Word on the street is that Mike Myers is in the early stages of reliving his glory days by penning a fourth Austin Powers movie. This is probably a wise move, seeing as everything else Mike Myers touches these days seems to turn to box-office crap.

However, Myers is moving away from his tried-and-true Austin Powers formula: this upcoming film will reportedly focus on the relationship between Dr. Evil and his son, Scott Evil, played by Seth Green. “It’s very personal with a father and son theme loosely based on his own life,” says an insider.

What do you guys think?

Is a fourth Austin Powers a good idea?

And who will be cast as the hot chick???

If you’d held out some glimmering ray of hope that the entire new NKOTB album might not be unbearable treacle like the first single, it’s time to let that hope quietly collapse.

You can listen to their second single — which is actually titled “Single” — here. They teamed up with Ne-Yo on this one, which was just plain poor decision-making … on Ne-Yo’s part.

The entire album will be out September 2.

Sometimes life cranks out little treats that are just too good to be true. For instance, today I was at Pike Place Market and purchased a cinnamon role with chocolate sauce and a cream cheese whipped topping. At the time, I was fairly certain that was going to be the best treat I got all day. But I was wrong!

As John McCain released a slew of campaign videos comparing Barack Obama to that irresponsible, crotch-flashing little trollop Paris Hilton, it turns out that Rick and Kathy Hilton donated a whopping $4600 to the McCain campaign earlier this year. Ahhh ha ha ha ha ha! Somehow I doubt they’ll be doing that again.

Britney Spears’ parents are less upset, as they’d just donated one of their grandchildren to help out around McCain’s office. They figure there’ll be plenty more where that one came from.

Lately it seems that all my D-list reality TV future husbands have been being yanked off the market.

First, Bachelor Andrew Firestone goes and gets married, and now Top Chef’s Sam Talbot is engaged! He and his girlfriend, Colombian model Paola Guerro, have decided to make it official. The two met in Brazil last December.

“I’m so in love it’s unreal. We got engaged this weekend,” said Talbot. “She’s amazing. She’s stunning … She takes care of me in many ways. I’m quite lucky.”

If this sort of crap keeps up, I’m gonna wind up having to marry Stephen the Sommelier, or possibly even Austin Scarlett. I think I’d rather marry Austin Scarlett. He’s soooo pretty!

Britney Spears is still vacationing in Mexico with George Maloof — who you can see relaxing on a pool chair in this photo — and whoever this mystery boy-toy is.

Can any of you ID him?

Also: I love Britney’s swimsuit here. Can any of you ID it, too?

Looks like Work Out star Jackie Warner moves on quick!

She and her much younger girlfriend were having difficulties at the end of last season, and apparently Jackie decided to cut her loose. She was spotted out clubbing in LA last night with her new girlfriend, Lisa Alvarez.

Uh … why is she doing that with her fingers?

Whoopi Goldberg got tongues wagging when she admitted on The View today that she’s had “about fifty” different lovers.

Um … Whoopi’s 52 years old. She was married only briefly when she was 18. So, assuming she lost her virginity at the age of 18, that averages out to approximately 1.47 different men a year.

That’s not called slutty. That’s called dating.

1.47 men? That’s like my monthly figure. Whoopi’s a freakin’ saint.