• Rather than take Spears to a psychiatric ward and have LAPD escorts and a paparazzi motorcade shut down traffic, the shrinks now come directly to Spears' house, at least for scheduled checkups. Sensible. [OK!]
• There was an entire car full of security guys just to follow around Spears as she was unleashed upon unsuspecting LA motorists. Spears tooled "around aimlessly for hours between Malibu, Beverly Hills and every luxury hotel, Starbucks and fast-food joint in-between."
• J. Lo named her new twins Max and Emme, probably after some kind of show about dragons. Also, her hospital security detail managed not to kill anyone, as far as the public knows, but the entire rest of the maternity ward hates J. Lo's guts.
• Actress Ashley Olsen, or maybe Mary-Kate, is wearing the worst kinds of dead animals in Paris. [Perez]
• British Prince Harry says he is "no hero" upon his return from military service in Afghanistan and probably wishes he could have stayed and continued to flirt with this one female pilot he was keen on.
• Madonna threatens to adopt another baby from the terrified nation of Malawi. [Showbiz Spy]
• Heath Ledger's green 1975 VW van, now stolen, was outfitted with "mass vehicle upgrades" helping bring the total value up to $70,000. [TMZ]
• Diddy finally goes bi. [TMZ]

For more of the twelve Vogue covers, go to design magazine Creative Review.

More: Barack Obama: He's Just Like Us! (Us Weekly)

... a colleague and friend of Mr. Tilley’s, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said, “There’s no way you or I will know why he did this, but it’s certainly not because of blogs.”

“I know it bothered him,” the colleague said, referring to the public criticism. “However, he was very intelligent, with lots of talents and skills, and this was not his whole life. Pointing to blogging and the media just trivializes a man whose life was not trivial.”

The Times also tracked down the 29-year-old woman who writes AgencySpy. She sent an email to the Times saying she does not feel responsible for Tilley's death:

“Perhaps the definition has changed as information has become more easily accessible,” she said. ”This new medium has different rules and that may include the scope of who and who isn’t in the public eye. Some people subscribe to these new notions and some don’t.

[Times]

[Steppin' Out]

[Julia Allison]

Whereas Michelle has a story about how she and Barack argued over whether marriage mattered, and in the middle of one of those arguments, he proposed to her. And a story about her daughter getting fat. And a story about how voting was never a big deal for her. She's not trying to be funny, so she just is. Like the magazine puts it, she's exciting just by being a regular person. The Onion was kind of right: Electing the Obamas is like some crazy movie, but it's because for once the first lady is wackily likeable.

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