Sunday night, in the Mediterranean off the coast of Corsica, four masked pirates pulled alongside the 160-foot $40 million luxury yacht that P Diddy and eight friends had rented for $260,000, climbed aboard, and, at gunpoint, demanded cash and valuables from the passengers. Working fast, they scooped up the booty and were gone in 10 minutes. Police say the pirates got away with cash, gold watches, jewelry, paintings, and a treasure chest filled with doubloons. (NOTW) ...

Kate Hudson, stylist David Babaii, and manufacturer Universal are being sued by 220 Laboratories Inc for being "willful and malicious" in the production and launch of their line of organic shampoos and styling aids, David Babaii for Wildaid, all of which contain the key ingredient volcanic ash. 220 accuses Hudson and company of 17 offenses, including misappropriation of trade secrets, fraud, and breach of contract and confidence. 220 Laboratories says it was the only supplier of volcanic ash in the USA and that it entered an “oral contract” with the Tinseltown twosome in August 2006 to develop and ...

Is Hollywood's dating pool so shallow that there only 10 participants available for hookup combinations? Looks like Justin Long has traded Drew Barrymore for Kristin Dunst, if being spotted with her at the annual Sunset Junction street fair in Silver Lake is any indication. (Photo: Shane Redsar/Metromix via Just Jared) ...

In hour 6, Bryan Boy gets his hair dyed lavender brown. For free. ...

Keke Palmer, 15 Cassie, 22 Macaulay Culkin, 28 Amanda Schull, 30 Holli Woods, 31 Thalia, 37 Shirley Manson, 42 Wanda De Jesus, 48 Geraldine Ferraro, 73 Mother Teresa, 98 (deceased) Christopher Isherwood, 104 (deceased) Mary Ann Nichols, 163 (deceased) ...

Dr Dre's 20-year-old son, Andre Young Jr, was unresponsive when his mother tried to wake him at 10AM at his Woodland Hills home on Saturday morning. According to reports, Young went out on Friday night and returned home around 5:30AM. The cause of death will be determined after an autopsy. His father, currently working on the album Detox, has yet to make a statement. (MTV UK) ...

Billboard on Sunset Boulevard near Gower. (Photo by Thairin Smothers) ...

Olympic champeen Michael Phelps and Weekly World News mascot Bat Boy ...

Lindsay Lohan's mother, Dina Lohan, and Samantha Ronson's mother, Ann Dexter Jones, met for the first time when their daughters treated them to a girls-night-out dinner in New York recently. Heads turned for so many reasons. (Photo: Rex Features via The Sun) ...

Two wonderful retromoderne animations featuring things soft, hard, and edible. (t/y Clancy) ...

Dear Joey What is the protocol these days with mix tapes (or mix CDs, as is now the custom)? I burned a CD of some of my all-time favorites songs for a good buddy and said, "Listen to this stuff I like when you get a chance." That was like a month ago and he still hasn't said anything about it. Does his saying nothing mean he didn't like the music or he didn't listen to it or what? I wouldn't be insulted if he didn't like it because I know everyone has different tastes, but it was ...

Poor Katie Holmes. The hordes on New York's Great White Way are not lining up around the block for tickets to see her in the revival of old-school Arthur Miller's All My Sons. Perhaps the title was too specific for tourists with daughters. We bet Holmes would be a huge hit on the more inclusive All My Children. And people are comfortable seeing her on TV. (Photo: WENN) ...

Thanks to Kim Kardashian's quick-thinking people taking photos of her cut toe (to be used in litigation with the hotel) and TMZ's first-amendment right to post them, we're able to imagine we're back in the golden age of Hollywood when Confidential and other magazines freely published those horrifying photos of stars beaten, stabbed, and worse. Of course, in this case the trail of blood is not nearly as grisly as the sight of Kim's French pedicure at the end of those Vienna sausages. (More gorious full-color photos here) ...

In this chilling vignette, acted entirely by hair-dye boxes, Regina doesn't know what she's gotten herself into when she's approached by a sinister girl at school. ...

On our walk to get coffee and a sammy an hour or so ago, we peeked in the window of the World of Wonder Storefront Gallery and saw WOW's John Durkin attaching to the wall a tiny blue box with blinking lights that looked like it was designed by an apprentice of Kenny Scharf. We shrugged at him through the glass and continued walking. Upon our return, we found this photo and message from Durkin in our email: When you saw us in the gallery, we were mounting a device created by the Black Cloud Citizen Scientist League, a collaboration ...

Douglas Edric Stanley has pulled his Space Invaders installation out of an exhibit held in Germany honoring the classic arcade game's 30th anniversary. Stanley's piece, which recreates the 9/11 attacks using images from the 1980s game, was criticized not only by families of victims of the tragedy, but also by gamers and random types offering up death threats. He decided to pull the plug on the game, perhaps not coincidentally, on the same day the Japanese maker of the game said it was "seriously considering" suing him; seems his use of Space Invaders hadn't been approved. On ...

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With Republicans infiltrating the DNC, it's more like a D and C. ...

In case you heard the rumor that country superstar Dolly Parton died on Friday of congestive heart failure in a Tennessee hospital and figured we started it to boost interest in our upcoming "Dollypop" art show at the World of Wonder Storefront Gallery, well, just stop it. How dare you! Dolly is "alive and well," according to David Dotson, president of the Dollywood Foundation. Apparently, Parton's only affliction is persistent rumors of her premature death. "There was something a couple of years ago – I think it started on the Web," said Dotson. "Seems to be plenty of rumor-mongers ...

An Italian priest and theologian is organizing an online beauty pageant for nuns in an attempt fight the stereotype that they're all old and gross. And to lure the young and the lapsed back into the fold. The Reverend Antonio Rungi intends to run the competition online at first, hopeful it will become so successful that it can spring into the real world and compete with the festive Miss Italia pageant. Visitors to the priest's blog will be able to vote for "Miss Sister 2008" beginning in September. Nuns will have filled out profiles of themselves with information about ...