Water Cooler Talk

• The Jacksons were supposed to appear on stage in a big reunion next month, but now we hear that Michael hasn't spoken to his brothers in three years.
• Elizabeth Taylor is back home and doing well following a recent stay of several weeks in a Los Angeles-area hospital.
• The Italian edition of Vanity Fair said that it had found George Hussein Obama living in a hut in a ramshackle town of Huruma on the outskirts of Nairobi. Yes, that's Barack Obama's youngest half-brother.
• You've heard of "My Space." Now, for the serious David Hasselhoff fans among us, there's "Hoffspace." Yep, a web society all about the Hoff.
• For the die-hard Mama Mia fan, Universal Pictures has a special sing-along edition of the movie in selected theaters, beginning a week from Friday.
• Country singer John Rich told a concert crowd, "I'm sure Johnny Cash would have been a John McCain supporter if he was still around." Roseanne Cash has publicly disagreed.
• No Wheaties for Michael Phelps. He's signed a deal with Kellogg's to be on their regular corn flakes and frosted flakes.
• Ralph Nader is predicting that Obama is going to pick Hillary Clinton.
• If you had your TV on at all last week, it was to watch the Olympics on NBC. That would explain the lowest ratings in recorded history last week for ABC, FOX and CBS.
• Britney Spears is said to have agreed to star in a new MTV reality show.
• A Tennessee congressman is trying to add Isaac Hayes' name to the Memphis airport.
• Jessica Simpson is now selling a spokeswoman for a beer called Stampede Light Plus, made in Dallas.