Katy Perry to Teen Vogue, on fame:

Former Snooki smush partner Emilio Masella (the one she dumped on Facebook) offers kind words on the subject of his ex-girlfriend's rumored pregnancy: "I hope for her sake, not to be rude or anything, but I hope she has a miscarriage." Well, as long as he didn't mean to be rude. [TMZ, image of Snooki and Emilio via …

Italy's corrupt cartoon satyr of a former prime minister Silvio Berlusconi is still rattling around, being Berlusconish: "I'm not a Playboy, I'm a Play-uomo [Playman] … The only thing I have not been accused of in all these over-hyped descriptions of my relations with women, with the opposite sex, the only thing they…

Thousands in Prague mourn the loss tonight of Velvet Revolutionary Vaclav Havel, who has died at age 75. Havel was a lifelong smoker with chronic respiratory problems, whose condition rapidly deteriorated in past months.

When asked about The Devil Wears Prada, designer Jean Paul Gaultier tells the Independent: "Anna Wintour is a lot more monstrous than she is described!" Pack your bags, Jean Paul, because it looks like your fashion career is over.

"Yeah, the only problem was he was crazy." — President Obama, responding to author Jonathan Franzen's contention that Nixon "was our last liberal president" during a meeting last year. [via @JennaSauers' Twitter account of Franzen at The New Yorker festival]

Daphne Guinness—wild-eyed couture addict, eccentric beer heiress, and taker of violent baths—has coined the most wonderfully paradoxical fashion mantra ever: "I'll eat when I'm dead." She subsists on nothing but Red Bull and Ensure, and is working on a memoir. [New Yorker, image via Getty]

Resilient crazy person Muammar Qaddafi — despite claims from Libya's transitional forces and just about everyone else that he's cornered in the Sahara, or in hiding in Niger, or sipping cocktails with Robert Mugabe — released a new audio message today to Al-Rai TV and (predictably) it's delusional:

Before she was Tiger Woods' mistress and a member of Dr. Drew's Celebrity Rehab harem, Rachel Uchitel was the 9/11 widow featured in an iconic Associated Press photograph that appeared on frontpages of newspapers the world around. As the ten-year anniversary of her former fiance's death approaches, Uchitel reflects on…

Secessionist GOP presidential candidate Rick Perry was asked yesterday about his inflammatory comments regarding Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke. You know, the stuff about giving the chairman a Texas-style ass whippin' followed by execution for treason? According to the Wall Street Journal, Perry told reporters…

Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin is displeased with you, America. At a youth rally (where he arm-wrestled young fans and attacked a climbing wall), he told the crowd:

Jonathan May-Bowles—comedian and recipient of a Wendi Deng airborne beatdown—today pleaded guilty to assault and causing harassment, alarm or distress. Afterward, May-Bowles said "this has been the most humble day of my life."

94-year-old Australian Phyllis Johnson was attacked by a rampaging, psycho "Big Red" kangaroo while she was hanging laundry in her backyard on Sunday. Johnson told the Courier-Mail that she "bashed it on the head but it kept going for me," and she was only saved when cops showed up and pepper sprayed its ass. Then her…

"I didn't sign up for going mano-a-mano with the President of the United States" — Speaker of the House John Boehner (R - Ohio), overheard by CBS News' Jill Jackson as he left the Capitol building following tonight's televised address.

What does everyone else in the world think about the ridiculous debt debate going on in Washington? Speaking to the BBC today, British Business Secretary Vince Cable said:

Charlie Gilmour, the son of Pink Floyd guitarist Dave Gilmour, was sentenced to 16 months in jail today for attacking a royal Jaguar that was part of Prince Charles and Camilla's motorcade during a student riot in London last year. The riot resulted in the best photograph of British royals ever (above). The court…

"I want what I want when I want it." — The quote accompanying House Majority Leader Eric Cantor's high school yearbook photo. Presumably he wanted the same thing he wants now: To whine about everything at all times.

Parts of Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner's Meet the Press interview yesterday could be interpreted several ways: "[I]t's going to feel very hard, harder than anything they've experienced in their lifetime now, for a long time to come."

Country-singing colon-irrigationist Gwyneth Paltrow offered the following epicurean observation on her recent visit to a British talk show:

"They said, 'We're from Exelon, and we had a tritium spill. It's nothing to worry about,'" said Tom Zimmer, after he bought a new house in Illinois near a facility belonging to America's biggest nuclear operator, Exelon. Yikes.