· Sean "P Diddy" Combs says he's going to "work on a farm, learn about sharecropping and picking cotton," in order to prepare for a role as blues legend Robert Johnson. [NY Daily News]
· Page Six has their own Jayson Blair gossip: "We hear the disgraced reporter was spotted at Hell's Kitchen hotspot Siberia talking on his cell phone and taking notes around the same time he was supposed to be in Palestine, W. Va., covering the story of freed POW Jessica Lynch. But when a bartender asked about something reading 'West Virginia' in Blair's pile of papers, the Timesman refused to talk about it." [Page Six]