I don’t think it’s the real Jamie Lynn at all.

When did she have  her baby?

Everybody had their babies while I was away.

As I begin to write this, I ’slug’ it, as we writers say, which means I put a heading on top of the document to identify it. This heading is ‘e online FINAL,’ and it gives me a shiver to write it. I have been doing this column for so long that I cannot even recall when I started. I loved writing this column so much for so long I came to believe it would never end.

It worked well for a long time, but gradually, my changing as a person and the world’s change have overtaken it on a small scale, Morton’s, while better than ever, no longer attracts as many stars as it used to. It still brings in the rich people in droves and definitely some stars. I saw Samuel L. Jackson there a few days ago, and we had a nice visit, and right before that, I saw and had a splendid talk with Warren Beatty in an elevator, in which we agreed that Splendor in the Grass was a super movie. But Morton’s is not the star galaxy it once was, though it probably will be again.

Beyond that, a bigger change has happened.? I no longer think Hollywood stars are terribly important. They are uniformly pleasant, friendly people, and they treat me better than I deserve to be treated. But a man or woman who makes a huge wage for memorizing lines and reciting them in front of a camera is no longer my idea of a shining star we should all look up to.

How can a man or woman who makes an eight-figure wage and lives in insane luxury really be a star in today’s world, if by a ’star’ we mean someone bright and powerful and attractive as a role model? Real stars are not riding around in the backs of limousines or in Porsches or getting trained in yoga or Pilates and eating only raw fruit while they have Vietnamese girls do their nails.

They can be interesting, nice people, but they are not heroes to me any longer. A real star is the soldier of the 4th Infantry Division who poked his head into a hole on a farm near Tikrit, Iraq. He could have been met by a bomb or a hail of AK-47 bullets. Instead, he faced an abject Saddam Hussein and the gratitude of all of the decent people of the world.

A real star is the U.S. soldier who was sent to disarm a bomb next to a road north of Baghdad. He approached it, and the bomb went off and killed him.

A real star, the kind who haunts my memory night and day, is the U.S. soldier in Baghdad who saw a little girl playing with a piece of unexploded ordnance on a street near where he was guarding a station. He pushed her aside and threw himself on it just as it exploded. He left a family desolate in California and a little girl alive in Baghdad.

The stars who deserve media attention are not the ones who have lavish weddings on TV but the ones who patrol the streets of Mosul even after two of their buddies were murdered and their bodies battered and stripped for the sin of trying to protect Iraqis from terrorists.

We put couples with incomes of $100 million a year on the covers of our magazines. The noncoms and officers who barely scrape by on military pay but stand on guard in Afghanistan and Iraq and on ships and in submarines and near the Arctic Circle are anonymous as they live and die.

I am no longer comfortable being a part of the system that has such poor values, and I do not want to perpetuate those values by pretending that who is eating at Morton’s is a big subject.

There are plenty of other stars in the American firmament..the policemen and women who go off on patrol in South Central and have no idea if they will return alive; the orderlies and paramedics who bring in people who have been in terrible accidents and prepare them for surgery; the teachers and nurses who throw their whole spirits into caring for autistic children; the kind men and women who work in hospices and in cancer wards.

Think of each and every fireman who was running up the stairs at the World Trade Center as the towers began to collapse. Now you have my idea of a real hero.

I came to realize that life lived to help others is the only one that matters. This is my highest and best use as a human. I can put it another way. Years ago, I realized I could never be as great an actor as Olivier or as good a comic as Steve Martin or Martin Mull or Fred Willard–or as good an economist as Samuelson or Friedman or as good a writer as Fitzgerald. Or even remotely close to any of them.

But, I could be a devoted father to my son, husband to my wife and, above all, a good son to the parents who had done so much for me. This came to be my main task in life. I did it moderately well with my son, pretty well with my wife and well indeed with my parents (with my sister’s help). I cared for and paid attention to them in their declining years. I stayed with my father as he got sick, went into extremist and then into a coma and then entered immortality with my sister and me reading him the Psalms.

This was the only point at which my life touched the lives of the soldiers in Iraq or the firefighters in New York. I came to realize that life lived to help others is the only one that matters and that it is my duty, in return for the lavish life God has devolved upon me, to help others He has placed in my path. This is my highest and best use as a human.

Faith is not believing that God can. It is knowing that God will.

By Ben Stein

What day did Jessica Alba have her little girl?

Apparently I am WAY behind with the times.

What a sweet name for her baby girl.

Are there any pictures of the baby floating around yet?

They say that Jessica is only one size away from her pre-baby bod.

That’s pretty cool!

I wonder where the name Marie comes from.. ?

They had a baby girl.

How sweet!

What a beautiful name they chose for their little princess.

Hat Tip! CelebAmour

I think it’s time to stop connecting Nicole Kidman to Tom Cruise.

Sure they share children together but let’s stop trying to make that connection.

It’s time we got over their breakup and realized that they have moved on with their lives.

I can’t wait to see pics of the new baby!

WALL E was a cute movie.

It’s about time they came out with decent movies for kids.

WALL E was SO good my 4 year old LOVED it.

If your heart is not big enough - don’t go and see it.

You’ll wind up hating it - especially if you’re a scrooge.

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To suggest that God or karma wiped out innocent people, because He is unhappy with their government’s international political position is, in my never to be humble opinion, blasphemous, and phenomenally insensitive and disgusting.

Christian Dior has dropped spokeswoman Stone from their advertisements in China, and has also apologized to its customers there. But, I imagine, because she is a popular, liberal, Hollywood type, with great facial bone structure, she will not be feeling the negative impact of her own “karma” for very long.

Hat Tip: Dr. Laura

Are you a celebrity with HSV aka: Herpes? Do you have a history of coldsores OR fever blisters?

If you are a celebrity that has herpes, how do you deal with it? Do you get outbreaks at the same rate that regular people with herpes do?

Tell us about it, ok?

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"I just got a text from one of my friends on my way over here saying that she wanted to go to bed with me," a disillusioned Jameson told Pop Tarts at last week’s Maxim "Hot 100" bash. "I think one of the big misconceptions everyone — even my friends — have of me is that I’m gay, but I am really not. I’m totally hetero."

That girl needs to gain some serious weight! She’s is WAY too thin. I’m surprised that she has busted in half yet!

Oh Please! Everybody knows that this whole engagement wedding planning deal between Heidi and Spencer is rigged.

Think about it!

First they were dating and she was SO in love with him yet he was busy flirting and dating Audrina on the side.

Just as she is about to move on after  he got snagged by Lauren Conrad, he gets dumped and then asked back.

Once Spencer got back he all of a sudden gets serious about Heidi and asks her to marry him? Whatever?!

So then they are engaged only now Heidi is tired of him and he moves in with his sister to play along so that they can gain as much juice through the show as possible.

Finally, Heidi dumps a wonderful opportunity to work with Brent Bolthouse and is seen on the show leaving Vegas with Spencer.

And now all of a sudden Heidi is ready to get married?

I don’t think so. It’s just going to be MORE drama and even if they do wind up getting married.. they’ll be divorced before long and if not divorced.. they’ll have their own reality TV show.