You would have thought it was a clamor for a good AVN review the way the Mel Gibson and the Pope camps are behaving over a thumbs up Gibson claims he got from the Pontiff on his controversial movie The Passion. Point is, is Mel bullshitting? That’s the conclusion you kind of draw. Maybe he should have advertised in the Vatican News.

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It was a sad day in sausage land. Simply Jimmy Dean was dropped as spokesman for the sausage line that he started 30 years ago.

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Kobe Bryant might get jailed in Colorado, but he can’t get arrested at McDonald’s. Mickey D’s has dumped the Kobester. Proof once again that if you get caught in a hotel room with someone other than your wife…allegedly

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It sounds like tough love to us, but AMY Fisher is quoted in the N.Y. Post as saying her former lover Joey Buttafuoco is like a bad rash that won’t go away. The one-time “Long Island Lolita” says that people are still calling her about Buttafuoco’s misadventures – he was recently arrested for insurance fraud and grand theft – and wonders if she’ll ever be able to shake her connection to the sleazy former body shop owner. “I have spent 12 years futilely attempting to distance myself from Joey Buttafuoco as one might try to get rid of psoriasis,” Fisher says. “Just hearing his name makes me nauseous . . . I keep trying to throw my skeleton back in the closet, but he is forever jumping out to star in B-movies, perp walks and mug shots.”