Oprah Winfrey is currently being sued for $180 million by a crazy guy who is obsessed with her. He's suing her because he said that her accusations of extortion two years ago led to his arrest. Besides that whole billionaire superstar thing, it isn't easy being Oprah. Let's take it back to 1988 for a look at a (somewhat) simpler time for Madame O. Here she is interviewing The Boys and Bobby Brown. Oh, the hair.

Because Hollywood cannot seem to let well enough alone when it comes to 80s classics, a new Ghostbusters movie is in the works. If they remake the movie, it's only right that they get Bobby Brown to remake his "On Our Own" from the Ghostbusters II soundtrack. Lord knows he needs the work.

• As promised, Oprah Winfrey has rounded up the Olympics' brightest stars for her season premiere. [Us]

• Pepa's had a drama-filled life. She'd like to tell you about it. [NB]

• Sarah Palin's has her own private Reverend Wright. [JJP]

• Heaven help the woman who will be Bobby Brown's second wife. [C&D]

• Tell us how you really feel about the hurricane victims, repubs! [Jezebel]

• Just in case you were still worrying about the possibility that there really is a video of Michelle Obama referring to "whitey" floating around. [AN]

• Janet Jackson's label has ceased all promotion for her newest album, so don't expect another single. [SP]

• Snoop delivers marital advice to Beyonce and Jay-Z. Okay. [People]

• Does Bobby Brown still have delusions of grandeur? Yep? Just checking. [C&D]

• In addition to smoking copious amounts of crack, Amy Winehouse knows racist versions of childrens' songs as well. [GW]

We all know Lindsay Lohan has been known to get around in her day — although she now seems to be settled down with her girlfriend Samantha Ronson. But did we all know that she once got around with Bobby Brown's son?

“Me and Lindsay got really, really close," the young man (supposedly) told the Sun.

“She followed me to the bathroom during a private party, and, well, we basically got together.

“I think she knew who I was when she first saw me.

“We were just staring at each other and she walked by. I walked into the bathroom and she followed me in.”

Unsurprisingly things didn’t work out, although "Brandon" says: “I'm actually trying to get back in touch with her – really soon.”

This is all fascinating. But it might be a bit more believable if the writer had gotten the guy's name right. It's Landon.

• Oh, if only this new song from Nas called "Black President" didn't make its appearance on something called The Nigger Tape. [NR]

• Looks like the Evander Holyfield Real Deal Grill wasn't the cash cow the boxer was hoping for. Maybe next time find a niche that hasn't been filled by another boxer? Oh, and handle your millions a whole lot better. [Bossip]

• Get with the times, Russian billionaires. [PS]

• A New Jersey congressman and former HRC supporter says that a top member of Clinton's staff called him to discuss "a strategy of winning over Jewish voters by exploiting tensions between Jews and African-Americans." [JJP]

• Bobby Brown's son says Whitney Houston was an evil stepmother who wouldn't even let him sleep in the main house. [HHC]

Country Music Television Awards Rule #57: All famous black men must be dressed like idiots to gain admittance.

It was a family affair at Muhammad Ali's Celebrity Fight Night in Scottsdale, Ariz., Saturday, with Dionne Warwick hanging out with her cousin, the embattled Whitney Houston, who is now having to go through the embarrassment of Bobby Brown's new tell-all book. At the event, Warwick stuck up for Houston, telling People, "I'm thrilled that she's in the studio and working on her new album. No doubt she's overcoming everything that has been put in front of her even this week."

Holly Robinson Peete, Jordin Sparks, a bunch of NFLers, and Shaq and Shaunie (together!) were also in attendance. More pics after the jump, including a blast-from-the-past shot of Whitney and her Bodyguard costar, Kevin Costner.

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Whitney Houston knows the meaning of the saying, "people who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones." Someone probably should have explained that to Bobby before he wrote his book. Houston's staying mum, though.

Whitney's rep responded in a statement to PEOPLE: "Miss Houston is sad that Bobby feels he need to say such things but she choses to take the high road and will not speak badly about the father of her child even if it's to set the record straight."

It's anything for a buck with Bobby Brown. Can't sell a record. Can't keep a reality show on air. What else is he to do but write what sounds to be a mean-spirited tell all about his life with Whitney Houston? Of course, he starts off the book by blaming Whitney for all the drugs.

