· John Ritter's psychic warned him to get heart surgery before Labor Day, shortly before Ritter died of an undiagnosed heart ailment. Why pay Miss Cleo if you're going to ignore her? That shit is 99 cents a minute, yo. [Cindy Adams]
· James Gandolfini bellyflops into the dipsomaniacal deep end. [NY Daily News]
· E's Ted Casablanca tries to launch the new Bennifer, dubbing "Carrison" the union of Calista Flockhart and Harrison "Stoney McPot" Ford. [E!]
· Pottymouth Gwyneth Paltrow calls Affleck a "knucklehead." Careful Gwyn: words hit hard as a fist. [Another Mag]
· Finally, not so much gossip but fulfillment of our favorite obsession, a reader writes in that "the Condé Nast cafeteria is selling Chanel cookies today: interlocking Cs covered with pink icing and silver sugar balls." Mmm, delicious.