I've got my eye on you

Rock music is in a resurgence on both sides of the Atlantic. A new age of power chord creativity has resulted in real, live organic rock bands pushing manufactured pop and rap off the music charts. But who is producing the best bands -- the UK or the US?

His starring role in Prison Break has brought actor Wentworth Miller all manner of rewards, and also pointed speculation into his sexual interests. Whether due to wishful thinking or envious hating, speculation has been intense that Miller is gay, a notion he has vigorously denied. "I’m not gay, but that rumor can’t be killed." Will there ever be a time when a celebrity's sexual orientation has no bearing on their public image?

The paparazzi surge around Heroes cheerleader Hayden Panettiere has come to a boiling point. Recently, the rabid photogs following Hayden nearly crushed an innocent child, prompting little Hayden to erupt: “Guys! You’re f**kin’…” Does that kind of language make Hayden more appealing or less attractive?

The British press is reporting that junkie cat abuser Pete Doherty mailed a dead rodent with a pin stuck through it to his ex-girlfriend Kate Moss. Is this a gesture of true love or deranged obsession?

Long-time fetish pin-up queen and short-term Marilyn Manson wife Dita Von Teese has loaned her sultry expertise to the Peta cause. Dita poses in a throwback corset to promote animal welfare. Do women photographed in sexually provocative poses really do our four-legged friends any good?

Celebrity consumption has reached all time highs -- both in the quantity of celebrity coverage we normal people consume and in the quantity of intoxicants consumed by these celebrities. Fiona Bowden of Women in Journalism believes that news coverage of Amy Winehouse strolling bloody down the street and Kate Moss carting around her junkie boyfriend Pete Doherty "acts as an encouragement to young people." Does watching celebrities OD make you want to get high?

Americans My Chemical Romance are up for three of this year's MTV Europe Music Awards -- in the Band of 2007, Best International and Rock Out categories. What other awards should MCR be up for?

Over this past weekend, an Internet hoax resulted in rumors that Hannah Montana star Miley Cyrus was pregnant. The vicious lie has since been dispelled. Did you believe it, even for a minute?

Everybody likes a special value, and bargain minded fans of Taking Back Sunday are in for a budgetary treat. According to Punk News, the band has plans to release a "value priced" DVD called Louder Now: Part Two. Included, at no extra cost, will be a CD with heretofore unreleased live tracks and a sprinkling of B-sides. If given a choice, what extras should Taking Back Sunday include in the package?

Being a minor sex tape personality and friend of Paris Hilton is something like a career for Kim Kardashian. Despite Kardashian previously having shown it all elsewhere, Playboy magazine has plans to run 12 pages of Kim in which she shows nothing more than her bum and one boob. What will Playboy stoop to next?