When stars shave their heads, couch-jump, commit a fashion faux pas and or random acts of tomfoolery, washingtonpost.com Celebritology blogger Liz Kelly shares the buzz, offers perspective and provides crucial links to juicy alternate news sources and, of course, takes your reaction in her daily blog.

Join Liz every Thursday at 2 p.m. ET to gab about the latest celebrity pairings (and splittings), rising stars (and falling ones), and get the scoop on the latest gossip making waves across the Web.

Before she started blogging about celebrities, Liz ran washingtonpost.com's Discussions section, where she enjoyed talking to really interesting people -- including some Post reporters -- on the phone. She still produces both Carolyn Hax's advice discussion and Gene Weingarten's Chatological Humor.

Celebritology Live Archive

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Liz Kelly: Welcome back to celeb central. What's with all this finger-giving lately? First George Clooney, now Annie Lennox. What kind of example are these people setting? Won't someone please think of the children?

In other news, after a six-week hiatus I am back on the radio. Hear me Wednesday mornings at 7:20 a.m. on 3WT (the former Post Radio), 107.7 FM. I'm on with David Burd and Jessica Doyle, who do one of the few shows to actually originate from the station. I'd like to state for the record that I can't vouch for what they're filling their airwaves with the rest of the day.

And happy birthday to TMZ.com, a healthy two years old today. What did we ever do before?

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Washington, D.C.: What's this I hear about Ellen DeGeneres crossing a WGA picket line to do her show this morning? Details, please.

Liz Kelly: Yep, she's apparently working without a net, sans writers. She did sit out Monday, though, in a show of solidarity with her scribes.

Speaking of Ellen -- what happened to her show on local TV? Did they move the timeslot, cuz there's now an hour of local news at 11 a.m. on Ch. 4.

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Writers Strike: As a fellow television lover -- I just wanted to ask if you knew what the effect on LOST is going to be if this thing lasts the ten months they are predicting. I mean we're already waiting until February --will we have to wait longer? (Just has an even worse thought, what about Battlestar Galactica -- ack!)

Also i'm peeved at all those people who don't care about the writers' strike -- and say things like "or I don't own a TV, instead we read". For pete's sake, I watch TV, I read, I socialize -- but sometimes you just want your shows -- that's why it's called escapism. It's also fun!

Had a need to vent. I guess I'm going to hit up Netflix.

Liz Kelly: Jen Chaney and I were talking about this yesterday and she has heard that the strike could have a big effect on "Lost," but it may be more of a delayed reaction.

According to ComingSoon.net:

"Lost" fans, who have been waiting a long time for new episodes, will get to see at least eight new ones if the strike continues for a long time. "Lost" executive producer Carlton Cuse told Entertainment Weekly that ABC will soon have eight episodes in the can that it can begin airing after the first of the year. If the strike is prolonged and the writers can't get back to work writing the rest of the episodes, fans are going to be stuck with the kind of stunted season they were forced to endure last year.

So season four may end up resembling the annoying2006/2007 split season after all (we had six eps in the fall and 17 in the spring).

Which really steams my shorts. With all the time they've had to work -- no fall season -- you think LindeCuse would've been able to get ahead of schedule. But noooooo, instead they dilly dally and leave their actors so bored that they keep getting arrested for DUIs.

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12th and N.Y. Ave, Washington, D.C.: Does anyone know what was filming this morning, around 8 a.m., in front of the Willard Hotel (Penn. Ave and 15th St)?

Lots of equipment, people, lights, and police.

Just wonderin'....

Liz Kelly: I couldn't say for sure, but I'd put my money on "24" -- Keifer and crew are currently in town filming. I guess they had scripts at the ready.

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McLean, Va.: I am the same age as Clooney. I am also male. After that the resemblance fades. But one thing I do understand is that the mid 40s is just as scary for men as it is for women. This is when aging really kicks in despite one's best efforts. I suspect Clooney is feeling a little insecure and hostile.

Liz Kelly: You are joking, right? George Clooney insecure and hostile because of the average mid-life malaise? I'm thinking you must not be informed of the fact that George has a hit movie in theaters and recently started dating a 28-year-old hottie.

