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Coming soon to a theater near you: Murray & Me, about a 22-year-old Norwegian student named Lykke Stavnef and a bunch of Scottish kids partying with Bill Murray. "Nobody could believe it when I arrived at the party with Bill Murray," Stavnef tells reporters. No one could further believe it when Murray did the dishes.

Israeli politics, American style: Israeli police have gathered evidence that president Moshe Katsav committed rape and sexual molestation without consent against his female employees. He'd be the first Israeli politician to be charged with such crimes and could face 16 years in prison, Reuters reports, using the following verbiage: "President Moshe Katsav faced mounting pressure on Monday to quit."

More "how" than "if": A verdict in the Saddam Hussein trial is expected Nov. 5. Prosecutors want him hanged. Saddam prefers a firing squad.

Radical grandma: An activist lawyer and grandmother of 14, Lynne Stewart, who was convicted in 2005 of providing support to terrorists via her client, Omar Abdel-Rahman, is now facing a 30-year sentence.

Asset hole: Is parrot fish-faced Brandon Davis's oil inheritance drying up? Page Six editor Richard Johnson's buddy, the coercive Joe Francis, seemingly phones in a tip that Davis bounced a $10,000 check to him (why is Davis writing Francis checks?). Meanwhile, Davis's family squabbles over liquid assets.

OMFUG'd: New York's famed CBGB club is finally shuttered after years of death rattles. The club, once a performance venue for Talking Heads, Patti Smith, and others, has since gone on to become the onesie logo of choice for alterna-parents the world over.

BJ of the day: Page Six spends 118 words plugging a modern furniture store on Madison Avenue that is giving away an "Egg Chair" and a crossword puzzle writer so crafty that famous people are stumped. And that's how the bills get paid.

Time to get a 'Life'?: Second Life, the all-encompassing virtual world in which nearly a million nerds ... do stuff ... now has a Reuters news bureau to bring breaking stories from the first life to the game's immersed users. "As strange as it might seem, it's not that different from being a reporter in the real world," says Adam Pasick, the London-based reporter who now heads the bureau.

The $corecard: Robert De Niro buys a 15-room, $21 million Central Park West apartment from rotund film magnate Harvey Weinstein. De Niro's wife then gives him a $328,000 Rolls-Royce Phantom.

Water sport: Is there video of Christina Aguilera completely nude and peeing in a bucket backstage at her concert? Maybe, she says.

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