• The Wrap reports that Project Runway's move to Lifetime has not quite worked out as Harvey Weinstein and company expected. After a very strong debut, ratings have fallen off more than 20 percent. Worse for Lifetime, having the show on its network, for which it paid a hefty price, has done little for its overall ratings picture. In fact, Lifetime's ratings in the critical 18 - 49 female demo are off 13 percent from last year. On the other hand, after losing its signature show, Bravo's ratings are up this year by 5 percent in the 18- 49 demo, and it had its "best ratings quarter ever this summer." So who is auf now Frau Klum? [The Wrap]

• Anthony Hopkins has signed on to play Thor's dad Odin in the Marvel film adaptation of its comic book series. Chris Hemsworth will star as the thunder god, while Natalie Portman will take on the thankless love interest role. Kenneth Branagh is, amazingly, directing. [Variety]

• And the new Mad Max will be...Charlize Theron. Little is known about the working script, but the Oscar winner will apparently be the front woman in director George Miller's reboot of the classic series. [Variety]

• Sethe MacFarlane's American Dad has been renewed for a sixth season. [Hollywood Reporter]

• Sony reported its fourth straight quarter of losses, although the hurt this past quarter was not as bad as analysts had predicted. The company saw sales fall off another 20 percent overall. The motion picture division saw a "30.4% year-on drop in sales — or 20% on a U.S. dollar basis. But as the NY Times reminded us this weekend, what matters is that Michael and Amy really really like each other. [Variety]

• Tensions flared at the wrap of the theater owner's ShowEast conference over the taking forever rollout of digital technology. The Hollywood Reporter reported, "it sounded more like a threat than a promise when University Mall Theatres' Mark O'Meara kicked off one d-cinema presentation by declaring, 'Digital cinema is here to stay.'" [Hollywood Reporter]

• Prepare yourself for Fish Hooks. The first new animated show to be greenlit by the Disney Channel in three years will soon be tormenting your dreams as it is forced down grown-up America's throats by a nation of over-hyped children. [Hollywood Reporter}

Kono is kidding, of course, but the fact remains that this profile portrays Charlize as the kind of woman who is busy (in addition to her production company, Denver & Delilah Films, Charlize runs the Africa Outreach Project); bawdy (she calls the eyebrows she had in North Country "sperm brows"); and brassy: when a large group of Arab-American women — mothers and daughters celebrating a graduation — see her on the restaurant patio where the Vogue interview is being conducted, they come over to say "We are in love here! We think you're beautiful." Charlize responds: "Stop it, you lesbians." Kevin Conley writes that she says it "in a way that is both loud and bawdy and shy and flattered."

Naturally, because no story about Charlize is complete without it, Vogue mentions that back in 1991, Charlize's mother shot and killed her father. (Charlize on the incident: "That became my fucking tattoo." Yes, Vogue allows the word fucking.)

So. We learn many delightful things about Charlize — including the fact that she is working on about twelve projects now, including a TV series about an FBI profiler, an American adaptation of a South Korean thriller and a comedy based on Christopher Buckley's novel Florence Of Arabia. But what we don't learn is why — other than being beautiful, successful, thin and white — it's imperative that she appear on the cover of Vogue for September 2009. In Kevin Conley's own words: "Theron hasn't been in front of the camera for more than a year."

The Indiscreet Charm Of Charlize Theron [Vogue.com]

[Photograph by Mario Testino for Vogue]

Here's a really titillating piece of news! Columbia Pictures is in early talks with Nicolas Cage to play the gangster villain in The Green Hornet. Cameron Diaz is negotiating to play a reporter and love interest in the Michel Gondry-directed pic that stars Seth Rogen as the masked crime fighter. I just want to make sure that registered with you: Nicolas Cage will be emoting for us whilst wearing some kind of tight fitting costume. We're sure you're titling too. [ Variety ]

