Overnight Briefing & General Reality Check

Sucking the life out of the wire services:

ALEXA RAY JOEL is coming clean about her suicide attempt late last year. The latest "Prell Girl" tells People magazine that she was suffering from extreme depression --and a broken heart. Don't believe the rumors that CHRISTIE BRINKLEY was giving her flack about her weight --she says her supermodel mommy is very supportive of her physical appearance and wishes she had her unique looks. (Lee)

Tabloids with Cory Myers:

Housekeepers to the stars are spilling secrets about their famous employers in Star magazine:
   --BRAD PITT and ANGELINA JOLIE are slobs. They let the kids write all over the walls, leave pizza boxes and food around to spoil, Brad leaves his underwear around and hoards architectural magazines and Ang freaks if her bath isn't drawn at a certain time and at the perfect temperature everyday.
   --JAY-Z and BEYONCE live like royalty. Beyonce has a team of people who take care of her and every night they eat on fine chine, have fresh flowers delivered every other day and always have fresh fruit and expensive chocolates everywhere.
   --CHRISTINA AGUILERA plays dress up for her hubby JORDON BRATMAN and her help has to pick up her naughty nurse outfits.
   --JENNIFER ANISTON walks around half naked or sometimes topless in front of her help.
   --GEORGE CLOONEY and MARIAH CAREY treat their staff very well and expect to be treated well in return.
   --TOM CRUISE and KATIE HOLMES have very strict rules. No one is allowed a cell phone in their home, Tom wants his gym spotless and not even his wife can use it and no one except a hand-picked nanny is allowed near SURI.
   --DEAN McDERMOTT had a very high sex drive and is usually telling wife TORI SPELLING what he wants to do to her when he's not actually doing it.
   --BRITNEY SPEARS keeps a food stash. When a maid found half eaten burgers, fries and cookies under the singers bed, she denied they were hers and tried to blame her sons.
   --KIRSTIE ALLEY's house smell like a toilet. The actress lets her animals pee and poop all over the house and it reeks.
   --BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN flirts with his help. He loves to flirt with his female maids, housekeepers and assistants.
   --MARTHA STEWART makes her help change her shoes. Apparently she doesn't like the signature red soles of CHRISTIAN LOUBOUTIN shoes so she has her staff color them with a wide Sharpie.

Going Geek-dot-com /Caught in the Web:

If you checked your Twitter stats Monday, you may have been a little shocked to see you had no followers. Twitter techs had to reset all follower counts to zero in order to kill a bug that was allowing users to force other users to follow them back.
   According to the tech blog Gizmodo, a hole in Twitter's security allowed users to force anyone to follow them, even famous tweeps with "Verified Accounts." Things are back to normal now and @aplusk (ASHTON KUTCHER) is back to following just a fraction of his followers. (Page)

Overheard on Sunset Blvd:

Here's a shocker --JOAQUIN PHOENIX's bizarre behavior over the last year-and-a-half was all a hoax! The British tabloid the London Sun reports the actor was in cahoots with brother-in-law CASEY AFFLECK and the two have been filming a "mockumentary" the entire time. Word is they're trying to sell the rights to Hollywood heavyweights like HARVEY WEINSTEIN and invited some decision-makers to a private screening last week. (Lee)

Asleep at the switch:

The driver of a high-speed train in Taiwan has been fired after being caught sleeping at the wheel.
   Agence France-Presse says the train was going almost 200 miles-per-hour and carrying hundreds of passengers. Other employees determined the driver was asleep after noticing his hands weren't moving.
   Luckily, the cabin crew was able to take control using an auto-pilot feature.
   A spokesman for Taiwan High Speed Rail confirmed the driver had been taking sleeping pills. Nobody was injured. (Still)