Twitter quitting - the new Hollywood stampede! Shaquille O'Neal may tweet followers to join him at the local eatery - and thus instantly fill empty restaurants. But glitterati seem to be de-Twitterizing at a rapid pace. Note Miley Cyrus' high-profile 'bye to Twitter. Says she wants a private life. Yeah, right. Psst, world: Girl's got a movie, OK? Over the weekend she went on YouTube, posting a rap to explain why and to deny that her Last Song costar and supposed boything Liam Hemsworth made her do it. All is recycled! Not to be out-de-tweeted, songstresses (or stressed singers?) Lily Allen ("I am a neo-Luddite, goodbye") and Courtney Love have tweeted their last tweets. Or so they tweet. Love, BTW, was the first-ever tweeter to be slapped with a defamation suit, earlier this year by her former fashion designer Dawn Simorangkir, whom Love called "a nasty lying hosebag thief." (Why is that bad, though?)

Peacock says no 'Glee' on Turkey Day

Oh, this is nice.

Know how you have NBC, this old network limping in fourth place in the prime-time sweeps? Pooped peacock? Technicolor tail dysfunction? Left showing old-school stuff like the Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade? And then there's Fox, with plenty of hits? One of them being the hilarious Glee, a send-up of high school glee clubs. Seems the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade folks invited the Glee cast to be in the parade. Hey! the Glee bunch could do one of those highlighted lip-synched song-and-dance numbers we look forward to so much!!!! But when NBC found out, they told the Macy's folks to disinvite Glee. And they have. Holiday spirit! NBC has invited tons of non-NBC stars before. Fox savior Bart Simpson has been a balloon at the parade since 1990, for goodness' sakes alive! Beyond the sourest of grapes, this is senseless, catty, immature and gratuitous. And that's why we at SideShow love it!

Oprah sued over mile-high sex

We also love complicated lawsuits involving, um, alternative behavior. Doesn't everyone? A lady named Corrine Gehrls filed suit Friday against Harpo, Oprah Winfrey's company. Gehrls, former flight attendant on Oprah's private jet, says two other attendants conspired to lie to O that Gehrls had had midair unmentionable motion with the chief pilot. Gehrls, fired in July, is saying it was because of these allegations. No word on the fate of the pilot! One of the hostesses named is the daughter of O's pal, Gayle King. Gehrls is asking for $75,000 in damages.

Nonfat corndogs sighted in Texas . . .

. . . not. Over the weekend, Oprah and King went to the Texas State Fair to record a special, and what does O (who is famously supposed to be dieting away 40 pounds) do but ram down a corndog and chase it with some good old (and good for you!) deep-fried butter? If she's not careful, she'll have to change the name of her magazine from O to O------O.

The judgment to Rush

Speaking of livin' large, radio giant Rush Limbaugh is seeking to buy the St. Louis Rams football team. Hey, they're terrible (losses: 5; wins: 0), so they're probably cheap. But some folks think it'd be the end of the universe if the conservative talker ended up owning a football squad. Several African American players say they wouldn't play for him. New York Jets linebacker Bart Scott says players remember Limbaugh's ESPN remarks in 2003 that Philadelphia Eagles star Donovan McNabb was overrated and that "the media has been very desirous that a black quarterback do well." (Limbaugh soon quit the show in the resulting brouhaha.) Now the Rev. Al Sharpton, the ultimate preacher without a congregation, has shot off a letter to Roger Goodell, calling on him to block Very Big Rush from buying the winless Rams. We're rooting for one of Rev. Al's patented public demonstrations! Wouldn't that be fun? Two Limbaugh moments: He has said that "the NFL all too often looks like a game between the Bloods and the Crips without any weapons" and said he "liked" a caller's comment that then-Sen. Barack Obama was "the Donovan McNabb of the Senate."

Bloom a goodwill guy for kids

Meantime, some people are doing good in the world. Boring, we know. But among them is that handsome elf Orlando Bloom. He was named the latest Goodwill Ambassador for UNICEF. He'll be stomping the globe in support of children everywhere. Good guy: He's been doing a lot already, visiting Nepal, Russia and Bosnia-Herzegovina for UNICEF. "I look forward to working with UNICEF as they continue to make the world a better place for children," said Bloom.

Big casting director to give seminar

The Philadelphia Terror Film Festival will be Oct. 20-24. One of the big guests will be Diane Heery of Heery Casting. She's a casting director of 15 years experience, including casting Philly-area-shot films (The Sixth Sense, Signs, Law Abiding Citizen). She'll be giving a seminar at the Ethical Society Building, 1906 Rittenhouse Square, from 3 to 4 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 22. Her theme: "Acting from a Casting Point of View." Free, baby! Sounds like a natch for anyone interested in acting, the movies, stuff like that. Check out the Festival Web site at www.TerrorFilmFestival.net.

Dips, dishes, dots and di-di-dits

Jessica Simpson bucked the anti-Twitter trend, tweeting about her coyote-kidnapped maltipoo Daisy and asking that people "respect her memory." . . . People.com says Prince Harry of England is back on with his sometime goil, Chelsy Davy. . . . An 8- to 10-foot-long great white shark was photographed frisking around Sunset Beach in Cali. That's where the big surfers of moviedom like to surf, folks like Helen Hunt, John Slattery (Mad Men), Matthew McConaughey, Cameron Diaz, Adam Sandler, and Anthony Kiedis of the Red Hot Chili Peppers. Unsubstantiated reports say the stars initially took the huge predator for a movie exec.

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