New deals are coming in on the Monetizing Childhood Nostalgia front! John Fusco has been tapped to breathe new life into Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. He also wrote a redo of The Seven Samurai for the Weinstein Co. His other credits include Hidalgo and Young Guns. Next up Diablo Cody's remake of a sassy outsider who wears a strawberry beanie and smells like shortcakes! [ Variety ]

Despite a fast-approaching Thursday filing deadline, the two factions within the Screen Actors Guild have continued to keep their slate of candidates for the guild's September elections under wraps. Well, one thing's clear Martin Sheen's ass better be filling one of those slate spots because I need some new material for my West Wing fan fiction livejournal! [ Variety ]

Ugh, when is someone going to give K-Fed a reality show so we can see what's up with him and Britt's kids? Oh wait! [ E! Online! ]

Remember that sad story we told you about the group of black kids who were turned away from a swim club pool because the club's owners feared they would "change the complexion of the pool"? It's ugly stuff. To make matters less ugly writer/director Tyler Perry has stepped offered to send the 65 kids from Philly on all-expenses-paid three-day trip to DisneyWorld. And that's the last nice thing I will ever say about Tyler Perry. Are you happy morning news round up? You've broken me! [ People ]

Speaking of celebs stepping in to rescue sad children: Uma! Uma Thurman is set to star in Girl Solider an indie flick about a radical cleric who helps rescue 140 schoolgirls abducted in Uganda. Story's based on Kathy Cook's book "Stolen Angels," which follows the 1996 raid at a boarding school, where a band of armed rebels abducted young girls to turn them into soldiers and sex slaves. So there's that. Have a great day! [ Variety ]

This morning on The View, Elisabeth Hasselbeck was all bent out of shape about Phelps' bong hit, giving the tired spiel about how he's a role model and he's setting a bad example, blah blah blah. She went on to claim that since he's willing to use illegal drugs to have a good time, maybe he's open to using illegal drugs to advance his career, as though weed is a gateway drug to steroids or something. Whoopi shot her down pretty quickly, and admitted to enjoying pot.

Elisabeth's argument hinged on the fact that Phelps accepts money to endorse products. One of those is Rosetta Stone, the language-learning software, which is just about one of the most sedentary activities a stoner could enjoy, aside from watching The Wizard of Oz on mute while playing The Dark Side of the Moon. (I should know, since I've been using the program to learn Spanish.) His other sponsors, like Omega and Speedo, totally don't give a shit.

And they shouldn't, because it's silly — in my opinion, anyway — to pass judgment on those who take part in something as innocuous as pot smoking, which many believe is lot less harmful for one's body than alcohol. Besides, despite the fact that it's technically illegal, so many people smoke weed recreationally that it's not all that taboo. Here's a list of celebrities who have either been caught smoking marijuana, or admit willingly to doing so.

Woody Harrelson



Woody is an activist for the legalization of marijuana and hemp.

Willie Nelson



So is Willie Nelson.

Frances McDormand



Frances McDormand was on the cover of High Times in May 2003, in which she said, "I'm a recreational pot-smoker. There has never been enough of a distinction between marijuana and other drugs. It's a human rights issue, a censorship issue, and a choice issue."

Seth Rogen & James Franco



The pair stared in Pineapple Express together, and shared this maybe real/maybe fake joint on stage while presenting an award during the MTV Movie Awards last summer.

Cameron Diaz & Drew Barrymore



Also friends who share.

Justin Timberlake



Timberlake, who used to date Diaz, has been very open about how he smokes weed, sometimes even with is mother. He also admitted that he was stoned out of his mind when he was Punk'd by Ashton Kutcher.

Kimora Lee Simmons



Kimora Lee Simmons took one of the stoniest mugshots after she was arrested in 2004 for possession.

Nicole Richie



Nicole admitted to having smoked pot, as well as taking a Vicodin, when she was arrested for a DUI charge in 2007.

Paris Hilton



Nicole's buddy Paris' reefer madness has been well documented.

