 Remember Rachel Uchitel? Oh, you don’t? That’s probably because she hasn’t done anything more publically significant than sleep with Tiger Woods. But Uchitel is really concerned you never stop reading about her learn from her and arm yourself against the terrible affliction she suffers. And just in case you’re wondering, it’s not crabs. Rachel has decided she might as well admit it – she’s addicted to love. Yup, love.
 Leslie Nielsen, comic actor and Canadian legend has died. Surrounded by his wife Barbaree and friends, the actor succumbed to complications from pneumonia at a Fort Lauderdale hospital on Sunday. He was 84.
Although most young folk (and by that I mean all of us under the age of 50) will remember Nielsen as a funnyman, his early career marked him as a handsome lead. After a successful stint in live television in New York, Nielsen moved to Hollywood in the mid-50s. He continued working in television, while scoring increasingly larger roles in film, starting with MGM’s now cult-classic science fiction flick, Forbidden Planet.
 Although we celebrate Thanksgiving in Canada, there’s something quintessentially American about the way they do it south of the border. That heady combination of earnest emotion, commerce, feast and football has such a firm place in our shared pop cultural experience that it’s hard not to get caught up in the excitement.
So why struggle? While it’s easy to get down on the commercial frenzy and the boring (to me) football, I think the outpouring of gratitude that comes this time of year provides a welcome break from celebrity endorsements, DUI’s, and political scandals. So before you go searching for Black Friday internet sales, let’s check in with some of our favourite stars, and see what makes them grateful to be alive.
 Bristol Palin thanks God for getting her through the club-footed fiasco that was her performance on Dancing with the Stars. "It is faith that got me through this and just praying all the time and just relying on God and knowing that He is on our side and we'll get through this," she told People magazine Monday night.
 Fans of dance and democracy can breathe a sigh of relief: Bristol Palin did not take home the coveted mirrorball trophy on Dancing with the Stars last night. Despite internet campaigns from the political right to stack the results by “voting like a Democrat” –early, often, under aliases and as cartoon characters, according to conservative blogger Kevin DuJan—the final competition came down to judges’ decisions. Because they are talented dancers, Jennifer Grey and Derek Hough won the trophy.
 Beyoncé is not pregnant, so please stop asking. Ever since the bootylicious singer married rap icon Jay-Z, baby rumours have helped keep a measure of positive speculation in entertainment news, providing a healthy antidote to DUIs and rehab stories. But as much as readers (and admittedly, this writer) rejoice at the idea of a baby Bey-Z, Beyoncé is tired of the process.
 Toronto’s Malin Akerman has been pegged to replace Lindsay Lohan in the upcoming Linda Lovelace biopic, Inferno. Depending on whom you ask, Lohan was either fired from the picture because she is completely uninsurable (director’s story) or quit because her rehab team thinks it’s a bad idea for her to embody her addictions in film (team Lohan’s side).
 Shed a tear for Russell Crowe. While the actor enjoys making movies, and presumably likes spending the accompanying pay cheques, he doesn’t like being famous. He says that “readers” (that’s you, folks) don’t really care about what’s real or not, and intimates that all they want to do is ruin the mysteries of what should be a private life.
But his private life isn’t all Russell Crowe wants to keep away from you. According to Sydney Morning Herald writer Steven Zeitchik, who recently had the misfortune of interviewing the prickly actor, Russell Crowe doesn’t want to talk about his movies either, especially not during press junkets designed for that purpose.
 You don’t have to be the Star Wars Kid to realize the power the media wields over an individual’s reputation. When a single video or off-the-cuff-remark can be spun into thousands of news briefs, articles and editorials across the internet, defamation is a serious issue. So it’s no laughing matter when someone feels their reputation has been burned by the media—unless that person is Lindsay Lohan, in which case the only reasonable question is, what reputation?
Yesterday LiLo’s ever-suffering mother, Dina “White Oprah” Lohan charged that she is considering legal action against the makers of Glee for maligning her daughter in last Tuesday’s episode. Dina was particularly incensed by a scene in which Gwyneth Paltrow, playing substitute teacher Holly, tried to pique her students’ interest in her Spanish lesson by asking them, “Lindsay Lohan is totally crazy, right?” and “How many times has Lindsay Lohan been to rehab?” (Answer: five.)
Still trying to figure out what to do with your Thursday evening? Well fret not, because the good people at Asylum have declared November 18 “Have Sex with a Guy with a Mustache Day”. But before you go seeking random Magnum P.I.s to canoodle, let’s be clear: the site is only encouraging hookups with Movember participants, men who are growing mustaches to raise money for prostate cancer research.
Just in case you need a little, uh, inspiration for this mission, Stardish presents you with a shortlist of sexy celebrities who are “pencil thin where it counts”.
 Orlando Bloom
Yes folks, this is the kind of mustache that says “I’m sleeping with a supermodel”. Go Orly!
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October 2010