Also, he's George Clooney. I'm not buying it.

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Anonymous: You didn't weigh in on the whole George Clooney gives the finger discussion, Liz. What is your opinion,(a) of Clooney giving the finger to people he assumed were photographing him, (b) his 'confrontation' with Fabio, (c) TMZ clearly manipulating the photo...it's obviously not the same picture (large photo vs. inset).

There are those on the blog who thing he was within his rights to flip the bird. What say you?

Liz Kelly: I actually did jump into the fray on Clooney-gate -- above and in the blog comments this morning. I did note that the inset is clearly a different photo -- whether from a different angle the same evening or not -- it really should be explained by TMZ.

As for his actions -- hey, who knows? I wasn't there. Maybe they were actually snapping a few pix of George while pretending to snap each other. And Fabio's comment ("Stop being a diva") strikes me as a little over-dramatic, especially coming from a guy who greases himself up to sport shredded shirts on romance novel covers.

I'm going to go ahead and come down on George's side here. He's proven himself to be a pretty steady guy in the past and is notoriously easy to get along with. I say Fabio deserves all the birds he gets -- both fingers and those that fly near roller coasters.

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Arlington, Va.: I have one request today: can we please, please, please NOT talk about Katie? Not about Katie running the NYC Marathon, not about Katie running the NYC Marathon without a bra, not about Katie running the NYC Marathon without a bra and not sweating. I can't take anymore...

Liz Kelly: Well, now that you brought her up, I have to say that she and Tom are growing more and more alike every day. Soon they'll be interchangeable.

And I believe she was wearing some kind of jog-bra enhanced shirt.

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Page Six is Wrong!: I was shocked to see that Page Six thinks Mandy Moore is 27. I am 25 and pretty sure that Mandy is younger than I am. So I went to the real authority, IMDb, and, sure enough, Mandy was born in 1984, making her 23. Which makes her dating the 38-year-old Matthew Perry way more skeevy. And makes the headline of the article -- 11 Year Spread -- totally wrong. Who is their copy editor? Liz, I know you wouldn't have let this sort of error occur, but are you powerful enough yet to get them to issue a correction?

Liz Kelly: Nice catch. That is indeed a glaring error. I'm guessing they ran a correction elsewhere in the paper today, but I sent along an e-mail for good measure.

And who does Matthew Perry think he is? Lance Armstrong?

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Methinks: I read that Oprah doesn't use union writers. Is that because she pays her people so well that they don't need to be part of a union or is it because she doesn't approve of unions?

I thought that was very interesting.

I read that Ellen was contractually obligated to do the show, despite the strike. I can't imagine someone signing a contract like that. Surely she had more clout than to have that clause in her contract.

Liz Kelly: Maybe Oprah is just that good?

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The effect on LOST: The writing was already suffering. No writers might be better. Let the actors get together and make it up.

Liz Kelly: After a few drinks, mayhaps?

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Lexington, Ky.: Have I completely lost my mind or did New York's mom leave with one of the rejected guys? I thought Moms was still married. What happened here?

Liz Kelly: I must confess, I haven't been watching. Anyone out there able to come to the rescue?

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Taco Bell: When reading the standard lists of "stupid choices" Brit has made, "Taco Bell runs" always appear. Did she do something infamous at Taco Bell or is it just that she's eating any fast food?

Liz Kelly: Brit's fond of running for the border.

That was my favorite part of the Ryan Seacrest radio interview with Brit last week. He said something to the effect of "We're familiar with your food choices. Lots of drive-through pix."

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Liz Kelly: Producer Rocci has solved the disappearing Ellen problem. She's now on at 2 p.m. per the folks over at TV Week.

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Britney at 50: I thought Extra's aging of Brit-Brit was in really poor taste. It's not as though one has to work really hard to get a trashy headline out of her life...yet they had to push the envelope and start making up bad news. "Surprise Britney! It only gets worse from here -- you'll be washed up AND bloated and saggy!" I'm no fan of Ms. Spears, I think she has made ghastly decisions as an adult when she should know better. But I don't wish her additional misfortune. And it seems that airing a "it's gonna get worse" segment about a person who is already emotionally/mentally unstable is like waving a red flag in front of a bull. Shame on Extra. If I had the motivation to do anything other than read celebrity watch blogs, I would totally write them a letter.

