Peaches Geldof just made headlines in the London tabloids for announcing on Facebook she has "married" her lady DJ friend. It's a joke/publicity stunt, of course, but it did get us thinking: Is the 19-year-old heiress consciously trying to walk in Lindsay Lohan's tear-stained celebrity footsteps, or...

Barack Obama's barber "Zariff" has no last name and is suddenly in all the papers explaining that the president has GENUINE gray hair after just 44 days in office. Why? Zariff cut Obama's hair for 17 years. He still does, about every two weeks, so the president has presumably flown him out from Chic...

CNN doesn't talk about Anderson Cooper's sexuality. The network and anchor have their reasons. Jane Velez-Mitchell at CNN's Headline News is taking a slightly more open approach. Just to give you a sense, here's the first sentence of Brian Stelter's profile of the Issues host in the New York Times: ...

Jimmy Fallon's critics hate him for being so awkward and manic. But all indications are the Saturday Night Live veteran will embrace those qualities, crafting the geekiest Late Night yet. Obviously, Fallon will have to rein it in. He can't be cracking up at his own jokes as he did on SNL. But maybe ...

People magazine is reporting that bubblegum pop star/ monster Chris Brown is back together again with battered (by him) woman/ superior singer Rihanna. I see only three possibilities, concerning this story: 1. False; Fabricated by some totally unreliable source; People runs anyhow, because, hey, cra...

If you read Gatecrasher today, you can see the seeds of Chris Brown's would-be image rehabilitation. Step 1, make the singer look remorseful for reportedly attacking Rihanna. Step 2, blame the victim. The Daily News' gossip section talked to a "snitch" who has an awful rosy view of Brown's future: T...

Oh look, Peaches Geldof just happened to bathe topless and to hold various awkward poses while a photographer snapped very clear pictures of her tattoos. The trainwreck hipster heiress must need money. Or maybe just attention. But after being summoned back to London by dad amid an embarrassingly wel...

In today's Anna Wintour image rehabilitation news, the Vogue editor is reportedly filmed at yet another charity ball and gives the WSJ an interview. But she called the reporter huge. Whoops! It's so hard to keep the nastier side of your monster-editor personality in check when you go from "no interv...

As impressive as M.I.A. was at the Grammys and on the Slumdog Millionaire soundtrack, the rapper's latest burst of attention is bringing a new look at uncomfortable questions about her purported support for a terrorist groups. The Grammy Awards performance gave the New York Times a news hook on whic...

newVideoPlayer("/stevemartin_letterman_gawker.flv", 506, 423,""); Since it's not enough that he's a New Yorker contributor, perennial SNL and Oscars host, movie star and chart-topping banjo player, Steve Martin had to be awesome on David Letterman last night. Let's recap renaissance man Martin's Lat...