Gossip Corner

This is really that girl's territory, but since she hasn't yet written anything about Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes' "relationship," I'll take the opportunity to link to Tina Brown's column on same. The elephant in the room that Tina was intent to ignore---or, how's this Jeremy, the present absence---is obviously, as Bill Maher pointed out, Cruise is not doing much to dispel gay rumors by "dating" a self-avowed 26-yr-old virgin.