● To no one's surprise, Foxy Brown received "special treatment" while serving her prison sentence at Riker's; guards made sure she had plenty of clean clothes and TV time. [MSNBC]
● Members of the band Rooney will make a cameo in Sofia Coppola’s new film Somewhere; lead singer Robert Schwartzman just happens to be Sofia Coppola’s cousin. [Rooney]
● Bad news for Brad Pitt and Steven Soderbergh. Columbia head Amy Pascal cut loose their new film Moneyball, which was set to begin today in limited turnaround; they're looking for a new studio to fund and distribute the film. [Variety]

● Brad Pitt reveals he didn’t sign up for Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds as much as he got a little drunk and smoked a little something with the director, and wound up shooting weeks later. [Youtube]
● Kate Hudson was seen making out with Alex Rodriguez in the back of a Manhattan restaurant. What is this, junior high? [Foxnews]
● Tori Spelling lets you know what’s in her purse and explains how her BlackBerry is a useful toy for kids. [Myspace]

● Madonna sized up her competition by checking out the Britney Spears concert at the Nassau Coliseum. Madge purposely walked up the main stairs to her VIP suite so all Brit’s fans could know the master was watching her student. [LAT]
● Michael Jackson will not play one, two, or even three final shows at London’s O2 Arena, but fifty (50) performances -- making his farewell performance stretch into 2010. [BBC]
● Now that the feud with Lauren Conrad is over with on The Hills, Spencer Pratt has set his sites on Lady Gaga, saying he had to "save his ears from her music." He is "married" to Heidi Montag, isn’t he? [TMZ]

● Paris Hilton’s next career move is to be a lesbian, just like Lindsay (allegedly). Hilton has (again, allegedly) made a down-under (i.e. Australian) sex tape with a "mode"’ named Cheyenne Tozzi. [ENTWise]
● Anna Wintour is in Sundance giving good face for the Vogue doc entitled The September Issue. She told reporters that she was "channeling mountain casual" in her leather Michael Kors jacket with a fox collar paired with a Oscar de la Renta turtleneck and J Brand jeans, and let’s not forget the Manolo Blahnik boots. [WWD]
● Can Tom Cruise stop talking about how much he wanted to kill Hitler as a child?! It’s just getting weird. [AP]

Ricky Gervais assembled the Black List for our September issue, which has stirred much deep, thoughtful, nuanced discourse in the comment section. For dessert, enjoy these outtakes from the Gervais photo shoot with photographer Isa Wipfli. Don't fight it. Submit to the wackiness.

Reigning king of British comedy Ricky Gervais, who stars in this month’s Ghost Town, sounds off on schmaltz, psychics and spiders. He is most certainly not having a laugh.