"A lot of people like to fool you and say that you're not smart if you never went to college, but common sense rules over everything. That's what I learned from selling crack." Snoop Dogg, to Esquire magazine. ...

Dakota Fanning showed up completely sober to lend her support to an event for children's rights in LA on Saturday. I don't know about the blue nail polish, though. What kind of example is she setting? First they're wearing non-traditional shades of polish, and the next thing you know they're smoking heroin in a hotel basement and blabbing for ten minutes about the state of sadomasochistic videos in this country. In all seriousness, though, what I sorta love about Dakota is that she's no...

Oh, Nikki. You bring back so many memories. It was the first season of American Idol, the little talent show that could. It was early summer -- the first summer after the World Trade Center attacks. We were a nation still feeling our way out of a fog of fear and devastation. We needed to spend a summer watching teenagers belt out tunes from decades past on a national stage. We rooted for you, with your tattoos and your piercings and your dyed hair and your unfaltering sweetness and we'd t...

It was on HBO, for free, and I just couldn't resist the lure of watching Lindsay Lohan play ... well ... Lindsay Lohan. The first half hour is basically unwatchable, and after that it gets a little bit better, but in general it's by no means a tour de force, as many critics before me have pointed out. However, I highly recommend watching the scene above, where Lindsay's character gives a blow job to a Mormon virgin. It's definitely the best part of the whole movie. Also, the guy who plays her love interest -- and the blow job recipient -- Garrett Hedlund, is really quite a hottie. Not to brag, but he totally reminds me of this guy I used to date back in LA who was a total hottie and a total sweetheart. Watching Garrett made me really miss that guy, and I want to see more of him. In good movies. With fewer shirts on. /> It was on HBO, for free, and I just couldn't resist the lure of watching Lindsay Lohan play ... well ... Lindsay Lohan. The first half hour is basically unwatchable, and after that it gets a little bit better, but in general it's by no means a tour de force, as many critics before me have pointed out. However, I highly recommend watching the scene above, where Lindsay's character gives a blow job to a Mormon virgin. It's definitely the best part of the whole movie. Also, the guy who...

Paris Hilton showed up at Tao in Las Vegas with the cast of her new "reality" TV show, where she's looking for her new BFF. These girls look so unbelievably annoying. I cannot wait for this show to air. Catfights galore! Over Paris Hilton! OMG it's going to be amazing. Benji was apparently also there, and Paris engaged in a fair amount of alcohol consumption, quashing rumors that she's pregnant, which we never even reported, because we knew they were bullshit. ...

The girls over at Celebrity Baby Blog got a tip that she was seen being wheeled in Cedars Sinai. Cash Warren was there, too, and they were both holding birthing balls. ...

Oh, man. So I've been checking out some of the public playlists on my Rhapsody account. One of them was called, like, "Hits of the 90s" or something like that. It has about 150 songs on it. I'm obsessed with this playlist. It's phenomenal. This song just came on, and I was like "HOLY SHIT THIS SONG ROCKS!!!" I'd totally forgotten about it. Other little forgotten gems on the list: Ben Folds, "Brick" Blind Melon, "No Rain" BoDeans, "Closer to Free" Goo Goo Dolls, "Slide" Hole, "Malibu" Cake, "Short Skirt Long Jacket" Marcy Playground, "Sex and Candy" R.E.M., "Man on the Moon" Sarah McLachlin, "Adia" Sheryl Crow, "Strong Enough" Soundgarden, "Black Hole Sun" The Verve Pipe, "The Freshmen" Weezer, "Buddy Holly" New Radicals, "You Get What You Give" Jane's Addiction, "Jane Says" Third Eye Blind, "Semi-charmed Life" OMG you guys there's just too many to list. I feel like I'm in high school again!!! /> Oh, man. So I've been checking out some of the public playlists on my Rhapsody account. One of them was called, like, "Hits of the 90s" or something like that. It has about 150 songs on it. I'm obsessed with this playlist. It's phenomenal. This song just came on, and I was like "HOLY SHIT THIS SONG ROCKS!!!" I'd totally forgotten about it. Other little forgotten gems on the list: Ben Folds, "Brick" Blind Melon, "No Rain" BoDeans, "Closer to Free" Goo Goo Dolls, "Slide" Hole, "Malib...

John Travolta seems intent on continuing to look like a '70s gay porn star. Why? I was watching an HBO documentary on the adult film industry last night. They had candid interviews with a bunch of porn stars. One of the male porn stars was complaining about how men in the industry are paid much less than the women. He was like "I like to compare it to the way we pay teachers so little in this country -- far less than what they're worth." I actually laughed out loud. I mean, seriously, in the lo...

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It's like Prince Harry gets hotter every day. He totally passed up Wills in the hotness department a year ago. Wills must be sad. But, then again, Wills gets to be king one day and Harry doesn't. So it all comes out in the wash, I suppose. And add a baby into the Harry Hotness mix? OMG. Love it....

Seriously it's like they're holding casting calls exclusively in fundamentalist churches in middle America. I'm just waiting for one of these teenage Disney stars to go on the record all like, "Yeah, dude, I plan to have sex before marriage. It's normal and healthy. I'll use protection and I'll choose my partners carefully, but, yeah. I'm totally gonna be getting laid." Instead, 15-year-old Selena Gomez, heralded as the next Miley Cyrus, has announced that she's going to save herself f...