• Britney Spears got into a fender-bender, then announced to the assembled paparazzi that "I'm a brainiac!" [Page Six]
  • Also, she seduced a 21-year-old extra from her latest video, who took the story of their debauched hot tub encounter straight to Us Weekly. Doesn't the lady in this week's New Yorker short fiction remind you of Britney a little bit? [Us]
  • "What top book publisher is causing colleagues to think those rumors of his leaving his wife for a man are true? With the dropped weight and new duds, he's looking like he was restyled by Carson Kressley." Uh. Could it maybe, possibly be FSG's Jonathan Galassi? Hmm. [R&M, last item]
  • Kim Kardashian, who is "famous" solely for being friends with Paris Hilton, having rich parents, and having a decidedly unsexual "sex tape," may be getting her own E! reality show. There is like a Mad Lib for her "career." [Gatecrasher, 2nd item]