‘OK, FIRST GET REAL DRUNK, THEN DRIVE, THEN HATE ON JEWS’ Spears, Gibson (inset) (Photo: Getty Images)
• Jesus Christ!: Mom-of-the-year Britney Spears and her father are flying to… READ ON

Chris Matthews might be brash, over the top, and at times idiotic, but in an era of overly careful, PC-conscious talking heads, we kind of appreciate it. Which is why… READ ON

New York Post gossip dowager Cindy Adams ascends from the ossuary this morning to defend a pal who’s had a recent spot of bad press: “FINAL note on the Sue… READ ON

THIS IMMORTAL COIL Anna, Virgie (l.), Harvey (r.) (Photo: Getty Images)
• Harvey danger: Virginia Arthur, mother of the late Anna Nicole Smith, is suing, among others, Harvey Levin‘s… READ ON

President Bush deftly employed a little World War II trivia yesterday to expose the folly of Democrats like Barack Obama who think we can somehow negotiate away our problems with… READ ON

Website Politico gets a scalp: “John McCain‘s campaign asked a prominent Republican consultant, Craig Shirley, to leave his official campaign role Thursday after a Politico inquiry about Shirley’s dual role… READ ON

Chesticles
Last year a British court found Kevin Bassett, 44, guilty of violating the 2003 Sexual Offences Act after he secretly filmed a man in his swimming trunks and no… READ ON

Sad news for people who just cannot get enough Ryan Seacrest: the colorless personality has denied rumors that he’s going to replace Larry King when they finally put the oft-married… READ ON

Last we heard of fifth season American Idol winner Taylor Hicks, he was bounding around Hawaii with a Milwaukee news anchor who may or may not have been his girlfriend-for-hire… READ ON

The progress made in the last 15 years by five once-young men toward being taken seriously as actors—or singers or dancers, for that matter—melted away this morning in Rockefeller Center… READ ON

Lustra, an L.A. rock band whose biggest moment to date was landing a song on the Eurotrip soundtrack, are claiming Miley Cyrus—or the people who actually write her songs—stole the… READ ON

GET RICH OR LIE TRYING Murdoch, Jackson
Last May, it was reported that Curtis Jackson, the rapper better known as 50 Cent, cashed in his 10 percent share of Vitamin… READ ON

“There were days when I definitely didn’t want to get out of bed,” fabulist James Frey told a sympathetic Lola Ogunnaike on CNN this morning, following a Tuesday reading from… READ ON

After nearly six years of delays, and a week of torturous jury vetting, lawyers in the child pornography case of R&B arch-villain R. Kelly have selected the 12 Kelly peers… READ ON