–Someone needs to tell Katie Holmes to keep it quiet when it counts. "Katie talked through all of New Moon. It was unbelievable — [she and pals] talked nonstop about the movie and everything else," a witness at a recent New York screening reports. "Some people wanted to tell them to be quiet, but when they realized who it was, they stayed silent. No one wanted to shush Katie." [FoxNews]
–Calling Adam Lambert's racy American Music Awards performance "fantastic," Rosie O'Donnell says the openly gay season 8 finalist "is allowed to be as flamboyant as he wants to be." [OMG]
–The day after she was hit by a flying ham at an Atlanta foodbank, celeb chef Paula Deen says it's a "miracle" she didn't break any bones. "I didn't even bruise or swell," she reports. [Extra]
–Cry Us a river! He's the star of Disney's mega-hit High School Musical film franchise now, but Zac Efron admits his first audition — for a live action version of Peter Pan! — was so bad that it made him cry. "I kind of wept [after] that one," the 22-year-old says. [Wonderwall]
—Gossip Girl's Blake Lively revealed a set of hidden talents on Monday's Late Night With Jimmy Fallon. Chief among them? She can do a riverdance jig and recite 1997's Waiting for Guffman by heart. [Huffington Post]
