Okay, okay, it’s possible that he didn’t really mean that he struggled with mental illness, even though lots of media outlets are reporting it that way.

Robert Pattinson — I think his people are transitioning to “Rob Pattinson” now — has admitted in an interview in New magazine that he’s a bit all over the place when it comes to relationships. The actor said “You over-analyze everything — you analyze how if you say one thing, someone likes you, and if you say another, they don’t. You begin to experiment on people, which isn’t good for real life. I don’t think I’m very romantic any more — just manic depressive.”

Well people characterize themselves as bipolar or manic-depressive all the time (as well as crazy, psycho, schizo).  It’s a bad habit that our society has picked up (I’m certainly very guilty of it) to use mental illness terms in common speech.

I don’t know if Pattinson was being serious or not — he did say that he hasn’t been officially diagnosed — but he can pretty much assume that the “mental illness” label (as well as the Kristen Stewart’s boyfriend label) will be brought up at every single press junket and interview that he ever does for the rest of his career.

I have a very hard time accepting how grown up Dakota Fanning is looking these days.  She’ll be 16 in February and she’s a junior in a private high school in L.A.  Just, wow.

She appears in the December issue of Teen Vogue and talks about starring in the Twilight sequel, New Moon.  It seems that she’s a big fan of the books and co-star Kristen Stewart.  Let’s just hope Kristen keeps Dakota away from the bong.  She’s one of the few non-Lindsays left in Hollywood and it would be nice to see her progress more down a Jodie Foster-ish path than a Mackenzie Phillips-ish path.

Pamela Anderson has been hanging out (lit.er.ally) in her trailer that is currently a home that she shares with her sons Brandon and Dylan.  She claims that she isn’t poor, she likes living in her double-wide whilst construction carries on at her main residence in Malibu.

Her little darlings, spawn created with the sperm of Tommy Lee, appear to be following in their dad’s footsteps.  And Pam’s reaction to it all doesn’t sound strong enough to keep them from going down the same path as Lee.

The former Baywatch star is currently living in a beachside trailer with Brandon, 13, and Dylan, 11 – her kids with wildman rocker Tommy Lee – while their nearby home in Malibu, California is being renovated. And Anderson’s boys are so much trouble she now worries about scheduling workcommitments out of town and leaving her mom, Carol, to look after her sons – because they’re beginning to take after their rock star father. She says, “Boy, they’re so feisty. When I get home and I’m not home for a couple days, they gotta be put back in their bodies immediately.

“They got in trouble because my children are riding their dirt bikes through the whole trailer park, going crazy, doing flips – and everyone’s concerned for their safety. And mom’s like, ‘Oh, they’ve been riding the whole weekend, they’re having a blast!’ I was like, ‘They’re not allowed to ride their dirt bikes in the trailer park!’ They terrorize the neighborhood the whole time.”

She adds, “My son got in trouble at school for beating somebody up. Well, not really beating somebody up. Just one of the counsellors, who’s 18 or 19, made a rude comment about me to him. Brandon threw his Red Bull (drink) on him and then went after him and they had to peel him off him. Now I’m getting called into school.

“But I think when somebody says something bad about your mother, what are you supposed to do? It is hard when other kids are like, ‘I’ve seen your mom with her clothes off!’ I’ve tried to teach my kids I have no problem with nudity. Violence isn’t good but Brandon was really upset, he was shaking and crying and looking in my eyes. It’s so sad.”

Well, shit.  I’m no Dr. Phil, but I do have one suggestion on how she could help her kids.  Uh … put some underwear on?  That would help her kids and the entire nation, really.

Carrie Prejean — yep, she’s still around — was on Sean Hannity’s show last night to talk about her solo sex tape.  I know the folks at the Miss California pageant are happy that tape exists (a tape of Carrie masturbating for her boyfriend at the time), because about 20 seconds after they showed it to Prejean she dropped her lawsuit.  Ah … the power of a masturbation tape … truly, the power of one.

Anyway, it’s clear that Sean Hannity totally backs up Prejean.  He wrote the forward for her book “Still Standing” and clearly does all he can to take the heat off of her during last night’s interview.

In the meantime, it looks like Jennifer Lopez could be talking about her sex tape soon.  The singer is suing her ex-husband (I know, I know.  Which one?)  Ojani Noa, also known as “The First in the Trilogy” for $10M for violating a 2004 confidentiality agreement that they both signed.  It seems that Noa is in possession of their honeymoon sex tape and is shopping around for a buyer.  The tape — it already has a title of How I Married Jennifer Lopez: The J.Lo and Ojani Noa Story — shows a fight between J.Lo and her mother as well as J.Lo getting spanked.  Kinky girl!  Who knew?  Nobody, until now.

“There was this really earnest college student with his backpack on who wanted to do his first film, and then Madonna wanted to produce it.  I was like, ‘Madonna? I don’t think this is her film. I remember this one producer told me that he had found Precious—and it was going to be Brandy. Excuse me? I literally almost hung up on him.”

Sapphire, the author of Precious, in an Entertainment Weekly interview.  Apparently, I’m not the only one who wants to disconnect with people who think Brandy has acting talent or the ability to properly affix false eyelashes.

I just wanted to drop you guys a note about my friend Brent’s boutique perfume line, Smell Bent. I’ve blogged about him before. He sent me a sampler of his first round of scents, and I am not even exaggerating when I say they totally changed the way I think about wearing perfume. These scents are like nothing I’ve ever worn before — so fun and sexy and creative and original. I feel like a million bucks when I wear them. I know a bunch of you guys ordered the sampler, too, and loved it. Your response was overwhelmingly positive — and that is NEVER the case with this audience. ;)

Well, he’s just released his new line of holiday scents, and they sound AMAZING — and they’re tailored for Jews and gentiles alike! Here’s what’s in the new line:

père noël coward – sweet immortelle, atlas cedar, balsam fir and pinõn sap
elf-fulfilling prophecies – a little velvet pocket full of cinnamon sugar cookies, naughty pipe tobacco and toy shop sawdust
hippie holidaze – a late night combo of tangerines, maple syrup and aged patchouli
gelty pleasures – sultry, spiced amber mixed with rich milk chocolate
2010 – new spaceship smell, pressurized cabin, jet fuel, and a blast of intergalactic plants and blossoms

So head on over to SmellBent.com and pick some up for yourselves!!!