Sometimes, when I’m alone in my bunk bed finding new ways to derive pleasure from a Buzz Lightyear doll, I ask myself if our space program is in the crapper. And now that the International Space Station’s toilet has been “acting up,” I know it’s true. NASA, in fact, had …

So there’s a new marshmallow being added to Lucky Charms and it looks like an hourglass. No one knows why, but some reporters think it has something to do with kids being too busy. I doubt it, but I’m too lazy to check and — more important — I love …

A week after collapsing at her north London home, British singer Amy Winehouse is facing another health crisis. This time the Grammy-winning artist is battling the early stages of emphysema brought on by smoking crack cocaine and cigarettes, her father said in an interview published in the U.K.’s Sunday Mirror. …

Caroline Kennedy | Kelly Clarkson | Kirstie Alley | Carly Simon | U2 Caroline Kennedy’s House Divided Monday’s New York Times story about the Kennedys and their different political allegiances left out one very important fact. Maria Shriver and Arnold Schwarzenegger aren’t the only couple in the large extended family …

Now some fresh pickings from the Political Grapevine: Opposition Research Democrats are already drawing up their playbook on how to go after John McCain in the general election. The Politico reports they will use McCain’s own words against him. The senator’s comment that, “the issue of economics is not something …

LOS ANGELES – She may recently have gotten rid of her fake breasts, but former porn princess Jenna Jameson is more than happy to wear (and promote) fake flesh. Jameson is set to unveil a PETA campaign next week during Los Angeles Fashion Week, and Pop Tarts is the first …

Will a Magazine Article Terminate Arnold’s Career? | Jacko at Carnegie Hall, and Greatest Hits on the Way Will a Magazine Article Terminate Arnold’s Career? This cannot be a happy Valentine’s Day for Arnold Schwarzeneggerand Maria Shriver, who’ve been married 16 years. The parents of four daughters are the subjects …

NEW YORK – As the number of anthrax exposure cases grows across the country, so too do the hoaxes and the instances where harmless white powder has terrorized people. Planes have made emergency landings and been quarantined. Stores, schools, government buildings and restaurants have been evacuated. Most of the culprits …

No Gary Condit resignation yet and no outcry from our leaders for one. Is that causing a national cynicism? That’s the subject of this evening’s Talking Points memo. Once again, the nation finds itself confronted by terrible behavior from an elected official and, once again, there are apologists all over …

Mariah Carey | Peter Maas Mariah’s Glitter Song a Plea for Help? Mariah Carey‘s soundtrack album Glitterwon’t be released until September 12, but you don’t have to wait that long to hear the album. It’s available now, in jukebox format,on her Web site. One song, “Twister,” will prove an ironic …