The WB Relaunches

While you're waiting for that Veronica Mars movie to get solidified you can head over and watch some of the original V. Mars episodes - teen titan TV network The WB have relaunched in the form of an online portal.

All the girlicious (ty Blane from Project Runway) favorites are up in episodic format to view - Gilmore Girls, Buffy, V. Mars, The O.C., One Tree Hill - plus some new online series, a blog, games and play tools to make the site all yours.

There is still a lot of filling out to do for the site, but the old WB shows alone will get me going there.

About Me?

Your Minutemaid can also be found blogging about the indie rawk (shoplifters of the world unite and take over!) on the Subterranean blog. In her spare time she likes to gossip and read non-fiction books about history and neuroscience. She doesn't do "quotes".

The Ultimate Bromance

Scandalist posted today that Brad Pitt and George Clooney are having the ultimate bromance. Sure, they travel together, star in movies together, hang out at Clooney's impossibly glam house in Italy together...but the mark of a truly outragous bromance is hitting those important moments in life together and Clooney hasn't popped out any offspring yet or even gotten a serious lady friend. That we know about.

I think the true Ultimate Bromance of our time title is still held by Ben Affleck and Matt Damon. When Ben got hitched, Matt settled down in short order. When Ben started having kids, Matt started having kids (and they both kept going!). They've cut back on the professional ties, but you know "Good Will Hunting 2: Electricbugaloo" is in one of their computers right now.

Gossip? Who Cares.

For days now the gossip news of the world has been totally blah.

I'm sure a lot of people do care, but I couldn't care less what American Idol does. Unless they cancel the show. Then I might smirk a little. Apparently there's a 4th judge being added this season, which is no doubt one of several changes we can expect to see since the show's ratings plummeted last season.

Madonna turned 50, kicks off a tour and hates John McCain. Blarg, who gives a crap. If she gives an interview about her plastic surgery, however, I'm all over it.

Kate Hudson is being sued by some scientists - hilarious but not hilarious enough to lift my apathy regarding most everything Kate Hudson and her ringlets do.

A million celebs had babies, are super pregnant, announced they just got preggers - the only interesting thing here is this means empire shirts will be in style for another year.

It's all so meh, I think I'll just watch the Democratic National Convention instead.

Lulz @ The Hills

I've posted another installment of Lulz @ The Hills for the new episode on Monday night. This was the inadvertently Stephanie-centric episode.

Hey, you know what else is interesting? This salary breakdown of what everyone gets paid to be on "The Hills"!

Lauren Conrad $75,000 ($1.4M per year)

Heidi Montag: $65,000 per episode ($1.25 million per year)
Spencer Pratt: $65,000 per episode ($1.25 million per year)
Audrina: $35,000 per episode ($665,000 annually)
Whitney: $20,000 per episode ($380,000 per season)
Brody: $10,000 per episode ($190,000 a year)
Lauren “Lo”: $10,000 per episode ($190,00 for The Hills Season 4)
Stephanie: $8,000 per episode ($152,00 for Season 4)
Frankie: $0

Heidi Presses On With Music Career

Heidi from "The Hills" wants to get physical, Olivia Newton-John style. The Montag camp released photos from the set of her new video "Overdosin" over the weekend to the world at large and it looks like quite the camp production.

This will surely be better than her paparazzi-esque video first video for "Higher" with more of a tongue-in-cheek approach.

No word yet on when we can expect to see the final video, but wtg Team Heidi for timing this release for the new season of "The Hills"!

Tune in Monday night for my weekly Lulz @ The Hills blog and keep your ear to the ground on the Spencer & Heidi reality wedding event of a lifetime. I wonder if they can get through it without killing each other?

Doctor Celine Dion

On this past Thursday pop singer Celine Dion became a doctor. Which is rather amazing considering she never finished high school.

Dion was awarded an honorary degree from Universitie Larval in Quebec - which was Canada's first official institution of higher learning and is very highly regarded for its teaching and research programs.

Dion was awarded an honorary degree and told the graduating class and attendees, numbering 800, "If there is something that has guided my life, it's my wish to excel and go farther, to the maximum of my abilities, to the top of my goals, my hopes and my dreams."

Reportedly her heart will go on.

The Next Carrie Bradshaw or More Larry David?

HBO have optioned Sloan Crosley's essay collection "I Was Told There'd Be Cake" to adapt into a series. A friend suggested I read Crosley's book a few months ago and I absolutely loved it. It's created of anticdotes from her own life as a 20something who grew up in the suburbs of NY state and then moved to the city.

If you're automatically thinking Carrie Bradshaw think again - she's much more haphazard and far less glamorous. One of the essays is a classic first job plus bad boss story that ends with 9/11 as her final day at a job with which she's developed a love/hate relationship.

