Argentine rock star Gustavo Cerati remained in critical but stable condition following brain surgery for a "mini-stroke" he suffered over the weekend, his doctors said Thursday.

Cerati, whose former band Soda Stereo is among the best known rock bands from Latin America, was in an induced coma at a Caracas, Venezuela, hospital.

"At the moment there is no evidence of neurological deterioration compared to yesterday," hospital director Adolfredo Saez said. "His other organs and systems are functioning normal. Like we have said, his situation is critical."

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When the boredom kicks in, Simon Cowell heads out.

The deceptively acerbic “American Idol” judge and super-producer told Oprah Winfrey Thursday that he'd grown as much as he could with "Idol," and he'd always wanted to leave before he would be asked to.

“I’m leaving for the same reasons you left,” Cowell told the Chicago host, who announced her decision to pull the plug on “The Oprah Winfrey Show” last November. “You just know that time’s up. I remember the first year when we did this, and it was like an adventure, and I loved not knowing if it would be successful, and the buzz...we were kind of making it up every week.”

But there comes a point, Cowell said, when “you go on automatic pilot, and there were too many times I was sitting there bored. I can’t hide it when I’m bored. And I thought, the audience deserves more than to tune in, and I’m bored.”

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Conservatives will likely take issue with the latest film to premiere here in Cannes, but liberals may think it's the best thing since sliced bread.

The movie in question? “Fair Game”, which tells the story of Valerie Plame and her husband, former Ambassador Joe Wilson. Plame is the former covert CIA operative, whose identity was allegedly leaked by the Bush Administration after Wilson publicly criticized the President’s use of faulty intelligence to justify going to war in Iraq.

The film, starring Naomi Watts as Plame and Sean Penn as Wilson, holds its official premiere tonight, but I dropped by an earlier screening, and I think this film has potential Oscar nominee written all over it.

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So what was it that sent Bret Michaels', um, heart racing?

A naughty “Skin-e-max” flick.

In an interview with Rolling Stone magazine, the Poison frontman and current Celebrity Apprentice finalist ’fessed up to what he was watching on television when his near-fatal brain hemorrhage happened last month.

“I was going back and forth from SportsCenter to ‘Busty Cops 3,’ ” the rocker admits. “Maybe that’s what did it!"

Russell Brand, always the character, told David Letterman about the two days he spent with the Marines at Camp Pendleton in Southern California on the “Late Show” Wednesday.

Brand said he admires the Marines’ bravery, masculinity and strength of character.

“I love the Marines, I respect them, I can’t believe the heroic things they do and the way they live,” Brand said. “I went to live with them for 48 hours to see what it would be like to be in the Marines - it’s difficult.

And when Letterman asked Brand how the training went, he replied, “Well, I wish I could say I did rather well, but it was compromising.”

One of the most compromising parts being the 10 kilometer hike Brand took part in at 3:30 a.m., carrying a 70 pound backpack.

“A lot of the stuff in (the backpack) I didn’t even need,” he said. “A Shovel. I said ‘has everyone got a shovel?’ And they went, ‘Yeah.’ Then what am I taking mine for then? If I need (a shovel) I’ll borrow one of theirs,” Brand joked. “We’re a team.”

You don’t mess with the Bieber.

After a bit of dust-up earlier this week because the pint-sized pop star garnered a BET Award for Best New Artist, he took to twitter, saying that “music is color blind.”

Now he’s got another defender, Sean Diddy Combs.

The hip-hop mogul says that the awards are important to hip-hop because it shows artists in the “right light.”

“But the beauty of BET is," he added, "if Justin Bieber’s hot, then he deserves to be on that stage. Sometimes, at other award shows, the color of your skin or the type of music you make takes away from getting the accolade you deserve.”

Twihards can breathe a sigh of relief.

Ashley Greene and Kellan Lutz have settled their salary dispute with Summit Entertainment and will return for “Breaking Dawn,” the company wrote in a press release Wednesday.

The pair will rejoin the rest of the Cullen clan - played by Peter Facinelli, Jackson Rathbone, Elizabeth Reaser and Nikki Reed - in the final installment of the franchise. Billy Burke, who plays Bella’s father Charlie Swan, has also signed on to take part in “Breaking Dawn.”

However, despite buzz that the final book will be split into two films, there is no mention of an additional project in the press release, which simply states, “The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn” is slated released Nov. 18, 2011.

The story of Superman's younger days will be coming to a close on The CW next season.

The network announced today that "Smallville" will conclude its run after 10 seasons next year. The CW says the final season of the Superman saga will bring viewers "a conclusion worthy of a superhero."

The network also released a fall schedule with two new dramas on tap. One show not returning is the revival of "Melrose Place", which was canceled after just one season.

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It’s highly doubtful that we’ve ever seen this play on the gridiron.

Julie Bowen swung by “Lopez Tonight,” on Monday and told host George Lopez how she nurses her twin 1-year-old sons, John and Gus. The 40-year-old “Modern Family” mom even showed him a picture, to demonstrate just how she pulls this off.

“It’s like two little liposuction machines on you,” she said. “They suck the fat out of you. They call it the ‘double football hold.’ You hold one here, and here [gesturing to her breasts], like two footballs... They’re doing God’s work right there, helping me return to my birth weight.”

Want to be Robert Pattinson’s girlfriend? (C'mon, who doesn’t?)

Well if you do – and assuming he really isn’t dating his “Twilight” co-star Kristen Stewart – there may be a small problem.

According to co-star Ashley Greene, the Brit – who has to fight off legions of female fans near and far - just “doesn’t understand girls.”

Greene, 23, said she’s probably the only woman who has yet to fall for him in the June/July issue of Seventeen magazine.

“When I met Rob, I didn’t think twice about him. He’s really attractive, but that chemistry wasn’t there,” she said.

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