After Michelle Rodriguez’s weekend visit, the folks at the Mayfair Hotel and Spa in Coconut Grove, Fla., may be rethinking those heavy brass knockers they have on every guest-room door.

Fellow guests at the recherché retreat say they were awakened at 9 a.m. Sunday to loud banging and the dulcet tones of Rodriguez, screaming at her roommate.

“I woke up Sunday morning to the sounds of two women yelling, and one of them was smashing the door knocker very loudly,” one exhausted guest tells us. “I peeked out and saw it was [Rodriguez]. She’s screaming, ‘Open up, let me in, b——!’”

The loud knocking continued for another five minutes, says the source, until the “Girlfight” star hollered, “If you don’t open up, you’re not getting your [pleasure toy] back.” The door creaked open.

The actress did not respond to requests for comment.

Over the weekend, Rodriguez was spotted hanging out at the pool and a Friday-night party with a “very pretty” ponytailed Latina, guests say.
Rodriguez has been linked in the past with Vin Diesel and Olivier Martinez, and two years ago, “Terminator 3″ star Kristanna Loken hinted in the Advocate that she and the tempestuous temptress had become lovers while shooting “BloodRayne” together in Romania. Last April, Rodriguez told Latina mag, “If I wanna f—- a girl, a boy, a dog, that’s my business.”

Raised a Jehovah’s Witness along with 10 siblings, Rodriguez plays angry well, in such films as “Girlfight” and “Battle in Seattle.” But when her temper erupts in her personal life, the 30-year-old gets in trouble with the law.

She was arrested in 2002 after allegedly assaulting her roommate, who later changed her mind about pressing charges. In 2004, Rodriguez pled guilty to hit-and-run and a driving-under-the-influence charge.

While still on probation in 2005, the actress was again busted for DUI while filming “Lost” in Oahu. She spent five days in a Hawaiian jail on the DUI, and infamously, one day in L.A. on the probation violation - let out because of overcrowding.

Last year, Rodriguez was sentenced to 180 days in the L.A. slammer after admitting she hadn’t done her community service and alcohol education program. It must be really crowded in those L.A. jails, because she was again let out, after just eight days.

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DROPOUT Christian Slater decided as an adult that finishing high school was a priority. Slater tells Parade magazine in The Post this Sunday, his main goal after getting sober was to graduate. “High school was not something that I remotely took seriously,” he admits. “And now I’ve got these kids, so it’s like . . . what am I going to do?” Slater, the arm candy to Jimmy Choo empress Tamara Mellon, recalls, “I had to go to a high school classroom with a bunch of kids getting their GED [General Education Development diploma] . . . it ended up that I squeaked by.”

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I think this is the first time that Jon Stewart has been in the photos. He just never goes anywhere. So, to make up for all this lost time, he gets the top spot.
Amos Lee - New York
Anika Moa - Auckland, NZ
Umm, Gina Gershon has looked like she has been on a week long bender everytime I have seen her photo lately.

Wow, Eva Longoria must have gone to Wigs -R - Us to find a wig of such quality. It’s like she called my grandmother and borrowed one.
I know this is probably not a G rated question, but do you think that Ben Stiller ever asks Christine Taylor to pretend she is Marcia and Ben plays Jan? I don’t know who Ben would play.
First time appearance for Bart Johnson.
Not the first time for Benicio del Toro obviously, but be glad there was not a closeup, because Benicio looked as if he had not had any sleep for a few weeks and done nothing but smoke cigarettes during that time.

I thought Jamie Oliver was supposed to be the happy one. Why is he always forcing a smile. Love the randomness and love that smirk on Kimmel.
Bet you didn’t recognize Jules Asner. She leaves E! and the next thing you know she is filling out that AARP card. Goodness what happened to her.
Want something to like about Hayden? She brings pastries when she visits. I’ve got liquor. What I don’t have is people who bring over pastries.
Hugh Laurie on his favorite mode of transportation. I know his wife finally decided to move to LA, but I don’t know if she has or not. Sidecar time perhaps.