Michelle Phillips



Former singer from The Mamas & The Papas said as recently as 2001 that, "Marijuana should definitely be legalized. I think we should let everyone smoke it without fear of being thrown in jail. It's the greatest drug in the world!"

Snoop Dogg



Duh.

Redman



We'll be here all day if we start listing rappers.

Lil Wayne



But we'll mention Wayne for good measure.

Mariah Carey



Mariah is such a goody-two-shoes that she'd never publicly admit to marijuana use, but on her most recent album, she made plenty of weed references.

Charlize Theron



Academy Award winners like their weed, too.

AARP



In the summer of 2005, the American Association of Retired Persons (AARP) hosted a smoke-in to promote the legalization of marijuana. Celebrities that participated: Willie Nelson, Woody Harrelson (obvs), Bette Midler, Santana, Chicago, David Crosby and Graham Nash, Rod Stewart, The New Jefferson Starship, Tony Orlando, Ringo Starr, Tommy Chong, Snoop Dogg, and Robert Downey Jr.

Matthew McConaughey



When McConaughey gets loose, he does so with bongos.

Dionne Warwick



Her work with Burt Bacharach was way too mellow to not be under the influence.

Whitney Houston & Bobby Brown



They've got "Something in Common."

Sarah Silverman



Sarah speaks favorably about weed in her act, and smoked with Doug Benson in his movie Super High Me.

Doug Benson



Comedian Doug Benson has centered much of his career around pot.

Oliver Stone



He has the perfect name for someone who's been busted for pot on numerous occasions.

Dawn Wells



Mary Ann from Gilligan's Island was arrested last year for possession.

Dave Chappelle

The Pointer Sisters



Oliver Hudson tells a story about his first concert-going experience, during which the Pointer Sisters were getting blazed.

Paul Dinello



It's hard to watch this Strangers With Candy clip about smoking pot without thinking that writer/actor Paul Dinello believes what he is saying.

Barbra Streisand



In a 1972 Rolling Stone interview, Babs said, "I'd take out a joint and light it. First, just faking it. Then I started lighting live joints, passing them around to the band, you know. I was great, it relieved all my tensions. And I ended up with the greatest supply of grass ever. Other acts up and down the Strip heard about what I was doing - Little Anthony and the Imperials, people like that - and started sending me the best dope in the world. I never ran out."

Phelps Backed by Sponsors After Marijuana Photo [TCPalm]
Elisabeth Hasselbeck disses Michael Phelps; Whoopi Goldberg: 'I have smoked weed' [EW]

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After another down day on the stock market across the globe, Academy Award winner Charlize Theron set up a booth outside of the Roosevelt Hotel to hand out free hugs to anyone recently affected by the downslide. Theron said, “In times like these, sometimes a hug will help you get through the day. I could tell them to hang in there and that things will work out in the long run, but a hug I feel is just as good.”

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*A Call To The Bullpen is a work of fiction. Although the pictures we use are most certainly real, Defamer does not purport that any of the incidents or quotations you see in this piece actually happened. Lighten up, people ... it's a joke.

WHAT'S NEW: Shia LaBeouf reunites with his Disturbia director DJ Caruso for the thriller Eagle Eye, featuring our young hero as a man trapped (alongside Michelle Monaghan) in a mysterious mire of surveillance, espionage and murder also featuring Billy Bob Thornton and Rosario Dawson. Hitchcock comes up in more discussions of the film than he doesn't, with the rap being that Eagle Eye represents North by Northwest to Disturbia's too-influential-for-comfort Rear Window, but that's just adults being adults. The kids will toss rose petals and dump around $30.6 million out their wallets, further anchoring LaBeouf as his generation's most bankable star without a driver's license. Congrats, Shia!

Meanwhile, that generation's parents can shuffle into the auditorium next door for the Gere/Lane reteaming Nights in Rodanthe, adapted from a Hallmark card novel by Nicholas Sparks with enough inoffesnsively creaky cliche and Mom Jeans-wetting romance to attract around $13.1 million.

