Nikki, the essay says, didn't speak until she was 3, but "could play piano like a prodigy" at 4. Nikki, who spent more than a decade in a psychiatric treatment center, committed suicide in '07.
Boldfacers and the law
Former New York mayor
Rudy Giuliani's daughter,
Caroline Giuliani, on Tuesday was given one day of community service stemming from her arrest last month for shoplifting $100.50 worth of cosmetics from a Manhattan store. The New York Daily News says Giuliani will probably be assigned to mop floors and clean toilets at a Sanitation Department garage.
E! News says former Lindsay Lohan friend and lover DJ Samantha Ronson is being investigated by police after an incident Monday in which her bulldog Cadillac killed a 3-pound Maltese named Tiger in her apartment building in West Hollywood.
"I feel incredibly sad and wish I could offer more than condolences," Ronson says in a tweet.
Fox News: Cusack wants us dead!
Fox News, which recently criticized actor
John Cusack for making a joke about the proposed Islamic cultural center in lower Manhattan (misnamed the "Ground Zero mosque"), now says, citing the Drudge Report, that the
Say Anything man-boy wishes death upon them.
Fox quotes the following tweet Cusack sent on Sunday: "I AM FOR A SATANIC DEATH CULT CENTER AT FOX NEWS HQ." Cusack adds that he wants such cults also at the offices of Dick Armey, Newt Gingrich, "and all the GOP WELFARE FREAKS."