OK, here we go. We have lots of choices for Nick Cannon’s birthday.

1. Mariah to Nick - “OK baby. No tongue. You got some last week.”

2. Mariah to Nick - “Happy birthday baby. Where is my gift?”

3. Mariah to Nick - “Guess what? Tonight you don’t have to scrape my corns?”

4. Mariah to Nick - “OK, one kiss and now get back to work because I am not paying for this party.”

Remember Al Gore and the way he looked in 2000?
Lewis Hamilton looks so much better when he doesn’t have Nicole Scherzinger hanging all over him.
Jerry Stiller looks great. If you have never seen Hot Pursuit, you need to. Jerry, Ben, Richard Crenna and of course John Cusack.
You have to admit that Jeremy Piven knows how to dress.

Hey, I have an idea. These guys should get together and make a tv show. Apparently the whole scissor finger has different looks around the world. This is Italy.
And New Zealand.
And France.
First time appearance for Oscar Isaacs.

Tara Reid is now three for three and dare I say it, looks sober and healthy. Sarah Silverman - New York
Sofia Milos is the reason I watched Caroline In The City. OK, Lea too.
Stephen Dorff is aging well. Botox?
And my mom said I would only get hair on my palms.

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Queen Latifah, who I again have to say I adore, kind of screws up what I think she wanted to say. Or at least I think she screwed it up or maybe she is playing with our minds. I know, I am confused though. In an interview with New York Times Magazine, Queen was asked about all the gay rumors that surround her. She said she doesn’t care what people say about her because people are going to assume whatever they want to anyway. I like that kind of attitude because it just means someone like me can write pretty much anything and she isn’t going to do jack about it.I, of course would never be mean, but I don’t understand this quote, so maybe you can all take a crack at it. “I don’t have a problem discussing the topic of somebody being gay, but I do have a problem discussing my personal life.”

So, if I am reading this right, which is highly doubtful, because in case I haven’t told you before, I drink too much and sometimes the words kind of all fuzz together, she basically is willing to gossip about everyone in the world and guess whether they are gay or not. She just isn’t willing to play the same game with herself. Well that seems kind of unfair. If you are willing to discuss whether another person is gay or not, you should also be willing to discuss whether you are gay or not. I don’t really care if she is or isn’t, I just find it a little hypocritical that she is perfectly willing to speculate and assume about others but is not willing to participate in the same topic of conversation once the subject person is her.

Shouldn’t she just say, some things are better left private and I wouldn’t do it to others, because I wouldn’t do it to myself. Not that she is doing herself because that takes us into a whole other realm of blogging that I really don’t want to do. I mean I guess I could, but I think Holly Madison is going to need some kind of career now that she dumped Hef and so I thought I would leave her something to do.

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In a declaration filed in the Rob Lowe nanny debacle, David Crosby said that while he was vacationing with the Lowe’s in Hawaii, Rob’s nanny Laura Boyce made it clear that she only like dating back guys because they had huge peen. Whatever. I think she was trying to shock the old man, and don’t see how it has any relevance to what Rob allegedly did or did not do to the nanny.

The thing I find freaky as hell is that Rob Lowe is vacationing with David Crosby. If that isn’t the weirdest combination since Chinese and Mexican restaurants started joining forces than I don’t know what is. Although, I must admit there is something kind of cool about going to a Chinese place for lunch and getting a bowl of chips and salsa before sitting down to some moo shoo pork and chicken enchiladas. Yeah, yeah, you just wish you were eating it right now.

How in the hell do Rob Lowe and David Crosby decide to vacation together and how does the subject of genitalia even come up? You know, you are sitting around the dinner table and one thing leads to another and you start talking about size? And you do it with a guy who is old enough to be your grandfather? I don’t know what happened in all this, but I think it is pretty damn strange that every declaration I have seen in this case, someone is always talking about sex or size or the number of boyfriends and girlfriends each party has. Whatever happened to just moaning about sunburn and how come sunscreen costs $36 a bottle when you are on vacation or how the timeshare deal didn’t really seem like such a bad deal.

