The Art of Britney Spears

March 27, 2006

For the first time since perhaps forever, Britney Spears is being taken seriously. All she had to do was lie pregnant, prone and naked on a bearskin rug.

"Monument to Pro-Life: The Birth of Sean Preston," a life-size statue of a buck-naked, bearskin-splayed Spears about to welcome her firstborn, is set to be displayed April 7-23 at Brooklyn's Capla Kesting Fine Art.

"It's really a sincere tribute to giving birth," artist Daniel Edwards said Monday. "That's really what it is."

Spears did not pose for the sculpture. She and her well-documented 2005 pregnancy merely inspired it.

Star Busts Rumors

March 27, 2006

Star Jones Reynolds would like to set the record straight: Reports of a boob job-induced medical crisis are greatly inflated.

On Monday morning, "The View" cohost called her cohorts live from Los Angeles, where she is recovering from said surgery, to refute dire tabloid reports of internal bleeding and emergency hospitalization due to complications from last week's procedure.

"I did not almost die," she reported, no doubt heartening millions of worried fans, us included.

Carradine Sues Pellicano

March 27, 2006

And the hits keep coming for Anthony Pellicano.

The former private eye to the stars who's now facing a litany of federal wiretapping charges for allegedly eavesdropping on phone conversations of Hollywood's rich and famous, is now facing a lawsuit from one of the boldface-named victims.

In a complaint filed Friday in Los Angeles Superior Court, Keith Carradine accuses Pellicano of conspiring with the Oscar winner's ex-wife, Sandra Will Carradine, to wiretap his phone conversations during their highly contentious divorce in the late '90s.