STONES, ROLLING After losing Rolling Stone executive editor Joe Levy to old foe Kent Brownridge and Alpha Media, Jann Wenner ups Eric Bates and Jason Fine to executive editor slots. [WWD]

STABBING BACK The war between Kent Brownridge and Jann Wenner rages on! Like a writers strike! Brownridge, the current Maxim and Blender guru and former Wenner No. 2, poached Rolling Stone exec editor Joe Levy, who will be installed atop Blender next month. Watch now as Kent starts a celebrity weekly just so he can send love letters to Janice Min. [AdAge]

We are a little ashamed to admit this, but … we did not watch American Idol last night. Truthfully, we only like AI in the beginning, when all those awful people who think they can sing try out. Still, we have to mention, since its the biggest craze since hula hooping, that Taylor Hicks won last night's competition.

On Good Morning America this morning, Diane Sawyer jabbed at Charlie Gibson by saying "Charlie is Taylor Hicks' hair inspiration" and she quoted Ryan Seacrest's profound realization that launced a movie starring Hugh Grant and Mandy Moore:

Announcing the results, Ryan Seacrest noted that "an astounding 63.4 million votes" were cast, "more than any President in this country has ever received."

That's pretty obvious. But, after reading this, we really regretted not watching.

But the biggest show-stoppers were Clay Aiken, who debuted a jaw-dropping new hipster hairdo, and Prince, who performed two songs solo before an ecstatic audience.

Hipster hair? Oh, man. That would've been hilarious. Well, we were watching Lost, so we're pretty sure you can forgive us. But ABC convinced us to watch GMA today instead of Today because Jennifer Aniston was going to be on.

And because she is our idol (meaning she's our third favorite celebrity to try and make cry*) we'll be back with an update on her sure to be gut wrenching interview. Well, at least we know she'll look a bit more alive than Lindsay Lohan did during her pathetic appearance on that other show.

Taylor Hicks Wins American Idol [People]

It may not have done much for Rob Lowe's career, but sex tapes are now on the "must do" list for any B-List actor or actress. So appropriate and tasteful are these tapes, that the Sunday Style section in the New York Times is now covering this celeb "trend."

Even Joe Levy, executive editor at Rolling Stone, is all like "everyone else is doing it."

"The huge difference between nearly 20 years ago and now is that pornography is more easily available, therefore there is far less of a stigma attached to it."

Mr. Levy added: "In this day and age everyone has their own video camera and is free to use it in whatever manner they desire. The more people that make these tapes for their own pleasure, the less they think it horrifying that others have done so too."

The problem is that the celebs you actually want to see naked and getting it on (you know who they are) never pull a "Stars are Just Like Us!" home video. It's always Fred Durst, Kid Rock, Paris Hilton and other skeez-o types. But, the Sunday Styles does try to give us hope for the future of celeb sex tapes; the next Red Light District product should be out soon, according to the company's director David Joseph.

He would not name names, but did drop hints. "It's a girl," he said, smiling mischievously, "and she's in the music business."

We have a feeling this might be the legendary Britney Spears sex tape. Blech. Wasn't watching Chaotic torture enough?

Sex, Lawsuits and Celebrities Caught on Tape [Lola Ogunnaike, New York Times]

• Longtime Rolling Stone staffer and famed music critic Joel Levy gets promoted to executive editor at the mag. Hopefully he won't get drunk on power and hit on the interns. [Media Week]

• David Beckham is a complete and total moron. Which doesn't matter because he's really hot, and uses his head to hit soccer balls, but still. He's a dumb-ass. [A Socialite's Life]

• Little Maddox asks his Braddy daddy who the hell Jennifer Aniston is, to which Brad Pitt responds, "oh, nobody. Just a friend I used to pretend to be in love with.” [Star]

• Victoria Gotti would accept John Gotti's secret family — as long as they're good looking. [NYDN]

• Don Knotts, better known as Mr. Furley on Three's Company, dies at 81. [People]

• Paring porn with wine? If people had just thought of this earlier, they could have saved so much money on Pacha's entrance fees. [NYT]

• Maybe Elizabeth Jagger will manage to cough up a better performance than her father's Super Bowl fiasco. [Page Six]