Liz Kelly: As things that tabloids -- or tabloid culture -- can do to make one's life miserable, I think the age progression was actually pretty tame. It's not as if they posted a picture of her pantiless, running over someone's foot, displaying a bad collagen job, wearing a ghastly Halloween costume choice, shaving her head or almost dropping her baby. All of which, by the way are REAL, non-PhotoShopped pix that I would have taken the time to link to here if I weren't so lazy.

This is so far from poor taste, I'd actually recommend Brit use the image as her Holiday greeting card.

And, really, it doesn't look as if they needed to do much work to add those years.

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Too much time on my hands: According to some unscientific Google research, we much more frequently refer to the Brangelina kids as a "brood" than as a "passel." How many kids do you think makes a passel, and are Brad and Angelina approaching it?

Liz Kelly: I believe "brood" would be mostly attributable to the alliterative qualities of "Brangelina Brood." Though, come to think of it, we could just as easily start calling them the "Brangelina Bunch."

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Lost sadness: Besides mourning over the show possibly being only 8 eps or not appearing until Fall 2009 (2009!), I now have to mourn the end of Evangeline and Dom's real-life relationship? It can't last if they have to spend a few minutes apart? Have you seen any confirmation of Ev's sister moving to Hawaii to comfort her and take care of her after this break-up?

Liz Kelly: I saw a headline this morning that just summed it up so nicely: Evangeline Lilly Dumps Hobbit (or something like that).

Poor Dom -- first he's axed from the show and then dumped by his girlfriend. And, from the looks of his IMDB page, there ain't too much stirring career-wise.

And, nope, haven't seen anything about Ev's sis heading to Hawaii.

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Another Liz, in Boston: Hi Liz,

Thanks for the Alison Jackson interview! Her work is topical to your blog, she's clearly very smart, and I never would have stumbled across it myself.

Liz Kelly: Thanks Liz. I really enjoyed talking to Alison. She's definitely one ballsy chic. And, really, some of the lookalikes are remarkably similar to their real life counterparts.

And, as lookalike gigs go, I'm guessing that working with Alison is much better than showing up at a state fair or convention.

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George Clooney: is someone who is consistently asking people to be more respectful of his space in public. He doesn't like being constantly pestered, and I can't blame him. I would occasionally lose it, too, if I were famous and were always being mobbed in public. I think he's usually pretty cool, so we can give him a pass on this one.

Fabio, on the other hand, seems to love whatever attention he can get his hands on.

Liz Kelly: Rocci the producer agrees with you. He says: Fabio, has-been; Clooney, star.

And I have it on good authority that Fabio wears pleated pants.

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Re: strike: How long do you think it will last? Can't Jon Stewart and Steven Colbert come up with a script on their own? Seriously, how much do you think is the "writers" and how much is the principals on these shows?

P.S. Did you hear Steve Carrel refused to cross the picket line?

Liz Kelly: I think Lisa de Moraes or Bill Booth are better placed and informed to answer questions about strike duration. Lisa will be online tomorrow at 1, btw.

As for Stewart and Colbert, I imagine their refusal to let the show go on is partly because they rely heavily on their writers but also because they support their position. Both Stewart and Colbert are whip-smart and ridiculously funny, but it takes more than one man to put together shows that good four nights a week.

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For Lost Fans: To tide you over during the writers strike:

A typical Lost writing session:

Writers of Lost

An episode you may not have seen:

Lost Parody (YouTube)

Liz Kelly: I'm putting these out there, though I haven't had a chance to watch yet. Actually I did start to watch the first one and tho it looks good, the F-bomb is dropped in the first few seconds. So be careful if you're at work or in some other F-bomb averse environment.

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Fabio: You know Fabio is a jerk when his rep is saying things like Clooney is "lucky he didn't end up in the ER."

