Burying the hatchet? Boring! But, drat, President Barack Obama will let Fox News Channel's Major Garrett interview him today in Beijing. Fox and the Obama Box have been slapping each other good - but, alas, the No-Fun White House confirmed the interview yesterday, and Garrett breathlessly posted the news on Twitter.

Couldn't he mullet over?

The startling revelation from Andre Agassi's autobio Open? Not that he played tennis while stoked on crystal meth. Hey, who hasn't, right? Nor that tennis mauler Martina Navratilova is now hatin' on him, saying he's bad, has let tennis down, should lose his credit cards, etc. The not-to-be-recovered-from jolt is Andre's admission that in the early 1990s, when his hair started departing, he used a mullet wig or hairweave. He even 'fessed to this on David Letterman's show Nov. 11. We know - you're reeling. So let's recap: Mr. Steffi Graf not only had a mullet haircut in the first place (Why, Lord???), but also, when hairlessness attacked, got a mullet wig, so people would think he continued to have a mullet. He did this thing, yet he wrote it down. And owned it on world TV. Where's King Lear when you need him? Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks! rage! blow!

Attack of the Rogers!!!

He's Fred Rogers, he's 11 feet tall, 7,000 pounds, and sits in Pittsburgh's North Shore Riverfront Park. The statue of the beloved TV host, who died in 2003, was created by rough-hewn sculptor Robert Berks (same guy who did the craggy Albert Einstein bust in Washington). Unveiled Nov. 5, the statue is reportedly a hit with kids, who, like everyone else, love Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood, still viewable on local PBS stations. Mr. Rogers' wife Joanne Rogers also likes it. But ABC late-night host Jimmy Kimmel ain't feelin' the love. On his Nov. 6 show, he said the statue "made the nicest man in the world look like a mud monster." He showed a vid (see it at www.go.philly.com/rogers) of the Rogers statue reaching out and biting off a visitor's head. BTW, Mud Monster Fred is wearing his sweater. After all, he is outside.

Beats a Pell Grant, I guess

Belle de Jour, the former prostitute behind the blog Diary of a London Call Girl and the TV series Secret Diary of a Call Girl, may be, in reality, a research scientist! So says Brooke Magnanti, 34, a specialist in developmental neurotoxicology and cancer epidemiology, who dished to the Sunday Times. Now working at the Bristol Initiative for Research of Child Health, Magnanti says she worked the streets 2003-2004 to pay for her Ph.D. in informatics, epidemiology, and forensic science. We can't even say all that!!! Studies say the practice of students paying for college via sex work has risen 50 percent in the last seven years. Right here in Philadelphia, if a November 2008 Daily Beast blog by the nom-de-plumed Melissa Beech is to be believed. Beech, "a college student in suburban Pennsylvania," says her sugar daddy, met via the Web site SeekingArrangement.com, is paying for college. We washed dishes and flipped burgers. . . .

Pratt-Roker Twitter wars

We live for those delicate, human moments when celebs hurl spleen balloons at each other. Reality TV characters Spencer Pratt and Heidi Montag were canceled off Monday's Today, where they were to face Twitter foe and former obese weatherman Al Roker. So Spencer took Twitter revenge on poor Al. He began with the deathless "WEATHERMAN I thought you were out of town today getting your stomach stapled again?" Can you love this enough? More, more! "You look very sick? Do you always look like your about to die? How old are you 97? You should retire asap- No one would even know?" Can such punctuation be? More! "Is it true you have been married 6 times? I'm sure all your wives left you when they realized you were abusive to women! Sicko!" Not true: Roker has wed thrice. Pratt repented on Twitter yesterday. Back in June, when the three last locked tweets, Roker had some choice retorts. We wait!

Tiny little itty bitty thingies

What is Brad Pitt's beard? It was OK when fresh and well-trimmed, but this weekend, seen in LA with Angelina Jolie, Brad's wife object, that beard was well into The Scragglies. Brad: We know you can grow it; now mow it. . . . According to PopEater, publishers are hemorrhaging to get Sen. John McCain to write a book on erstwhile running mate Sarah Palin, who throws rotten watermelon rinds on McCain's campaign in her new book Going Rogue. Pubs hope the gentlemanly McCain will go rogue at Palin's provocations - and a hefty advance.

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