Also opening in limited release: The Palahniuk adaptation Choke; the Charlize Theron-led propaganda ensemble Battle in Seattle; Tim Robbins' and Rachel McAdams' Iraq-themed The Lucky Ones; Wayne Wang's modest immigrant mish-mash A Thousand Years of Good Prayers; the misanthropic Easter bunny comedy Hank and Mike; the race-baiting terrorism saga Shoot on Sight (tagline: "Is it a crime to be a Muslim?"); the Filipina-tranny doc The Amazing Truth About Queen Raquela; and the lyrical, Indie Spirit Award-winning drama August Evening.

THE BIG LOSER: It's not like we actively root against films around Defamer HQ (all right, maybe that one time; it had it coming), and we really would like to see Spike Lee pull off Miracle at St. Anna, his epic WWII semi-mystery focusing long-overdue attention on the Army's 92nd Infantry Division — the only all-black unit to see combat in Europe. He may yet do it with Disney's micro-marketing prowess, but let's be honest: The reviews are brutal, it's 160 minutes long, it's rated R, it rotates between English, German and Italian, and at least a quarter of its intended audience is likelier to defer to one of two sturdy holdovers — Burn After Reading or The Famliy That Preys. If this breaks $5.5 million, we'll be shocked. Sorry, Spike; there's always Inside Man 2.

THE UNDERDOG: We alluded to it earlier this week, but Kirk Cameron's Fireproof — with its born-again title, God-fearing creds and bankable-enough star among Christian audiences — should sneak up on the mainstream, possibly pulling in as much as $4.2 million on 800 screens. Those are Dane Cook-beating numbers, and Lord knows a good Dane Cook beating is something to behold.

FOR SHUT-INS: New DVD's this week include Sex and the City, Leatherheads, the underrated Simon Pegg comedy Run, Fat Boy, Run, Dario Argento's gore opus Mother of Tears and, at long last, Two and a Half Men: The Complete Fourth Season.

So are you planning to drive Shia to the theater, or is it more of an old-people-fucking kind of weekend for you? Are we giving Spike a fair shake? And what to do about this glut at the art house? Call your shots!

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Enjoying a causal stroll in New York City, megastar Charlize Theron stopped mid-stride and asked another New Yorker if there was something in her hair. The New Yorker didn’t want to get too close because, in his words, “I don’t want my wife to see us on TMZ and start to think we’re getting a divorce. I’m kidding.” Theron asked if he could take a more thorough look at her hair, because she walked under a tree and perhaps a rogue spider left the tree to make a nest. Standing on his tippy toes, the New Yorker looked through the Oscar-winner’s hair one last time and told her she was good.

[Photo Credit: INF Daily]

*A Call To The Bullpen is a work of fiction. Although the pictures we use are most certainly real, Defamer does not purport that any of the incidents or quotations you see in this piece actually happened. Lighten up, people ... it's a joke.

• Charlize Theron — Monster in Denver [TMZ]

• The Late Show With David Letterman[CBS]

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After an appearance on MTV's TRL, beloved actor Jason Bateman was confronted by his Hancock co-stars Will Smith and Charlize Theron about the rumors of an Arrested Development film. Smith was very excited about the cult television series making a leap to the big screen. Smith said, "I hope you're not lying about this. I can't take another heartbreak about Arrested Development. It took me a good six months to get over it being canceled. Barry Zuckerkorn is my wallpaper on my laptop."

