Sideshow: Real street cred for Gamble and Huff

Wednesday at noon, Philadelphia immortalized a big part of its entertainment history. The 300 block of South Broad Street was renamed Gamble & Huff Walk, in honor of prolific hit-monsters and Rock and Roll Hall of Fame mainstays Kenny Gamble and Leon Huff, phounders of the Philly Sound. That block contains the Philadelphia International Records building, where G&H penned 3,000 tunes and produced hundreds of hits and lots of Number Ones and Grammy winners, including "Back Stabbers," the ubiquitous "Love Train," "If You Don't Know Me by Now," "Don't Leave Me This Way," "Only the Strong Survive," and "TSOP" (the Soul Train theme). They've recorded with just about everyone. A fire set by an arsonist closed the offices early this year, but soon it'll be party time: Next year is the 40th anniversary of Philadelphia International, and 2012 is the 50th anniversary of this storied partnership. Get on board!

Eleven score and 14 years ago, we gave notice to the British and started the glorious U.S. of A. This week, revenge!, as U.K. singer Susan Boyle smacked Taylor Swift off the top of the Billboard 200 Album list. Boyle's second CD, The Gift, debuted at uno, with 318,000 copies sold. Swift's Speak Now fell to 2 with 218K, after two weeks of summitry. The other top 10-ers: (3) Man on the Moon II, by Kid Cudi, 169K; (4) the compilation Now 36, 89K; (5) Greatest Hits, by Bon Jovi, 88K; (6) My Kind of Party, by Jason Aldean, 81K; (7) All the Women I Am, by Reba McEntire, 64K; (8) The Incredible Machine, by Sugarland, 60K; (9) The Lady Killer, by Cee Lo Green, 41K; (10) I Am Not a Human Being, by Lil Wayne, 35K. Leading the Hot 100 singles is Rihanna's "What's My Name," with Drake. (It's Rihanna, BTW.)

Star-baby Eva Longoria Parker is filing for divorce from basketballer Tony Parker. Thus splits one of the world's prettiest couples. Sad. Eva is shedding Tony, it's said, due to his infidelity, after she discovered hundreds of lovey texts to a mutual friend who is a lady. Our comment: Someone bazooka this guy! (1) Extramarital boopity-boop is inadvisable, expensive, time-consuming, complicated, imprudent, immoral, tiring, and deplorable even when nobody finds out. (2) What are you, Tony? Nuts?? World's most loveliest female-type woman and you do what? Aiii! Groan. Grovel in dust. Tear toga. Someone pop his basketball.

Bristol Palin is still dancing, yo! Tuesday night, despite benthic scores once again, Brissie and partner Mark Ballas survived another week on Dancing with the Stars. Booted: Brandy, a shame, since she can dance a little. Jennifer Grey (a true dancer) and partner Derek Hough also went through, as did Disneytot Kyle Massey (he's good) and partner Lacey Schwimmer. On Jimmy Kimmel's late-night ABC show, Brandy showed up with partner Maksim Chmerkovskiy. Jimmy asked if this was all an "outrage," and they smiled and nodded. The wacky results drove Steven N. Cowan of the town of Vermont, Wis., to grab a pistol and shoot his TV. Fifteen-hour standoff! Dog teams! Cop squads! He's charged with reckless endangerment. No comment from the TV. Is there a pro-Bristol conspiracy? Of course! But it's not just conservatives. It's everybody who likes to mess around. Darn funny. Anyone who takes it seriously has only him- or herself to blame.

Monday, Steve Jobs, big apple of Apple, made the long-awaited announcement: At long last, iTunes will now carry the Beatles' albums for digital download. So end years of ridiculous, roundabout nonsense. The real news here is that troubled EMI, the outfit controlling the Beatles' rights, needs the cash and could hold out no longer. Hey, the lads are still cash cattle, folks. Their album 1 was the best-selling album of the 2000s, and only Eminem beat them in total sales. They were number 3 last year, only, oh, 47 years since "I Want to Hold Your Hand."

It's "Most Beautiful" season!! Uh-huh. All the lists of beauty-bods, boys and babes, are coming out. We pay no attention: For some reason we are never included. For the record, Scarlett Johansson is GQ's Babe of the Year. Minka Kelly is Esquire's Sexiest Woman Alive, and Christina Hendricks is its Hottest Woman Alive. (So, wait, the sexiest isn't hottest? Or, if you're hot, it's not sexy? Um, hello?) People mag, celebrating its 25th year of this soft-porny thing, says Ryan Reynolds, Scarlett's hubby, is the Sexiest Man Alive (but who's hottest?). Other admirees include Mel "If You Can't Join 'Em, Beat 'Em" Gibson, Jon Hamm, George Clooney (yeah, OK, shut up), Robert Pattinson (he gets everything), Robert Downey Jr. (he used to take everything), Kellan Lutz, Bradley Cooper, Matthew Morrison (just another pretty Glee club member), and Jake Gyllenhaal (but will he ever live down King of Persia?). If we sound sour, vengeful, and envious, we are. Johnny Depp won Sexiest Man of All Time.

Today is the American Cancer Society's Great American Smokeout! SideShow doesn't smoke; don't you. Lance Armstrong's outfit, Livestrong.com, is challenging Russell Crowe to quit. Crowe mentioned on a recent David Letterman Show that, after five months smokeless, he fell off the tobacco box. . . . With Lohan taste and timing, Dina Lohan, her daughter Lindsay sunk in rehab, is producing Growing Defiant, in which son Michael Lohan Jr. plays a heroin user. Wrong so many ways. . . . At the TEDMED bash in San Diego, our own Ozzy Osbourne hosted his own - genes. He got his whole genome sequenced. It was wife Sharon's idea. She's getting hers done, too. It's amazing Ozzy even has any DNA left. . . . Pink is preggers. The formidable chanteuse said on yesterday's Ellen DeGeneres show: "I'm eating for two these days." She and hubby Carey Hart, reconciled after some time away, are stoked. . . . The posthumous pardon process for Doors front man Jim Morrison, convicted (shaky case) of indecent exposure in Florida in 1969, slinks a step further. Lame-duck Gov. Charlie Crist formally asked for the pardon, and now the Florida Board of Executive Clemency, ooo, we're scairt, meets Dec. 9. . . . In what's becoming a ritual, lam and wife Randy and Evi Quaid failed (fourth time!) to show at an arraignment hearing in a Santa Barbara, Calif., on a felony vandalism rap. Run! Run!