Sure, life as a touring rap star seems glamorous and all, but consider the case of Snoop Dogg and his Unity Tour: Between those shows with tens of thousands of screaming fans, clamoring press and raging parties are 15,000 miles of road done in 13-hour stretches between 35 cities, 27 states and two countries. Oh, and did we mention the bus full of people that reeks of fried fish? Get a whiff in our exclusive KillahKev With the Big Boss Dogg video series.

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Nicole Kidman's got the golden touch.

A phone call from the Australian actress helped spur two of her countrymen to victory Monday in the men's 470 class sailing competition at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, gold medal winner Malcolm Page tells Melbourne's Herald Sun.

After making tracks in the preliminary rounds, Page, partner Nathan Wilmot and their 4.70-meter-long fiberglass dinghy—named the Australia, after Baz Luhrmann's upcoming epic starring Kidman and Hugh Jackman—also finished first in yesterday's medal race, beating out teams from Great Britain and France for the top spot on the podium.

But despite their nautical tribute to Kidman, Page says that he didn't get to speak to her when she first rang him up because he saw the unknown number and let her call go to voice mail.

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Victoria Beckham has had it up to here with tabloids trying to get the skinny on her figure.

The glamorous Brit is reportedly gearing up to sue the U.K. magazine Now over an article that claimed she was "hooked on sex and diet pills," which has since mysteriously vanished from the rag's website (though search results confirm the story once existed).

"The accusation is dangerous, defamatory and blatantly untrue," Beckham's agent, Jo Milloy, said Monday, referring to the latter half of that statement.

"Victoria takes her position as a role model to young women very seriously and is horrified by this hurtful, fabricated story. It is now with her lawyers."

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• Jon Voight and Roseanne Barr are worse than Rosie O'Donnell and Donald Trump. J.Vo responded to R.Bo's angry blog post by calling her "sick of the mind." Either settle this with a reality show or please just stop, OK?

• Sienna Miller and Balthazar Getty's tour de PDA continued today before she peaced out of L.A. Now the paparazzi can get back to following real stars.

• This one goes out to all you who ever wondered what Michael Phelps looks like with clothes on. Also, he's not dating fellow swimmer/Playboy model Amanda Beard.

• Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston both have films premiering at the Toronto Film Festival, and Us Weekly is super excited that they could reunite. Will all of their wildest fan fiction fantasies come true?

• The Jonas Brothers have decided not to endorse a presidential candidate. Watch out guys, Roseanne's going to blog-attack you next.

Mark Spitz has been vanquished. But not so Dorothy, Rose, Blanche and Sophia.

Michael Phelps' Spitz-sinking swim on Saturday elevated NBC to its best ratings on the once-mighty, now-dead night in about a generation.

Still, the golden boy of the Beijing Games couldn't topple The Golden Girls, which held on to its title as NBC's most-watched Saturday-night show of the last 18 years.

Overall, NBC's first full week of Olympic action was ratings gold, with the network scoring the most lopsided Nielsen wins in more than 20 years.

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We hear that they were doing it anyway, but now audience members are actually going to be encouraged to sing and dance in the aisles while watching Mamma Mia!

Universal Pictures announced Tuesday that a sing-along version of the critically panned yet infectiously upbeat ABBA-fest will be unleashed in selected theaters Aug. 29.

Anything to drown out Pierce Brosnan, right?

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Maybe the Olympics have instilled a little patriotism in Joe Francis. How else to explain why the Girls Gone Wild founder has stepped up to take one for the team, filing a multimillion-dollar lawsuit against his onetime Florida captors, all in the name of American justice?

Francis filed the paperwork in Los Angeles Superior Court today, alleging that the federal judge and opposing attorneys in a 2003 case in Panama City had illegally imprisoned him, worked together to all but hold him ransom in jail while denying him bail and otherwise bilking him into settling several pending legal actions while behind bars.

All told, his legal actions against city officials seek $300 million in compensatory damages.

The breast-happy entrepreneur is also petitioning the court to trash the settlement he reached with two women who sued him in Florida over their allegedly underage participation in a GGW video, contending that the ladies purposely lied about their ages to get on camera.

"They kept me in jail for 11 months for a civil case. This may be justice in Panama City, but it’s not American justice. This doesn’t make any sense," Francis told E! News Tuesday.

"I am suing to protect everyone else, so this type of thing never happens again."

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