Queen Latifah cancels Bill Cosby interview

HAPPY Halloween, faithful readers of Temporary Tattle. How about a single treat before we-wish-they-were-tricks?

Apple CEO Tim Cook confirmed what his colleagues and friends have long known and most likely not thought that much about recently.

He's gay.

In an essay in yesterday's Bloomberg Businessweek, Cook explained his public coming out by quoting the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. - "Life's most persistent and urgent question is, 'What are you doing for others?' " - and writing he realized that "my desire for personal privacy has been holding me back from doing something more important."

Cook said he's proud of who he is, proud to work for a company that supports him, proud of the progress civilization has made, proud to support that progress and (I'm paraphrasing here) would kinda like to get back to the business of making billions of dollars, so can he please stop talking about this now?

And now, for the other news.

Things have gotten increasingly creepy with Honey Boo Boo's Mama June situation. The Georgia mom gave E! an interview to address allegations that her manfriend is a child molester who assaulted one of her daughters in the presence of another, even younger, daughter.

She didn't say much. She shouldn't say anything. She probably should let someone else care for the kids for a while, while she takes care of herself.

Speaking of alleged crimes against women, TMZ reported that "The Queen Latifah Show" decided to nix an interview with Philadelphia's own Bill Cosby.

Last week, as reported by my columnist colleague Molly Eichel, up-and-coming comedian Hannibal Buress did stand-up at the Tower and brought up the ugly old business of the women who accused Cosby of drugging and date-raping them.

Buress got a laugh. The world got a reminder. The Daily Mail interviewed an alleged victim.

Old news got new again.

The CBS talk show told the Cos no thanks.

"The Divide," the Philadelphia-set drama based on the work of the Pennsylvania Innocence Project, has been canceled by WE TV after one season. The low-rated show was created by Tony Goldwyn, better known as hunky President Fitzgerald Grant in "Scandal," and Richard LaGravenese ("The Fisher King," "Behind the Candelabra").

"The Divide" was the first scripted series for WE. But don't cry too hard. The show might have been set in Philly and featured basic exteriors, but it was shot mostly in Toronto.

Pharrell and Robin Thicke seem headed to trial. A federal judge ruled that there's a case to make against last year's biggest power-pop duo, whom the Gaye family has accused of cribbing from Marvin Gaye's "Got to Give it Up" for their hit single "Blurred Lines."

Maybe when they're there, they'll run into the siblings Lohan.

Seems a stylish project launched by Lindsay and her erstwhile head-down little bro Michael Jr. bears an eerie similarity to a stylish partner the pair were involved with last year.

Without getting too technical (or, let's face it, boring), Mike and his college roomie joined a company called Spotted Friend to launch an app that let users look into celebs' and friends' closets.

Linds' closet was going to go first. Instead, the littler Lohan launched an app called Vigme that does pretty much the same thing.

* Miley Cyrus and Rihanna went scantily gowned to an AIDS gala. T*ts-for-Tatt?

* Instead of wearing a mask to a masquerade, Jessica Simpson's husband, Eric Johnson, stuck a pair of lacy black briefs on his head. Tat-drawers.

* Bravo big-man-on-campus Andy Cohen told Philadelphia magazine that the network had no plans to make a "Real Housewives of Philadelphia." Tat-

phew.

* The man mostly known as Pee-wee Herman but legally Paul Reubens told Jimmy Fallon that a second "Big Adventure" is in the works. Tat-ta-ta-ta-ta-ta.

- Daily News wire services contributed to this report.

Howard Gensler has the day off.