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Taken from popdirt.com:
According to the new popbitch.com newsletter, when Jessica Simpson attended an interview for a major film role last year with her father/manager, Joe, he approached the casting director after it was over and Jessica left the room. "I don't think that went too well", he said before the casting director had given his opinion. "But I have my other daughter Ashlee in the car; can I bring her in?"

Speaking of perverts, Dr. Emilio Bombay, techie extraordinaire, admitted to a Hilary Duff fetish in today's issue of the Dallas-Fort Worth Star-Telegram:
One of the scariest things you'll ever hear is the telltale whirring and clicking of a cratered hard drive. Your system won't boot, all your documents are gone, and never again will you see all those pictures of Hilary Duff you downloaded when your wife was at the dentist's ... I think I also forgot to tell you that you have to cross your fingers really, really hard if you want this to work. If it doesn't, then you can always find more Hilary Duff pictures out there, and your wife has to go back to the dentist in six months anyway.

Never thought of Hil as a perv's type of woman. She does have some Lolita-esque qualities ... that Lindsay Lohan's just too mavenish for all the Humbert Humberts out there, isn't she?

Over the holidays, I caught an episode of something -- perhaps it was Oprah? Anyway, a beautiful teenaged girl sung beautifully on the show minutes before it ended, and I never caught her name. I have at last rediscovered her.

Her name is Renee Olstead and she sings pop-jazz -- and is a mere fifteen years old. While her most recent album (her first was an independent release at the age of thirteen) features a few duds -- a cover of "Summertime" from Porgy and Bess -- her voice is still something to write home about. She does double-duty by starring on the CBS primetime show Standing Still. A favorite among fans is the original "A Love That Will Last," on which her youth really sparkles and shines. Check it out at her official site.