Irene Death Toll Reaches Five; D.C., NYC Bracing Themselves
This morning the "eye wall" of Hurricane Irene reached land just east of Cape Lookout in North Carolina—sweeping away dunes, flooding beaches, destroying a pier in kinda-nearby Atlantic Beach, and causing power outages. The old girl's not as strong as we thought she'd be, though! The latest, with updates below.
'I Just Hired an Unfashionable Lady to Stand Next to Me at All Times'
[Starlet Amanda Seyfried on the set of her and Justin Timberlake's new movie "Now" in Los Angeles. Image via Splash]
Somewhere a Boxcar Made of Diamonds Is Missing Its Hobo
[Johnny Depp in New York before his appearance on Letterman. Image via Splash.]
No, Even With These Glasses I Don't See What's So Great About Gretchen
[Project Runway host Heidi Klum and her husband, Seal, at the Worldwide Orphans Foundation benefit gala in New York. That's Dr. Jane Aronson, the foundation's founder, in between them. Photo via Splash.]
Katie Spots a Thetan
[Actress Katie Holmes on the set of her new movie Jack & Jill. Photo via Splash.]
Ye Olden Girls
[Yes, actress Betty White is old, and yes, that is her in a horse-drawn carriage, in Williamsburg, Virginia, on her way to sign "Christmas pet ornaments that she designed." Even so, jokes do not technically "write themselves." Image via Splash.]
Another Jersey Shore Star Arrested
Ronnie Ortiz-Magro, the guy on Jersey Shore who isn't the Situation or Paulie D or the other guy, was arrested on Sunday over unpaid parking tickets. He was released while I was in the middle of writing a protest ballad.
Famous Gay Couples We Want to See Tie The Knot
A California judge ruled yesterday that preventing gays from getting married is unconstitutional. But nothing in Cali matters until a celebrity does it! Here are the brides-and-brides and grooms-and-grooms we'd like to see exercising their new right to wed.
Stealing a Smile
[Caroline Giuliani, daughter of former New York mayor Rudy, mugs for the paparazzi while leaving a police precinct yesterday after being arrested for shoplifting makeup from a Sephora on the Upper East Side. She loves the attention. Image via Splash]
Fire Lane
[Is this what happens when a temperamental passenger realizes a cabbie has been price gouging? Nah. But this taxi did suddenly burst into flames on Ninth Ave in Manhattan today. Image via Splash]
"My Name Is Princess Yellowboots, and I Have Come For Katie Holmes."
["Disturbing Behavior" actress Katie Holmes out and about in NYC today (her 30th bday!!!!!!!!); image via Splash]
"Are You Sure This Is The Prom?"
[Actress Kirsten Dunst at the Swarovski Crystal Palace party in Miami last night; image via Splash]
"Ho Ho, Childrens. You Are To Be Getting Coals In Your Stocking Sacks! And Little German Flags!"
[The always-delightful Heidi Klum, model and TV host, doing something for the Today Show; image via Splash]
Suri Cruise Awfully Full Of Herself For A Baby
Yesterday
Forbes named Katie Holmes' and Tom Cruise's 2-year-old daughter Suri, a child made of moonbeams and space rock, Not in a gross sexy way, but in a she-commands-a-lot-of-attention way. It's true! And she's gotten rather haughty and big of head about it lately. Why just look at the accompanying photograph.…
