Ayyyy!

Yes, yes, boring I know. Herbal tea gossip links just don’t have the dash of cocktail links, but what can I say? I’m giving my liver a month off for bad behaviour. It’s probably snorting Drano with Lindsay Lohan in Ibiza right this very moment.

Here’s a pic of Old Four Eyes to soften the disappointment.

Who Will Be the Olympic Torchbearer? (True/Slant)

Sandra Bullock’s Sure-Fire Oscar Strategy (Lolebrity)

Paris in Paris (AgentBedhead)

Babeh Becker (AmyGrindhouse)

Topless models make passes at men who wear (Tom Ford) glasses (BusyBeeBlogger)

Lilo too partied out to party? (CeleBitchy)

Ireland is SO grounded! (CelebritySmack)

Travolta’s toupe (HolyMoly)

The World of Plastics on display (IBBB)

Do they HAVE interns in hospitals? (DailyStab)

RIP Alexander McQueen (INeedMyFix)

Gwyneth Paltrow, Brown Rice Queen (LaineyGossip)

Alan Rickman reading love poems – thud! (UKPopSugar)

Are you DOWN with the CLOWN? (EvilBeet)

Another Vacation coming soon (CelebrityVIPLounge)

The secret to longer life (CelebDirtyLaundry)

John Edwards closes barn door after horse bolts (CelebrityMound)

Project Runway recap (HaveUHeard)

Robert Pattinson shower scene (HollywoodBackwash)

Lindsay Lohan, Closet Case (Movieline)

Lost Valentines (TenGossip)

Here the answers to Monday’s Puzzle corner:
1. Cool Hand Luke
2. The Sting
3. Slapshot
4. The Hustler
5. Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
6. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
7. The Color of Money
8. Hud
9. Long Hot Summer (especially around the 1:21 mark)
10. The Verdict

Congratulations to Grace for a marvellous 8 out of 10, closely followed by Isay.   We collectively nod in deep appreciation of your classic film knowledge.  And now let us extend our appreciation to the man himself and silently admire this great actor and philantrophist and all-round good guy.

This week we pay special tribute to the late great Paul Newman, one of the best-loved and brightest stars of all time.  Take a wistful look at the photo montage below and identify the movies starring this famously handsome leading man.

Answers will be put up on Wednesday morning. In the meantime I will be calling in sick so that I can enjoy a movie marathon of his memorable performances while snacking on some Newman Own’s popcorn.

The Hoff hassled to the tune of $25,000 per month Hasselmony (USAToday)

Vince Vaughn is the Flabby Flasher of Griffith Park (CelebSlam)

Akon guilty of criminal assault on the truth with intent to blow smoke up your ass (AgentBedhead)

Hollywood selling out (no, that’s not a tautology) (Derober)

The jailbird diaries of Pete Doherty (HolyMoly)

Britney’s Total Fitness? Somewhere between couch potato and Basset Hound (TheBlemish)

America’s Next Top Flight Attendant? (IBBB)

Gossip Wars: attack of the necroporn pimps! (Defamer)

Who is this “Dalai Lama” of whom you speak? (Gawker)

Scientology vs the Little Guy, round N+1 (XenuTV)

Naomi Campbell shuts barn door, gazes wistfully after horse (CelebritySmack)

Get M-K O’s look! Then, presumably, get much-needed corrective lenses (CircusHour)

Ashlee Simpson just isn’t worth it (DListed)

Cameron Diaz issues statement about the death of her father (CeleBitchy)

Johnny Depp will never work with Renee Zellweger again as long as he lives (DailyStab)

Blake, Incarcerated, Forgotten (TheSun)

Scarface (GabbyBabble)

Putin’s poontang  (BittenAndBound)

Victoria Beckham’s Pink Taco is 34? (JustJared)

I loved Charlton Heston.

I love Charlton Heston because as an honorary Texan, he held dear at least two, if not all three, of the Pillars of Texas Life, namely Jesus, guns and barbeque.

He was also the unchallenged master of the “Greased Up For Jesus” film genre  and shaped an entire generation’s visual ideas of the Bible. Seriously, what does Moses look like in your head? Exactly.

In fact, I’m pretty sure that from 1956 to 1963 any religion that didn’t feature a cinematic spectacular with a ripped dude in an equally ripped loin cloth, all slicked up with vaseline and righteousness wasn’t even protected under the Bill of Rights.

We’ll miss you Chuck!