Madonna's new album, "MDNA," will be released on March 26.
Zsa Zsa turns 95
Zsa Zsa Gabor "celebrated" her 95th birthday Monday, bed-ridden in her Bel-Air mansion while a few dozen guests - many of them F-listers whom she probably never met - partied downstairs.
Her self-proclaimed German prince of a husband, Frederic Prinz von Anhalt, showed off a chocolate birthday cake he said was a gift from Wolfgang Puck.
"Zsa Zsa, dahling, eat more cake, it's good for you - it's like veetamins."
Guests dined on German dishes like warm pretzels and schnitzel - and plenty of pink wine. In the dining room, there was a towering white cake topped with strawberries and decorated with hearts and the letters "ZZ" on each tier.
"This night is only a celebration of my wife's life," von Anhalt proclaimed.
Even though Zsa Zsa couldn't participate and may not have even known there was a party, von Anhalt said she could feel the energy - and by energy he meant the remains of her savings being wasted.
He said the celebration makes her feel good. He said she's getting better. He said she wants to live.
TATTBITS
* Some of the world's biggest pop
stars will perform in front of Buckingham Palace to celebrate Queen Elizabeth II's Diamond Jubilee.
The lineup will include former Beatle Paul McCartney, Elton John, Shirley Bassey and even performers who were not yet born when the queen took the throne.
The queen and her actual prince husband, Prince Philip, plan to attend.
* As we love celebrity stories
with suburban ties, Robert Downey Jr. and his wife, Susan, have named their new baby boy Exton.
* A critic who accused a Pulitzer
Prize-winning novelist of scattering literary allusions like "tin cans tied to a tricycle" has won a prize from the Omnivore website for the year's most lacerating book review.
Adam Mars-Jones' review of Michael Cunningham's novel By Nightfall was named the winner of the Hatchet Job of the Year Award.
The review condemns the novel's pretensions, saying it is "filled with thoughts about art, or (more ominously) Thoughts about Art."
* "Cupcake Wars" judge
Candace Nelson has resolved her lawsuit with a Connecticut cupcake store over its name.
Nelson's company, Sprinkles Cupcakes, last week settled its federal trademark-infringement lawsuit against a store named Pink Sprinkles. The lawsuit claimed the similarity in names was likely to cause confusion in the marketplace.
Pink Sprinkles in Fairfield will now be called Pink Cupcake Shack.
Tattle hopes this won't bring about a lawsuit from the Shake Shack in Westport.
- Daily News wire services
contributed to this report.
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