
• Bono and Nicholas Cage have never looked so…heavenly!
&bul; Ewan McGregor needs lots of jock support.
• Steven Spielberg and Peter Jackson to join forces on overbudgeted Hollywood extravaganza.
• For Vanessa Minnillo, hanging out with boyfriend Nick Lachey is no day at the beach.
• David Hasselhoff is really sorry that he got drunk and lost custody of his daughter devoured a hamburger without pausing to grab utensils.
• Marketwatch's Jon Friedman gives the thumbs up to the New York Times new poker column, so you know that shit is good.
• Director Peter Jackson claims New Line Cinema shorted him on $100 million from his Lord of the Rings triology, alleging in a lawsuit the studio used a closed bidding process for DVD and merchandise rights that permitted only Time Warner's companies to get in on the action. It didn't hurt Time Warner's bottom line, only Jackson's.
• Some blogger mastermind has managed to start packaging Gawker's content into an ad-free blog - and emails us to warn that we're next!
• Speaking of. What happens when a young, gay blogger attends the War of the Worlds movie premiere? Snapshots with rehabber Pat O'Brien, that's what.
• Village Voice management (their staff is large enough for that?) is planning some budget cutbacks, which include rolling back benefits and adding $15/week to salaries. Which will affect all both employees that are left.
• Pound-shedding pair Missy Elliot and Tori Spelling are taking aim at Paris Hilton's pup Tinkerbell, outfitting their own canines with T-shirts like the one reading, "I hate Tinkerbell, that bitch has everything."
• After all that bad buzz surrounding Kathy Hilton's I Want To Be A Hilton, it's a shocker anyone tuned in. But if you still want the recap, you can thank TVGasm for watching - and writing it all down. But we can't flame them, it's their job!
• Harrod's, the same luxury goods store that Christina Aguilera so famously earned a paycheck for attending its store opening, has hired Conde Nast's contract publishing unit to put out its Truly British in-store magalogue.
• Andy Towle continues to update us on Brokeback Mountain, with Jake Gyllenhaal's co-star Heath Ledger saying the gay cowboy flic is the best script he's ever read.
• Sharon Stone and Aaron Carter: One and the same?