Get Better Friends: Charlie Sheen might want to hire better people to speak for him during his continuing domestic saga with Denise Richards. Now his "friends" are talking for him and it's not going well so far. Today Sheen's manager/friend Mark Burg's way of supporting him is to tell the New York Post: "Did he gamble on sports? Big deal. Every guy I know does. Show me a guy who hasn't seen porn on the Internet." Hmmm, if you count the office pool on the NCAA basketball tournament, maybe, and those ads that get dumped in everyone's inbox for male enhancement, sure. But who here thinks Charlie was innocently clicking on ads for Viagra?
Shocking Music News: No, not really. Could anyone really beat Shakira at the Latin Billboard Awards? It was her night in Florida, where she won six awards.
Shocking TV News: No, not really again. As if there were any doubt, NBC is sticking with Dick Wolf's Law & Order franchise and granting another season to all three versions. Another couple of years and the original series will tie Gunsmoke.
Rejection for Russell: We all know what happens when Russell Crowe doesn't get his way – usually objects get thrown at service staff and they end up with stitches. So who took the blow at Sony when the music division rejected Crowe for a record deal? The Daily Telegraph can only speculate, but they know for sure that he was mad.