[Photo Credit: Getty Images]

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Hancock star Charlize Theron began to feel a tad bit self-conscious about her height while walking into 30 Rock for a taping of the Today show. The 5'10" actress noticed that she towered over all of her escorts into the studio. Theron said, "I know that I'm taller than the average girl, but those guys...the guys walking in me made me feel like I was Shaq or something." A member of Theron's entourage thought maybe it was her shoes that made her look so tall, but Theron thought it was a sensible heel size. Theron said, "It's only a two inch heel. So, that makes me what? Six feet? There has to be a guy in New York that's over six feet. Stop giving me a complex. "

[Photo Credit: INF Daily]

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While posing for photographs at the Paris premiere for Hancock, Will Smith tried his hardest to not look down the dress of his co-star, Charlize Theron. Smith felt that it was one of his more difficult challenges he had faced in his professional career. Smith said, "Professionalism seems to be lacking in today's world and I don't want to come off as being unprofessional by checking out my co-star's breasts." Smith added that if he did do it, it could have spread like wildfire all over the internet. Theron appreciated Smith's decision to not look down her, but wished that Smith would've suggested that another Hancock co-star use the same gentlemanly approach with her. Theron said, "I wish would've had a heart to heart with Jason Bateman beforehand. I was about to charge the guy admission. Then again, he was on Arrested Development, so I guess he gets a pass."

[Photo Credit: Getty Images]

As Gwyneth proved quite effectively during her Iron Man press tour by wearing kinky boots and transparent mini-dresses, slipping into a costume designed for tightening trousers goes a long way towards catching the attention of not only the horny teen boy population, but also the millenial MTV viewers. Not to mention the sex-obsessed network's not-so-subliminal message that bisexual MySpace stars are worthy of icon status, that you can't really have a good time unless you're stripping down to nothing in hot tubs with your Real World roommates, and that what people REALLY want to see are endless barrages of Top 20 Sexiest Star/Hottest Bods/Sluttiest Sluts countdowns. So who can really blame girls like Charlize and Anne for following the crowd?

[Photo credits: Wireimage, PA via Daily Mail]

• LINDSAY LOHAN WINS EMBARRASSING WARDROBE MALFUNCTION AWARD AS YOUNG HOLLYWOOD TURNS OUT AT MTV MOVIE AWARDS [Daily Mail]

5. Taxi Driver: As much as we wanted Iris to get out of the game, we kinda loved imagining New York as a place where you could wander downtown and see girls wearing neon short shorts and big straw hats who looked like Jodie. And, as we all know by now, Spitzer likes 'em young.
4. Monster: No, she wasn't pretty. But she had a fondness for shooting pervs, something we might have considered had they come in the form of her johns. Strictly a cautionary tale for the former governor.
3. Indecent Proposal: We still can't figure out what was so sad about having Woody Harrelson for a husband, Robert Redford as a one-night fling, and $1 mil in the bank. All that time Demi spent crying would have better spent in the sack with either guy. She might be too pricey for Spitzer, though.

2. American Gigolo: With politics no longer looking like a viable career option, we think that Spitzer could learn a thing or two from the way that Julian sauntered through LA as though he owned it. Not only did he make the whole male escort thing look fun, he had the best wardrobe in the city.

1. Pretty Woman: The Porsche that Julia Roberts drove wasn't the only thing that cornered on rails. Go west, young governor, go west!

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• STARS CAUGHT WITH HOOKERS [Us]

10. Julia Roberts, 2001
9. Daryl Hannah, 1988
8. Hilary Swank, 2005

7. Claudia Schiffer, 1995
6. Reese Witherspoon, 2006
5. Angelina Jolie, 2004.

4. Catherine Zeta-Jones, 2004
3. Charlize Theron, 2004
2. Halle Berry, 2003

And our pick for all-time best-dressed, mostly because she looks so comfortable and glam at the same time: Uma Thurman, redeeming herself for ending up on our Worst Dressed List, in 2006.

• OSCARS 08 [Official Site]

"What haunts me...is that I'm getting too earnest. I just hate earnest people, and the thought of turning into one ..."

"I don't know, man. I read this article about myself in some magazine, and I came off as this earnest, serious person that thinks deep thoughts. Wow! Did I say that stuff? I sound like a complete asshole." [...]