The character, since it is Crosley herself, is really touching and human in a way the glitzy women of SaTC weren't - it's more Larry David's New York, where there are cupcakes but not so much shopping.

I'm very much looking forward to seeing this series and highly recommend the book.

Arrrrr So Much Britney News!

Page Six are speculating about a Britney/Justin duet happening on her new album! It was supposed to happen last album around but Britney was too strung out on drugs that shiesty Sam Lufti was giving her and passed. Timbaland was P.O.ed for awhile so let's see if he even gets involved in this one or if Justin helms it himself.

Justin & Britney almost ran into each other last week! They were both at a Robin Thicke show but then Justin didn't see her and she didn't go say hi so it didn't happen. Boo.

Funny or Die has an iso vocal track of Britney's vocals from her HBO special in Las Vegas. It's bad. It's very, very bad. Listen and confirm she can't sing but bear in mind she's essentially doing a hardcore work out while singing. I'd suck a lot too.

New to TeeVee Gossip

The Rachel Zoe Project, which I am awaiting with baited breath, comes to Bravo in September but there's a 30 minute preview running now that I strongly urge you to catch. If you didn't believe food deprevation makes people irritable it looks like this show is going to confirm it. And yet Zoe maintains at the end of the special that her lifestyle is amazing and glamorous. Umhm.

Debuting tonight on VH1 is The Cho Show, Korean comedianne and gay icon Margaret Cho's eponimous television debut. You can preview the whole first episode on VH1.com today and so naturally I indulged. The first pay off is after all these years you get to see her mom, who she's always making fun of in her routine. Turns out her parents are every bit as overbearing (in a nice way) as she claims. And she has a midget (I think?) assistant so I guess that whole Chelsea Handler love for midgets thing is catching on?

Finally, let's talk 90210. Who can keep up with the drama around this show? Tori Spelling's out (for now), Jennie Garth is urging fans to created a "Donna Martin returns!" protest and getting along with Shannen Doherty, production are declining to send the press screeners leading to speculation that the show is awful (it probably is) and I just realized that the show runner for the new 90210 is none other than Veronica Mars' Rob Thomas! So maybe it won't suck? Oh gee, this means I'm going to have to watch. My poor, poor DVR.

Get a little sneak peek at the set of the new 90210 - photos from the new/old Peach Pit!

Rachel & Ryan: Love Again

Happy news of the day: adorabelles couple Rachel McAdams and Ryan Gosling are reportedly back together (granted the reportedly comes from Perez Hilton and so it pains us a tiny bit)!

There were rumors a month or so ago when Rachel went to Ryan's DJ night in L.A. but I didn't dare hope...

Isn't it funny how seeing people together in a sappy movie like "The Notebook" can make you root for them in their real lives? Who could forget that amazing moment on the MTV Movie Awards that year when they won best kiss and...le sigh. Congrats kids!

The Hills Boys: Not Bromantic

Bromance: dumbest word ever. Also, thing that is seriously cooling down between "The Hills" castmates and former BFFs Brody Jenner and Spencer Pratt. The two were assumed to have reconciled after their big on-camera tiff (with some speculating there was no real fight to begin with, rather it was all drama faked for fake TV) in the show's second season but E! is reporting that after Monday night's "Hills" season 4 launch party in Malibu Brody & Spencer got into it again at the after party. Naturally it started with Spencer talking some smack. Like almost every fight involving "The Hills" cast.

Good thing Brody's out to find a new "Bromance" - he'll get his own reality show with MTV this fall that's a cross between "Entourage" and "The Bachelor." Hilarity ensues?

Beckham: The Musical

What would you say to a musical? About soccer star David Beckham?

My first question is who's playing him and my second question is for how much of the play will his shirt be off?

Apparently a British playwright named Mark Archer is attempting to make the dream a reality on London's West End. Archer tells The Telegraph, "Beckham’s story is a modern-day fairytale of heroes, villains, love, Manchester United and what it means to lead your country. His rise from obscurity to international stardom, his universally acknowledged gifts as a supreme sportsman, and his Hollywood lifestyle all have the elements of an aspirational fable."

There's reportedly even a song planned about the famed Becks/Posh first meeting and another about English life in the 90s.

Sounds just awful enough to be secretly good.

Lily Allen's A Real Bruiser

Last night outspoken musician Lily Allen got into a fist fight with some random French girl who was insulting her. There are amazing photos of her attempting to punch the chick while the girl is laughing at her and of course TMZ has it on video to make it that much tackier.

This on the heels of Allen's own posting to her MySpace blog that her newest album is complete but EMI haven't scheduled it for their 2009 release calendar yet - raising speculation about the quality of her record label more than the quality of Allen's material. EMI have been hemmoraging money and are actually suing her former label-mate Jared Leto's band for $30 million at the moment.

The real question here isn't how drunk was Allen to start the fight or when is her album coming out - it's who's the cute boy on her arm?