Liz Kelly: Ya, I'm picturing Fabio's rep as Fabio on the other end of a phone disguising his voice.

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Charlotte, N.C.: The other possible effect of the writers' strike on Lost is that Cuse et al are breathing a sigh of relief because they didn't know where the story was going anyway! I'm still not convinced they're not making it up as they go, and I say that as a devotee.

Liz Kelly: Well, of course they're making it up as they go. I think they have a loose ultimate endgame in mind, but half the fun (for them) is figuring out how to get from point A to point B.

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Los Angeles, Calif.: Re Lost: With the show runners now joining the rank and file writers on the picket lines, the L.A. Times reported the following this morning:

"Carlton Cuse, a writer and producer on "Lost" said that fewer than half of the 16 planned episodes...had been filmed, meaning the fate of the air crash survivors will be unressolved when the last new episode is shown next spring. "It will be a little like buying a Harry Potter book and having someone rip it out of your hands about halfway through," Cuse said.

Try not to get mad at the writers, folks. Put the blame where it lies, with greedy studios/corporations that don't want to part with a fair share of profits on creative work.

Liz Kelly: That's right. Down with the man. Where's Lars Ulrich when we need him?

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Run, Katie, Run!: I'm intrigued by Katie Holmes running a marathon. My question is how on earth did she train for it. You can't exactly train for a marathon on a treadmill. Is the Cruise compound big enough you can run laps around it?

Liz Kelly: Maybe Scientologists train in a different way. Perhaps some "technology" exists that preps them while they sit in the Celebrity Center.

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Fabio: is not a has-been. He once appeared on "The Man Show." Clooney never did. He was on "The Facts of Life."

Who's the real man here? No competition.

Liz Kelly: Oh you.

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Britney at 50: I think that might be Brit at 30.

Reminds me of the SNL opener where Lilo was confronted with the ghost of her future. The ghost (played by Amy?) was supposed to look really old, but then she told Lilo it represented her at 26. Hard partying.

Liz Kelly: I remember that! I saw that one re-run on Comedy Central or E recently. Funny thing is, even in that monologue, Lindsay looked almost as old as her future self. That was during her emaciated, bleach platinum era.

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LDS: Are you going to watch Oprah tomorrow for the Osmond-fest?

Liz Kelly: I think I kind of have to. For work and also cuz, ummm, I was a big Donnie and Marie fan as a kid. Sosumi.

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Clooney vs. Fabio smackdown/midlife crisis: I disagree. There is an old story about Cary Grant in which he is said to have wanted his epitaph to read: "Everyone wanted to be Cary Grant, including him." I think it is possible to be handsome, rich, etc. AND still feel overwhelmed by middle age. Your body doesn't work as well as it used to, and there are certain things that medical science, with all of its amazing procedures, cannot give back to you (let's not forget his back injury of a few years ago); and middle age is a time of reflection for many of us.

Liz Kelly: Cary Grant also dropped acid.

I'm just sayin.

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Magnum P.I.: Your pleated pants comment reminded me of one of the worst wearers of pleated pants in the history of wearing pleated pants, Tom Selleck as Magnum, P.I. His pleats were so ...er...big it was difficult to look at his mustache!

Liz Kelly: Seriously, that stache and those pants were a lethal combo. The only thing worse was when he donned his short shorts. I think they were the OP corduroy shorts if I recall correctly.

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McLean, Va.: Wait a mo. It's easy to make fun of Fabio, but I don't think he takes himself very seriously, either. He's just a guy trying to make a modest living as he ages in Hollywood -- not an easy thing to do there. You'd think George Clooney could cut him some slack since he spent years as a struggling actor, even with a famous family/name behind him. Lighten up, guy!

Liz Kelly: It is easy to make fun of Fabio.

Let's see...

Knock Knock.

Who's there?

Fabio.

Fabio who?

Fabio is a big cheesy beefcake knucklehead.

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I'm laughing.

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Re. Clooney shows: He was also on that other ER show from the 80's (with Elliot Gould maybe?)...

