Many names have surfaced over the years, including Warren Beatty, Kris Kristofferson, Mick Jagger, ex-husband James Taylor, et. al.

For the last day or so, the Internet has buzzed with rumors that Carly was singing about David Geffen, her music producer. Seems she was upset over his concentration more on the career of Joni Mitchell than hers.

Apparently, a re-release of the song has her whispering the name “David” in the song.

Then again, it could be David Geffen.

Carly’s not saying, even after all these years.

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In a brief statement the company says it “no longer sees a role” for the golfer whose game is on hold because of a revelations of multiple affairs and entry into a sex rehab program.

In another matter, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) announced this weekend it is dropping its plans to use an image of Woods in a pet neutering ad campaign built around the theme of “too much sex can be a bad thing.”

PETA admitted it dropped the idea after meeting with attorneys for the golfer.

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Ayla Brown

Ayla Brown, daughter of new Massachusetts Sen. Scott Brown, who posed semi-nude for Cosmopolitan Magazine in 1982, says is she and her sister want to pose nude their father “can’t say anything about it.”

In an interview with Megyn Kelly on Fox News Channel, the American Idol semi-finalist said her father opened the door for posing nude in magazines and if he can do it, so can she or her sister.

No comment yet from Dad.

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And it ain’t working.

In what could only charitably be called a monotone, Woods offered a wooden (pun intended) apology that lacked sincerity, believability or candor.

It came off for what it was…a callous attempt to play the media.

And from all indications, few bought it.

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But Moore says she refuses to do nude scenes “if the story doesn’t call for it.”

However, it appears she does a lot of films where the story does call for it.

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Rip Torn

Actor Rip Torn, who got drunk and broke into a bank in his hometown in January, was supposed to go to trial this week but his case was reset for March because of a “scheduling conflict.”

Torn, a veteran actor who appeared in “Men in Black” and many other films, has had several run-ins with the law because of his boozing.

In the meantime, Torn continues his stint in rehab.

The new court date is March 9

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But that happened in Oak Meadows Elementary School in Riverside County, California, after some parents didn’t like the idea that the dictionary included definitions of dirty things like oral sex.

After “considerable discussion,” The Los Angeles Times reports that a committee of parents, teachers and administrators recently decided to return the dictionary to the fourth and fifth grade classrooms at the school.

Reports The Times:

“The dictionary will go back to the classroom but the parents will be given the option to determine if they want their kids to have access to that dictionary,” said Betti Cadmus, a spokeswoman for the Menifee Union School District in southwest Riverside County. Students will take permission slips home and parents who don’t want them to use Webster’s10th Collegiate Edition can opt for alternative dictionaries.

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Nathan Ryan McLain faces two felony counts of third-degree criminal sexual conduct after a teenage student admitted a year-and-a-half long affair with the coach.

The 18-year-old girl had been a student of McLain for four years and was 16 when the affair started. Police found nude photos and a video of the girl on McLain’s cell phone and recovered sexually-explicit text messages.

The girl said the affair started with kissing and moved on to sex 18-months before she confessed the relationship to her father.

That question came up in an online chat with Washington Post columnist Carolyn Hax:

My 15-year-old daughter is thinking about having sex with her 17-year-old boyfriend (her first). She says she has only two friends who are still virgins, she and her boy are “in love,” and people shouldn’t look at girls who have sex as sluts. I think she is naive, emotionally unprepared for this step, wanting to not be the odd virgin out and has a bad case of “consequences won’t happen to me.

So what was Hax’s answer?

Agree with her that girls who have sex aren’t sluts — but this isn’t about reputation. Besides being true, that will also put you on the same side where she likely expects opposition. That gives more weight to anything else you say.

Even so, Olympics officials shortened the track and the teams will start lower on the run.

The practice death marked the third time in history that an Olympics athlete has died in practice at the beginning of the games.

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