Naomi Campbell and Vladimir Doronin

Everyone will agree that Naomi Campbell is a fabulous model, but, as a person–maybe not so much. In the last few months she has been in the news many times: slugging her billionaire boyfriend Vladimir Doronin’s limo driver; hitting a camera as she walked off an interview when queried about receiving a blood diamond from Liberian despot Charles Taylor; rumors of her engagement to Vlad; and, now, an upcoming Oprah appearance to clear the air. Who can forget the thrown phones, the run-in with Heathrow cops, Tyra crying that she tried to ruin her career, the street-cleaning sentences, and anger-management rehab. And that she dated Mike Tyson a million midnights ago. A Daniel Craig look-alike, Doronin has been seeing Naomi for two years, so I guess it doesn’t faze him. He sat in the audience, with Campbell’s mother, to lend support during the Oprah taping. I must see that show.

UPDATE  from Oprah: The drugs, the tantrums, the tears–and her new life in Moscow. She came off well: I believe Naomi’s story of trying to be a better soul!

Speaking of powerful, blonde Russian men named Vladimir, what about the gay rumors now circulating about Putin?

Google does. They  know how to innovate. Cutting their carbon footprint at the company’s northern California headquarters, a herd of goats have been employed to take the place of noisy, polluting old Toros to keep the campus looking trim. Of course they have a wrangler to trail after the animals.

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At performance artist’s Marina Abromovic’s current show at the MoMA, it seems even sophisticated New York art lovers cannot abstain from touching the naked participants. Oh, the way of the flesh.

Now highly controversial, Afghan President Hamid Karzai’s corrupt government and “mental stability” are being questioned. On major news outlets, the former US envoy to Afghanistan strongly indicated–”wink-wink, nod-nod“– that the leader of the country that’s the world’s largest heroin producer has a drug problem himself! Does this kind of innuendo start when the “puppet” cuts his strings and runs away?