I didn’t WANT to post this, because I hate the idea of celebrities NOT taking pictures with people who ask.  It was cool of him to pose with the dude - I don’t want to take away from that.

BUT MY GOD, Steven Tyler of Aerosmith:

ACK!

Could he be any dreamier?

Seriously - Donny Osmond and Kelly Osbourne in the same room?

In a really odd and urgent way, almost immediately after hearing of John Hughes’ death, I wanted to hear from Molly Ringwald.  I felt so close to this group of people I’d never met - I wanted to hear how one of my “friends” was reacting.  At first I was disappointed to only read the standard “my heart goes out to his family” quote - then I saw this article.  It’s exactly what I’d hoped to hear from her.

Just a teensy bit of New Moon. If we want to see more, we have to go see “Bandslam” this weekend (they’re playing the whole preview before it!)

Here’s Newsweek’s  look back at her Idol tenure - with one tear running slowly down my cheek.

• The summer of 2002: Paula Abdul makes her debut on American Idol. America has one question. What the heck is in her red cup?
• January 2005: Paula looks like she’s about to fall asleep during Carrie Underwood’s first audition.
• April 2005: A 24-year-old contestant, Corey Clark, alleges that he slept with Paula and that she coached him privately at her house. A special Idol panel investigates—did it include Simon Cowell?—and finds Paula not guilty.
• January 2007: Paula appears on a Fox affiliate show slurring her words, giggling and waving her hands in the air (”Good morning, everyone”).
• May 2007: Paula is rushed to the hospital right before the finale between Jordin Sparks and Blake Lewis. She says she fell over her dog Tulip.
• Later that month: An audiotape leaks featuring a weepy Paula yelling and crying at her publicist. “All I’ve ever wanted in my life is to be treated fairly and with kindness,” she says.
• That summer: Paula’s reality show, Hey Paula, premieres, featuring Abdul yelling at her assistants (and more tears). Maybe she really is as mean as Simon Cowell.
• April 2008: Paula gives a contestant—Jason Castro—a bad critique based on a song he hasn’t even sung yet.
• May 2009: Paula performs! Actually, she lip-syncs her new song. For the first time in the history of the show, Simon Cowell is speechless.

My man and his classic “oh that’s cool, I didn’t mean to kiss you either” moment: