JAMIE Foxx . . . laid into Rihanna during a party at Tao in Las Vegas the other night. "Jamie took over the microphone and started doing a show. Halfway through, he asked Rihanna to join him onstage," said our spy. Rihanna declined, but Foxx continued to badger her." The deejay played "Umbrella" and "She got up to leave, and Jamie told the deejay to stop the record," said our source. Foxx shouted, "You can't go while your song is playing. Relax." Our witness said, "Rihanna stayed and pretended to enjoy herself, but it was so obvious she was fuming. As soon as the song was over, she got the hell out of there."

Given Foxx's propensity to do unprompted imitations of other artists, we're surprised he didn't just whip on some lipstick and a dress and sing "Umbrella" himself. The one good thing that could come of that would be the possibility of Chris Brown cold cocking him in the kisser.*

* Was that joke out of line? We can't even tell anymore.

Studio bosses are convinced Foxx has the charisma and talent to tackle the role of Sinatra, who died in 1998.

An insider tells Britain's Daily Star, "Jamie would seem to be born to the role. Magnificent voice, convincing acting ability – like Frank himself – born the wrong side of the tracks, makes it big against all odds, has his brush with authority. The guy's a gift."

Charisma, talent, magnificent voice, convincing acting abilityóthat all sounds good, but hopefully Jamie also has one hell of a makeup artist. Unless of course Scorsese plans on going the I'm Not There route with this movie. In which case we think Jamie Foxx would be awesome. And for a few of the other portrayals we'd like to suggest Chuck Woolery, Traci Lords, and Spider-Man. Not Tobey Maguire, Spider-Man. The cartoon. We think he'd turn in an interesting performance.

ï Jamie Foxx wants Miley Cyrus to do heroin, smoke crack, make a sex tape, and get chlamydia from a bicycle seat. Uh, it was a tractor and my doctor said it totally can happen, thank you very much. (Pop on the Pop)

ï Porn star Marilyn Chambers slips behind the green door of life and into the great beyond. RIP, lady. (Mr Skin)

ï Angelina Jolie named Most Beautiful Woman by Vanity Fair. That's so fucking controversial, man! Can you even believe it? We're outraged! Outraged!!! (Celebitchy)

ï Remember yesterday, when we posted pics of Jessica Simpson in a muumuu and said we liked the look? Well, we were right. Because now there are naked ass upskirt shots. Ka-BOOM. (Drunken Stepfather)

ï Phil Spector: to know, know, know him is to love, love, love him. Unless you're Barbarian Queen Lana Clarkson. Then he kills you. (CelebWarship)

ï Lindsay Lohan shows all the depth of your seventh grade production of Pecos Bill and Slue Foot Sue Meet the Dirty Dan gang in a new video for FunnyorDie. (DailyStab)

ï Hey, look! Naked babes with strategically covered nipples in Allure! (The Blemish)

ï David Hasselhoff as Captain Hook in a London production of Peter Pan? Those are some pretty gay big shoes to fill. Only one man can replace The Hoff, and that's The Fonz. Ayyyyy.

ï Paparazzi, please stop taking photographs of Natalie Portman. Or she will make her hair look like Annette Bening's circa 1989 and then waggle a hand at you in a vaguely threatening manner.

ï Britney's little sister, Sean P Federline, and a turd on a stick. You heard us.

ï I've had it with these motherfucking Mo'Niques on this motherfucking plane!

ï Seacrest out? No. Lance Bass out? HELL YES! You go, girlfriend!

ï Agent Scully is preggo . . . by an alien! No, by a businessman. Whatever.

ï Carmen Electra, former wife of Dennis Rodman and newly split from Dave Navarro, was seen on a date with Jamie Foxx. Well, you know the old saying: once you go black, you go back once and then a few years later you look in the mirror and say "I'm married to a guy who still wears eyeliner and feather boas in 2006" and THEN you vow to never go back. Or something.

ï Did Fergie get dumped? Get dumped get dumped get dumped? Check it out.

ï Posh is also planning on writing a children's book. Just as soon as she learns how to write.

ï There are never enough headlines that include the words "Kate Beckinsale" and "ass".

ï Wow. Sienna Miller's doing a really, really, really, really bad job of channeling Edie Sedgwick. Really bad.

ï Eva Longoria and Jamie Foxx, also known as the two most irritatingly overrated stars in the cosmos, might have hooked up. Good. Maybe they'll fall in love and go live in the bottom of the sea somewhere.

ï Drew Barrymore and her huge snoobs are awesome. Don't hate. Congratulate.

ï Brad and Angelina's golden fetus says, "Does this ultrasound make me look fat?"

ï You know it's a slow gossip day when this is the headline of the day.

ï William Shatner's nugget of crystallized urine builds houses for the underprivileged. Yeah, you heard us.

ï Howard Stern admits to having a little plastic surgery. We thought his tits were looking particularly fabulous lately.

While at first we were impressed with Jamie's simile skills, we thought we'd heard that particular one somewhere before. Then we recalled the timeless poetics of pee-pee lover R. Kelly. "You remind me of my jeep, I wanna ride it . . . Girl you look just like my cars, I wanna wax it." Personally we think R. Kelly painted the prettier picture.