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Rumor Mill: Whispers about the precarious state of Chris Evert's marriage to former Olympic skier Andy Mill have swirled around tennis circles for years, but I guess this time they're real. She and Husband No. 2 issued a joint statement confirming that they will divorce after 18 years of marriage and three sons. Oh, Chris. (People)

NJ Is For [Blank]: Today's the day Jim McGreevey has been waiting a lifetime 10 months for: he and the rest of the gays will find out whether we'll be able to marry in New Jersey or not. A ruling is expected this afternoon. (Advocate)

All the Wrong Moves: First a Scientologist, now Tom Cruise is a lesbian. (OMG)

Babewatch: If David Charvet gets any hotter with age I may have to hurt someone. (Egotastic!)

The Amazing Meow: Reichen Lehmkuhl, the boyfriend of Lance Bass, revealed he was sexually assaulted while a cadet in the Air Force Academy and contemplated suicide after the incident. "I think that's the first time that I've said that that happened," he told ABC News. "I've been ashamed of it." Just Jared reader Leland writes in: "Countless people understandably jumped to the conclusion from his general description on ABC's "Good Morning America" that he was forcibly sodomized or forced to perform oral sex on others, when his book clearly states that what he was forced to do, after being taken from his room, stripped, and his eyes covered, was push-ups into another man's mouth. There may be a term for that, but I sincerely doubt "sexual assault" is it. Unfortunately, those interpretations led many to become uncompensated cogs in the Reichen PR machine." (OUCH!) (JJ)

Smells Like Royalties: Wow, that Courtney Love is one lucky woman. Kurt Cobain now outranks Elvis as the top-earning dead celebrity. His estate brought in $50 million last year, followed by Elvis' $42 million and "Peanuts" cartoon strip creator Charles Schulz at No. 3 with $35 million. (Reuters)

Like a Prayer: I was flying off the handle to my family about the rampant (and increased) violence going on in Iraq during the so-called "Muslim holy month" of Ramada: "Attacks have spiked in Baghdad since the beginning of Ramadan, the Muslim period of fasting and repentance that will come to an end this week with the three-day holiday of Id al-Fitr, when Muslims traditionally gather with their families to celebrate the end of the fasting period." Brother Terence joined in with this poignant observation: "U.S. soldiers [are told] to cool it during Ramadan, especially near holy sites, because Americans don't want to look as though they don't respect the religion that these particular Muslims don't even respect. Irreverent cartoons are way over the line, but they can blow up stores and bakeries where women are buying food for the end-of-Ramadan feast." (Beautifully put.) People keep trying to convince me that this type of behavior is that of extremists, not decent everyday Muslims. But wouldn't it be more accurate to say that this is the behavior of actual Muslims rather than nonthreatening (read: nonpracticing) Muslims? If you want to jump on the religion bandwagon (any of them), then why not respect the ones who go "all out" in observing the often ridiculous and inhumane practices that accompany such practices. If you really want to go down that road then you should be outraged that the Palestinian people have had their land "occupied" and "stolen." Kill everyone who is oppressing you from being on your "holy land," damn it! I don't want anything to do with any of that crap -- just as I don't want anything to do with any true Christians -- you know, the ones who "follow the Bible" and think all gays are going to hell and that women don't have the right to choose what to do with their bodies, and so on. (Kill the abortion doctors too, bunch of evil sinners.) Are you following my logic here? (NYT)