"I was talking to People magazine" he says, "and I was going on this rant about how we're betraying our veterans, how we're making them face these impossible situations and these hellish things that they have to deal with. And they said, 'Give us something about Charlize so we can actually print it.' They were quite honest. They didn't care about these veterans or the children who were dying. So I gave them something about how Charlize played Deal or No Deal in the trailer, and that they printed. Wow! I should have told them to go fuck themselves, but no, you're trying to get people into the theater, so I'm not trying to alienate them."

Knowing that now, we feel that much smaller for having breathlessly relayed the news about Theron's addiction to dollar-value-assigned aluminum briefcases. Still, we applaud Haggis for resisting the urge to tell People to go fuck themselves, instead capitulating to their requests for trivial anecdotes featuring boldface names and top-rated game shows. At least we now know he planted the story for America's Posttraumatic Stress Disorder-suffering men and women in uniform, and not out of some secret code of honor among bald Canadians to always plug each other's projects.

• lamag.com

*Inspired by Shirley MacLaine's assertion that the best parts for actresses fall into one of the above categories

And those are only the actresses who won an Oscar. Shirley MacLaine was nominated twice, (and lost twice), for playing a lady of the night in Some Came Running and Irma La Douce. And Nicole Kidman, Elizabeth Shue and Gloria Swanson were all nominated for playing pros and lost out. As was Julia Roberts, who was denied the Oscar in 1991 for Pretty Woman. Still, with the record of success of starlets playing streetwalkers, we guess that actress Anna Faris is onto something!

That Naughty, Naked Golden Boy Oscar Sure Loves Floozies! [L.A. TImes]

And while we sympathize with shushing Haggis — even if it is in favor of waiting on tenterhooks for the banker's latest saucy gambit — somebody needs to deliver her a gentle fist-bump back into reality before Ms. Theron's foolhardy obsession totally consumes her, and she refuses to be seen in public without a bald cap and a soul patch. No deal, Charlize. No deal.

• Charlize Theron 'Addicted' To Deal or No Deal [PEOPLE.com]

In today's episode: Jessica Simpson and Charlize Theron; Hilary Swank; Kiefer Sutherland; Quentin Tarantino; Rob Reiner and Rebecca DeMornay; Morrissey; Giovanni Ribisi; Ike Barinholtz; David Cross; Mario Lopez and Anna Chlumsky; Andre 3000; Little Richard; Jason Hervey; Judy Greer and Babyface.

· April 9 - The Killers show at Staples. Spied Jessica Simpson scooting in last minute into a lower level seat with Ken Paves and a few other people I didn't recognize. No sign of John Mayer. Lots of commotion when everyone realized it was her; I felt vaguely bad for her because everyone gawking like a bunch of lunatics. Then I realized she looked pretty damn hot, so who cares if they stare?

Post-show, noticed that Charlize Theron was sitting one section over from Jessica. She's super tall and thin as all get out. Looked like it was a "girls' night" kind of crew for her.

Honestly, neither Jessica nor Charlize held a candle to one Brandon Flowers. Dude is one hot Mormon.

· Hilary Swank at Café Vida in the Palisades (4-11). She was alone, tapping away on her cell, and looking very skinny.

· 4/9: 6:30pm Walked by Kiefer Sutherland sitting with two men at an outdoor table at Figaro on Vermont in Los Feliz. Something awful was happening with his face, was it a laser peel? Just bad skin? Scary!

· 11:45 pm, April 10th, I was standing outside the Laemmle 5 theatre on sunset, when my friend nonchalantly says "I think that's Quentin Tarantino walking down the stairs." I thought he was joking, but as I turned around, there he was. Two of his fanboys found him and were gushing about his appearances at the New Beverley. He seemed really nice, talked to them, shook their hands and took pictures with them. He was wearing a black leather jacket and a backpack.

