• Taking it: Barack Obama won Montana and locked up the 2,118 delegates needed to secure the nomination yesterday, telling supporters "Tonight, we mark the end of one historic journey with the beginning of another... I will be the Democratic nominee for president of the United States." Hillary Clinton, who took South Dakota, did not concede...yet.

• A new hope: Star Wars creator/destroyer George Lucas calls Obama "a hero in the making."

• STD free!: Olympic organizers say suspected terrorists, subversives, and people with sexually transmitted diseases will not be allowed into China for the Olympic games. ScarJo totally in the clear.

OH, MAN, IS THERE EVER MORE: Escaping the British; healthy wine, unhealthy Wino!

• The power of prophecy: Post gossip dowager Cindy Adams predicts a rash of Bush-administration tell-alls. Cindy's really putting herself out on a limb here: no previous administration in American history has ever seen any of its members attempt to cash in on book deals at the end of its term.

• WWIII: After a British man successfully sued his travel company following a stay at a resort with too many Germans, a German tabloid has published a list of holiday destination overrun by the British and best avoided if you don't want to be blinded by their glaring white flesh.

• Drink up: New research suggests that red wine may be more effective at slowing aging than previously thought.

• Feeling poorly: Amy Winehouse missed the second day of hubbie Blake's trial Tuesday, reportedly because of an "emergency home visit from a doctor."

• Bird keeping: Sienna Miller has allegedly dumped her oafish Welsh boyfriend, actor Rhys Ifans, because he was too jealous.