• Listen with mother: Christian Bale, cover star of the current British GQ, recalls a precious moment during the filming of Velvet Goldmine. "My mum came to stay with me in London during filming and said, 'Listen why don't you just try to do what rock stars did then, They weren't up running on an orange at 6 AM. Their diet was sex, drugs and rock'n'roll.' What a diet for a mother to prescribe, right?" Right.

• Digital Hair Enhancement?: Some British tabloids claim that the dandy actor Jude Law, known for his good looks and romps with Sienna Miller, was endowed with a less receding widow's peak in a series of recent Dior ads.

• Stones change outfits: The Rolling Stones, legendary rockers, have departed from EMI, their old label, and shacked up with new buddy Universal. Insert your own "better health care policy" joke here.

• Scrabulous under fire: The creators of the popular Facebook application are being sued by Hasbro, who claim that it violates the real Scrabble's copyright and trademarks. Which reminds us: we have a 5-month old game to settle.

• Revenge of the waiter: Even after one Atlanta server went out of his way to provide him with vegan food at a non-vegan restaurant, Andre 3000 of OutKast fame gave a tip of exactly 0%. So the bitter waiter took to eBay, where anyone can bid on an actual copy of the receipt to show all their friends what a cheap bastard Andre really is.

• Off the Radar: Randy Pausch, a professor of computer science at Carnegie Mellon, died today of pancreatic cancer at the age of 47. After giving a funny, inspirational talk at a "Last Lecture" series about his cancer diagnosis was posted online, Pausch gained international admiration.