Britney Hell-Bent for Leather?

CHAFES EASILY Spears

• Hide-and-seek: Did Britney demand to be let off a flight because the plane didn't have leather seats in first class?

• Re-Freyed: A judge revisits the James Frey flap, approving of an order for Random House and the fabulist A Million Little Pieces author to spend $2.35 million in refunds to readers who bought the book. Buyers of My Friend Leonard, however, are just out $.38.

• Move over SocialiteRank: The anonymous blogger pretending to be Apple's chief on The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs gets a book deal, but the publisher still won't reveal his identity.

• Stamp of approval: The UK will issue a series of Harry Potter postage stamps to coincide with release of the final book, giving these guys their only chance to lick Hermione.

• Nuts to you!: A day after Jimmy Carter calls President Bush "the worst in history," the White House fires back by labeling the pacifist peanut farmer "irrelevant."

• Go, go: George Michael says that he just might have to leave England to escape those bloody paps who won't leave him alone.

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