Media-Whore's D'Oevres



"Howard said he heard what went on between John and Richie Sambora. He heard that John was doing a concert for VH-1 Unplugged and Richie got so drunk that he had to send him off to rehab. Howard figured that Richie was upset about losing this young chippy Denise Richards .. John (Bon Jovi) said that Richie (Sambora) was drinking to excess but not over Denise (Richards). He was having some problems in his life and he really didn't play that bad at the Unplugged thing. He played quite well but the band did talk to Richie and told him to go to rehab. John said that there was nothing dramatic to say to him, they just talked to him and Richie went to detox. He said that they played last night and Richie is back to working and doing just fine. Howard asked John if he thinks Richie would ever go back to Heather Locklear. John doesn't think he would. Howard asked him if he really disliked Heather. John said he didn't but Howard (Stern) said he heard things and he really did dislike her. John said that's not true. Howard said that John is always going to side with Richie because he's been friends with him since they were kids .. He asked John if he was ever tempted to do Heather Locklear. John said that he would if he could have. He said that he couldn't follow Tommy Lee and then Richie. Howard said that he's heard that Richie has a big penis and John said that its' like a baby's arm with a boxing glove on it." (TheHowardSternShow on Marksfriggin)

"We hosted a really fun little party last night on Crosby Street in honor of my old friend hairstylist Ric Pipino's (... with Mark Hunter) new hot venture. He has partnered with the fun cosmetics chain store Ricky's and is opening cute, inexpensive, super-groovy hair salons in the back of these shops (starting in NYC) called Shears Hustle and Blow." (Papermag)

"As Zimbabwe’s disintegration gathers potentially unstoppable momentum, a swelling tide of migrants is moving into neighboring South Africa, driven into exile by oppression, unemployment and inflation so relentless that many goods now double in price weekly. South Africa is deporting an average of 3,900 illegal Zimbabwean migrants every week, the International Organization for Migration says. That is up more than 40 percent from the second half of 2006, and six times the number South African officials said they were expelling in late 2003." (NYTimes)

" ..Isn't it sort of amazing that Citizen Kane held on to the No. 1 slot? I figured for sure The Godfather would usurp it, if only for the way pop culture (especially The Sopranos) has indirectly managed to keep Francis Ford Coppola's masterpiece at the top of everybody's brain for the past eight years, even as black-and-white film classic seemed to be drifting further and further into the past. In fact, I was actually rooting for The Godfather to come out ahead. I love Kane, I've seen it all the way through at least a half-dozen times, but I'm not sure I would've voted for it over The Godfather. Kane, deep down, is a movie you study; The Godfather is more emotionally involving, a slightly richer experience." (Popwatch)

"Nicole Richie went shopping for diaper bags, but her dad isn't ready to be a grandfather. TMZ spotted Lionel jetting from Koi last night, where the 'Dancing on the Ceiling' singer said, 'Don't scare me!' after a photog asked if he'll be soon be called Gramps." (TMZ)