Actress Kate Hudson — daughter of Goldie Hawn, wife of Black Crowes frontman Chris Robinson, star of various eh-level romantic comedies — has taken legal action against British tabs Heat, Closer, and the Daily Mail, as well as our own beloved Star and National Enquirer, for publishing pictures of her accompanied with the suggestion that she was suffering from an eating disorder. Notes Hudson's legal team:

Kate Hudson can't win. If she puts on some pregnancy weight, the tabloids slap her with an insensitive nickname like "Hippo Hudson," then splash fleshy, full-color portraits of the mom-to-be all over their covers. If she develops an eating disorder to quickly melt off those postpartum pounds, suddenly she's on a "dangerous diet" and cast as the Olsen twins' pro-ana sponsor. Exasperated by her glossy tormentors' Catch-22 tactics, Hudson has filed suit:

· DVD sales growth stalls, but execs at places like Disney can still wipe with hundred dollar bills from home video sales of The Incredibles ($315 million) and National Treasue ($196 million). [Variety]
· Fox Searchlight plans a Notorious B.I.G. biopic for Antoine Fuqua to direct, will soon be gunned down by a rival studio with a Tupac Shakur movie in development. [THR]
· Kate Hudson will join Owen "The Butterscotch Stallion" Wilson in Universal's You, Me and Dupree. Open memo to Univerasl: Please lose the Seussian title before release. The Stallion will not countenance such cheesy, singsong nonsense. [Variety]
· News five people care about: Fredric Reynolds, considered frontrunner for the CFO gig at soon-to-be-created CBS Corp. gives Viacom an unexpected kiss-off. [THR]
· Everything that's wrong with television, in one easy sentence: At about $400,000 each per episode of King of Queens, Leah Remini and Kevin James might be the two highest paid actors on network TV. [Variety]

If our reader survey demographics are any indication, none of you have seen the inside of a Wal-mart in, well, ever, so maybe this is irrelevant, but I thought I'd post it anyway. Wal-mart has decided to remove Maxim, Stuff and FHM from its magazine rack. Dennis Publishing, which owns Maxim and Stuff, reports that Wal-mart accounts for less than 3% of its sales, so it's probably fair to assume that this doesn't mean the demise of babes-n-beer jokes or the ubiquitous "charticles" (chart = article) for those who can't read more than 100 words at a time. The magazines are being removed under pressure from Christian groups who find the covers too "racy." (Wal-mart has also banned specific issues of magazines, refusing to sell one issue of In Style that included an "artfully arranged" photo of Kate Hudson nude.) I'm not one to criticize Wal-Mart for being a massive soul-destroying retail chain, as I think there's something to be said for price efficiencies, but you have to love a store whose policy is "we won't sell laddie mags because god knows what sort of trouble those would start (think of the children!) but we have a special on Remington 500sfree ammo with every purchase!" (Oh, and here's a free John Deere mesh cap as well. You can mail it to your cousin in Williamsburg, where it will be worn with fashionable irony.) Maybe they just need a waiting period for buying lad mags. Force the lads to register! Laddie mags don't kill people; people kill people!
Three racy men's magazines banned by Wal-mart [NYT]
Best values for hunting season! [Wal-mart]

· "susan sarandon in the window of city bakery today @ 9:45am"
· "saturday, 19 april, 9.00pm: kim gordon and thurston moore of sonic youth plus moby at the opening of kim's new show at the participant inc. gallery, rivington and ludlow. (i'm sure there must've been some assorted strokes or the like around, too). kim looked stunning, her art looked pretty cool,
thurston looked really tall and unassuming, while moby looked kinda scruffy. afterward everyone decamped to the pink pony, where chloe sevigny happened to be languidly lounging and looking fantastic with two friends on the storefront banquette."
· From HINT Maga "smelly Moby sighting?": "Which world renowned superstar dj was literally funking up Joe's Pub last night with his crowd of friends. Many in the crowdwere hoping the "funny" smelly cigarettes they were smoking would mask theb.o., but alas.....apparently deoderant does not fit into the vegan lifestyle."
· "I just saw the ever secretive and reclusive steve guttenberg drinking Tab at lemon bar."