Celebritology 2.0: Celebrity Life Lessons

Famous people shared so many lessons during the past three months.

Did the “speak not of Kristen Stewart” approach work for him?

She says she couldn’t survive today’s media if she were just starting out as an actress. Is she right about how much things have changed?

First Nicki Minaj. Now Rowland. Is it so hard to keep one’s goodies covered and secure?

Twitter defector Courtney Love. (Getty Images) I've long thought that at the intersection of Twitter and celebrities lies trouble. Six months ago I asked if celebrities were ruining Twitter. But, turns out it may be Twitter that is wreaking havoc on celebs. Or, to phrase it another way, it's Twitter that's profited (from what must surely be millions of dollars in free publicity) while celebs have variously displayed an inability to spell, revealed outsized egos, publicly posted crazy rants and generally made themselves ideal candidates for parody. Could it be someone -- either the celebs or agents working in their best interests -- have finally figured this out? Will this week's desertion of Twitter by Miley Cyrus and Courtney Love be the leading edge of a coming mass exodus? Miley is rumored to have quit at the urging of suspected new boyfriend Liam Hemsworth and Courtney Love because of...

AWOL GOOP guru Gwyneth Paltrow. (AP) So here we are in the last lingering days of summer and I've got several problems: too many tomatoes, a wardrobe not ready for a fall transition, I'm flummoxed as to what type of toilet bowl cleaner to buy to avoid speeding the planet on its way to utter environmental collapse and, most frightening of all, my upper arms are getting flabby. How can things have gotten so messed up so quickly? It seems like it was merely a month ago that I was happily tossing summer salads and contemplating the joys of a high colonic. It was, in fact, Aug. 5 -- the last time Gwyneth Paltrow posted any instructions to us, the faithful subscribers of her weekly newsletter, GOOP. The only celebrity guidance I've had is from that walking skeleton Rachel Zoe who yesterday did her best to convince me that...