David Blaine does not want to die known as the man who failed to break the world record for holding one’s breath after living in a snow globe in Lincoln Center for a week. He wants to be known as the man mauled by lions on reality television:

He probably feels like he failed or whatever, and “let the people down” as his physician said, but the guy got a lot of attention and he really gave it his all. It’s only been a week since he got out of the bubble. He’s probably afraid of slipping into obscurity.

His last gig was bringing magic to libraries as the spokesperson for the 2006 New York City summer reading program, so his fears are well founded.

He sound have kids and then he will realize how immortality is attained – through genetics.

Pete Doherty may have been right when he declared that he’s the new John Lennon. A little over a month ago he was quoted as saying:

The drug-addled Jaguar-loving Babyshambles lead singer was voted second in an NME poll of the greatest rock stars of all time. He was only bested by late Nirvana singer Kurt Cobain:

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Getting a lot of press, however exceptionally negative, seems to have worked in Doherty’s favor.

Pete’s not doing that well despite the high regard of the music-loving public. He recently sold his cell phone to a stranger for some quick cash, presumably for drugs. He neglected to clear the memory on the phone, and there were SMS messages from his on-again off-again girlfriend, Supermodel Kate Moss, on it. Moss reportedly urged him to give up heroin and join her for a summer vacation.

Here he is in concert in Amsterdam on May 2nd.

Now that our faith in the gossip industry is waning, we’re going to call it like we see it. (For a day or two at least.) The reporting paper where we read this tried to make out like Lindsay Lohan was in a catfight with Cameron Diaz since they both dated the same guy at some point, but it sounds like Cameron simply asked Lindsay to stop smoking when they were in the VIP section of a NY club together:

Lindsay’s a nasty skank who thinks she can get away with whatever she wants. It’s been illegal to smoke in bars in NY for years now, so she should know better. She was probably pissed because she knew Cameron was right.

Meanwhile Lindsay still hopes to clean up her image with that humanitarian mission to Africa we told you about. She’s only considering it, doesn’t have a date planned, and it’s clearly all about making her look good:

Lindsay’s ready to try to get some good press for once is all.

Here she is in St. Paul, MN yesterday for the world premiere of A Prarie Home Companion. Stars were “carried in horse drawn carriages led by the Highland Park Senior High marching band down Wabasha St.”

The Sun has pictures of Pete Doherty injecting heroin into a passed-out woman on his kitchen floor. Kate Moss is shown in another photo sleeping on a bed at Doherty’s house, but she wasn’t there when he drugged the unconscious fan. The pictures were said to be taken in the “past five weeks”:

Doherty was placed on 2 years probation and received orders to attend 18 months of outpatient rehab in drugs posession case last week. He was arrested again on drugs charges on the same day he was sentenced, and was let out on bail.

We thought Doherty might be cleaning up slightly, as he was praised for his efforts by the judge at his sentencing and he bragged of his sobriety at a recent concert. He might be trying, but he won’t escape his past without a great deal of effort.

The Sun website says that you have to buy the print version to get the pictures. Once they’re online, we’ll post them. In the meantime Here are pictures of Doherty at a Babyshambles gig on 4/26.

Jennifer Aniston has said that she’s quit smoking. She hasn’t done it for her health or for the sake of our ailing planet, no, she’s quitting smoking so that she can sing in a god-awful musical:

She probably figrues that since she can only do one character and all her movies suck, she may as well try to jazz it up with a change of genre. It may work for her, and it should provide hilarious fodder to mock her with for years to come.

Charlie Sheen is involved in an incredibly stupid business venture: he launched a line of children’s clothing this weekend!

Unfortunately for Sheen, the clothing line was in the works from some time, and announced over two months ago. The launch couldn’t come at a worse time for him, because the allegations in his wife’s divorce deposition are explosive.

The divorce statement from Denise Richards acquired by The Smoking Gun is pretty incredible and well worth the time to read. Richards says that Sheen:

Kelly Osbourne has been to rehab twice: in the spring of 2004 when her parents confronted her for abusing painkillers and again in the summer of last year after she was said to have fallen back into old habits.

That’s why it’s a little disconcerting to see the newly slender and on-her-own reality star looking really wasted. Kelly, you should know better!

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There are plenty of stories this week featuring quotes from Paris saying how much she loves playing poker and is obsessed with it. We thought that she was talking crap to get press, but apparently she has a serious gambling addiction.

She lost her Bentley in a poker game, and her parents even banned her from the casino named after her and want her to go to rehab!

She has a lot more to lose than most of us, if her boyfriend has any sense he’ll keep a tight hold on that $275 million he just inherited.