That Chris Brown has hired the same publicist who helped Mel Gibson sweep his anti-Semitism under the media carpet... That, of Christian Bale, Drew Barrymore said: "He's so cute! And I knew him when he was a kid. He was in Empire Of The Sun. If he walked into the room now, I would totally clam up. Or I might go overboard and embarrass myself"... That Bale might just join you... That, when in particularly chatty form, Joaquin Phoenix said: "I'm not out to sell records *ahemsclearly*. I'm experiencing something and it's what I feel. I feel like everything in my life is leading up to this and suddenly acting doesn’t seem like that's a big part of what was important in my life. I imagine, when I look back on my life, acting will be just a very small portion of something that I did, and I think music will be the dominant theme in my life"... That Conservative leader David Cameron said: "I'm sure when Morrissey finds that he's getting an endorsement from the leader of the Conservative Party, he will think 'Heaven knows I'm miserable now'. But I'm a big fan, I'm afraid. Sorry about that"... That Chantelle Houghton said: "I feel like I go shopping every other day, and my hair extensions cost about £10,000 a year. Then there are manicures, face creams and make-up. I believe girls should be nice-looking and wear nice clothes and that"... I believe they shouldn't let their brains rot; they'll need them when their beauty goes to pot... That Johnny Depp's half-brother, Daniel, has written his first novel, entitled Loser's Town... That fellow former Bond girls, Denise Richards and Jane Seymour, are starring in a comedy called Freeloaders... That Denise will play herself.... That Hugh Jackman is to partake in a song and dance extravaganza, as part of The Oscars on Sunday night, alongside Beyonce, Vanessa Hudgens, Zac Efron, Amanda Seyfried and Dominic Cooper... A source said Jackman has "roped in his Australia director Baz Luhrmann to work his magic on the as -yet-unknown musical number"... That Elton John is making Austin attractive to the male species... That Larry and Andy Wachowski, AKA those responsible for the Matrix franchise, have been "offered a chance to take over the Superman franchise and make a trilogy of movies"... That the first film might be OK but the other two will be beyond rubbish... That Kate Moss doesn't like New York Fashion Week queue skippers: "We stood in line for an hour or something to say hello... We're going, 'I can't believe this. You can't smoke. You can't have a drink.' (Then) Tom and Katie just walked right up to the front, and we were like, 'Who the f**k are they? They're not even in fashion'"... That Lady GaGa said: "The only downer (of the tour) was that my Versaces were stolen. I'm so devastated I can barely talk. If anyone knows where my Biggie Smalls Versace glasses are I'll make them the star of my next video"... That The Prodigy provided a soundtrack to a 1999 porno called The Uranus Experiment... That Kanye, before becoming the thinking man's rapper, used to design video games: "I got into doing beats for the video games I used to try to make. My game was very sexual. The main character was, like, a giant penis. It was like Mario Brothers, but the ghosts were, like, vaginas... "I'm 12 years old, and this is stuff 30 year olds are programming. You'd have to draw in and program every little step - it literally took me all night to do a step, ’cause the penis, y'know, had little feet and eyes"...