Farrah Fawcett, who skyrocketed to fame as one of a trio of impossibly glamorous private eyes on TV’s Charlie’s Angels, has died after a long battle with cancer. She was 62.

Fawcett died at 9:28 a.m. PST at St. John’s Heath Center in Santa Monica, Calif. She had recently returned to St. John’s for treatment of complications from anal cancer, first diagnosed three years ago.

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I haven’t watched enough of RH - NJ to really talk much about it, but I know many of you have and so I wanted to give you the opportunity to talk at length about how the allegations made in that book I wrote about earlier this season about Danielle are even more sordid than we first were led to believe.

The Smoking Gun has all the documents here, but the thing that kills me about all of this is not that she lied. I totally understand why she lied about her past because her life became one big lie when she flipped on the guy with whom she was arrested. Changed her name and hid from death threats so I get the lying. What I don’t get is why Danielle Staub would want to risk retribution from all the people she screwed over and sent to jail just so she could have a few months on a reality show. Also, I don’t know why some of these other husbands who have very questionable careers would want their lives exposed either. Is being on Bravo that important? Are you that crazy for fame that you will risk everything just to be on television?

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You know you must be pretty good friends with someone when they will loan you $1M. Well, that is exactly what Quentin Tarantino loaned to Michael Madsen. Actually it could have been more, but that is what Michael still owed. E! obtained a copy of Michael Madsen’s recent bankruptcy filing and he says he owes Q that much money. He also owes Pierce Brosnan $25,000 who must have thought Michael was probably not that great of a credit risk. Looks like Pierce was right.

So, how much does a guy like Madsen make? According to the filing he makes about $600K a year now which is substantially less than he used to make. While all of us would probably be happy with 50K a month, after you subtract all of Madsen’s expense he is in the hole each month for a little over 3K. Maybe he should cut back. Just saying.

Total debt for Madsen? $3.7M. You know what I just realized? Jon & Kate make $75K an episode and TLC has a 40 episode season planned for them which would be $3M. So, despite this very long career for Madsen and being one of the best actors ever he gets $600K a year and Jon & Kate bring in $3M a year. I think it is time for Michael to go find Octo-Mom and make some money.

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I don’t think Jonathan Rhys Meyers is alone in his love for the airport bar. Watching one week of Airline will pretty much tell you there are a lot of people who love airport bars. I am one of them. In the past I will admit that I may have imbibed a bit too much in an airport bar. But, in my defense, there is nothing quite like the feeling of having a Bloody Mary at 9am while you watch people scurry off to wherever they are going.

After I watched the show though, I got smart and now just drink heavily on the plane. It is much harder to get you out of a plane than to deny you boarding. Thank you Southwest for that tip. Anyway, as you will recall Jonathan had a little incident in the Dublin airport a few years ago where he was arrested in the airport for being drunk and disorderly.

Yesterday in Paris he was at it again. He got into a fight with police at the airport and did a do you know who I am thing before throwing euros at the police, telling them he was rich and then said, “You wanna hit me? Hit me!” They chose not to hit him. They were probably afraid he would start Twittering and asking for help. After he spent some time in jail and sobered up the cops released him and presumably he left the country.

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While scouring through sites this morning, I have seen this story reported on at least 5 sites that are usually respected. As much as I would love for it to be true, it is obvious that someone hacked into her Twitter and rehashed whats his name’s story from the other night in Toronto. I know I saw this on The Sun earlier and on Digital Spy. Come on. Oh, and you know she was hacked, because Dina could never come up with anything funny on her own. Except when she tries to spin. That is humorous. This is from the same guy who made her look foolish with the 140 character count thing before. It is funny though.

“I NEED this situation rectified immediately. Will someone that can get in contact with housekeeping tell them. This is not appropriate I need assistance IMMEDIATELY. Someone please get a hold of housekeeping for me. I am being ignored and discriminated (against) once again! Someone please help.”

“I was just assaulted by housekeeping staff, she swore back at me and threw the towels at me. I am in shock I think the towels left a mark on me. I need a camera IMMEDIATELY to document my injuries from this reckless woman. How dare she! I am shaking. Will someone provide me with a camera?”

“Being held HOSTAGE in my room, I fear the woman who assaulted me and swore back at me is in the hallway screaming in a strange language. HELP. I am SHAKING I need to document all of this for security I immediately require a linguists (sic) to help tell me the strange language she is shouting.”

“I don’t condone violence but she swore back at me and ASSAULTED (me) with the towels am I to defend??? I would like to see you all get towels thrown VIOLENTLY at you and see how much it assaults you.”

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It was my plan to skip Jon & Kate for at least the next few months, but I figured I would write one more just to kind of piece together all of the news and rumors floating around the internet. As you would expect, Monday night’s episode on TLC set a new record for the show which just goes to show you that announcing your divorce on television is the new way to go for reality programming.

