Denise Richards Affirms Reality-Show Worthiness

COME AGAIN? Richards, Sheen, sperm (inset) (Photo: Getty Images) • Fertile ground: The Charlie Sheen-Denise Richards divorce continues to get uglier as Sheen responds to his ex-wife's denial on Larry King that she'd asked him for a sperm donation after they broke up. Sheen has forwarded an e-mail to the media that he claims Richards wrote to his new fiancée about snatching some of his man seed.

• Morning glory: After its first week of publication, James Frey's great or not-so-great Bright Shiny Morning is number nine on the New York Times best-seller list.

• Graduation terror: Vice President [expletive] Cheney left his lair and donned an unflattering cowboy hat to give the commencement address at the U.S. Coast Guard Academy, telling grads, "The war on terror is a lengthy enterprise, but it does not have to go on forever." But of course it could if it's profitable and/or politically advantageous.

SURE, THERE'S MORE: Pissy princes; another reason to stay home; and a drug so you can trust!