• Daniel Dae Kim racks up another Lost DUI.

• Helen Mirren hates the miracle of childbirth.

• Larry Craig receives an unwelcome blast from the past.

• Notorious B.I.G. gets (yet another) Life After Death.

• A volunteer French firefighter suddenly remembers Princess Diana's dying words.

• Thug contemplates sexual assault, opts to make off with stolen iPod instead.

Ten years after Princess Diana's fatal car crash, former editor of the almost-defunct News of the World Phil Hall belatedly comes forward to take the credit blame for the events leading up to her death.

Sez Hall:

"I felt huge responsibility for what happened and I think everyone in the media did," Hall said. He noted that the driver of the car, who also died in the crash in Paris, was found to be drunk.' "But my view is that if the paparazzi hadn't been following her the car wouldn't have been speeding and, you know, the accident may never have happened," Hall said.

When reached for comment, a still-drunk Lindsay Lohan screeched, "OMG, it's totally the paparazzi's fault! I told you being wasted and coked out of my mind had nothing to do with it."

Class dismissed.

[HuffPo]

Not yet tired of hearing about the Princess Di tribute concert? Well, we didn't watch the broadcast on Sunday night, partly because we're tired of seeing Fergie from above the knee, but also, Big Love. But Eat The Press tuned in, at least enough to call the Matt Lauer-hosted NBC broadcast "an incomplete, seemingly random selection of acts from the full 6-plus hour programme."

Ouch-y!

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"Concert for Diana features music fit for a princess!" proclaims the NYYDN.

Assuming a princess would enjoy a six and a half hour marathon of Fergie's warbling voice (fortunately muted, thanks to technical difficulties) a recycled version of Diddy's tribute to B.I.G., the musical stylings of a still-drunk Lily Allen and heartfelt performances of Kanye West's "Gold Digger" and Pharrell's "Drop It Like It's Hot."

Not to mention a completely literal interpretation of 50 Cent's lyrics, "We gonna party like it's your birthday."

Rest in peace, D.

[via DN]

Matt Lauer is making the press rounds to plug Sunday's Princess Diana concert, which NBC paid $2.5 million for broadcast rights. That deal, of course, did not include an arrangement to have Prince William and Harry sit down for a Dateline chat. "When the concert deal was signed they hadn't even decided they were even going to do an interview," says Lauer. "There was no 'We'll do the concert and we get the boys.'" Mmhmm. Just like when they were going to pay Paris Hilton $1 million for video rights (that they could've likely bought from Splash News) and, lucky them, the just-freed heiress wanted to sit down for an interview … just 'cause.

God, I like to think I have nothing much in common with the airhead daughter of a pedigreed Earl who left school, became a nanny, and married a prince with a tenacious mistress. I don't see much of a resemblance, to be perfectly frank. Except for a haircut. But the truth was I had more in common with Camilla Parker Bowles's haircut, if anybody cares to examine my coiffure on my first Today Show.

–Tina Brown, discussing her new book "The Diana Chronicles" with Maer Roshan [via Radar]

"Frankly it is ludicrous," says an unnamed BBC industry observer in London's Evening Standard, "that a major interview with the sons of the Princess of Wales is not conducted by a proper journalist." That's the reaction that's been repeated by many industry onlookers (or so we're led to believe) over the BBC's decision to choose Radio 1's 25-year-old Fearne Cotton (a self-described "mouthy little girl") instead of, say, Huw Edwards.

The interview, of course, comes during the lead up to the 10th anniversary of Princess Diana's death — leading some in the news biz to think this type of interview would be conducted as a piece of serious journalism instead of, say, a celebrity puff piece.

"In contrast," reports the paper, "the American TV network NBC selected its veteran broadcaster Matt Lauer, 49, to interview the princes." Ah yes, Matt Lauer, who's never done a celebrity shtick piece in his life.

If you've been to any fancy book parties lately, then you likely already know exactly how these things work. There's typically an over-stressed author, an under-utilized open bar, an abundance of untouched hors d'oeuvres trays, and a clusterfuck of publicity-hungry "friends," who haven't read the book (and have no intention of doing so) but have nothing but praise and backhanded compliments for the author.

Case in point, Isaac Mizrahi.

Craving frivolity over seriousness, The Transom approached designer Isaac Mizrahi, who saw a ready muse in Ms. Brown. “We have to figure out what she could make at Target,” he said, “because I think she could do really well in that store …. I’ll tell you something, she’s like a role model for me right now because she’s so thin. I mean, not that she was ever big, but you know she’s kind of at that crucial moment, where she could go one way or the other and she kind of looks amazing. So that’s a real inspiration for all of us.”

Naturally, Brown didn't help matters by shifting the attention to her choice of wardrobe.

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• Vanity Fair's 20-cover Darfur extravaganza has arrived! Our favorite is the extremely odd pairing of a pissed-off looking Bono with a hungover Condoleezza Rice.

• Ohhhh, apparently the covers were supposed to look like "a game of Telephone." Annie Leibovitz is so retro!

• Negligibly cute FCC Chairman Kevin Martin is still not happy about yesterday's federal appeals court decision.

• British TV Station rejects common decency, requests asking them not to air "Diana death pictures."

• Dow Jones union looking for an alternative bidder. Insiders say their criteria includes "anyone but Murdoch."

• Meanwhile, retired anchor Bernard Shaw is pained deeply by the impact Fox had on CNN's dynasty.

• New York Times copies Jossip, gets credit for taking blogging trend into mainstream.

• Shockingly, it turns out that publishing Princess Diana's "death picture" is still rather taboo. On the other hand, we'll always have this.

• Besides, what would Tina Brown think?

• Women who read fashion and beauty magazines have a lot of money. Or at least their husbands do!

• Page Six perpetuates rumors that Katie Couric and Meredith Vieira are being demoted. Cue the obligatory denials!

• Slate reports on the Battle of the Fonts: 'Helvetica is for mediocre hacks,' boast fanatical Courier devotees.

• Breaking: Celebrities sometimes model jewelry! Experts already calling this a brilliant foray into cross-promotional propaganda. WWD has the scoop!