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Ernest Borgnine is reaching a milestone in his career that few if any other (non-porn) actors will reach and that is he has signed on for his 200th film. Yes that 2-0-0!!!

Ernest Borgnine will be starring The Wishing Well for the Hallmark Channel according to The Hollywood Reporter.

Jordan Ladd and Sally Kellerman also will star in the movie about a reporter (Ladd) sent to Slow Creek, Ill., to write a fluff piece on the local wishing well, which ends up having an impact on her life. Borgnine plays a local innkeeper and Kellerman a waitress/unofficial town therapist. 

The Wishing Well will air on The Hallmark Channel next September, but until then here is to hoping for another 200 for Ernest!

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Heather Thomas looks nothing like her Zapped! and TJ Hooker days, so much so I almost did recgonize her. Granted that was 25 years ago.

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Britney Spears has changed herself up for her new video Womanizer and she looks great. This is not the Britney Spears we saw when she released Blackout last year and that is a great thing.

I think Britney needs to get rid of her blonde locks and go black, don’t you? She looks so much better with the darker hair especially with the bob!

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David Beckham and Posh Spice found the secret to perfect skin and according to Daily Mail it is bird poo. 

Victoria Beckham, 34, has been regularly indulging in £100 Geisha Facials, using a paste made from nightingale droppings, to combat acne she has suffered since her teens.

A pal told Closer magazine: ‘When Victoria was in Japan recently she was admiring the local women’s clear skin and discovered it was down to these facials.

‘She was intrigued and when she got back to the US she found that some New York beauty salons now offer the treatment.

‘She tried it and loved how great her skin looked. She also uses a cream derived from nightingale poo at home.’

Ewww. Gross. Ewww. I am shuddering at the thought of putting bird sh!t on my face for any reason. Ewww. Gross. Ewww.

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Derek Hough rumbled with his current partner Brooke Burke on last night’s Dancing with the Stars, but on the home front things are better than ever for the pro and his former Dancing partner Shannon Elizabeth.

“Mark and I have an apartment, and I’m supposed to be living there,” Hough told PEOPLE, “but I live with Shannon at her house, and our three [Almost Amy] bandmates live with Shannon and I.”

The actress’ Hollywood Hills home may have turned into a temporary crash pad for Hough and pal Mark Ballas’s band, but it seems Elizabeth wouldn’t have it any other way. “She was like, ‘They can stay here until they find a new place,’” said Hough. “And, once they started talking about finding a new place, Shannon and I were like, ‘Wait, we’re going to miss them when they go.’ And we were like, ‘Why don’t you just stay here? We’ll make rooms up for everyone.’”

In fact, Elizabeth has gone out of her way to make the band feel at home. “Shannon’s rooms are so cluttered, but she’s actually been de-junking all of her rooms so that each of them can have their own room,” he said.

Hough admitted living with his girlfriend, three band mates and four dogs is “kind of crazy,” but if he needs his “own space” there always the apartment he still shares with Ballas. But there hasn’t been that need: “Shannon’s just been really, really helpful at giving us all our own space. She’s just been so great,” he said.

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Get it straight: Queen Latifah is not answering your questions about her sexuality.

“I don’t have a problem discussing the topic of somebody being gay, but I do have a problem discussing my personal life,” Latifah, 38, told Sunday’s New York Times magazine.

“You don’t get that part of me. Sorry,” she added. “We’re not discussing it in our meetings, we’re not discussing it at Cover Girl…nobody gets that.

“I don’t feel like I need to share my personal life, and I don’t care if people think I’m gay or not,” she said. “Assume whatever you want. You do it anyway.”

Latifah had been linked to her longtime personal trainer. Last December, she denied rumors that they were getting married.

“People will make up all sorts of things that are not true,” she told the Chicago Sun-Times. “There ain’t gonna’ be no wedding.”

