• Laguna Beach's Kristin Cavalleri is auctioning off ten minutes of phone conversation for charity. So maybe her relationships with Stephen, shopping, and coke will do some good for this world. [Lowdown]

• More pointless Cindy Adams info: Zooey Deschanel would like you to know that though you may not recognize her on the street, she has definitely been to Bungalow 8. [Cindy Adams]

• Is Paris Hilton losing her edge? Mischa Barton doesn't even want to be associated with her. [3am]

• Teri Hatcher is going to have to snaz up her political talking points if she wants to keep bagging George Clooney. [The Scoop]

• While we appreciate the effort Halle Berry makes by promising not to make Catwoman II, but we still don't think we'll be seeing her in any movies. Y'know, in the off chance she gets offered a role. [People]

• The city is about to get real country tonight with the Country Music Awards at MSG. That's right: More gay men in tight jeans invade the town than during the Republican National Convention. [AP]

• Alessandra Stanley is definitely the only person we'd trust to analyze Oprah at 20 years. Or watch her DVD collection. [NYT]

• Egads! The People's Choice Awards might no longer follow what the Oscars do now that cost-cutting has turned the voting process into a veritable shaking of an 8 ball. [LAT]

• The LAPD don't care if you're brandishing weed outside hot nightclubs, so long as you're a celeb. [TMZ]

• Madonna is out and Halle Berry is in as the face of Versace. But with Kate Moss on her comeback tour, perhaps she'll be popping up next to Donatella in a few months. [Page Six]

• Ken Tucker is leaving New York after 13 months to return to Entertainment Weekly — because he was tired of commuting to Manhattan to attend movie screenings, if you believe the official excuse. [WWD]

• Business travelers, it turns out, don't care how hip your stupid hotel is. Just give 'em a place to lay down .. next to their call girl. [NYT]

• Jennifer Anistonn: GQ's first "Man of the Year." And she's on the cover. With her boobs showing. [Perez Hilton]