While You Were Retweeting, Brangelina and Clooney Were Saving Haiti

Clooney is working on an earthquake relief telethon and Brangelina just tossed $1M Haiti's way. Tila Tequila stumbles into a third alter-ego. Jacko's kids' monthly allowances could feed and support a family of four for a year. TGI Friday gossip.
Annie Leibovitz and The Other Ken Starr
New York's epic article about Annie Leibovitz in this week's issue is well worth a read, particularly since it sheds a little light on how it is one of the world's highest-paid photographers now finds herself on the brink of financial ruin. (If the only person you'll allow to repair your air-conditioner has to travel…
Happy Birthday
Director Michel Gondry turns 46 today. Enrique Iglesias is turning 34. Knicks head coach Mike D'Antoni is 58. Author Thomas Pynchon is turning 72. Model Josie Maran is 31. Advertising exec Richard Kirshenbaum is 48. Alex Van Halen is 56. Earth, Wind & Fire's Philip Bailey turns 58. Ted Sorensen, best known as JFK's…
Spotted
Britney Spears getting out of an SUV at JFK ... Sarah Ferguson signing copies of her book at Borders ... Taylor Momsen on the Gossip Girl set ... Katie Holmes and Tom Cruise leaving their apartment with Suri ... LL Cool J reading to kids as part of a charity event in Rockefeller Plaza ... Candice Bergen walking by…
The Week in Parties
1) The first New York benefit of the Young Patrons Circle of the Friends of the Louvre took place Tuesday night at Espace: Devoted socials like Olivia Chantecaille, Fabiola Beracasa, Alexandra Papanicalaou, Lisa Anastos, Annabel Vartanian, Melissa Berkelhammer, and Devorah Rose bid on photographer Candida Hofer's…
Ruth Reichl Disses Mom, Too
OK, this is way worse than Candice Bergen not crying at her mom's funeral earlier tonight: "Gourmet editor in chief [Ruth Reichl] told attendees... that her mother 'was everything I didn't want to be, and to this day I wake up every morning grateful not to be her...' Penguin Press, inspired by Reichl's speech, has…
Candice Bergen's Heartwarming Pre-Mother's Day Message
"After some rough, knockout years with my mom, we grew close and when she died, I loved her very much. I didn't, however, cry when she died (or for my father, for that matter) and don't understand why. Perhaps because of youthful choices not to be my mother. But my mom was bedridden for the last four years of her…
Celebrity Doyennes Launch Your Mom's New Favorite Site
Five old media blondes are launching a website for women over 40 and enlisting their closest celebrity friends to contribute! The site is called WowOWow.com, which is supposed to refer to "Women On The Web," and should launch Saturday. It sounds a lot like that other celebrity website, the Huffington Post, except more…
Candice Bergen
A preppy pin-up in the '70s, Candice Bergen later became famous as TV's favorite uptight working woman, Murphy Brown. Raised in Hollywood, Bergen was the daughter of popular radio ventriloquist Edgar Bergen. After getting kicked out of Penn for poor grades, she turned to modeling before earning her first role in …