Kate Gosselin is on the cover of People this week and says she feels like she failed. Damn, where is my violin when I need it? It didn’t take her long to martyr herself. The interview with her was actually conducted last week and People held off on the story because they wanted the exclusive and are big ass kissers even to a reality star who no one will remember a year from now. Hopefully. Continuing with the martyr theme, US Weekly is reporting that Kate is still wearing her wedding ring. I think that is to convey to all of us that she hasn’t given up hope of a reunion. I think there is plenty of blame to share here. I also think that Kate has a PR person and Jon thinks PR is a place in the Caribbean you go in the winter.

If you believe the NY Daily News, then I think we may all want to tune in to the relaunch of the show in August. Why? Well they say that Deanna Hummel, the 23 year old teacher who has the best brother in the whole world is going to be on the show. Considering there have been no pictures of the couple together and that Jon seems like he wants to cruise the high schools for dates, I don’t know if this is true. I want it to be true. You just know if she comes on the show, TLC will make sure her brother comes on the show. Then you know what happens? Ick Nast isn’t just written, it’s spoken. Even I would would watch Jon & Kate to see that happen. Well, not the actual show. But, I would watch the 10 second YouTube clip of him saying it.

Finally, there were reports yesterday that the renewal ceremony last year was fake and the couple already separated. TMZ explains the divorce laws of Pennsylvania and how the couple have only been separated recently and not two years. My understanding is the way they chose to go about this, and TMZ goes into greater detail is Jon & Kate can’t get divorced until after they have waited two years. So, there is a good chance TLC can spin about a 10 part reconciliation season down the line.

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Don’t recognize the name Jarret Stoll? He is the guy who was engaged to Rachel Hunter. I say was, because just seven weeks before the couple were supposed to get married, Jarret called the whole thing off. Sounds sad, but not unprecedented. What was a new move though was that Jarret never came out and told Rachel why he was canceling it. The way she found out the wedding was cancelled was when someone showed her an e-mail that Jarret sent out to all their invited wedding guests stating it was cancelled.

See, this is the part that is confusing to me. The couple lived together in a house they bought together. So, what, were they living together and he just said, “”I’ll be right to bed honey, just give me a few more minutes on the computer.” Five minutes later the e-mail was sent and the wedding was cancelled?

See, someone on Rachel’s side is telling the tale to make her look good. She might be the good one in all of this, but it seems obvious they weren’t living together and so Jarret sent out an e-mail saying they weren’t getting married. That to me seems like a pretty natural thing to do if you have been living together and one of you moves out. Chances are you aren’t going to keep that wedding scheduled. Although, if you have paid for the reception already, then it is perfectly acceptable to have a party, and you know, maybe you can find someone new at what was supposed to be your reception. Yeah, that sounds like a guy move doesn’t it? Hitting on women at what was supposed to be your wedding reception. Smooth.

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Did you get your copy of Psychologies in the mail yet? Yeah, me either. I can’t wait either. Every day I rush home from work hoping upon hope that my issue of Psychologies is there and that no one in my family has stolen it so they can read it first. I know, but apparently someone reads the magazine because they have a five page interview with Robin Wright Penn. The interview was done in April. That was after the Academy Awards snub, but before they split again. Got it? It is confusing. I’m just glad it isn’t a Shanna Moakler interview because it would be impossible to figure out if a split had been in progress or a reconciliation or if anyone cared.

How did Robin describe her marriage in April?

“You know, all marriages have their cycles and phases. It’s life – we all go through it, if we’re married long enough. If you’re lucky, you grow and you change and you work it out. But it feels good now – if it didn’t I wouldn’t still be here.”

Umm. Didn’t they split up like a week later?

Talking about the bond she shares with Sean, she said, “Sean and I have a lot of history – there are a lot of chapters in that book. It’s back to what we were just talking about – you have to do the work in your marriage, but it has to be laid on a really strong foundation of love. We have that, and shared history deepens that foundation, I would say.”

I must have missed the day in school when they talked about strong foundation of love. Because I think I would have remembered how hookers on a family vacation fit into that foundation.

And in the most sickening quote since whenever the last Katie Holmes interview took place, you have this gem when talking about life at home. “Oh Sean is hopeless domestically. I’m the homemaker, and that’s fine with me, because I really like that. But he’s so completely a family man – he always wants us all to be together and do things together, and he’s the one who injects a lot of energy into the family. I’ll bake, and Sean will say, ‘I know, let’s take a boat up the Colorado River!’”

And the reaction from the judges to that quote? Yes, Tom Cruise is standing and applauding. I think those are tears in his eyes and wishes he could have had Katie say it first.

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