· Worked the "Fracture" premiere last night (4-11). Did not see the two stars of the film as I mostly away from the crowds. But after the film I did see Rob Reiner chatting with Rebecca DeMornay. He looks good and has lost a lot of weight. In fact he may be close to the size he was in "All in the Family" four decades ago.
Ms. DeMornay was still looking good although covered up from head to toe. If any surgery was done it was well worth it as she looks very radiant in her late 40's.

· Hey Guys: I just saw Morrissey at the Belair (4-10) eating a late lunch with a lawyer type. I checked as I approached to see if he was eating meat...nope. I said hello and asked if he was still in the music business...he smiled and said: "Yes, I am starting the Vigina Monologues"!

I laughed and wished him well with that.

· Spotted Giovanni Ribisi at The Grove on Good Friday afternoon. The Grove was packed. How do Americans celebrate the resurrection of our Lord and Savior? The same way they celebrate everything else: with shopping. Giovanni was at The Farm, ordering food from the counter. He was wearing jeans and a black, leather motorcycle jacket. He looked taller (about 5'8") and skinnier than I'd have guessed, and his thinning hair was dark brown. He was kind of incognito, but with that distinct, nasally voice he was hard to miss.

· Friday April 6. Whilst (am American, but just love how Brit and snobby that sounds) standing in line to purchase an iPod Shuffle (at the Apple Store) stood behind Ike Barinholtz from MADtv who seemed to check in and out in about 2 seconds flat. Special service for stars of 2nd banana comedy sketch shows? Had a Boston baseball cap on and carried a man-purse. Not so hot in person and I would never have recognized him if not for assistance of celebuwhore friend. 10 seconds later, same friend screeches, "it's Giovanni Ribisi walking up the stairs! Eeeek!" (OK, I added that part). He's VERY tiny, yet kinda hot in a brooding, outsiderish way. Did I mention he's super short? But had a nice caboose. Had a leather jacket on and was carrying a helmet. Do all scientologists ride motorcycles?

· Saw a predictably low key David Cross and a small group of friends at the Roost on Los Feliz last Tuesday night. Totally caught him looking at me a few times. Must be cuz I'm so pretty and not at all because I had planted myself in his eye line (corner of the bar next to the bathrooms).

· Hey. I was downtown last night (4-12) looking for a birthday party at an impossible to find Irish pub, anyways there was like 12 different shoots going on in a 4 block radius and I was held up by one that was on the sidewalk I needed to pass by and I saw Mario Lopez and a girl that one of the crew said was ANNA CHLUMSKY From "My Girl" and "Gold Diggaz"!! She was beautiful and I dont doubt its her but it was WEIRD seeing this girl after ten years of her being my imaginary girlfriend ;-) ANyways I think the production was for TV pilot (PLEASE let them pick it up I think I love her all over again :-) called "8 days" OH YEAH !! I forgot to mention I think Sean Hayes from Will and grace is directing or producing it !! ( Sorry got caught up in my old schoolyard crush and left that out)

· Runyon Canyon, Tuesday, April 10th, Andre 3000 on a meditative hike all by himself

· Went to Toast for some lunch (4-11) and sitting outside on the patio was Justin Kirk of "Weeds" fame.

· 1.) Little Richard wheeled into the Delta terminal at LAX with his entourage on March 30. He was in a wheelchair wearing sequined shoes. A member of his entourage was giving out religious books of inspiration along with an autographed picture.

2.) Jason Hervey, the mean brother of "The Wonder Years", sitting at Starbucks in Beverly Glen April 12.

· This week several friends had emailed me two very funny Judy Greer items on the internets: (1) her very funny turn in the TV Set trailer and (2) the unique photo accompanying her Wikipedia entry. So it was especially zany that I saw Ms. Greer aka Kitty Sanchez walking down Larchmont Wed afternoon. I considered telling her that she's adorable and asking if she'd like to go for coffee but she was already holding a cup of coffee. Also, I didn't want to get maced.

· 4/7 - Eddie Murphy's girlfriend's ex-husband, Babyface, in full dad mode escorting a bunch of little boys around the Century City mall food court on Saturday.