I’m being snarky, but it’s a fantastic story:

Ed Burns had just dropped off his 3-year-old son at his Manhattan school when the actor-director spotted a flier on the wall about a preschooler in need of a life-saving bone marrow transplant. “It broke my heart,” the Saving Private Ryan star tells PEOPLE exclusively.

On April 6, 4-year-old Kai Anderson, who attends the same school as Burns’s son, was diagnosed with the rare and aggressive Philadelphia Chromosome-Positive Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia. The news was a blow to his family, especially since his father, David Anderson, was diagnosed a year ago with Mantle Cell Lymphoma – another rare and complicated form of cancer.

Young Kai’s urgent need for a transplant struck Burns – especially because he’s the father of two children with wife Christy Turlington: Grace, 5, and Finn, 3. “I went home and told my wife,” he says. “We said, ‘What can we do to help this family?’ She called a friend and got more details. We wanted to do whatever we could.”

The couple are doing their part by spreading the word about a donor drive for Kai on Saturday, May 2, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the Montessori School of Manhattan on 53 Beach St. in New York City. “The Tribeca Film Festival is going on that same day, so thousands of people will be in the neighborhood,” says Burns. “We’re trying to get them to take a few minutes of their day to have their cheek swabbed so that they can become potential donors.”

It’s interesting that this should come up today — earlier in the week, I saw a Demi Moore tweet about the bone marrow registry and how important it was that people register. I went to the website she mentioned, Marrow.org, and filled out the form to join the registry. My kit is supposed to come in the mail this week or next. All you have to do is swab your cheek — no needles or anything! — and mail it back and you’re added to the registry. Sure, there’s a lot of stuff you have to do if you turn out to be a match, but none of it will kill or maim me. Only 1 in 200 people on the registry are ever actually asked to donate bone marrow, and a week or two of discomfort on my part seems like a very small price to pay for the honor of saving a life.

Thanks to all these celebs for making this cause visible.

This marriage is totally done for. I called it like a year ago. Someone better hurry up and option the rights to Jon Minus Nine, because it’s happening any day now.

After Jon Gosselin was spotted leaving a night club drunk, wedding ring-less and calling a non-Kate woman “babe,” National Enquirer is running a story about yet another cheating scandal:

In what could be the kiss of death for his family show, Jon & Kate Plus 8 star Jon Gosselin was caught kissing a beautiful young brunette at a motel hideaway, The ENQUIRER has learned exclusively.

The celebrated TV dad was spotted by a security guard April 18 at a motel only a short distance from his 26-acre Pennsylvania estate.

David Reitnauer told The ENQUIRER he saw Jon kissing the woman at the top of a side entrance stairwell on the second floor at the America’s Best Value Inn.

“It didn’t look like a friendly kiss. It looked like a romantic one – it lasted for about 10 seconds,” disclosed the guard.

Now, listen. I feel just awful for the kids involved here. I love every last one of them, and I love Kate for being a good mother to them. (Yes, that’s right, I said it. I think Kate Gosselin is a good mother.) But she is absolutely the wife from HELL. I cannot imagine being married to that woman; it would be worse than the part of dating Hef where you have to put his penis inside you. I cringe for Jon when I see her on TV, ripping out his balls for the entire country to watch. I don’t blame him one bit for wanting to get away from her. It just sucks that there are SO MANY kids involved. I’m sure Kate’s learning a very important lesson right now about letting go of control and letting life unfold as it may — it’s just sad that the kids have to learn it this way, too.

Recognize this little girl? You should, she’s on your television every week singing on American Idol. But this isn’t her first televised singing competition! In 2007, Allison won a Telemundo show called ‘Quinceañera: Mama Quiero Ser Artista’ (Sweet Fifteen: Mom, I Want to be an Artist). On the show, a group of teenagers were competing for a recording contract and a $50,000 cash prize. And Allison won! Apparently she never actually recorded an album — and no one’s quite sure if winning the show should make her ineligible for Idol.

