It brings me great sadness to report on the passing of Frank McCourt, the brilliant memoirist who I consider a personal literary hero.

McCourt initially garnered attention with Angela’s Ashes, and went on to write two more bestsellers: ‘Tis and Teacher Man. His heartfelt words and his story resonated with readers worldwide, myself included.

He passed away on Sunday in New York City after battling illness for several years.

You will be missed, Mr. McCourt.

At a rowdy 18 year old’s birthday party, you might expect the restaurant or the ladies bathroom to get trashed, but not the birthday girl’s 15 year old sister.

The Moore – Kutcher – Willis clan got together this past Friday night to celebrate Scout Willis’ 18th birthday with a 20′s flapper-style bash at L.A. restaurant Cicada. Guests included Dita Von Teese, Marisa Tomei, and Rumer Willis, doing her best to let everyone know exactly what kind of underwear she was wearing.

But the real star of the night was the youngest Willis girl, Tallulah Belle, who spent the night smoking, drinking, and hitting on older men. She reportedly ended the night by stumbling out of the restaurant with a pack of cigarettes and a pack of her friends, who attempted to keep her upright on her walk of shame to a waiting vehicle. Step dad of the year, Ashton Kutcher, looked none to happy about it either.

Now, to be honest, the drink the paps have circled in the above picture looks like nothing more than ice water– which may be damning enough evidence in itself, since no one drinks ice water at a party unless they’ve already gone overboard with the alcohol. If you’re going strictly non-alcoholic, you’ll have either soda, or juice, or a Redbull in your glass.

She’s also shoeless– another likely sign of inebriation– and in the pictures of her leaving the restaurant, she is quite clearly carrying a pack of cigarettes.

An endearingly bumpy– and as always, braless– Ellen Pompeo showed off her baby boulder on the way to the doctor Saturday.

Umm… is this one of those times when we don’t have to pretend that pregnancy automatically makes all women look better? Not every woman “glows,” unless your definition of “glowing” includes awkwardness and upper lip sweat.

Still, Ellen looks very happy (and healthy) for someone who could see her own placenta at any moment; the baby is due in early August.

Toothpick.

Tori and the family visited Coogie’s Beach Cafe this Sunday to grab a bite to eat, or in Tori’s case, to look at the food and occasionally smell it.

The family became irate and left the restaurant when a waitresses mistakenly attempted to use Tori to hold together a club sandwich.

Jamie Waylett, who plays Vincent Crabbe in the Harry Potter movies, appeared in a London court this past Thursday to plead guilty to charges of producing cannabis.

Waylett… was originally busted in April after police searched a car he was riding in and discovered eight bags of marijuana and a knife. Police then raided his mother’s home and found 10 marijuana plants. The cannabis was reportedly worth approximately $2,900 and was growing under hydroponic lights, next to a PlayStation console.

Along with a friend, the 19-year-old Waylett pleaded guilty to growing the drug at a hearing at City of Westminster Magistrates’ Court. The charge carries a maximum sentence of 14 years. Judge Timothy Workman announced that the two men would be sentenced Tuesday.

And bloggers all over the world struggle to put together all manner of pot / potter word puns.

The reports in the Associated Press didn’t say anything about it, but shouldn’t his mother be held responsible in some way? I find it hard to believe that he was growing pot in his mother’s house and she knew nothing about it.

The press junket for Katherin Heigl and Gerard Butler’s new film The Ugly Truth was interrupted Saturday when a bomb threat was called in to the Four Seasons Hotel where it was being held. The building was evacuated for two hours while police searched the premises. Butler and Heigl mingled and took photographs outside with other evacuated guests, then ducked into a nearby restaurant to grab a bite.

After the police search turned up nothing, the hotel was reopened.

No word yet on what Wendie was doing yesterday afternoon at approximately 1:45pm when the threat was called in, or whether or not she has the phone records to prove her innocence.