Liz Kelly: I believe it was called "Emergency," no?

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Perhaps some "technology" exists that preps them while they sit in the Celebrity Center. : The "technology" is a car that picks you up part way through and drops you off near the finish line.

Liz Kelly: You have some inside knowledge of this? If so, please share.

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Elkridge, Md.: I am excited to read A Brief History of Time for the Lost book club. I love reading about the universe, space/time, time travel. This will be the 1st Lost book club book I will be reading. Do you think this book will be a little too technical for most people?

Liz Kelly: Ya know, I dunno. I haven't started reading yet myself. I am totally gorging on a guilty pleasure book right now: "The Game" by Neil Strauss. It's an inside look at the pick-up artist community and largely centers on that freakazoid "Mystery" who hosted the VH1 pick-up show. Absolutely gripping reading. Most of these guys live in their parents' basements, yet using a few transparent (to me at least) techniques, can apparently score pretty much any woman in the world (or at least in bars). Anyone else out there read it?

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Virginia: Before I saw the caption for the Urban/Kidman pic, I thought it was taken at Madame Tussaud's wax museum. I think it was just the way the picture rendered, but it looks really creepy.

Liz Kelly: Agreed. Maybe the lighting was wonky, but they look animatronic.

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New York, N.Y.: Liz Kelly: Maybe Oprah is just that good?

What do you mean by that? The union is only for people who work on not good shows?

Liz Kelly: That Fred Armisen, so sensitive.

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Aging Britney: I didn't think it was that bad, considering what we've already seen of her. But then again, I like to look at before and after photos of meth addicts in my spare time.

Liz Kelly: Well, hobbies are healthy.

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Springfield, Va.: "Liz Kelly: Ya, I'm picturing Fabio's rep as Fabio on the other end of a phone disguising his voice."

Thanks, Liz. I just blew Diet Coke through my nostrils after reading that one I was laughing so hard...

Liz Kelly: Tee hee.

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Tomkat: I saw them in person last night. Katie is definitely tall and Tom is definitely short. She kept slouching over and either has really bad posture or wants to not dwarf Tom so much.

Liz Kelly: An eyewitness report from the Uptown, I guess. Any more details you'd care to share?

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The District: Fabio would have destroyed Clooney in a fight. Clooney is lucky the waiters stepped in. Of course, everyone is siding with Geo. now that Fabs is a has been. But I'm telling you...complete smackdown. I love the "ER" reference from Fabio's "rep."

Liz Kelly: I don't know. Fabio looks like he'd deflate into a 90-pound weakling if accidentally struck with a push pin.

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Results?: Hey Liz,

What was the result of your poll, re: the Captionology contest or whatever it's called...creative captioning? Are you going to lose that post permanently, semi-permanently, what about Lists? I didn't realize so many people disliked the lists.

Liz Kelly: I think I'm going to scale Creative Captioning back to a once-in-a-while feature. We'll just do it when we have a truly funny or inspiring pic from which to work.

As for the lists, I don't think they're as unpopular as all that. In fact, they tend to be one of the most-trafficked posts each week. That said, I think we may be running a little low on list ideas and rather than scrape the bottom of the barrel, I'd rather space them out to every other week to keep them strong. Whaddya think?

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Gene fan: Yes, but the Flash could take both Fabio and Clooney without breaking a sweat.

Liz Kelly: What do you mean by "take"?

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Fabio: Remember when Fabio came to Kings Dominion and a bird flew into him on the rollercoaster. We had a pic of his bleeding forehead.

Liz Kelly: Yep, hence the reference earlier to birds of both kinds.

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Conan: The mind boggles at why a stalker priest would be after Conan O'Brien? Could this guy want to be a Conan writer and figured this stunt would land him a gig while the regulars were on strike? (although he did have a day job?)

Liz Kelly: Is it wrong that I keep picturing Conan's stalker as Father Guido Sarducci? Whassa mattah?

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Clooney on TV: The other show with Eliott Gould was also called ER. It invited some kinda lame trying-to-be-funny stories when the current ER first came on the air.

