Blog Posts by Kathleen Perricone

Gosling, the hero. (Francois Durand/Getty Images)It's a bird, it's a plane — it's Ryan Gosling! A British journalist claims that the oh-so-handsome actor rescued her from being struck by a New York City cab on Tuesday night. In a series of tweets, Laurie Penny detailed her brush with life-saving fame. "I literally, LITERALLY just got saved from a car by Ryan Gosling. Literally. That actually just happened," she wrote first to her nearly 40,000 followers. "I was crossing 6th avenue in a new pink wig. Not looking the right way because I am from London. Ryan Gosling grabbed me away from a taxi." But Penny, who writes for The Nation and Al-Jazeera, says she didn't realize it was the "Ides of March" actor until it was "confirmed by girl near me, who said 'you lucky bitch.'"

Rihanna covers Elle. (Tom Munro/ELLE)Rihanna has no apologies. When the pop star made her reconciliation with abuser Chris Brown public in February — she released a duet on the remix of her song, "Birthday Cake" — the backlash was loud, but she wasn't listening. "I respect what other people have to say," the "We Found Love" singer, 24, tells Elle in its May cover story. "The bottom line is that everyone thinks differently. It's very hard for me to accept, but I get it. People end up wasting their time on the blogs or whatever, ranting away, and that's all right. I don't hate them for it. Because tomorrow I'm still going to be the same person. I'm still going to do what I want to do."

Want to own a piece of pop music history? The seven-bedroom Holmby Hills, California mansion where Michael Jackson died in June 2009 is on the market — for a cool $23.9 million! The 17,000-square-foot property boasts 13 bathrooms, a wood-paneled library, a theater, pool, wine cellar, and game room, not to mention the honor of having caught the eye of the King of Pop. "When he walked in here, this was the house he fell in love with," notes The Agency's Maurico Umansky, who also happens to star on "The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills." "I think it's so much fun for someone to own a piece of history, a piece of an icon who really changed our lives."

Gosselin and Dovolani on DWTS. (James Devaney/WireImage)Kate Gosselin has been on the warpath lately. The reality mom-of-eight has been battling anyone and everyone who has had something negative to say about her on her Twitter page, including her ex-husband Jon Gosselin and even some of her 85,000 followers. Her latest victim? Tony Dovolani, who was paired up with Gosselin for the 10th season of "Dancing with the Stars" in 2010. On Friday, the dance pro revealed on Anderson Cooper's daytime talk show that after working with the notoriously hot-tempered Gosselin, he needed "a lot of therapy." On Monday, the former "Kate Plus 8" star ripped Dovolani — and Cooper — in a bitter blog post.

Winslet. (Richard Bord/Getty Images)DiCaprio. (Steve Granitz/WireImage)Kate Winslet has done it again. Just days after she revealed that hearing the theme from "Titanic" — Celine Dion's "My Heart Will Go On" — makes her want to "throw up," the actress has made another verbal blunder. In an interview with iTV's "Daybreak" to promote "Titanic 3-D," she was asked how she and co-star Leonardo DiCaprio have changed since the original film's 1997 release and she was quite frank in her answer. "We do look very different, we're older," Winslet explained. "Leo's 37, I'm 36 — we were 21 and 22 when we made that film. You know, he's fatter now — I'm thinner."

Houston with Sparks. (Tristar Pictures)Whitney Houston may be gone, but her legend is certainly not forgotten. And it lives on in the movie she completed just before her February 11 death, "Sparkle," in which she plays a single mother of three young daughters who are trying to break into the music business — something she had failed to do in her own youth. The trailer for the Motown musical, which hits theaters August 17, has just been released, and in it, Houston's final performance really resonates, especially the heart-tugging scene where she performs the gospel hymn "His Eye On The Sparrow" in an empty church as her daughter, who's in an abusive relationship, nurses a black eye.

Stewart and baby Delilah. (MDX-OSR-ROL/X17online.com)When you're a Hollywood kid, you're never too young for a coffee run. Kimberly Stewart brought along her adorable 7-month-old daughter with former fling Benicio Del Toro, Delilah Genoveva, for a stop at a Starbucks in Beverly Glen on Thursday. Both mom and baby — who share the same birthday, August 21 — were dressed in black pants. Little Delilah also sported a jean jacket on the brisk spring day.

Lewis walked down the aisle yet again. (Noel Vasquez/Getty Images)Has Jerry Lee Lewis finally found true love with his seventh wife? The "Great Balls of Fire" singer, 76, got married once again on March 9 in Mississippi — and for the second time, his choice of a bride is raising eyebrows. Lewis, who infamously wed his 13-year-old cousin in 1958, said "I do" with his caretaker Judith Ann Coghlan Brown, 62 … who also happens to be his cousin's ex-wife. "She's real happy," Brown's sister Carolyn Coghlan Gremillion told The Associated Press. "They have a really very loving relationship. I guess she's probably really taken better care of him than anybody."