The "Palin Promoting Palin" Tour

Substance? Or just style? Politics and policy, or just self-promotion and profit? At cnn.com, James C. Moore has a nice rundown on what Sarah Palin's up to these days. Hint:  Her profound and important book about protecting Christmas, or some such thing, comes out in a couple of weeks.

Check it out here.

This Is Why She's Famous

If you've ever found yourself wondering what, exactly, Kim Kardashian is famous for, I'd say this picture pretty much sums it up. Especially when paired with this pic of her in a white one-piece swimsuit. Based on the look on Kayne's face, as well as what he's looking at, I'd also say it's not her intellect that's got him enthralled.

Anyway, with this I'm going "radio silent" on the K's for a while, unless something so radical happens that I just can't help myself.

Kelly Clarkson's Wedding...

... is the main cover story, which I completely missed. I did get one of the sidebar stories right - Kim K, darn it! I was really hoping People would ignore the whole Kimye thing but that was probably not realistic. Separate from the new issue of the magazine, pictures of Prince George's christening are everywhere - will this still be "news" next week, or will we all have moved on? Meet me back here next week for another edition of "The Guessing Game."

The Guessing Game

I'm back! And it's Tuesday afternoon so let's play the guessing game - who will be on the cover of the new issue of People magazine? My guesses:

• Kim and Kanye got engaged last night and the People website has had several items about it throughout the day. Is this the story that finally gets the Kardashians a full cover? Possibly, although I really hope not. Please, please, please let this *not* be the most important thing happening in pop culture right now. For the record, I'm still giving Kimye two years, max.  
• Prince George's christening is tomorrow, but I'm pretty sure People will wait until next week for a big story, when pictures and the names of godparents have been released.
• The Nevada school shooting, which killed a teacher/former marine.
• Maria, the mystery blonde child found in Greece 
• Melissa McCarthy's controversial Elle magazine cover picture 
• With November 22 just a month away, I'm still expecting some assassination anniversary coverage, possibly tied to Caroline's move to Japan, or Rob Lowe's turn as JFK in "Killing Kennedy", the upcoming National Geographic Channel movie.  

I'll post the new cover as soon as it's up on People's website.

Wild About Harry!

So is Harry getting married? Could be. I said a few weeks ago that I was expecting a "fun Uncle Harry" cover story, but a royal romance is much more fun. And who is Cressida Bonas? (Don't you just love that name?) Based on what I've read so far, she's more aristocratic than Kate and the Middletons, but not quite as well-born as Princess Diana, or Lady Diana Spencer, as she was when she got engaged to her prince. She's BFFs with Princess Eugenie, studied to be a dancer and may not be ready to give up her dreams of a career in show business. Lord knows there's enough history to make any smart girl think twice before joining the royal family, no matter how hunky and charming Harry is. On the other hand, Kate's making it look easy, at least so far.

And in a sidebar, at almost 4 months old, finally, is a picture of North West. Very cute, and so far much less overexposed/exploited than I had been expecting. Of course the Kimye baby isn't the biggest Kardashian story this week, because a big separation was announced and it wasn't Khloé and Lamar. Momager Kris and step-dad Bruce Jenner confirmed what apparently was obvious to K-watchers and announced that they're the ones who've separated. The story broke late Tuesday afternoon, which was too late for this week's tabloids but I can only imagine the headlines next week. Stay tuned...

Update: I found a fun article at E Online, with "10 Things You Didn't Know About Cressida." Fave tidbits:

Her favorite expression is "Cringe de la cringe." I don't even know what that means.
Her half-sister had a crush on Prince William. Sis's name? Isabella Anstruther-Gough-Calthorpe. Really.
Her fave TV show is The West Wing. I'm sold. Go for it, Cressy!