Sports royalty and new mom Laila Ali joined Sanaa Lathan, Paula Patton, and others at a Burberry store opening in Beverly Hills last night. She looks happy to be out of the house.

Speaking of mommies and store openings, Garcelle Beauvais walked the red carpet at a Catherine Malandrino opening in Los Angeles last night, as well. Sanaa Lathan hit up that party as well, and even managed a wardrobe change. That's dedication.

• Who's not a sucker for cute babies, even when you can only see the tops of their heads? Here's Laila Ali and her husband posing with their new addition. [Bossip]

• New Usher video! Wait, people still care about Usher, right? [NB]

• Jay-Z dreams of having kids one day and probably hopes that we'll all forget about that little boy in Trinidad who looks sort of like him. Oh, and he also won an award from the UN for his dedication to raising awareness about the world water crisis. [People]

• The head of the AFL-CIO delivered a fiery speech recently in which he denounced the racism he's come across while campaigning for Barack Obama. [DK]

• Laila Ali is pregnant! Start the cover bidding wars now! Oh, wait. She's the wrong color. And fame level. [People]

• Yes, we know. Racism can make you sick. [NW]

• Puffy's found his new Sienna Miller. [Bossip]

• Family Feud's new formula is a failure before it's even begun. [MG]

• Chris Webber just retired. More time to collect African American memorabilia. [ESPN]

Jamie Foxx showed up to the Pepsi Stuff launch party last night looking a bit like a Black Panther with a variety drug addictions. Maybe for a movie? Hopefully for a movie?

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It was the era of the Supermodel — you know, when they all went by their first and last names but certainly didn't need to — think Naomi, Christy, Linda — and claimed they didn't get out of bed for less than $10,000 a day.

New York Fashion Week shows were more glamorous (read: they weren't sponsored by Olympus or Mercedes Benz and were held in lofts, clubs, and restaurants instead of tents). And Sam Fine was behind the scenes — at Geoffrey Bean, Fernando Sanchez, Tracy Reese, Todd Oldham, Isaac Mizrahi, etc. — giving the models faces to match their designer looks or rushing from show to show with Naomi and Tyra.

It was the first half of the '90s when Sam Fine both assisted the late Kevyn Aucoin and worked the shows on his own. Those were the good ol' days… that he doesn't really want to go back to.

"It's a fun gig, but I leave it to the young at heart and the ones that really love fashion," he told Stereohyped.

And it's not like being a celebrity makeup artist, which is the the job Sam Fine graduated to when he left the fashion show world, is any less glamorous. Or that much different.

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Displaying an unrestrained glee that Master P would have shown two seasons ago if he was able to express emotion, Clyde Drexler took his elimination from Dancing With The Stars as well as a Halle Berry takes a good movie review.

"I am extremely elated! I feel like I won the lotto! I don't think I've been this happy since I won the championship [in 1995]," the former Houston Rockets star told PEOPLE, laughing. "I was ready to go."

The judges saw it the same way. Last week, judge Len Goodman accused Drexler,44, of "not even giving it your best shot" following his disastrous waltz with partner Elena Grinenko.

Though Drexler squeezed in rehearsal time for this week's performance while abroad in China, his rendition of the passionate rhumba failed to cause sparks on the dance floor. "I know that you're a gentleman, but this was so polite it was like a rhumba under an anesthetic," said Bruce Tonioli.

I don't watch DWTS, but I can imagine you've got to be pretty bad if you are that much worse at ballroom dancing than a woman with no leg. Anyway, I'm rooting for Laila Ali, because she's the best dancer in the competition. Oops, did I just say I didn't watch the show?
[People]