"I never used cocaine until after I met Whitney. Before then, I had experimented with other drugs, but marijuana was my drug of choice," Brown writes in "Bobby Brown: The Truth, the Whole Truth and Nothing But," out next month. "At one point in my life, I used drugs uncontrollably. I was using everything I could get my hands on, from cocaine to heroin, weed and cooked cocaine [Is that what we're calling it now? -- Lauren]."

Brown paints himself as the mostly innocent party in the relationship. He married Whitney for her love, he said. She married him because she was in the midst of a bisexual scandal — there were rumors that she was sleeping with her female assistant — and needed a high profile relationship. That certainly doesn't explain why she stayed with his ass for so long.

"[The marriage] was doomed from the very beginning. Within the first year we separated, with several more to follow," Brown writes. "I think we got married for all the wrong reasons. Now, I realize Whitney had a different agenda than I did when we got married . . . I believe her agenda was to clean up her image, while mine was to be loved and have children."

Oh, wait. Did I say innocent?

"I am guilty of sleeping with other women . . . Women are always throwing themselves at you. I'm only human, so I would make the mistake and bite the hook sometimes . . . I let the testosterone take over."

One of his most public indiscretions was an affair with former exotic dancer Karrine "Superhead" Steffans. "Yes, I've slept with her," he confesses. "Yes, I've spent several nights at her house. But she was only good for what her nickname stood for."

Well, that's better than being good for nothing, I suppose.

The progeny of MC Hammer, Al B. Sure, and Bobby Brown will be participating in a new reality show in which children of "famous" people (little Al B. Sure is really lucky he made it into this cast) compete in a singing competition to find the "next big star." It's called Rock the Cradle.

Here’s a full list of the contestants vying for the top spot on Rock the Cradle:

• Jesse Money, daughter of Eddie Money
• Jesse Blaze Snider, son of Dee Snider
• Lara Johnston, daughter of Tom Johnston of the Doobie Brothers
• A’keiba Burrell-Hammer, M.C. Hammer’s daughter
• Landon Brown, (pictured) son of Bobby Brown
• Lil Al B Sure, R&B singer Al B Sure’s son
• Crosby Loggins, Kenny Loggin’s son
• Chloe Rose Lattanzi, Olivia Newton John’s daughter
• Lucy Walsh (pictured right), daughter of the Eagles‘ Joe Walsh

If I'm ever famous, I'm going to use my resources to ensure that my children never have to participate in a humiliating, nepotistic reality show. But that's just me.

• Eminem really is writing a book about his life. But haven't we all already seen 8 Mile? [AP]

• The judge in Puffy's lawsuit — he's being sued for smacking the flames out of this one guy's ass — says he doesn't have to release his financial records. Big sigh of relief from Diddy's side. [SJMN]

• Lil Wayne claims he blames no one but himself for his tour bus arrest in Arizona recently. After he threw his jacket in his DJ's face post-arrest, I'm not sure anyone believes him. [PRI]

• Bobby Brown dodges jail time for cocaine arrest. [MYVDC]

• Blacks in Seattle are arrested on "contempt of cop" charges at a higher rate than whites. Hahaha. [SPI]

I can think of little that's more disgusting than the thought of an inebriated Bobby Brown farting in my face, but I guess that's the sort of risk has-been celebs are willing to take in order to reclaim their fame. On Gone Country, Brown's fellow castmates Carnie Wilson and Dee Snider learned the extent of Bobby Brown's nastiness (and substance abuse issues) the hard way.

As Wilson attempted to mother Brown on the cast tour bus, the boozy singer farted in her face as she attempted to take off his Adidas trainers, according to RollingStone.com.

Wilson says, "His butt was about like one and a half feet from my mouth, and it was like a snappy wet river!"

Brown's wild night ended with a spot of sleepwalking back at Rich's ranch - he mistook Snider's bed for the bathroom and prepared to urinate all over the sleeping rock star, who woke up just in time and helped take his roommate to the toilet.

I'm sure the whole thing made Mini-Me feel a lot better about peeing over the side of his wheelchair on Surreal Life. [SP]