--Rosie O'Donnell's blue humor made faces red when she emceed the Matrix Awards in front of 2,000 feting New York's most accomplished women in media at the Waldorf-Astoria Grand Ballroom yesterday. The loose-lipped lesbian dropped the F-bomb as Barbara Walters lowered her head on the dais and covered her face with her hand. O'Donnell concluded a rant about Donald Trump by grabbing her crotch and shouting, "Eat me!" O'Donnell also said she was sad when Trump called her "disgusting" and "fat" because, "it was always my dream to give an old, bald billionaire a boner." The annual luncheon of N.Y. Women in Communications - which honored Cindy Adams, Meredith Vieira, Joan Didion, Susan Lyne, Arianna Huffington and Lisa Caputo, among others - featured as presenters News Corp. Chairman Rupert Murdoch [See photo, facing page], Joy Behar, Nora Ephron, Martha Stewart and Sen. Hillary Clinton. Also on hand were 17 sweet-faced high school girls who won scholarships to pursue their dreams of careers in media. (Damn that woman's classy...)

--The Broadway version of The Producers has come to an end after more than 2,500 performances at the St. James Theatre in New York. The production has played across the world and won twelve Tony awards and tells the story of two crooked producers who set up a flop Broadway show about Adolf Hitler. After the final matinee show yesterday, Mel Brooks - who wrote the music and lyrics - took to the stage to address the audience. He said, "We have had six years of frolic and joy, and you have been such a good audience to give us such a rich, final performance." The St. James theatre is now expected to play host to Brooks' next show, a musical version of his 1974 film Young Frankenstein. (Such a great show).

--American Idol season-4 winner Carrie Underwood helped Dallas Cowboys quarterback Tony Romo celebrate his 27th birthday in Dallas over the weekend – and the pair looked very cozy. They showed up together Saturday night at Dallas's hip Ghostbar, where they were joined by nearly the entire Dallas Cowboys team. "Carrie and Tony were having a great time in the deejay booth," an insider said. "They were laughing, singing together, holding hands and their arms were around each other all night."

--Changing course from a recent declaration, hip-hop mogul Russell Simmons on Monday recommended eliminating the words “bitch,” “ho” and “nigger” from the recording industry. The call comes less than two weeks after radio personality Don Imus’ nationally syndicated and televised radio show was canceled amid public outcry over Imus calling the Rutgers women's basketball team “nappy-headed hos.” Simmons, co-founder of the Def Jam label and a driving force behind hip-hop’s huge commercial success, called for voluntary restrictions on the words and setting up an industry watchdog to recommend guidelines for lyrical and visual standards. (Good for him. Someone with that kind of clout needed to say something).

--Maybe they should title it, "Chachie Chases Coochie."

--Comedian Chevy Chase will never forgive his mother and step-dad for the tortuous beatings he received as a child. The Fletch funnyman admits he lived in "deathly fear" of his mentally-ill mother Cathalene and stepfather because they subjected him to regular psychological torture. In his new autobiography I'm Chevy Chase . . . And You're Not, he claims his mother once slapped him "continually and hard, across the face. I don't remember what it was for, or what I had done. I lived in fear all the time - deathly fear. I always turn to it in my mind...I'll never forgive them. At their graves I didn't. It was too hard for me. You would think a grown man could shake it off, as the coffin was being lowered, to say, 'I forgive you.' I don't forgive."

--Iceman needed to take a dookie. No, not that Iceman...

--Actress and model Milla Jovovich and her fiancé, director Paul Anderson, are expecting a baby. The child, due in the fall, will be the first for Jovovich, 31, and Anderson, 42, who produced and wrote three Resident Evil movies starring Jovovich (the third, Resident Evil: Extinction, is due in theaters in September). The couple met when Anderson directed Jovovich in the first Resident Evil and announced their engagement in March 2003. They have not yet announced a wedding date. (Um, long engagement...)

--Pics have emerged showing us that ex-Laguna Beach-er Jason Wahler is more out of his effing mind than we had previously thought.

--Super Bowl Champions the Indianapolis Colts visited the President yesterday. (Whooo hooooo!)

--Shanna Moakler's still bitter, so she posted L.Lo and Paris Hilton's cell phone numbers on her Myspace page. They were barraged with phone calls yesterday. (I'm assuming the numbers have been changed by now, but feel free to give them a ring!)

--Good God.

Random Thought of the Day:
It's weird. All day I think of things and think, "Ooooh, that would be great for my Random Thought of the Day. And then I get here, and I'm drawing a blank. All I got right now is that the new Tom Petty song "Saving Grace" is freaking fantastic. I normally am not a Petty fan--I think a lot of his stuff in the last 8 years or so has just been him whining in the microphone. This, however, is a lot more rockabilly/blues/a bit harder than his normal stuff. Great lyrics, too. I could hear the Travelling Willburys doing it as well. Conincidentally, Jeff Lynne (a former Wilbury w/ Petty) plays guitar on it. Seriously, folks...download it. If you don't want to spend the whopping $1 to download it off iTunes, it's on the Tom Petty Myspace page as well.

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