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Scantily-clad girls at this year’s E3 video game trade show are being forced to cover up or face a $5,000 fine. All my life, I was taught to pay a girl to take her clothes off, and now this. My world is falling apart.

Banned are nudity, partial nudity, bikini bottoms or any sexually explicit or provocative conduct, according to the handbook from The Entertainment Software Association, or ESA, which owns and operates the E3 Expo.

Ashlee Simpson giggles her way through questions about her new nose.

Asked whether the widespread speculation — on the Web and in tabloids — that’s she’s had a nose job, the 21-year-old singer giggled and told the Associated Press: “Everybody’s already saying it, so I just don’t talk about it. I’m like, okay, whatever. It doesn’t bother me.” Yet when the news service tried to put her nose to the grindstone and get her to confirm or deny the rumor, Simpson did neither — she just giggled more. “Maybe,” she said. “Who knows!”

Will we really have a gray-haired American Idol?

Shock. Total shock. That was the reaction in the audience when “American Idol” finalist Chris Daughtry — predicted by many to be the last singer standing — was booted off in Wednesday’s voting.

UPDATE: See the shocking video of Chris getting booted off the show here.

Monkeys drink more alcohol when housed alone, and some like to end a long day in the lab with a boozy cocktail, according to a new analysis of alcohol consumption among members of a rhesus macaque social group.

Not only is AT&T — in the throes of acquiring Cingular owner BellSouth — planning to ditch the Cingular name and ubiquitous, sprightly orange jack, but it will replace it with its own stodgy moniker, renaming the division AT&T Wireless.

This is so stupid it makes me want to cry. I’ve got an idea for them — how about you take that $1.5 billion a year you’re going to spend on turning Cingular back into AT&T and instead use it for something more worthwhile, like, say, wiping your ass with.

Luke and Owen Wilson star in the best short evs.

Howard Stern say he’s staying put on satellite radio.

“I’m very flattered terrestrial radio can’t let go of me,” Stern said on his morning radio show. “But I would throw up if I had to go back. I’m never going back.”

Does Tom Cruise want to start his own blog to tell the world about the wonders of Scientology? He’s suing to get control of TomCruise.com.

The Hollywood star, and lead of recently released Mission Impossible III, is a bit slow off the mark - the domain was registered in November 1996, and other super-celebs have been going to WIPO for years trying to win back their namesake domains.