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Ah, nostalgia can be so forgiving.

The very grown-up New Kids on the Block didn't exactly have the right stuff when they hit the stage outside the Today show Friday morning and performed a medley of their biggest hits, but that didn't seem to matter to the more than 3,000 screaming NKOTB fans who stood in the pouring rain to watch.

The reunited group will be hitting the road later this year for a North American tour. While we don't know if there will be an opening act, we're guessing Marky Mark won't be available.

Real celebrities are known to give paps the cold shoulder, but leave it to our favorite fame-seeking reality-TV stars to chum it up with photogs and sign John Hancocks galore.

Heck, L.C. depends so much on the paparazzi she even stops to make sure one of them is OK when he falls over!

Camera crews also caught up with Kim Kardashian, Dave Navarro and club constant Brody Jenner on Wednesday.

Hmmm, guess Speidi didn't get the memo that night.

Looks like Dwight K. Schrute is just a heartbeet away from the Oval Office.

Rainn Wilson appeared on The Tonight Show Wednesday, reading a letter from his Dunder-Mifflin alter ego accepting presumptive Republican presidential nominee John McCain's televised offer to become his running mate.

As it is, JFK's legacy can rest easy—the McCain/Schrute '08 ticket won't come to pass after the fictional car-flipper asks what he can do for his country, but only after the country asks what it can do for him.

Fortunately, he has handily provided it with an itemized list of demands. (A vote for Schrute is a vote for efficiency.)

Well, at least if the nation's already going to hell in a handbasket, we can take comfort in knowing it'll be lined with the finest 8½-by-11 card stock Scranton has to offer. The disenfranchised never had it so bad.

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For something meant to be a comedy, Mike Myers' latest big-screen offering is certainly stirring up a lot of drama.

Just a few weeks after U.S.-based Hindu leaders—without even seeing the film—spoke out against the potentially offensive and religiously insensitive premise of The Love Guru, critics in India have banded together to request that the film be banned altogether from the country's cineplexes.

A representative for the influential Mumbai-based Janjagruti Samiti and Sanatan Society for Scientific Spirituality elaborated on previous complaints that the film plays into stereotypes and potentially ridicules the religion's beliefs.

"If the trailer is an indicator of the content of the movie...then we feel that this movie is most likely to hurt the sentiments of seekers from various spiritual paths...it will hurt the religious sentiments of millions of Hindus worldwide, who hold the 'Guru-disciple' relationship as sacred," Bhavna Shinde said in his plea.

"Poking fun is one thing, but if it creates a sense of belittling other's faith, then it is wrong."

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Nicole Richie and her Good Charlotte beau Joel Madden have done good.

In the wake of the Myanmar cyclone disaster, the new parents have recorded a PSA for UNICEF as part of a campaign (which includes Ben Stiller, Téa Leoni and David Duchovny) to raise money for the millions of young people affected by the tragic event.

"Eight million children's lives hang in the balance. These kids need food, water, medicine, shelter and protection," says Joel during the message. Adds Nicole: "Please help UNICEF do whatever it takes to save children's lives. Take a moment and visit UNICEFUSA.org and please give generously."

Salma Hayek's sea legs might be fine, but her arms could clearly use some work.

It didn't take one or two whacks, and, alas, the third time wasn't a charm. Nope, the actress needed an embarrassing five gos to christen Il Mostro—aka "The Monster"—the new racing boat in Puma's fleet. For those scratching their heads to figure out why Hayek is engaged in a bout of boat-bonking, the company is run by her baby daddy, François-Henri Pinault.

In the end, Hayek needed an assist from a crew member to break the ceremonial bottle o' Taittinger over the vessel. (The video above was generously edited by Puma to show only a couple of Hayek's misfires.)

Pride overboard.

Take us far, far away from the ball game, please!

Jessica Simpson beau Tony Romo puts down the pigskin and picks up a mic Sunday to lead the crowd in a less-than-stellar sing-along of "Take Me Out to the Ball Game" during a Chicago Cubs game.

But take heart, Tony. Given the fact that the Cubbies came back out and beat the Arizona Diamondbacks after your painful performance, no one can accuse you of being a jinx, right?

Love, marriage, waxing. Admit it, you've missed Sarah Jessica Parker and the women of Sex and the City far more than you can put into words.

So forget about words. Just watch. Check out the trailer for the Sex and the City movie above, and then click in for a look at three (yes, three!) scenes from the film, which opens May 30.

As Carrie Bradshaw once (could have) asked, "Will we still crave Sex if we have to go to the theater to get it?" Check out the clips and tell us in the comments.

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Jessica Alba would like you to stare at her.

Should you actually require a reason to do so, she offers one in a blog posting at MySpace Celebrity.

Are you late a lot? Then watch the first seven minutes of Speed Racer online and feel secure that you'll know what's going on in the film should you dawdle too long at the candy counter.

That is, unless you're 10 minutes late.

It seems like the trick to getting Paula Abdul to talk is by tickling her funny bone.

As the American Idol judge made her way out of Hollywood hot spot Mr. Chow Wednesday night, one of the paparazzi managed to break through the gossipy questions that poker-faced Paula was ignoring by interjecting a humorous request.

"Tell Simon his chest hair is like a rain forest," said the photog. "Like a rain forest!"

"Now, that's funny!" Paula replied with a laugh, before taking a moment to wish everyone a happy Mother's Day.

Never has the use of the word mother, when lodged at the paps, sounded so sweet.