Tattle: Why care about Gabby's hair?

When Tattle was asked to weigh in on the "controversy" over Gabby Douglas' hair, our excitement was palpable — who better than a white guy who's had the same haircut since the Carter administration to offer up thoughts on a black woman's hair.

Nothing could go wrong there.

Maybe it's the way we views sports — as sports — but in watching Gabby achieve all kinds of Olympic and athletic firsts and perhaps become the Tiger Woods of women's gymnastics, we hadn't even noticed Gabby had hair.

We were too busy noticing her beaming smile, her flying through the air, her flipping forwards and backwards and doing tricks on a narrow slab of wood that 310 million Americans couldn't do on dry land without winding up in traction.

Gabby Douglas is an athlete, not Tyra Banks. Like the swimmers who wear bathing caps because the caps help them swim faster, the key to Gabby's do is that it not get in the way of what she's doing.

In that sense her hair is the first American hair to ever win double gold in the team and individual gymnastics competition.

She needs a brush?

Brush this, loser.

The Indiana Attorney General's Office says most victims of a deadly stage collapse at the Indiana State Fair have agreed to accept shares of a $13.2 million settlement offer from the state and two private companies.

The office said Thursday that so far, 51 of the 62 eligible claimants have accepted the settlement offer. Paperwork from additional claimants that was postmarked by Wednesday's midnight deadline also will be accepted.

The mystery of Katherine Jackson's disappearance was clarified Thursday with the release of court papers that said she was kept from communicating with outsiders while at a resort and was unaware she had been reported missing.

Katherine declared in the documents that she learned she was the subject of a search when she accidentally heard a TV report.

Before that, she said, she was kept virtually incommunicado without access to a phone or her iPad. She said her stay at the Tucson resort was unplanned and she went there after she was told her doctor had ordered her to rest.

Before that, she had intended to take a cross-country RV trip to see her sons perform in concerts.

"While there was a telephone in my room, the telephone was not functioning and I could not dial out," she said in the documents. "In addition, there was no picture on the television in my room."

What kind of resort was this?

In other Jackson family news, Oprah Winfrey has tapped La Toya Jackson to star in her own reality show.

"Life with La Toya" is described as a "candid look" inside her life as she juggles family, friends and business. It will air next year on Winfrey's TV network, OWN.

This could be just the turnaround spark OWN needs.

Russia's President Vladimir Putin on Thursday criticized Pussy Riot, the feminist punk-rockers facing trial for performing a "punk prayer" against him at Moscow's main cathedral, but said a punishment for them shouldn't be too severe.

Considering that even Pussy Riot's prison has a working phone and TV, perhaps they should be sent to the resort where Katherine Jackson stayed.

Beyonce is teaming with the United Nations and humanitarian-aid organizations on a global campaign to encourage people around the world to get involved.

Could she be more specific?

E! Online reports that 50 Shades of Grey is even hotter than Harry Potter.

Well, except for that scene in which Ron tied Hermione to the bedposts and got Harry to use the spell "Bombarda," which caused within Hermione a small contained explosion.