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Franck Lebrun was arrested following a flight from NYC to Nice after he was caught smoking and shoved a flight attendant. He then yelled, "I'm French, fuck you." Was he also wearing a beret and eating a baguette?

An illiterate deaf man who knows no sign language is being prosecuted in Pennsylvania. His linguistic deficit is either his biggest problem—particularly for participating in his defense—or the greatest loophole in his criminal career, depending who you ask.

New York Rep. Peter King is considering introducing the latest piece of hasty gun legislation after Saturday's shooting spree: Making it illegal to carry a gun within 1,000 feet of government officials. Everyone else can fend for themselves.

A CBS poll finds that 57% of Americans find no connection between "heated political rhetoric" and the Tucson massacre, compared to 32% who do. But this contradicts what frenzied tweeters were typing minutes after the shooting! How can this be?

The New York Times poses an ontological riddle: If a billionaire mayor's private jet was spotted on the tropical island where he keeps a $10 million estate during New York City's apocalyptic blizzard, does that mean he was there too?

Ted Williams, the homeless man who found voice-over work after a video of him speaking went viral, was picked up by police yesterday following a fight with his daughter in a L.A. hotel. The media giveth, and they taketh away.

Ricky Martin finally came out as a gay Puerto Rican father and his first single is the straightest, whitest thing in the world. It's like the saddest John Mayer reject of all time. At least he gets shirtless. There's that.

Dr. Peter Rhee, the surgeon treating Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, says he's "100 percent" certain now that she'll survive and "very optimistic" that it won't be in any sort of vegetative state. Peter Rhee: Best surgeon ever, or just top ten?

Armond White, the film critic for the New York Press and chair of this year's New York Film Critics Circle Awards, kept insulting everybody at last night's award ceremony, prompting Annette Bening to issue a teary-eyed appeal for peace.

Steve Jobs will reportedly show up at the launch of Rupert Murdoch's The Daily. With Murdoch's News Corp. sinking a reported $30 million into a product designed specifically for Jobs' iPad, it seems like the least Apple's CEO could do.

Last week, pictures of Stephanie Seymour frolicking in the ocean with her 18-year-old son set the blogosphere aflame. Now, Peter Brant II takes a break from high school to put all of us—and our celebrity industrial complex—to shame.

Beware the "shirtless and squeezed into tight jeans ... hunky undercover" cop who's prowling Palm Springs's fertile gay breeding grounds, making busts. Locals are incensed about a series of indecent exposure arrests in what they view as their "gay mecca."

He even puffs more weed than chronic chronic smokers like Snoop Dogg. This actor was misbehaving in a gay adult theater and this starlet works with a tutor to seem more intellectual. That's the opposite of smoking too much pot.

Owen Wilson, Marion Cotillard, and Jewel are having babies. Kanye got his album cover banned on purpose. Michael Douglas beats cancer. Andy Dick gets kicked out of the Oscars of porn. Tuesday gossip giggles and coos.

Yesterday we told you a story about Arianna Huffington being escorted off a plane by police after she refused to turn off her Blackberry. It's been officially confirmed! Also officially confirmed: she could not be less concerned about illicit Blackberry-ing.

Click to viewSecretary of Defense Robert Gates is in China this week to cool military tensions, and to tell Chinese officials that the U.S. military is still king. And today, China tested its new stealth fighter jet. It's just a coincidence, though!

Thanks to a lengthy exposé by the Newark Star-Ledger, New Jersey lawmakers have introduced bills that would require random drug testing for anabolic steroids among law enforcement agencies, and health evaluations before prescriptions for steroids can be issued.

The Spider-Man musical Turn Off the Dark, which has a nasty habit of seriously injuring its cast members, was the highest-grossing show on Broadway last week, beating out Wicked. Sounds like Wicked needs to start dropping its actors off buildings!

Scientists and writers love to compare brains to whatever the cool new technology is. Your brain is a steam engine! Your brain is a telephone! A calculator! A computer! And now, in 2011? Your brain is like Facebook, of course.