SARAH PALIN’S new memoir describes heart-wrenching anguish about her teen daughter’s pregnancy playing out before a national audience. But the 413-page tome doesn’t contain a single reference to the father of her grandson, soon-to-be Playgirl model Levi Johnston.

Hudson River hero pilot Chesley Sullenberger has become such a hot media commodity that journalists are being restricted from taking pictures of him being introduced to the audience at a Broadway play this weekend.

CHARLIE SHEEN’s role as a wealthy, womanising bachelor on the top-rated sitcom Two and a Half Men has made him the highest paid TV actor this year with earnings of $825,000 (€533,000) per episode, including money from his ownership rights in the show.

In a response to charges by conservative talk-show host Rush Limbaugh, actor Michael J Fox defended his appearance in recent political campaign ads, saying he was neither acting nor off his medication for Parkinson’s disease.