Regular blogging resumes on Monday.

Lagniappe:

According to British Vogue: "NAOMI CAMPBELL is offering her catwalking services to any New York designer next week so long as they donate her fee to the American Red Cross to aid the victims of Hurricane Katrina. Naomi, whose first ever fashion shoot took place in New Orleans when she was 15-years-old, is determined to donate 'every single penny' that she earns during the week to the cause. 'It's awful to see what happened and watch grown men crying on TV because they have nothing left,' she said." As opposed to, oh, say: grown assistants crying because they got bonked in the head!

Our favorite social chronicler, David Patrick Columbia, in "The List," celebrates Aileen Mehle, AKA, "Suzie," and the late, great "Swifty Lazar." Ah, Swifty (considerable pause); Oscar parties ... haven't been the same (The Corsair hums to himself a Gershwin tune while sipping on a Macallan neat).

China, once again, takes advantage of a United States diplomatic "soft-spot" (This time w/Canada, Our neighbor).

Francis Ford Coppola all set to release a "lengthened" version of "The Outsiders" on September 22, including a scene with the cast of Rat Pack brothers in bed. Soonafter, expect "lengthened versions" stemming from this DVD all across Chelsea and Fire Island. (MSNBC)

New Age quack-swindler Deepak Chopra wonders aloud if humankind is not some kind planetary cancer on the Earth in HuffPo, saying, "Like a malignancy, the basic problem with Homo sapiens is that we want to take over everything." No, Deepak, that's just you.

"Britney Spears is really into Kabbalah � even though she doesn�t, like, really understand it all ... 'Kevin isn�t into it as intensely as I am,' she said. 'For some reason I�m thirsting for it. But he looks at the books every once in a while.�" *cough*cough*BullSHIT*cough*cough* Somthing in the Corsair's throat. (MSNBC)

James Traub, in the NYTimes Magazine, on the possibility, of a New -- effective? -- United Nations (Traub calls it, quixotically, the "Peace and Security Union"; Averted Gaze), "There has been some discussion, mostly in conservative circles, of a new organization of democracies." Yeah, like that's going to happen ...

Roger Friedman tells us, "'The Island' has made $112 million overseas, where apparently whatever is lost in translation is just as well. For Dreamworks, 'overseas' has been a boon in a year when nothing has worked at all. Think about it: Thanks to South Korea, Japan, France, Germany and the United Kingdom, 'The Island' could possibly break even. Otherwise it would have been a total write-off." Even as The Corsair writes this, we are seriously reconsidering and revising our preconceived notions that the nations of Japan and France are international paragon's of aesthetic taste. (Fox 411)