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Joel Madden and Ludacris

Denise Richards

LaLa Vazquez and Carmelo Anthony

Ludacris, Carmelo Anthony, and Rob Dyrdek

Electric Red

Q The Kid

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Kim Kardashian visits MTV’s “It’s On with Alexa Chung” at the MTV Studios on July 29, 2009 in New York City.

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If you thought Tony Romo broke up with Jessica Simpson right before training camp so he could focus on football, probably not. Apparently Romo is dating Natalie Smith (on the left in the photo above) the daughter of the Eastern Illionis Athletic Director. Natalie Smith and Tony Romo attended Eastern Illionis at the same time. Surprise she’s a blonde! Tony, can you not man up and be alone for a month? MUST you be in a relationship at ALL times…or did THIS relationship with Natalie ever end? Did you not ever get over this chick the first time around??? You certainly give new meaning to the term REBOUND!!!

Here is the story from http://www.sportsbybrooks.com:

No sooner has Jessica Simpson been tossed over the side for ballast than Tony Romo has, apparently, snagged a new girlfriend. Here’s Natalie Smith (left), from Chicago, whom we assume will NEVER be seen wearing a pink Romo replica Cowboys jersey at Cowboys Stadium.

THE DIRTY reports, because that’s what they do, that Smith went to Eastern Illinois with Romo, where her father is the athletic director. OK.

Further from THE DIRTY: All attempts to get a statement from Mr. Smith have been declined.
“Sure, I’d love to talk to you about my daughter’s romantic involvement with a professional quarterback who also once attended the university where I am employed. But first let me return these Nigerian bank emails.”
Joe Simpson is not amused.

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Fox News Channel commentator Glenn Beck said he believes President Barack Obama is a racist.

Beck made the statement during a guest appearance Tuesday on the “Fox & Friends” morning show. He said Obama has exposed himself as a person with “a deep-seated hatred for white people or the white culture.”

His remarks came during a discussion of Obama’s reaction to the arrest of Harvard University scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr. Gates is black and was arrested for disorderly conduct by a white policeman over a misunderstanding about a break-in at Gates’ home.

An Obama spokesman, William Burton, said the White House had no comment on Beck.

Beck’s statement was challenged on the air by Fox host Brian Kilmeade, who noted that most of the people who work for the nation’s first black president are white.

“I’m not saying he doesn’t like white people,” Beck said. “He has a problem. This guy is, I believe, a racist.”

Beck wondered, during the discussion, what other president would immediately jump on the police for their actions in the case. Obama said in a news conference that he believed the police acted stupidly in the case, but later backtracked from the statement and invited Gates and the police officer, Sgt. James Crowley, to the White House for a conciliatory meeting later this week.

Bill Shine, Fox News senior vice president of programming, told the TVNewser Web site that Beck had “expressed a personal opinion which represented his own views, not those of the Fox News Channel. And as with all commentators in the cable news arena, he is given the freedom to express his opinions.”

Racial controversies are hardly new to presidents. In 2005, entertainer Kanye West said during a telethon after Hurricane Katrina that President George W. Bush “doesn’t care about black people.”

Beck, also a radio host and best-selling author, was an immediate hit with Fox News Channel viewers, starting in January when he made the jump from HLN (formerly CNN Headline News).

Beck didn’t speak about the racial comments on his own daily Fox show Tuesday.

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An agreement has been reached allowing the videotaping of Warren Beatty’s deposition in his dispute with the Tribune Co. over the rights to cartoon detective Dick Tracy, a federal judge presiding over the case said Tuesday.

Although Beatty has made a living in front of the camera, his attorneys wanted U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Kevin Carey to prohibit the videotaping, arguing it was unnecessary and could result in a violation of his privacy. Beatty’s lawyers have claimed such a recording would be in high demand online because of his celebrity status.

As part of the agreement, videotaping was allowed, but only four copies may be made – two for each side. The agreement, affirmed in a protective order Carey signed Tuesday, calls for each copy to contain a unique identifier, so that any leaks can be traced.

Although the agreement wasn’t disclosed until Tuesday, Beatty gave his deposition last week, and a redacted transcript was presented in court.

Beatty sued Tribune shortly before it filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in December. The dispute stemmed from a 1985 agreement that gave the actor movie and TV rights to comic strip detective Dick Tracy and led to a movie of the same name starring Beatty.

The contract states that Beatty must start “principal photography” on a feature film, TV special or TV series by a certain deadline or else the rights revert back to Tribune.

In seeking to reclaim the rights, Tribune said Beatty did not fulfill his part. Beatty said he did commence principal photography on a TV special last November. The media company disputed that the TV special was such, describing it as more of a DVD takeout.

On Tuesday, Beatty’s lawyer asked the judge to keep a DVD copy of the program under seal since it hasn’t yet aired. The judge agreed.

Tribune has said that the Dick Tracy rights are worth tens of millions of dollars in potential income to the company.