As for the old ER, I fondly remember MTV's Martha Quinn making a guest appearence and Gould making a lame joke about a hard of hearing tiger....Def Leppard. Get it?

Good times.

Liz Kelly: Well, you can't say George doesn't keep his friends close. He later featured Gould in the "Oceans" movies.

Kind of like Peter Scolari turning up in the Tom Hanks-directed "That Thing You Do" or Clint Howard turning up in all his brother's movies.

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Richmond, Va. : Another height question: How tall is Matthew Perry? I saw Mandy Moore recently, and she is at least 5'10. And I wouldn't care about the age difference. That is one funny man.

Liz Kelly: A completely un-scientific Google search just returned this height for him: 5'11.25".

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Re: The Game: Yeah, but "secrets" to picking up drunk chicks in bars aren't really secrets, are they. More like fish in a barrel, with no disrespect to fish intended...

Liz Kelly: Agreed. but Strauss claims these techniques will work in any setting and actually work better on intelligent women. Of course, thus far none of the women picked up in the book meet that profile.

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You have some inside knowledge of this? If so, please share. : No, just trying to spread some rumors.

Liz Kelly: Jerk.

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Marathon training: I'm a marathoner. Now, don't get me wrong, it takes being in great shape and being stubborn as all get-out to be out there for five and a half hours, as Katie Holmes was. But don't mistake five and a half hours for "running" a marathon. That's LOTS of walking if it took that long. You can train for lots of walking with your running much more easily, and with less time, than it would take to actually run it. Still, most people couldn't run OR walk that far, so hats off to her anyway.

Liz Kelly: Seriously, at least she did it. And, hey, that was five-and-a-half hours away from Tom.

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The mind boggles at why a stalker priest would be after Conan O'Brien? : i keep thinking of one of those self-torturing priests from "The Da Vinci Code," that creepy priest who whips himself with the barbed wire...and has white albino eyes

Liz Kelly: Let's mix this up and all agree to picture the stalker as a rotund, rosy-faced friar Tuck, complete with brown robe and rope belt.

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Conan: does sort of have a Catholic altar boyish look.

Liz Kelly: Well, it comes with the territory when your name is Conan O'Brien.

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Los Angeles, Calif.: Please note that Cary Grant dropped acid when it was legal to do so. And he spoke out against doing acid.

But then, he also spanked his wife. But that also might have been legal back then.

Liz Kelly: These are all grey areas. Legal shmegal. There are plenty of legal drugs being abused out there. Ecstasy was also once legal. And Coke once had coke in it. You know, in the good old days your grandparents are always talking about.

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Fabio is multi-talented: Besides being a model, he is the writer of several romance novels, as well as a designer of ladies panties. Can Clooney claim any of that?

Liz Kelly: Would he want to?

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Keepin' it in the family: Don't forget James Garner, who always has a small role for his brother in his movies.

Liz Kelly: Thanks for sharing. I wasn't aware.

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Celebrities who heart non-celebrities: Regarding last week's topic of celebrities in lasting marriages with non-celebrities, Patrick Swayze and his wife have been married 32 years.

Liz Kelly: Is Patrick Swayze actually real or is he perhaps an android? He's just got this slick, rubbery look about him.

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Washington, D.C.: Just wanted to know what your reaction would be:

Michelle Singletary: It's good to have a hearty, healthy debate about this stuff. It's a better use of our time than talking about crazy celebrities.

Liz Kelly: Dang. That's what happens when you've got Big Mama to guide you.

I, sadly, was raised by "Mama's Family."

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Jes: As to whether Stewart and Colbert can't just do their shows without the writers, I believe this was answered by a poster the other day. If I'm not mistaken they are both members of the writers' union. This may be why we always hear their names announced with the other writers in the Best Writing category at the Emmys.

Liz Kelly: And there you go.

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Re: Freakazoid "Mystery": Who IS that guy, anyway? Does he do anything besides the pickup artist show? I caught that one night and it was creepy.

Liz Kelly: Well, he runs a whole pickup empire. There's a Web site and I think you can still pay him a pile of money for a private seminar so he can instruct you to dress like Dave Navarro, get a fake tan and hit women with lines like "You know, your smile says a lot about your intelligence."

