The Rehab Report, Cont'd

By Amy Argetsinger and Roxanne Roberts
Friday, February 8, 2008

Rehab: Not just for Amy Winehouse! Suddenly, there is a slew of boldface names checking in:

Kirsten Dunst

For what: Too much bubbly?

After hitting the Sundance Film Festival party circuit, Dunst, 25, checked into rehab this week, reports People magazine. Dubbed "Kirsten Drunkst" by the tabloids, she told Jay Leno in 2005 she stocks up on Veuve Cliquot champagne at Costco and "I have lots of alcohol and no food in my fridge. . . . Maybe in a few months you will see me in a rehab clinic."

Eva Mendes

For what: Rep's not saying.

Before temporarily checking out Wednesday, Mendes spent several weeks in a Utah center without reporters knowing she was there. The 33-year-old actress decided to "proactively attend to some personal issues that, while not critical, she felt deserved some outside professional support," her rep told People.

Delta Burke

For what: Depression, obsessive-compulsive disorder, hoarding (!)

Burke, 51, checked into a psychiatric hospital last week to sort out her meds. "They just weren't working," she said in a phone interview posted on TMZ.com. And her pack-rat problem? "OK, have you seen those shows where they don't find the body for days, and they go in to clean up, and it's stacks of newspapers up to the ceiling? That's hoarding, and I hate it."

Our Digitally Fearless Leader

Oh, hello, New York Times? Just wondering: Does your publisher have a Facebook page? Hmmm, let's see, no hits on Arthur Ochs Sulzberger Jr. . . . Anyway, reason we ask is because our new publisher does.

She's Katharine Weymouth, and we bring this up not because she could buy and sell us many times over -- just because it's, you know, interesting to have a post-boomer with long blond hair heading up one of the region's biggest companies.

While the local glossy mags regularly place her on their social A-lists, Weymouth, 41, told us she's not out that much. "As a single mom of three kids" -- ages 7, 6 and 3 -- "I try to spend all my time with them. I don't do the benefit circuit." She does sit on the committee for the Alvin Ailey fundraising gala, having trained seriously as a ballerina as a kid. Otherwise, "I run when I can, I ski when I can."

About that Facebook page: nothing incriminating. She declares herself a "fan" of washingtonpost.com and boasts 70 friends (our request still pending).

HEY, ISN'T THAT . . . ?

* Dick Cheney taking his dog to the vet Wednesday afternoon via his usual massive security motorcade. The veep's yellow lab, Dave -- the one dressed as Superman for Halloween -- went to Friendship Animal Hospital for a routine checkup.

* Donald Rumsfeld meeting former press secretary Torie Clarke yesterday at an atypical power-breakfast spot -- the American City Diner near Chevy Chase. Rummy got poached eggs, bacon, rye toast, home fries, decaf and a hug from the waitress. The black SUVs in his security detail took up most of the diner's tiny parking lot.

* Mia Farrow dining Wednesday at Chef Geoff's Downtown with a man, woman and young child. Unclear why she was here; probably more of her Darfur activism. Had pinot noir with her grilled salmon. Other patrons gawked from a respectful distance.

QUOTES

"Welcome to the White House. We're glad you're here. Like, have you noticed a lot of security around here? It's because the vice president heard there were some Ducks around."

-- President Bush greeting the Stanley Cup champion Anaheim Ducks Tuesday.

"I order a Corona and a Shirley Temple, then mix them 50-50 in an extra glass. . . . It tastes like a sweet Corona. I call it the Agent Zero."

-- Gilbert Arenas telling Men's Journal about his favorite drink. The ever-quotable sidelined Wizards superstar also prescribes this cure for heartbreak: "A strip club."