Water Cooler Talk

• Rascal Flatts and Taylor Swift will announce the CMA Awards nominees live September 10th on ABC's "Good Morning America" during the 8:30 half hour.
• Bernie Mac had long suffered from an immune system disorder that most commonly infects the lungs. Pneumonia is a frequent complication
• That guy in the helmet and shoulder pads the other day at the New Orleans Saints practice was none other than Kenny Chesney. He's pals with New Orleans Saints head coach Sean Peyton and quarterback Drew Brees.
• Tori Spelling isn't returning to the new 90210 after all. When she found out that Jennie Garth and Shannen Doherty were going to get more than three times her salary, she demanded equal pay or she'd walk. She walked.
• Angelina Jolie is in negotiations to replace Tom Cruise in the spy thriller "Edwin A. Salt," a CIA officer who must prove she is not a Russian sleeper spy out to assassinate the president.
• The "Nightline" crew over at ABC is sweatin' bullets. ABC is one of the places rumored where Jay Leno could land when his NBC contract expires next May.
• Swim legend Mark Spitz won't be on hand in Beijing if Michael Phelps breaks his record of seven gold medals at a single Olympics -- because, he says, no one bothered to invite him.
• Paul Stanley of Kiss and his wife are expecting their second child together.
• Seth Green is going to join the cast of "Heroes" for several episodes.
• Word is that Bruce Springsteen is going to do the half-time show for the next Super Bowl.
• Joss Stone is recording a campaign song for Obama, you'll probably be hearing soon.
• Former Tonight Show sidekick Ed McMahon is being sued by yet another person who says he owes him money!
• October 14th: that's the date that "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull" will come out on video... and, for the first time in the series, on Blue Ray.
• Pretenders singer Chrissie Hynde says she's moving in a Country direction with the group's new album.
• Did you even know there was an RFD network? (as in Mayberry, RFD) It's going to start showing "Hee Haw" in September.