BERKLEY SO EXCITED FOR MTV REALITY SHOW "MTV is developing an unscripted project with Elizabeth Berkley and her husband, artist Greg Lauren, that is based on Ask-Elizabeth, the self-esteem workshops for teen girls that Berkley created. Berkley has volunteered her time facilitating Ask-Elizabeth workshops in schools and for organizations around the country for 2 1⁄2 years. Her Web site, Ask-Elizabeth.com, features a library of video content intended to help empower girls worldwide."

BAD IDEA GETS WORSE "Elizabeth Berkley [has] boarded S. Darko (aka Samantha D), the sequel to Donnie Darko being directed by Chris Fisher. … Berkley is playing a speed freak-turned-Jesus freak whose sentiments about ridding the world of its exponential sin are rivaled only by her infatuation with her dreamy pastor."

This little guy, Oscar, is one of the world's most popular dogs among Hollywood circles. He has been photographed with the likes of George Clooney and John Travolta thanks to his owner, Dennis Gill, who sold newspapers to celebrities in London. Oscar recently lost his three-year battle with cancer, but his legacy will live on through the animal lovers of the blogosphere.

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Elizabeth Berkley was out and about in Beverly Hills yesterday. We'll never be able to forget Showgirls, but we will say this: she looks great. Do you think she's shopping for an Oscar gown? Just kidding. But, seriously, she does look good.

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• Never is the creativity of most Americans better tested than on Halloween. These costumes say more than "ill-fitting." [ICYDK]

• Turds of a feather… [EBG]

• When alcoholism is the least of one's concerns, perhaps one is in poor shape. [DListed]

• Shia LaBeouf finally giving up on all that "I'm not a clubber" jazz to become the drunken kisser you knew he could be. [PS]

• Why more than one swimsuit? [HT]

• Another one bites the mustache. [INO]

• Oxygen masks? Isn't that called living. [Yeeeah]

• Guacamole in a baby's chest cavity? So great. [CityRag]

• Girls who have boys who do girls who have girls who like boys like they're girls. (Blur!) [DListed]

• Elizabeth Berkley is still wearing bathing suits. But I think that's about it. [HT]

• She's not too skinny, she's too bad at acting. [ICYDK]

• Now that she's started in with the death threats, maybe all the dudes with the cameras should get out of her face, huh? [Yeeeah]

• Sad Headline of the Week: "Send home the clowns?" [Economist]

It's not everyday that anyone has anything negative to say about Uma Thurman. I attribute about 40% of this to the fact that everyone is terrified of her after seeing Kill Bill. Otherwise, eh, there's just not all that much to say. Not today, however, because not even Ms. Uma Thurman is impervious to the wrath of yoga-induced foot odor. The New York Daily News reports:

A crowd of civilians and a sprinkling of celebrities attended Wednesday night's opening of the Jivamukti Yoga School in Union Square, and the vast second-floor space was tightly packed, very warm and, as the night went on, increasingly pungent.

Everybody - even the paparazzi - was required to take their shoes off, exposing the toes of Uma Thurman, Russell Simmons, Elizabeth Berkley and Matthew Modine.

Sting sat in a lotus position strumming a sitar - background music for his wife, Trudie Styler's, lengthy ode to yoga while their audience of 500-plus enthusiasts listened and perspired.

Okay, sick. I'm not sure what's worse: considering what sort of possible foot fungus Russell Simmons has contracted from Kimora or picturing Matthew Modine in the Downward Dog position.

Either way, I'm sure Uma's feet were only a victim to the anonymous crime of group odor–there's no way you can blame her when there's a shoeless Sting in the vicinity.
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