August 19 @ 6pm [Submit your own Gawker Stalker sightings to stalker@gawker.com] Shopping at Ina on Prince street. She was in the shop for 2+ hours. There was a ton of paparazzi so I stopped to see who it was.

[Madonna leads her troupe of children (including boyfriend Jesus Luz) through the streets of Italy earlier today. Apparently she is in mourning for her 51st birthday. Image via Bauer-Griffin]

Blake Lively and "Gossip Girl" cast runs lines and continues filming in Manhattan. Pic via Bauer-Griffin

[Comedian/provocateur Russell Brand in New York today; image via Bauer-Griffin]

[Unfortunate drug addict Amy Winehouse leaving a courthouse, where she was facing charges for assaulting a fan. She was acquitted! Image via Bauer-Griffin]

["Twilight" hunkeroo Bobby Patentleather about to film a bloody scene for "Remember Me" in New York; image via Bauer-Griffin]

[Bobby Patentleather and Emilie de Ravin filming in New York; image via Bauer-Griffin]

[That's "Gossip Girls" Lehigh Mister and Blork Liverly filming outside the Met yesterday; image via Bauer-Griffin]

[A drunken Reese Witherspoon zooms away from the Hollywood Bowl with Jake Gyllenhaal, after seeing Jenny Lewis and Ray LaMontagne; image via Bauer-Griffin]

[Madonna performing in Paris; image via Bauer-Griffin]

[Penly Benly and Bleecker Linley filming a scene for "Gossip Girls" in New York; image via Bauer-Griffin]

[Kelly Osbourne and her fiance Luke Worrall leaving a restaurant in London last night; image via Bauer-Griffin]

[Leighton Meester arriving on set to for her first day of "Gossip Girl" season three shooting; image via Bauer-Griffin]

Some strange casting decisions plague us today, while others intrigue us. Also, MTV ponders a terrible idea, AMC picks up an interesting show, and everyone watched Jon & Kate Plus Hate.

[Kristen Stewart as Joan Jett in a new biopic, filming in LA; image via Bauer-Griffin]

[Bobby Patentleather is filming in Washington Square Park right now, ladies!; image via Bauer-Griffin]

[Jazzy bluesy pop singer John Mayer helps a friend leave a bar in LA last night; image via Bauer-Griffin]

[Lil' Dakota Fanning going to a rehearsal for her Joan Jett movie; image via Bauer-Griffin]

[Former (!) "Hills"ian Lauren Conrad at a party for her new YA book; image via Bauer-Griffin]

[Former Christian rock singer Katy Perry in London; image via Bauer-Griffin]