• Rapey jerks aside, New York really is the best city in the whole world. [INO]

• Linday Lohan's competing against Johnny Depp for a film role. Who gets it? [DListed]

• Is it bad that we like the hotpants jumpsuit? [PS]

• Here's Paris Hilton being a spectacle for all the "Hahvahd" kids. [HT]

• Apparently Scientologists are very sensitive about people badmouthing their religion. Have you heard about these people? Scientologists? [ICYDK]

• The Playboy girls are at Mardi Gras, presumably to see what it's like when men masturbate to the real them, not just pictures of them. [CityRag]

Australian book retailers Dymocks won't stock Andrew Morton's controversial new work Tom Cruise: An Unauthorized Biography.

"We take all accusations of defamation very seriously and, as a result, we won't be stocking the book," a spokeswoman said. "We will continue to assess the situation as it develops."

In light of Dymocks' decision, Elliot Abelson, an attorney for the Church of Scientology International, said Australia is a "classy country."

[Source]

Biographer Andrew Morton, whose past work downshifts erratically from a book on Princess Diana to another on Monica Lewinsky, has now set his sights even lower with the staggeringly bad Posh & Becks. While mainly just prosaic and useless, the book also manages to be quite racist. Take a look:

…[T]hanks to his taste in extravagant clothes and jewelry, penchant for rap music and his flash lifestyle, the blond footballer should be considered an honorary black man.

In a longer, more vitriolic passage that I'll not deign to reprint, Morton also notes that David is rich, fussy with his hair and not smart; making him an honorary Jew, woman and Pole, respectively.

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