--Never one to shy away from the outrageous, Keith Richards now admits to having sniffed the ashes of his father – mixed with cocaine. "The strangest thing I've tried to snort? My father. I snorted my father," the Rolling Stones guitarist, 63, is quoted as saying by the British music magazine NME. "He was cremated," recalls Richards of father Bert, who died at 84 in 2002, "and I couldn't resist grinding him up with a little bit of blow. My dad wouldn't have cared." (I saw a headline for this story that said "Father Nose Best." I thought that was pretty clever).

--Two-time Academy Award nominee Will Smith is the most powerful actor on the planet, according to an annual list by America's Newsweek magazine. The actor has eclipsed last year's winner Tom Cruise and previous regular winner Tom Hanks. Newsweek spoke to a host of studio chiefs and film producers anonymously for fear of offending other stars. Smith was chosen because of his huge box office success and his ability to tackle any genre - sci-fi I, Robot, action comedy Men In Black or drama The Pursuit Of Happyness. Following behind was Johnny Depp at two, Ben Stiller at three, Brad Pitt at four and Cruise at five.

--Rachael Ray puts her money where her mouth is. While other so-called "green" celebrities tell others to drive Prius cars and then hop into their own gas-guzzling SUVs or town cars, Ray insists on not only driving a Prius, but being driven around in one. Ray uses Ozo Car - a limo service which only has Toyota Prius or Lexus RX400h models in its fleet - for herself, rather than being chauffeured around in a more luxurious town car.

--Metallica may work as a name for a heavy metal band, but a Swedish couple is struggling to persuade authorities it's also suitable for a baby girl. Sweden's tax agency rejected Michael and Karolina Tomaro's application to name their 6-month-old daughter after the legendary rock band. "It suits her," Karolina Tomaro, 27, said Tuesday of the name. "She's decisive and she knows what she wants." (I've heard worse...)

--Scary Movie actress Anna Faris filed for divorce Tuesday from her husband of three years, actor Benjamin Indra. Faris, 30, filed her petition in Los Angeles Superior Court, citing irreconcilable differences as the reason for the split from Indra, 28.

--KITT, the flame-throwing, river-jumping, talking muscle car from the '80s TV show Knight Rider is up for sale. Restored to its debut-season glory, the modified black 1982 Pontiac Trans Am is offered at $149,995 at a Dublin auto dealership. Johnny "Vette" Verhoek of Kassabian Motors has had the car, officially called Knight Industries Two Thousand, on display for about a month. (God, I loved that show. Are the re-runs on at all? TV Land, maybe?)

--Academy Award-winning actress Halle Berry claimed her star on the Hollywood Walk Of Fame yesterday - four years late. The sexy star unveiled the 2,333rd star on the famous Hollywood Boulevard landmark - an honor she was set to receive in 2003. Berry's busy work schedule kept her from making that ceremony, but she told organizers she wouldn't miss the belated honor this time around. Speaking to fans in Hollywood this morning, Berry said, "I'm thrilled and very honored to be part of Hollywood history."

--Paula Zahn and her husband, real-estate magnate Richard Cohen, have filed for divorce. (Rumor has it that she's been having an affair).

--“What’s happened to Britney is all down to who she is as a person.” “If you want a piece of this business, you have to be able to deal with it. You can’t complain about the pressures, the paparazzi, the madness, because that’s the job.” --Avril Lavigne on Britney Spears

--Paris Hilton acted in an MTV comedy sketch featuring a drunk ditz getting pulled over for DUI - but last week, her lawyers threatened to sue the network if it wasn't deleted from tomorrow's debut episode of "ShortCircuitz." Viewers of the sketch comedy show, exec-produced by Paris pal Nick Cannon, will not get to see a phony infomercial with Hilton shilling "What Would Paris Do" bracelets. In the sketch - which was included on a copy of the show sent to TV critics last week - the action shifts from salesgirl Paris to "real-life" situations in which people look to their bracelets for advice. In one instance, a leggy blonde in a short skirt is busted for drunken driving. After checking her Hilton bracelet, she starts grinding on one of the cops as if he were a stripper pole.

--The quirky judge who cried in the courtroom and referred to lawyers by their hometown during the legal controversy over Anna Nicole SmithÂ’s burial may be shopping for a television deal. Broadcasting & Cable reports Judge Larry Seidlin and his family are in Southern California on vacation, where the legal man is expected to fit Hollywood meetings around a trip to Disneyland. According to the industry publication, Judge Joe BrownÂ’s Executive Producer John Terenzio and CNNÂ’s Art Harris are believed to be advising the bald bench warmer. According to the magazineÂ’s insiders, a host of networks and production companies could land the Judge including CBS, Warner Bros.Â’ Telepictures, Sony Pictures Television and FoxÂ’s Twentieth Television.

Random Thought of the Day:
This weather blows. Don't give me 70 degrees and then tell me the temp w/ wind chill the morning is in the 20's. Seriously. It makes me angry.

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