Since she once proudly proclaimed her breasts to be "small and humble," Shakira clearly doesn't need to retain an entourage member whose sole purpose is to help her stuff 'em into stage outfits when she's on tour. As such, the Colombian thrush has some extra cash to throw around for every pop star's dream employee: a history professor. Proving that she's interested in finding out more about the cities she visits than how to find the nearest Prada outlet, the singer is hauling around a bona fide tutor to fill her in on the more important historical sites of towns she's visiting for the first time. Hey, we're all in favor of higher education, but our list of dumb blondes to pick on is getting distressingly short . . .
There's an old saying that it's not news when a dog bites a man, but it's another story when a man bites a dog -- and that adage crossed our minds when we heard that rapper Lil' Flip had decided to branch out from buying jewelry into actually selling the stuff. The Houston-bred MC has formed a company called Clover G, and will roll out its first offerings -- a line of watches -- shortly after the first of the year. Proving that economics isn't his strong suit, Flip says that the line will have everything from super-deluxe models to "hood class" timepieces that anybody can pick up with pocket change -- the latter retailing for eight hundred bucks. For some reason, we think his next trick will be convincing folks that a thousand dollars is a perfectly reasonable price for a rolling paper case.