
Cleveland-based Rapper Kid Cudi, most recently on tour with Lady Gaga, punched a fan at a concert in Vancouver, Canada. Here's the full story. Lady Gaga has announced new opening acts, and so, life goes on!
LiveJournal user becky_sharpe (Bozhena Rynska, Gazeta.ru's gossip columnist) claims (RUS) that actress Brittany Murphy, who died on Dec. 20 in Los Angeles, was a guest at a private party in Moscow on Dec. 19 and was [”hungover”] when she flew back home. UPDATE: a follow-up discussion (RUS) of LJ user becky_sharpe's post - at LJ user kashin's blog (129 comments so far). Another heart attack victim (and a victim of "celebrity death year 2009") is Kim Peek, the savant who inspired the character Dustin Hoffman popularized in the movie "Rain Man" ...
Frank Langella (The Ninth Gate, Frost/Nixon, Unknown White Male) has been romantically linked to newswoman Barbara Walters (She DENIES that!)
The image of the Joker prevails in the anti-Obama camps...

And those of you in San Diego: that apparently wasn't an earthquake you felt today. It was a sonic boom!