Photo by F Micelotta/American Idol 2009/Getty Images.

By Joan Raymond

Let's talk images. A snake. A butterfly. A young man with his shirt unbuttoned to his waist, pouting at the camera. Lots of chest stubble. Alone, each image is rather boring. Put them together, and what you have is a hotter-than-Johnny Depp new Rolling Stone cover of American Idol runner-up Adam Lambert. The 27-year-old dude who made guyliner fashionable again gave an interview to the magazine confirming—big surprise—that he's gay. What's really surprising: I can't stop thinking about him. And neither can any of my cougar-aged friends. We love Adam, truly, madly, deeply, in a kind of weirdly Mrs. Robinson sexual way. And the reason doesn't just have to do with our past lives as professional groupies. It also has something to do with biology.

Just a few short months ago, most of my female friends and I were clueless about Adam Lambert. We're busy, professional women, some of us with demanding families and children, all of us with demanding jobs. We never spent our Tuesday nights in front of the TV. Yet this year, for slightly more than two months, phone calls went unanswered and any type of social or familial interactions were put on hold on so we could plop ourselves in front of our sets at 8 p.m. to watch American Idol, the No. 1 rated show on TV, which none of us had ever bothered with before. It started innocently enough: A friend, waylaid by a flu bug, was channel-surfing from the comfort of her couch one Tuesday evening and saw a bejeweled young thing singing a scorching rendition of Johnny Cash's "Ring of Fire." She left us phone messages and tweets, saying, and I quote, "ohmygawdyouhavetoseethisemoglambowielovechildonAmericanIdol." We went, "Huh," but we tuned in the following week. And then we were gone.

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Less than one month after Donald Trump deigned to let Miss California Carrie Prejean keep her crown, the blonde former model will now lose her title. Documents obtained by Fox News cite Prejean's unwillingness to fulfill her Miss California obligations—whatever those may be—and that Trump himself gave the final approval to fire her. It quotes him:

I told Carrie she needed to get back to work and honor her contract with the Miss California Organization and I gave her the opportunity to do so.... Unfortunately it just doesn’t look like it is going to happen and I offered [the organization] my full support in making this decision.

The new TV spots for Sacha Baron Cohen's Brüno are up—check it out, above. Among the goofy, German-tinged voiceover lines? "Brüno ist rated RRRRRR!" 

Now that they've ridden the early NC-17 warnings from the MPAA to their full publicity potential, guess it's time to distance themselves?

• Efron to Take On Tony Manero? Zac Efron recently detached himself from the Footloose remake, his reasoning that he didn't want to be the cherubic Musical Guy all his life. But now, Efron's name is cited as the top pick for a Saturday Night Fever remake that American Idol judge Simon Cowell is organizing. Think he'll bite? [Kansas City Star]

• Tyson Marries in Vegas Hotel-Casino.  Mike Tyson wed his girlfriend, Lakiha Spicer, at a Vegas casino chapel yesterday -- just two weeks after his four-year-old daughter accidentally strangled herself to death on a dangling cord from a treadmill in the boxer's home. Spicer is Tyson's third wife. [AP via USA Today]

• Carradine Details May Corroborate Family's Claim of Homicide. New details emerging from body photos of 72-year-old actor David Carradine may uphold his family's claims that his bizarre death was not a suicide or a sex-play accident (as Thai authorities have deemed it), but rather a murder. The body photos also show a wig and fishnets, according to ABC News, and there is red women's lingerie nearby, suggesting others helped tie him up. [ABC News]