I say give the girl a break. She was like 14 back then! She couldn’t have even auditioned for Idol if she’d wanted to. And if we didn’t allow people to participate in more than one reality TV show, what would become of Adrianne Curry’s flourishing career? (Don’t answer that.) I still love Allison, I think she’s tremendously talented, and I’ll vote for her again next week! (Although I will make damn sure to vote for Adam Lambert, too — everyone must have assumed he was safe!)

Now HERE’S some refreshing news: Anna Faris, who’s getting married this summer to actor Chris Pratt (no relation to the Douchepratt), says rather than starve herself in preparation, she’s eating more.

“I am fattening it up!” she confessed when asked if she’ll be changing her workout routine for the big day. “Now that I have a man, I’m like, ‘Oh, I don’t have to try anymore! Now I can eat. We love to splurge at home. We love to cook. My fiancé is an incredible eater, and so he’s really fun to feed, and it’s great to share some wine and watch a movie. He’s always like, ‘Baby, don’t lose that butt!’”

Oh whatever. Like Anna Faris has a butt. Also this is the same girl whose face completely changed, Audrina-style, somewhere around 2007. So I’m not entirely sure I’m buying into the I-love-me-for-me argument she’s presenting here.

The cool thing here is that I’ve FINALLY heard of this dude she’s marrying — he’s in the new Amy Poehler show, Parks & Recreation (which is actually really really good if you haven’t seen it). He plays Andy, the loser, broken-legged boyfriend of Rashida Jones’ character. Hopefully he’ll end up being more stable for Anna — she dumped her last husband, another unknown actor, in April 2007.

Kirstie Alley showed up on Oprah this week to talk about how she gained back the 75 pounds she lost and then some: She replaced her home gym with a dining room a year and a half ago, and she hasn’t exercised since.

Well, that’ll do it. It’s so easy to be like, “Oooh, I have the body I want now, I don’t have to watch my diet and exercise anymore.” NOT TRUE. You gotta keep at it, or it’s gonna come back!!!

Good for Kirstie for being honest about her struggle and taking steps to get back into shape!

“I am totally confident that I am an incredible artist and performer.  I am extremely confident about my body, the way I dress, the way I want to look.  But I have no confidence when it comes to men. Men are a disaster area for me.  It’s so weird because I believe I am super sexy. I believe I am incredible, but I have absolutely no luck with boyfriends.”

Lady Gaga explaining to The Sun how unlucky in love she is.

I found that, for me, dating started going a lot smoother when I stopped telling my dinner companions all the different ways in which I was just so absolutely fricking amazing.

You may remember Kelly McGillis as playing the character Charlie Blackwood in Top Gun.  Personally, I remember her role in which she portrayed the lawyer who brought the rapist of Jodie Foster’s character to justice in The Accused.

Today, McGillis is starting a new phase of her life-as a lesbian.

Fifty-one-year young Kelly McGillis is starting her “life in a whole different phase,” she told rocker and SheWired vlogger Jennifer Corday — ostensibly coming out as a lesbian.

Corday, in her Girl Rock video blog, asks the Top Gun and The Accused star, that since she is single, is she looking for a man or woman, or both?

In no uncertain terms McGillis responded that what she is looking for is “definitely a woman.” McGillis, a long-rumored lesbian who starred on The L Word as a closeted Army Colonel trying a Don’t Ask Don’t Tell case added that she is “done with the man thing.” She said she is “done with that, and needs to move on in life, and that’s another part of being true to yourself.” It has been a challenge personally for her, she added.

McGillis said that realizing her sexuality has been an ongoing process for her since she was 12 years old, but through her life faced getting over being convinced that God was punishing her for being gay.

Corday told McGillis that it’s much easier to become spiritual now and people realize that “God is okay with you being gay.”

McGillis added that “life is a freaking journey, and it’s about growing and changing, and coming to terms with who and what you are, and loving who and what you are.”

You know, yay for Kelly McGillis!  She has been married twice, has children, is fifty-one years old.  It’s sad that it has taken this long for her to feel able to live an open and authentic life.  And really sad that she’s always felt that God wasn’t okay with her just the way she was.  I’m glad that she figured it out.  Better late than never!

If you want to see the video, albeit with really bad audio, of Kelly officially coming out, it’s at about 6:45 on this clip.

Also, for a picture of Kelly as she looks today, jump!

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