AmIdol winner Fantasia Barrino’s new album drops December 12. Check out the first single, “Hood Boy,” here. [Juicy-News]

Look, I’ve seen 8000 celebrity Halloween costume photos this week, including a completely baffling Paris Hilton, but Anne Curry as Cher deserves its very own link. [Go Fug Yourself]

Because you haven’t lived until you’ve seen Chris Klein as a slice of pizza, the kids at Celebrity Smack put together two fairly comprehensive collections of celeb Halloween costumes. See, I had planned to do this, but I quickly realized it would require time and effort. Linking is much better. [Celebrity Smack, more]

Katie Holmes doesn’t actually want to befriend Brooke Shields; she’s fishing for tips on how to behave as though you actually just had a kid. [PCW]

One evening, a few years ago, I got really excited because I was going to see my favorite, Neil Patrick Harris (aka Dougie Howser, MD) in “Assassins” on Broadway. After the show, because a friend of a friend was in the cast, we waited at the stage door and I got to meet Neil Patrick Harris. Oh dreamy Neil Patrick Harris. Soon after, a friend of mine, who is an established musical theatre actor, was hearing my story and stated, “You know he’s totally gay right?” In the musical theatre community, of which Doogie Howser is a big part, it is well-known that he is gay. I heard the same thing about T.R. Knight before he was forced to come out. Obviously, he won’t come out of the closet, partially because he plays such a woman-hungry character on “How I Met Your Mother.” New York and Hollywood are very different beasts. I have heard, from very credible sources, that he has been sighted trolling various gay bars in New York. Also, a friend of mine said that they saw him and his long time boyfriend, David Burtka, in Williamstown, Mass. and they looked “very” together.

An article recently came out that essentially “outed” Neil stating,

“Nepotism is alive and well in Hollywood. Former Doogie Howser star Neil Patrick Harris, 33, recently got his longtime sweetheart David Burtka, 31, a guest role on his series How I Met Your Mother (airing Wednesday nights on CH). Burtka is an experienced theatre actor (he played opposite Bernadette Peters in Gypsy on Broadway and starred in the touring company of Beauty and the Beast) but also had small parts on episodes of The West Wing and Crossing Jordan.”

Via [Towleroad] his publicist reacted to this article by denying this homosexuality stating, “He’s not of that persuasion.”

Uh huh, cause publicists ALWAYS tell the truth. Why do I always fall for gay men?

Disclaimer: This picture above is from his turn in “Cabaret” at Studio 54 in New York. I just wanted one where he looked super gay to prove my point.

Seriously, she knows this is a nonsense costume. She just wants to see what we’ll do with it.

This is like a Rorschach test. What do you see in Paris Hilton’s Halloween get-up? Let us know in the comments.

More pics here.

Props to the boys at Pajiba for being, as best I can tell, the only writers in the blogosphere to make it work. And I tried on two sites.

Really short bangs are the new “it” hairdo. I think they are more of a hair-don’t but really who am I to criticize. I just have this weird flashback to second grade when I decided to cut my friend’s bangs. They came out looking similar to the style above and I got in quite a lot of trouble. I have to say on Rosario Dawson they are kind of hip but much like skinny jeans most people can’t carry them off, and they seem like a fashion disaster in the making.

Emily Gould and Doree Shafrir. Head on over to rubber-neck as they try to find their footing.