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Issue date: 10/3/08 Section: Life & Arts

Media Credit: etonline.com Oprah Winfrey

Media Credit: usmagazine.com Mark Wahlberg

When actress Jenny McCarthy wanted to install a fireman's pole in her son Evan's bedroom, she decided to go the cheap way-and put in a stripper pole instead. "The fireman's pole was, like, $2,000, and the strip-aerobics pole was $200," she explained. No word on what the little firefighter charges for demonstrations of his new moves.

Oprah Winfrey's mom is being sued by a high-end Wisconsin fashion store, Valentina, Inc., because she has, well, stopped paying for stuff. And now Mom is countersuing, saying that she never made the minimum monthly payment on her account because the store took advantage of her "lack of knowledge." And a petty lawsuit like this would never make the headlines if it didn't involve Oprah's mom.

Kevin Costner has announced he will release a country music album. You have been warned.

"Tranformers" hottie Megan Fox boasted she's the best fiancée to boyfriend Brian Austin Green because with her tomboy interests and hot body, she's essentially-and I quote-"a man with a vagina." Apparently, not only is she the best fiancée, she's also the classiest.

The eighth annual Stony Awards ceremony was held in California last Saturday. The prizegiving, which honors pro-marijuana storylines and portrayals in TV and film, gave out awards to hit TV show "Weeds" and indie drama "The Wackness." For his work in "Pineapple Express," James Franco was named Stoner of the Year. Put that on your résumé.

Speaking of substance abuse, actor Christian Slater traces his battles with alcohol and drugs back to one of his first drunken showbiz parties-which he attended when he was 9 years old. The third-grader got trashed while on tour with a production of "The Music Man." Those wholesome family musicals will do it to you every time.

Aussie actor and rugby fanatic Russell Crowe was so horrified-and fascinated-by an injury sustained by his team captain during a rugby game that he directed a film crew in capturing the captain's operation on camera. The captain suffered a torn pectoral muscle, which needed to be reattached to the bone. "We shot the operation and it was like the surgeon was fixing plumbing," Crowe said, as he accepted his award for Creepiest Friend Ever.

Mark Wahlberg and his fiancée named their newborn baby son Brendan Joseph. And Brendan has already thanked them for not naming him Apple, Suri, Maddox, Sage Moonblood, Pilot Inspektor or Blanket.

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