Either Warren Beatty slept with 12,775 women or he did not. It's a large number to expect to be exact, but that's the figure put forth in Peter Biskind's upcoming book Star: How Warren Beatty Seduced America, an "authorized" biography that Beatty says he did not authorize. Are these the kind of rumors men dispute?

There was a time when Madonna was clubbing as a girl with potential. Somewhere I have a Xeroxed blue paper invite with her name on it; we paid her like 500 bucks to play Danceteria ... I was upset with her because I needed the dressing room after her gig. She zoomed to the top soon after, and the last time I could talk to her as a human was when she was shooting Desperately Seeking Susan. After that, if I wanted her for an event or to come to an opening, I dealt with Maripol. It was Maripol who got her to the Palladium one night, and a million photos were taken of Madonna sitting on the Michael Todd Room bar reading the magazine that the party was about. It was Maripol who did the famous jewelry that the Material Girl wore in photo shoots and videos. Maripol the documentarian, the creator of underground film Downtown 81. She is club royalty.

● Warren Beatty has a new film project in the works -- his first in almost a decade -- and he wants Lindsay Lohan to act opposite him. The only catch is Lohan must live with Beatty during the filming ... I suppose as a way to monitor her partying ways. Sounds like a movie in itself. [FoxNews] ● Evidently Ben Stiller’s Joaquin Phoenix/Hasidic meth lab worker bit was a surprise to Oscar producers. Stiller created the bit and kept it a secret till he got on stage after he had a meltdown over the planned script. [P6] ● Kanye West was left embarrassed, for once, after fashion maven Vivienne Westwood had no idea who he was. West congratulated the designer on her show, and Westwood just stared at the "greatest rapper of our generation" blankly. Word is Kayne's head exploded Murakami-style from the diss. [NYDN]

As Vincent Chase, the skirt-chasing superstar on HBO’s enduring bro-com Entourage, Adrian Grenier cuts the kind of swath through Hollywood pioneered by Warren Beatty, the original sexual firestarter. But the bond between these two symbols of success extends far past the reach of dark, tousled hair and shirts open to the waist.