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Ashlee Simpson-Wentz traded her stylish maternity wardrobe for trailer-park chic Friday night, at a costume party to celebrate her 24th birthday.

“It had a white-trash theme,” says a guest who attended the bash at Simpson’s parents’ home in Encino. “Ashlee wore Daisy Dukes and platform flip-flops with a bathing suit and a fake tattoo around her belly.”

The singer celebrated with friends and family including husband Pete Wentz, dad Joe and sister Jessica.

“Joe wore a cut-off muscle T-shirt and a mullet wig. It was funny,” says a guest. “Jessica was wearing a crazy leopard-print dress that showed off a lot of cleavage.”

The menu included corn dogs, macaroni and cheese, chicken fingers and French fries.

With her first child due next month, an exhausted Simpson-Wentz headed home early, missing party guests Christina Aguilera, Nicole Richie and Joel Madden, who dropped by after hitting Gwen Stefani’s birthday party earlier that night.

“Ashlee loves themed parties and costumes,” says a friend. Last year, guests sported prom dresses, vintage tuxedos and fingerless gloves as Simpson-Wentz celebrated her birthday with an ’80s bash.

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Nick Nolte escaped a fire that caused an estimated $1.5 million damage to his Malibu home on Tuesday, authorities said. The 67-year-old actor scraped his arm and inhaled some smoke but was not hospitalized, Los Angeles County fire Inspector Sam Padilla said.

“He is seeing his private physician” for the injuries, he said.

The fire was reported at 11:34 a.m. at Nolte’s secluded Bonsall Drive home. The electrical fire started in the living room, and Nolte apparently tried to put out the fire before firefighters arrived, Padilla said.

Televised reports said firefighters found Nolte outside the house with a hose but Padilla said he did not have any details. He didn’t know if anyone else was in the home.

It took firefighters about 10 minutes to douse the blaze, which damaged part of the house, Padilla said.

A statement from the county Sheriff’s Department said Nolte broke a window to escape the home but Padilla said he could not confirm that account.

The statement also said the Fire Department estimated the damage at $3.5 million but Padilla said the estimate actually was $1.5 million.

Nolte’s publicist, Arnold Robinson, said in an e-mail statement that there was an electrical fire at the house but no one was injured and there was no structural damage.

Nolte has appeared in such films as “The Prince of Tides,” “Affliction,” “Down and Out in Beverly Hills” and “Tropic Thunder.”

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As the culmination of our anniversary celebration, Halle Berry — who just had a baby, like, six months ago — presents the final re-creations of classic Esquire covers. Here, she delivers her acceptance speech.

Wow. Sexiest woman alive, huh?

I’ve been in the business for more than twenty years, and you decide now, at this particular time, that I’m the sexiest woman alive? Come on. I mean, you couldn’t go with the Bond-girl year? You didn’t like the orange bikini? I liked the orange bikini. That would have been a pretty good year. Or what about the Monster’s Ball year? That was a sexy moment. Couldn’t you have packaged that up with some list of the best movie sex scenes ever? That would have been very easy, very magaziney. But 2008? Well, I don’t know exactly what it means, but being forty-two and having just had a baby, I think I’ll take it. There are billions of women on the planet, but let’s just say for shits and giggles that I am the sexiest woman alive. First, I would have to thank all the people who made it happen. I would thank the good folks at Esquire for thinking outside the box — even if those folks are just eight editors wearing competing seventy-five-dollar button-down shirts, swinging themselves around in cheap desk chairs in some windowless conference room somewhere above Manhattan. I’d also have to thank my “team,” the ones who make the magic happen — my hair designer, my stylist, my makeup artist, and my beloved trainer. And I would absolutely have to thank the photographer, because without him, the camera is all lies of a different sort. I mean, look at the pictures. That takes a lot of work. I’m lucky to have these people. Don’t think I don’t know it.

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Sean “Diddy” Combs poses backstage

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