Tribune, which owns the Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, the Chicago Cubs, and other media properties, is struggling under $13 billion of debt stemming from a leveraged buyout to take the company private. A severe slump in advertising for newspapers and TV stations further hamstrung the company’s turnaround efforts.

When Tribune filed for bankruptcy, Beatty’s lawsuit in California was put on automatic hold. On Tuesday, his lawyer made his final arguments to persuade the judge to lift the stay, saying that it would be expensive and inconvenient for the actor to travel to Delaware for a trial. He also said that it was a California issue involving California executives, and thus a venue in that state would be appropriate.

But Tribune countered that it would be inconvenienced if the lawsuit in California was allowed to proceed. Also, the media company argued that it’s better for the bankruptcy court to handle all the Dick Tracy rights.

Only the movie and TV rights are under dispute. Tribune owns all the other rights to the comic strip.

Separately, Tribune asked the court Friday to extend to Nov. 30, from Aug. 4, the deadline for exclusive rights to file its reorganization plan. It’s the company’s second extension. Without such protection, other parties technically can file a reorganization plan for the company.

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Federal agents searched the home and office of Michael Jackson’s personal physician Tuesday in a widening investigation of whether administering a powerful anesthetic as a sleep aid was so reckless that it constitutes manslaughter.

Such charges against a doctor for the death of a patient would be extremely rare. Authorities would have to show there was a reckless action that created a risk of death.

After a three hour-search of Dr. Conrad Murray’s sprawling home on the 18th hole of a golf course in a private gated community, Los Angeles police and federal Drug Enforcement Administration agents carried away five or six plastic storage containers and several thick manilla envelopes. Across town authorities searched Murray’s medical offices, Global Cardiovascular Associates Inc., seeking documents.

Murray’s lawyer, Edward Chernoff, issued a statement saying the sealed search warrant “authorized investigators to look for medical records relating to Michael Jackson and all of his reported aliases.”

Murray was present during the search of his home and assisted the officers, who seized cell phones and a computer hard drive, Chernoff said.

Though authorities characterize Murray as the target of the investigation, they have stopped short of labeling him a suspect.

Murray told investigators he administered the anesthetic propofol to Jackson the night he died to help him sleep, according to a law enforcement official who spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because the investigation is ongoing. The official told AP that Murray left the bedroom where Jackson was sedated and returned to find the star not breathing. It’s unclear how long Murray was out of the room.

The official said investigators are working under the theory that propofol caused Jackson’s heart to stop. Toxicology reports that should show what killed Jackson are expected as early as this week.

Propofol typically is used to render patients unconscious for surgery. The drug can depress breathing and lower heart rates and blood pressure.

Home use of propofol is virtually unheard of, and if Murray left Jackson’s side he would have violated guidelines for the safe use of the drug drawn up by the American Society of Anesthesiologists.

Those rules say a physician “should be physically present throughout the sedation and remain immediately available until the patient is medically discharged from the post procedure recovery area.”

In considering a manslaughter charge against a doctor, a patient’s complicity in taking the risk could reduce the doctor’s culpability, said Harland Braun, a prominent Los Angeles defense attorney who has represented doctors in cases involving administering of drugs.

If a doctor is aware of the risk, there might also be an issue of whether the patient knows that risk and decided to take it.

Chernoff has said the doctor “didn’t prescribe or administer anything that should have killed Michael Jackson.” He declined interview requests Tuesday.

The search of Murray’s home and business involved members of the DEA’s Los Angeles Tactical Diversion Squad, agency spokesman Jose Martinez said. The team typically looks into cases involving legally prescribed drugs such as narcotic painkillers that are illegally sold or obtained by people not authorized to have them, such as “doctor shoppers” who get medications from several physicians so they can sell the drugs or feed their addiction.

The Las Vegas searches were the second time in less than a week that investigators targeted Murray’s property. Last week authorities searched his Houston clinic and a storage unit. Court records show they were seeking evidence of whether the doctor committed manslaughter.

Murray, 51, who is licensed in California, Nevada and Texas, became Jackson’s personal physician in May and was to accompany him to London for a series of concerts starting in July.

He was staying with Jackson in the entertainer’s rented Los Angeles mansion and, according to Chernoff, “happened to find” Jackson unconscious in his bedroom the morning of June 25. Murray tried to revive him by compressing his chest with one hand while supporting Jackson’s back with the other.

It took up to a half hour before paramedics were called, Murray’s lawyers have said. The paramedics arrived about three minutes later and tried to revive the pop star for another 42 minutes before taking him to nearby UCLA Medical Center, where Jackson was pronounced dead.

Jackson is believed to have been using propofol for about two years and investigators are trying to determine how many other doctors administered it. Murray told investigators he had given Jackson the drug several times before, the law enforcement official told AP.

As investigators try to untangle Jackson’s complex medical history they have interviewed at least six doctors who treated him and searched records for transactions involving aliases Jackson may have used to get drugs.

The official said Murray directed investigators to a closet in the room where Jackson slept. In it, they found enough propofol and sedatives to fill two gym bags. The room also contained an IV line and three tanks of oxygen, which would be needed for administration of propofol.

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