Jessica Simpson could figure that one out. [Search Engine Watch]

• Dixie Chick Natalie Maines doesn't regret "the incident" in which she criticized George Bush. You konw, in that "I have no career or fan base anymore" sort of way. [EW]

• Berklee School of Music in Boston encourages students to create non-violent hip-hop music. Which is why all the real rappers live in New York. [Boston Globe]

• Celeb PR reps can't rescue their clients from anorexia, STDs, or blogs. [Guardian]

• Battle of the exclusives: People: Brittany Murphy is engaged, Us Weekly: Elisabeth Shue pregnant. Don't celebrities do anything else besides get married, have babies, and pole dance? [People, Us Weekly]

• Courtney Love doesn't understand why drugs didn't get her into Vanity Fair. Um, because she's disgusting, maybe? [Page Six]

• Paging David Amsden — a club full of underage girls awaits your reporting/drink spiking skills. [NYT]

• PoweR Girl Lizzie Grubman dumps partner Jonathan Cheban after he tries to sell her out. Dude, we would not fuck with a girl who runs people down with her SUV and lives to laugh about it. [Gawker]

• In her In Style interview, Uma Thurman proves that she's gotten really, really boring. [NYDN]

Radar's feud revival with Page Six makes the Daily News' hostility hobby look amateur. (P6's Chris Wilson's bloodshed with Gawker's Jessica Coen, however, remains most interesting.)

Yesterday we pointed out the Sixer's out of character retraction of a Brittany Murphy item that, among other things, claimed she was doubly dumped by her management and publicist for being a coked up (and washed up?) actress who had sex with a waiter in a stairwell. Now Richard Johnson's camp claim that was rubbish — a retraction surely arriving only after Ms. Murphy's attorneys threatened Post-it boss Col Allan with some illicit photos.

Page Six's initial item, of course, was based on a report from Radar, which in turn stemmed from a none too blind item from E!'s Ted Casablanca. In their backstepping, the Post gossips effectively dumped blame on Maer Roshan's stable of "Pop Politics Scandal & Style" staffers. And they ain't having it. Responding today:

Although we did link to the item and the Defamer post, we never claimed the anonymous skank was Murphy; only that it didn’t reflect well on her image that a large number of her fans seemed to think it was.

If you've been able to stay up to speed thus far, you'll know this much is true: Nobody's taking responsibility for calling Brittany a coked up stairwell whore — except us. Radar, meanwhile, continues to throw a temper tantrum over Page Six's inability to get the magazine's frickin' web address correct. Ya follow?

(It's probably worth reminding our readership that we sorta kinda write for Radar. And sleep with Page Six.)

Page Six Cuts And Runs [Radar]
Related: Page 86's their Brittany Murphy tale
Related: No Junk, No Sex [Page Six]
Related: Jossip Juxtaposition

As you well know, Page Six isn't one to back down from a fight, carrying a grudge better than Sarah Michelle Gellar.

Curious, then, that they're backing away from a tiff with Brittany Murphy, who they recently reported as having been dropped by her manager Joanne Colonna of Brillstein-Grey. Richard Johnson & Co. also connected her with Radar's blind item reveal about her coke use and having sex with a cater waiter in a stairwell. While they don't explain what happened with her agent (who was the second star in Brittany's handler double dump), they do tattle:

IN a recent item about Brittany Murphy, we erroneously stated that she'd been "dropped" by her manager when, in fact, Murphy herself decided to release manager Joanne Colonna of Brillstein-Grey. We also included part of a radar.com story on this subject that said Murphy may be "Jordache Junky," the subject of a nasty "blind" item in Ted Casablancas' E! Online column. We're happy to report that Murphy never used heroin or had sex with a strange man in a stairwell.

And we're happy to report that Page Six, once again, does not know the Web address of Radar: radarmagazine.com. Though as for the Sixers having sex in a stairwell? Well, you know how things go down at Butter.

No Junk, No Sex [Page Six]
Earlier: Jossip Juxtaposition

• Paris Hilton's kinkajou may be delivered from starlet hell sooner than we thought. Turns out keeping the little guy is illegal in both California and New York and now PETA has joined in the "Free Baby Luv" movement. [NYP]

• How to pick up waitresses, by Tommy Lee: Stiff 'em when it's tip time, have them race to a roadie for compensation and offer them "compensation" of pot and partying with the tattooed tightwad. So far, no takers. [Lowdown]

• Extra's Mark McGrath has an original approach to getting exclusives on Pam Anderson: shack up with her. One glitch: If size matters, Tommy Lee definitely has him beat. [Page Six]

• Canned Desperate Housewives actor Page Kennedy is refuting rumors he got dumped for exposing himself on the set. Apparently such a reputation is damaging. [Sun-Times]

• Page Six isn't making friends with its Peter Braunstein coverage, getting rape victim advocacy groups in a tizzy over their near reveal of his victim's identity. But hey, Peter Braunstein's not making us friends either. [NYDN]

• Heidi Fleiss is getting back to her roots, only this time she'll be whoring out men to an all-female clientele. In Vegas. [People]

• The good news: Someone actually doesn't want to party with Jessica Simpson! The bad news: It's her TV husband Nick Lachey. To the despair of OK! Magazine, Lachey nixed a big birthday blowout, opting instead for a quiet dinner. [The Scoop]

• Brittany Murphy's stairwell cater waiter tryst didn't sit well with her agent at ICM or her manager — so they both dumped her. [Radar]

• Not that Julie Blackman did her job as a jury consultant, but she feels she's still entitled to $74,000 in unpaid legal bills from Martha Stewart. [NYDN]

Skinny bitches travel in pairs - but they throw up separately.

Well, unless you're Paris Hilton and recently-skinny Nicole Richie.

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