I've got my eye on you

When darling Disney High School Musical starlet Vanessa Hudgens was caught with nude photos on the Internet, pundits predicted that her career was toilet bound. But fate swirled a different way. Spy UK has announced that flashing Vanessa has been offered a million-dollar modeling contract by Sketchers casual shoes, replacing singer Ashlee Simpson. Is Vanessa being rewarded for bad behavior?

Life is all about relationships and chance meetings. According to Korn guitarist James "Munky" Shaffer, who also founded Emotional Syphon Records, he once had a chance to make a play for My Chemical Romance. "The singer [Gerard Way] is pretty cool. He gave me a demo once in New York. I just said 'Thanks, man! Good luck!' And now he's big time." Imagine if the Korn guitarist had been instrumental in shaping MCR's career. Would the band be better or worse?

Further personal details are being revealed about the intimate relationship between Pete Wentz and Ashlee Simpson. Wentz confessed to People magazine that "I'm actually just her purse." If Pete Wentz were yours, what fashion item would you want him to be?

According to much of the literature and many of the movies devoted to former living beings who are navigating a no-man's-land between life as we know it and eternal death, ghosts can be fun. But Gerard Way, as reported by TeenMusic.com, had a chilly reaction when he encountered evidence of spooky beings while working on My Chemical Romance's Black Parade album in a haunted Los Angeles recording studio called the Paramour Mansion. "Me and Mikey [Way] were in the kitchen making coffee and this door slammed in front of us. It was this door to the basement that nobody ever went into and we just ran like girls." What would you rather see: a ghost? Or Gerard running like a girl?

Wednesday, October 10 was a bad day for Cleveland and for Marilyn Manson. After having been taken to task in the media following a murderous shooting rampage at Columbine High School in Colorado almost ten years ago, Manson is the default scapegoat anytime disenfranchised kids act out in a way severe enough to make the evening news. You can expect the fallout to be even worse when the loner teenage gunman is wearing a Marilyn Manson tour t-shirt when he goes on his schoolyard shooting spree, which is what 14-year-old Asa Coon had on. Asa shot four people before turning his gun on himself and ending his life in Cleveland on October 10. Does Marilyn have something to answer for in Asa's actions?

The recurrent weekend war over movie-going strategy will be vicious on this weekend of divisive offerings: We Own the Night for champions of violence and crime; The Final Season for anyone who wants to fight for heartwarming life lessons; Elizabeth: The Golden Age for those wont to put up a passionate defense for historical drama and pageantry. Click on the trailers below, and pick your battle.

Reedy vocalist Lily Allen has come by her flakiness the honest way. She inherited her penchant for the inappropriate from her dad. If reports from NME are true, the 'Knock Em Out' singer's father, a comic actor named Keith Allen, took Lily along as an infant on drug deals, reasoning that lugging a baby made him more sympathetic to the other dopers. "I didn't see what was wrong with taking little Lily along with me as a sales tool rather like the homeless lads do with dogs." Who do you think would make a drug dealer more sympathetic, Lily Allen or a dog?

Post-teen fashion mavens Ashley and Mary-Kate Olsen traveled all the way to London, England, to find a celebrity with more messed-up hair and body images than themselves -- Amy Winehouse. Who looks looks more likely to hit the age of 25, the twins or Amy?

Teenage actress Evan Rachel Wood recently took her 38-year-old boyfriend home to meet the parents. Not only is Evan Rachel's boyfriend a middle-age mack, he's prince of darkness Marilyn Manson. Luckily for Marilyn, Evan's mom and dad are into vampire lore and LSD humor; so some preliminary bonding was achieved. Would your parents accept Marilyn or freak out?

With every positive comes a negative, and English mess Pete Doherty seems to have traded drug addiction for a meat pie affliction. Though arguably healthier looking than he has appeared in years, the former Kate Moss cross to bear is well on his way to a lead role in a stage revival of Porky Pig Meets the Sweat Hogs. If you were forced to date sweaty, pasty Pete, would you take him thin and strung out or plump and placid?