newVideoPlayer("/todokid_def.flv", 506, 423,""); So anyway, we were stroller-pushing with Molls and her young son at the Americana last weekend, and she turned to us and said—what's that? You'd like us to rewind and repeat that again, slowly, and swear up and down we aren't lying? Well we can't do that. All we know is every time we go to her house, there's this kid in diapers there named Collin, and he's usually playing on some exercise equipment (elliptical crosstrainer, exercise ball, whatever), and he keeps referring to her as "mom," and she in response calls him "my favorite little mistake," and they seem to be a happy little family. He's home-schooled, and subsists so far as we can tell on pre-masticated Hostess cupcakes, which she drops directly into his mouth, mama-sparrow style.

Here's your To Dos!

· KCRW Session with Moby at Malibu Performing Arts Center

· Sarah Silverman at Largo

· Artist's Night at California Science Center

Howard Schultz adds, though, that they're "painful and difficult" now. He says closing the Australian stores was necessary because the market had high rent and expensive labor. Back in the US, he wants to do more with the Starbucks Card. "Unlike a fast-food restaurant or a quick-service restaurant, we don't want to get into the game of happy meals and deep discounts," he says. "The Starbucks Card is the perfect place" to build on the company's brand in new ways." (Read the Seattle Times story) || More quotes from Schultz)

One more down, a gazillion left to go!

Girls Gone Wild mastermind Joe Francis has reached a settlement this week with a Panama City, Florida, woman who said she was 16 when filmed flashing her breasts in 2002.

Her picture was on the cover of a popular GGW video.

Francis' attorney said the woman will not be paid but will be freed of a countersuit alleging she abused the legal process.

Joe caught another lucky break!

One more down, a gazillion left to go!

Girls Gone Wild mastermind Joe Francis has reached a settlement this week with a Panama City, Florida, woman who said she was 16 when filmed flashing her breasts in 2002.

Her picture was on the cover of a popular GGW video.

Francis' attorney said the woman will not be paid but will be freed of a countersuit alleging she abused the legal process.

Joe caught another lucky break!

Perhaps it's due to all those episodes of Behind the Music we watched back in the day, but we've always assumed that no matter how big a fortune a megastar may amass, he or she will eventually waste it all on hookers or blow. Not so, apparently, for Kevin Costner: though far removed from his Waterworld earning power, he's socked enough in the bank to still be worth over $20 million. Unfortunately, he spent that $20 million self-financing the dire-looking comedy Swing Vote. Says the LAT:

KEVIN COSTNER'S “Swing Vote” tells the story of an apathetic man floating through life, happy to play whatever cards life deals him. Costner's approach to making the film couldn't have been more different: Rather than watch the Capra-esque fable about a deadlocked election drift away, the actor stepped up to invest more than $21 million of his own money to finance it.

...Costner decided to star in the film and looked for a backer for "Swing Vote's" tentative $20-million budget. But the model some financiers wanted to use — by raising capital through foreign pre-sales — didn't strike him as equitable.

"They want to raise it on your name, but you're not actually benefiting from that," Costner says. "So I looked to my wife and said, 'Why don't we just do this?'"

We can think of three separate reasons why not, but who are we to judge? Oh, right, we're Defamer. In that case, Kevin, kudos for your financial risk-taking, but in this weekend's Mummy/Swing Vote matchup, we're casting a third party vote for another viewing of The Dark Knight.

• Kevin Costner bets on himself again in 'Swing Vote' [LAT]

Solange Knowles must have hired a nanny or three to take care of that baby of hers so she can get back to work.

To start off, Solange has just been named as an ambassador for Armani Jeans.

Giorgio Armani supposedly said, "Armani Jeans expresses my vision of a young, independent, casual lifestyle with a strong and cool, fashion sensibility. Solange epitomises this style perfectly and brings to it that swing so evident in her new single, I Decided."

That has marketing/PR/corporate mouthpiece written all over it!

In late August, Solange's second album, SoL-AngeL and the Hadley Street Dreams (from which I Decided is taken), hits the streets.

The younger Knowles will then be embarking on a worldwide tour this autumn.

Work it!

[Image via WENN.]

Things between Sluttyienna Millers's ex and Jude Law's ex are getting serious!

As we reported Wednesday, actor Rhys Ifans and rock offspring Kimberly Stewart are now dating.

But, it seems like the pair aren't quite ready to proclaim their love publicly.

Ifans and Stewart were extremely camera shy as the paparazzi caught them exiting through the back door of London's Bungalow 8 night club on Thursday morning.

The pair left the club together at around 2.10 A.M. and headed to Kimberly's apartment, where Rhys threw a cigarette and tried to kick photographers.

Drunk sluts in love will do such crazy things!

[Image via Matrix Photos.]

Move aside, The Dark Whopper! There's a blacker, juicier mouthful being featured over at Portland's CineMagic theater. One moment..this just in. Sorry, our bad. This was just a marquee changover from Hancock to The Dark Knight. Never mind. (Though if we got you all worked up with promises of summer-movie-inspired adult fare, we understand the TomKat is currently screening a double feature of XXX-Files: I Want To Be Fisted and Mamma All-Boy Anal Gangbang Mia!.)

Thanks, Defamer editor-at-large Mark Lisanti, for The Dark Tip!

• Changeover [Hollywood-Elsewhere via Lisanti Quarterly]

Rachel Bilson worked some interesting footwear in L.A. on Wednesday.

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Joan Rivers was recently a featured speaker at the Women of Distinction Awards Gala in Orlando, Florida.

The event is a yearly fundraiser by the Girl Scouts.

Rivers was there as part of the tribute, but she behaved less than womanly and more like a trash-talking sailor.

At a Girl Scouts fundraiser!

According to reports, Rivers used the "F" word several times and even repeatedly called women "whores."

She then continued by listing the things that the Girl Scouts didn't teach.

For example, Rivers joked that Paris Hilton didn't earn the "wearing panties patch."

Kinda funny. Kinda not. But, definitely inappropriate for an awards show honoring outstanding women and benefiting the Girl Scouts.

Dontcha think????

You need to know your audience.

[Image via WENN.]