• Attack of the fanjayas: When you're a Sanjaya Malakar-caliber star, you don't go anywhere without bodyguards, lest you get attacked by 47-year-old fans named Eliot Spitzer.

• Advance team: Al Gore assembles a secret campaign staff. Even without declaring his candidacy, he's third in the polls (behind Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton but ahead of John Edwards).

• Rocky allegations: Seems that the woman charging Chris Rock with being her baby daddy might have some credibility issues.

• Gals vs. ghoul: Global warming crusaders Sheryl Crow and Laurie David take on Karl Rove in a climate change cage match (virtually speaking).

• Air Wars: The British Airways entertainment team edited Richard Branson's cameo out of Casino Royale for an in-flight showing of the latest Bond flick.

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