I love the little umbrella.
George Michael smears U.S. and Tony Blair in perverted new music video, here.
Celebrities talk about their awful summer vacations, here.
The "gay mafia" done me in, Michael Ovitz says here. Also at that source, Robin Williams proves he's just not funny - Robin Williams had his own solution to last week's federal appeals court ruling that it is unconstitutional to make children recite that we are "one nation under God" in the Pledge of Allegiance. In this week's New Yorker, Williams suggests: "Why don't they change it to 'one nation under Canada? Or 'over Mexico?' That way, everybody's happy"
Hyperbole alert: NOTABLE New Yorkers are fired up over Mayor Bloomberg's tax hike on cigarettes that has ushered in the era of $7-a-pack smokes. Food Network star and "Kitchen Confidential" author Anthony Bourdain described the "sin tax" as "shameful. It's the beginning of the end of civilization as we know it. ... Page Six