1. Gilded as sin
Finally got around to seeing the King Tut exhibit. The quick summary, for people who haven’t seen it: Think “Donald Trump meets the Pottery Barn.”
2. I’ll be here all week
Tough decision this weekend at the movie theater: Do you go watch the spawn of the devil, or do you skip “The Break-Up” in favor of “The Omen”?
3. Go for it
“American Idol” runner-up Katharine McPhee says she wants to star in romantic comedies. Doesn’t she know most singers can’t act? … On second thought, she’ll be fine.
4. Alone time
Believing that her stay in Namibia had run its course, Angelina Jolie gets her family’s papers ready for a move to Antarctica.
5. The mullet
Billy Ray Cyrus has a new song that goes, “I want my mullet back.” No one has the heart to tell him it went into the Witness Protection Program in 1998.
6. Stop, polluters!
The Cadillac Escalade continues to be a favorite of car thieves, according to new data released this week, which just goes to show that car thieves are brazenly ignoring Al Gore.
7. It’s a record
The Black Eyed Peas are off to China for a concert next month. Should be exciting–it’s their first chance to annoy several billion people at once.
8. What the …?
Did I just see an ETrade ad with sperm cells swimming across my TV? Please tell me that’s not what I saw.
9. The mullet returns
A new article in Vanity Fair accuses “The Da Vinci Code” of ripping off yet another book, “Daughter of God.” Apparently both books feature a main character with an awful haircut.
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