Pussycat Recap: Ilisa the Pariah?

When next we meet our girls, there’s a lot of soul-searching and inner-questioning going on. Ilisa begins the episode wondering why she hasn’t yet been eliminated.


When next we meet our girls, there’s a lot of soul-searching and inner-questioning going on. Ilisa begins the episode wondering why she hasn’t yet been eliminated.

In today’s installment, Rock of Love’s Bret Michaels takes a few of his ladies out for a romantic, low-lit dinner. Actually, dinner’s totally in the dark. Hidden by the darkness, Bret takes the time to sample a few of the delicacies that aren’t on the menu. Is that very rock star of him? Depends on how you like your rock stars — slathered in saliva or sitting down politely with good table manners.
At last, the moment old-school fans have been waiting for: Salt-N-Pepa’s return to the recording studio. But first!

Because nothing says hip-hop like…breathing exercises.
There’s been a whole lot of neon in pop culture lately. First, Kanye West collaborated with Daft Punk on “Stronger,” made a video that combined the look of Akira with the narrative of Guns N’ Roses’ “Estranged,” and then showed up to the Grammys wearing a jacket that was literally so flashy it was designed to light up. Then Rihanna – who will appear on Kanye’s Glow in the Dark Tour — played the Brit Awards fronting new-rave darlings the Klaxons. Now comes French DJ duo Justice’s new video (for “DVNO,” above). It’s the best video we’ve seen since the last time Justice released a video (for “D.A.N.C.E.”). Enjoy the outer-spaciness, kids. After the jump, watch Rihanna playing “Umbrella” at a rave that looks like it was thrown by wayward cast members from Tron.
Well, it was bound to happen — people in public walks of life just seem to have trouble keeping their pants on. This year’s crop of Idol contestants is no exception. Consider David Hernandez. The 24-year-old Arizona native used to strip for his supper, according to Gordy Bryan, the Phoenix-area manager of Dick’s Cabaret. The Associated Press reports Hernandez appeared “fully nude and performing lap dances for the club’s ‘mostly male’ clientele.” It isn’t clear if there will be repercussions for the contestant from Fox, but Hernandez was apparently entertaining the troops as recently as last September. (It’s worth keeping in mind that season two’s Frenchie Davis was disqualified because of some semi-nude photos she’d shot for an adult Web site.) It’s good to know he’s got a fall-back career, should the whole Idol thing not pan out.
In other news, Celebtv.com is reporting that racy-ish, lesbian-ish photos of Ramiele Malubay have surfaced on the Internets. The photos feature Malubay touching another woman’s fully clothed breast, and lying on a bed (again, fully clothed). All this compels us to introduce Celebtv.com to the difference between a mountain and a molehill: One is large, the other is small, and Ramiele Malubay, at least for the moment, is neither.
Lots of photos simply beg for a narrative. Whether it’s nasty or silly is up to you — we want you to feel free to read the minds of the celebs and weirdos in our images. Write your caption for the below photo in our comments section. Extra points for creativity! This time: Zandra Rhodes shows off a new line, or Phyllis Diller attends Elton John’s Oscars party. What have you got to say about it?

Hotlanta’s all, “Herpes? Who me?”

Whereas, she should have just owned it and sung, “Touch my herpe / Put me on the floor / Wrestle me around / Till I want some…Valtrex.” Turn that negative into a positive, girl!
MySpace has nothing on FlavorofLoveWorld.com! The site allows fans to rant about cast members, predict who’ll be eliminated next — and, um, upload their hottest pics and vids. Maybe we’re showing off, but VH1 has the sexiest users on the Internet and we’re proving it by highlighting Flavor of Love World users every day. Prepare to blush.
Browse more profiles at FlavorofLoveWorld.com.
New DVDs are released every Tuesday, which leads us to the eternal question: What should you buy? Our critic Charles Bottomley weighs in on every week’s must-haves and please-forgets.

Into the Wild
Sean Penn adapts Jon Krakauer’s best-selling true tale about a Harvard-bound kid who goes off the grid and vanishes in the Alaskan wasteland. Penn never makes his mind up whether Christopher McCandless (Emile Hirsch) is a genuine free spirit or a self-absorbed twit, but his American odyssey is a sincere tribute to purple mountains’ majesty and all that stuff. Great Eddie Vedder songs, too.
Extras: The two making-of featurettes include interviews with the major players and good stories about the on-location shoot, but are not quite substantial enough to merit the “two-disc” treatment.
Rating: Buy!