‘ALIENS! VOLCANOES! I KNOW, RIGHT?!’ Packer and Cruise in a joy-off
James Packer, one of Australia’s richest men (once worth $7 billion) and Scientology’s richest member, is pulling away from… READ ON

APPEALING Plame (Photo: AP)
• Spies’ revenge: Outed CIA agent Valerie Plame and some dude claiming to be her husband (for now) resurrect lawsuits against alleged press whisperers Vice… READ ON

HAGERMEISTERS Henry, Jenna
• Father of the bride: Jenna Bush and Henry Hager were married in Texas at sunset on Saturday. Jenna and dad George W. Bush danced to… READ ON

Last night 60 Minutes had a segment about Alec Baldwin. It was all there: the bloviating liberalism, that nasty voicemail he left for his daughter, eight million pictures of Baldwin… READ ON

HAVING A BALL McCain
Two Republican politicos lost their gigs with John McCain’s campaign this weekend because of their ties to Myanmar’s brutal military government. Doug Goodyear, who was… READ ON

First daughter Jenna Bush married Henry Hager in a weekend-long, cows-and-all ceremony in Crawford, Texas. God showed up. Near beer flowed. And for at least a couple of days, the… READ ON

Children in Darfur will be a little colder, a little hungrier, and altogether more miserable tonight if Louis Vuitton has its way. Apparently the handbag and luxury goods giant has… READ ON

“We’re all changing. I thank you for helping me as I grow through that,” Miley Cyrus told a crowd of screaming fans at a California concert this weekend. “I hope… READ ON

SECRET SIGN? Vito in his bomber
People on Staten Island and in Brooklyn are all too familiar with scenes of beleaguered Rep. Vito Fossella showing up to events in his… READ ON

MANISTON The Happy Couple?
Which brooding, shaggy-turned-’80s-haired pop star, who thinks he’s much deeper than he actually is, blogs about his obsessions—expensive guitars, expensive watches, expensive haircuts—on a Japanese … READ ON

MORNING GLORY Frey
You can’t officially buy the debut novel of liar memoirist James Frey until tomorrow, but the New York Times has its review up today. The verdict:… READ ON

UNAMERICAN FINERY Barack
Presumptive Democratic nominee Barack Obama, who some people feel isn’t qualified to be leader of the free world because he knows what arugula is, may have once… READ ON

Coke vs. Pepsi. Kennedy vs. Castro. Heidi vs. L.C. Epic yet minor rifts when compared to the timeless power struggle between New York and Los Angeles. In the name of… READ ON

INN OR OUT? Beatrice
A source inside one of Manhattan restaurateur Keith McNally‘s popular eateries tells Radar he is in talks to buy not-so-secret celebrity den and low-slung Olsen grotto,… READ ON