I'm gonna barf.

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Fabio's bloody nose: It was actually Busch Gardens, and one of the most fabulous things to come out of Virginia in the 2 decades I've been here.

Liz Kelly: Well, that's saying something because there are a lot of fabulous things that have come out Virginia in the past 20 years, like... umm...

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Philadelphia, Pa.: Speaking of Brad and Angelina, is it true they have lions guarding their African home to keep out photographers. If so, isn't that, well, sort of dangerous? "Sorry, honey, but a lion ate one of the kids?"

Liz Kelly: I'm not sure, but I did hear that they have a Pterodactyl can opener and that Brad actually powers their car with his feet.

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Washington, D.C.: Liz, Liz, Liz, do we PLEASE get to see the new ink?

Liz Kelly: Okay, here's the deal. I thought we'd finish up yesterday. We did not. We got about 40 percent of the color done. This is a big tattoo. My next appt. is the day before Thanksgiving and we hope to wrap things up. I'd rather hold off on sharing pix till the thing is finito. Which would put the big reveal here the week after T'giving.

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Boston, Mass.: I know we're not supposed to be discussing Katie Holmes. But unless my math is incorrect, a 5 1/2 hour marathon requires 12.5 minute miles. That's running to me!

Liz Kelly: But doesn't it take about 15 minutes to walk a brisk mile?

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Let's mix this up and all agree to picture the stalker as a rotund, rosy-faced friar Tuck, complete with brown robe and rope belt: didn't Tom Bosley (MR. C on Happy Days) play a prient on Murder She Wrote?

Liz Kelly: That does sound familiar. I've blocked out all memory of "Murder She Wrote," though. I was forced to endure it during my early high school, one-TV-in-the-house years.

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State College, Pa.: How credible for celebrity news are tabloids like Star and OK... If they say Angelina and Brad are on the verge of breakup, can we trust it? OR do we wait to see if People runs the same story? Thanks!

Liz Kelly: I wouldn't put much credence in it. Some of the more trashy tabloids take a particular delight in predicting Brangelina's demise.

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RE: Jerk: Sorry. I'd like to apologize. Sincerely.

Liz Kelly: Well, okay. But don't let it happen again.

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byool, IN: Today is Tara Reid's birthday. What odds do you give that she will feature in a drunken-birthday-related boobie story tomorrow?

Liz Kelly: Okay, I wasn't going to say anything, but it is just too coincidental. Today is also my wedding anniversary. The fact that Mr. Liz and I share this day with Tara Reid just adds a certain something special. This is the best gift we could've received.

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Enough with Kat'i'e:: What about Paula Radcliffe! I'm more amazed by her feat...winning one of the big 5 marathons after giving birth in January. Ridiculously amazing.

Liz Kelly: Seriously, and totally eclipsed by Katie's presence. Hats off to Paula.

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Tom Bosley in "Murder She Wrote": ...played the town sheriff, with a Downeast accent.

Liz Kelly: Okay, well, he was a priest in something. I remember the black suit and the white collar.

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Virginia: Bosley was the sheriff in MSW. He did play a priest in Father Dowling Mysteries.

Liz Kelly: A HA. I knew it. Thank you. Now I'll be able to sleep tonight.

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More Tomkat: More details from the Uptown -- Tom was talking with Madeleine Albright FOREVER and I think it was because she made him look taller.

Katie and Tom waved to us in the balcony, unfortunately my seats weren't down on the first floor.

Robert Redford looked like Robert Redford and introduced the film.

I missed Lynda Carter, but my friends said that she was tall, which is normal for superheros, I guess.

Liz Kelly: Thanks for the eye-witness report. You probably missed Lynda because she was in her invisible plane.

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The Onion: Did you see this?

Lost In Translation: 20 Good Books Made Into Not-So-Good Movies (Onion, Nov. 6)

Liz Kelly: Not yet, but I'll take a look now that we're all done talking about Fabio and George.

See you here next week and in the blog tomorrow.

Ta!

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