Photo: Getty Images
> Word on the street is Tom Cruise wasn't exactly honored to learn that a new strain of medical marijuana has been named after him. The drug -- dubbed "Tom Cruise Purple" and featuring a picture of the actor laughing hysterically on the vial -- is supposedly available from cannabis clubs in Northern California. One source told the New York Daily News it's the kind of weed "that makes you hallucinate." Cruise's lawyers are looking into taking legal action, but we think offering a dose of Tom Cruise that anyone can tolerate without befriending Xenu can only do good things for his public persona.
> Amy Winehouse has a new $620 a day habit: Royal Caspian Beluga caviar. The Daily Star claims the singer has isn't smoking, snorting, or snacking on the sturgeon eggs but has taken to using them as a beauty treatment to help clear up her skin. A "friend" of Winehouse's says, "I saw the caviar in her fridge, but she told me to 'Gerroff it' as it’s to be used on her skin. A make-up artist in Norway told her it was a miracle cream, so she tried it. Now her face is back to its former glory." So while she may still have (several?) drug habits to kick and a no-good crackhead jailbird husband to deal with, at least she can take on cleaning up the rest of her life while looking good. Baby steps people, baby steps.
> It's official -- at least as official as totally unverified gossip goes -- Anderson Cooper is a briefs man. An eyewitness claims to have seen the foxy newscaster purchasing the famed David Beckham Armani underwear after interviewing the football star on 60 Minutes. "He had his head down and tried to blend in but he was definitely buying the Armani underwear," says the unnamed source. Poor guy -- first he has to shower in his underwear at the gym because he's afraid of locker room spies trying to snap camera phone shots of his junk, and now he can't even buy said underwear without OK magazine finding out about it. Our cold, cynical, itty-bitty barely-there hearts bleed for you, Coop.
> Richard Thomas, the man who wrote the libretto to "Jerry Springer: The Opera," is collaborating with composer Mark-Anthony Turnage on an opera about Anna Nicole Smith. "It's an incredible story...very operatic and sad. She was quite a smart lady with the tragic flaw that she could not seem to get through life without a vat of prescription painkillers," says the writer. Fox News reports the opera will focus on the former playmate's life rather than the media frenzy and legal battles that ensued once she died. "For me, it ends when she does," Thomas says. Forget about the opera -- we're just shocked to see Fox News relay this without smirking "it ain't over 'til the fat lady sings" anywhere in the story.
-- NOAH MICHELSON
Comments