• Ready the post-presidential spam filters: After ditching his personal computer for security reasons, President Bush is really looking forward to corresponding with friends and family after his term. First e-mail blast: the talking cat collection. He's obsessed.
• Know your audience: Victoria "Posh Spice" Beckham says "all the men that like me are gay." Care to comment, hubby David Beckham?
SURE, THERE'S MORE: Drew and Britney's fender benders; Diller and Malone make-up; and Lucien Freud's payday!
• Demolition derby!: Stars rear-end and get rear-ended, too. Drew Barrymore got read-ended in a hit-and-run Monday and chased down the vehicle to get its license plates. Britney Spears rear-ended someone Tuesday and handled the matter quietly. No big whoop!
• Mogul-ing forward: Barry Diller's IAC and John Malone's Liberty Media having resolved their legal disputes over IAC's proposed restructuring.
• First impressions: Former British first lady Cherie Blair's latest revelation is that she and ex-PM Tony's hearts "sank" when they heard GW would be the new U.S. pres, but that they came to appreciate "a very funny, charming man with a quirky sense of humour." And Tony developed a total mancrush.
• Living the dream: Lucian Freud's 1995 painting Benefits Supervisor Sleeping has sold at Christie's for $33.6 million, setting a world record price for a work by a living artist.
• Not again: The United Nations is tracking a nascent tropical storm, likely to become a cyclone, near Cyclone Nargis-ravaged Myanmar.