BABS VENTS
Barbra Streisand delivered a tirade against President George W. Bush during her concert at Madison Square Garden Monday night, then telling a fan who objected to her tirade to “shut the f--k up.” Her phazer was set on the “bitch” position.
CELEBRITY PHILANTHOPY
Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt continued their tour of global goodwill by donating $100,000 to the Daniel Pearl Foundation on Tuesday, which would have been the slain journalist’s 43rd birthday, People reports.
BIONIC WOMAN REMAKE
Battlestar Galactica’s executive producer David Eick teamed with feature writer Laeta Kalogridis to re-create The Bionic Woman for NBC, per Daily Variety. Does that mean Lindsay Wagner can stop selling mattresses for a living.
SEARCHING FOR CLUES
Police from the Bahamas traveled to California last week to continue the investigation into the death of Anna Nicole Smith’s son, Daniel. Officials were retracing the last days of the 20-year-old man’s life before he traveled to Nassau to join his mother and new baby sister and died on Sept. 10.
DOWN BUT NOT OUT–YET
Katie Couric suffered through her worst ratings week to date on CBS Evening News, averaging only 7.04 million viewers to put her in third place behind NBC’s Nightly News, with 8.56 million, and ABC’s World News, with 7.97 million, per Nielsen Media Research. It’s time to rethink the presentation.
WHAT THE?
“I’ve got so much saggy skin on my stomach. I might fit into jeans, but trust me, I look really awful naked.”--Victoria Beckham said to the Australian edition of Harper’s Bazaar on what pregnancy has done to her body. It’s time to hit the gym, babe!
BOWIE’S VOICEOVER GIG
David Bowie voiced a character for an upcoming episode of SpongeBob SquarePants, the rocker revealed on his blog. “It’s happened. At last. I’ve hit the Holy Grail of animation gigs,” Bowie wrote. Yeah, that’s after falling to earth.
CAMPY VIXENS
Newly reconciled Paris Hilton and Nicole Richie are to pull duty as camp counselors for the fifth season of The Simple Life. Just imagine the camp fire stories of purging, eating binges, bar brawls, and how to make really dirty videos.
THE PASSION OF MEL
Mel Gibson gave his first interview on his infamous anti-Semitic rant to Diane Sawyer for a two-part Good Morning America segment that will air Thursday and Friday mornings. Rumor has it Mel was joined by his new rabbi counselor from rehab.
INTESTINAL FORTITUDE
American Idol runner-up Bo Bice underwent emergency intestinal surgery Thursday in Nashville. Doctors are hoping that they have cured Bice’s chronic stomach ailments for good, performing a procedure that his record label called neither routine nor easy. However, it was The Real Thing.
STEVE CARELL PRAYS TO EVAN
Evan Almighty, the big screen follow-up to Bruce Almighty, starring Steve Carell, is on track to become the most expensive comedy of all time, with the budget expected to hit $250 million, per the Los Angeles Times. Talk about pressure on Carell to deliver a winner. His chest hair turned gray overnight.
BONO GOES GONZO
Bono & Co. made a surprise jump from Island Records to Mercury Records Monday, though the label swap still keeps them under the Universal umbrella. After 16 years, Bono is not happy with his label?
TOOL GUY GOT HITCHED
Tim Allen tied the knot with his girlfriend of five years, actress Jane Hajduk, in Grand Lake, Colorado, Saturday. And no, he wasn’t wearing his tool belt.
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