Water Cooler Talk

• An arm scrape was about the worst of it for Nick Nolte, who had to escape a fire at his Malibu home Tuesday that caused an estimated $1.5 million in damage.
• Holly Madison, one of 82-year-old Hugh Hefner's three girlfriends has confirmed to TMZ.com that the two are kaput.
• China television is showing a 50-part biography series on the late Bruce Lee.
• Beyonce now admits that she and Jay-Z were married in a secret ceremony last April.
• The north facade of the White House turned bright pink in the rosy glow of flood lights in honor of Breast Cancer Awareness Month on October 7.
• "High School Musical star Zac Efron did NOT die, as reported by a foreign newspaper. But his mom was pretty shaken up after she heard the news... before hearing the truth.
• DC Comics has killed off Clark Kent's adopted father with a heart attack... again, in Action Comics #870, due out Wednesday.
• Ronnie Wood's soon-to-be ex-wife says that the Rolling Stone is going through $20,000 a week. Just his spending money.
• Britney Spears has rejected a plea offer that would have placed her on a year's probation with a $150 fine in her misdemeanour driver's licence case. Spears wants a reduced charge and a $10 fine.
• What gives Victoria Beckham such smooth skin? She credits these new $200 Geisha Facials, a paste made from nightingale droppings.
• Lifetime is working on a television movie about Natalee Holloway, the teenager from Alabama who went missing in Aruba in 2005.
• The Sarah Silverman/Jimmy Kimmel thing is said to be back on, but both are taking it very carefully.
• Linkin Park is cancelling its upcoming China tour because lead singer Chester Bennington has suffered a back injury.
• Last year, there was a deadly tornado. This year on "Desperate Housewives," there's going to be a fire... a big fire... and some people won't survive. The fire, of course, will hit during the November ratings sweeps.
• Berkeley Breathed has announced that his comic-strip writing days are about to end and that includes Opus, who will cease to make a last appearance November 2nd.
• Taylor Hicks next album will come out February 10th