The highlight of last night's BET Hip Hop Awards might have been when Missy Elliott came out during the Chris Lighty tribute to rap "Get Ur Freak On," as she does sporadically. The crowd freaked out, as it also does sporadically.

New York is full of actresses right now, some of them relaxing, others working. But all of them, as we've interpreted from these paparazzi photos, are thinking about Ashton Kutcher. First up is Natalie Portman who, while waiting for a cab, remembers what it was like filming No Strings Attached. [Splash]

Bullshit-spouting fancy juice maker POM is currently locked in a battle with the FTC over its right to tell you about the made-up things pomegranate juice does for you. So, no better time to debut those fake sex-aid claims, right?

• An obsessive fan of Sandra Bullock tried to run over her husband, that biker dude, last weekend. [Us]
  

• "If I never acted again I couldn't care less," Alec Baldwin reportedly said while taping an episode of the View that will air Friday. He also said that he wanted to quit 30 Rock. Whee! [AP]
  

The "bag of the moment" is Takashi Murakami's limited edition Louis Vuitton and because they're impossible to get, everyone wants one. Eve was sporting one at Fashion Week, and that appears to have heightened the frenzy. Ah, the power of a luxury brand to make people completely revise their fashion sense. No UES socialite would be caught dead wearing space creatures and cherry blossomsunless it's Vuitton, darling.
Coveted purses are hard to bag [NYT]