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Hoosegow-haired stock-boiler Martha Stewart sits in the audience at a U.S. Open tennis match last week and tries to remember whether she turned the servants off before leaving the house.Reuters

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Scarlett Johansson warns attendees of the final session of the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, North Carolina, last week that a Barack Obama election loss in November would deprive many Hollywood celebrities of a convenient bandwagon and undermine their fatuous self-importance.Reuters

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Not only did some dude steal Sarah Jessica Parker’s seat at New York Fashion Week last week, he also took her dress!Reuters

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Actress Roxane Josephine de La Baume wears a bodysuit that makes her look like a sexy sandpiper dying in an oil spill at the Venice Film Festival in Venice last week. And you’re going, No way this bodysuit trend catches on, right?Reuters

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Wrong. Singer Rita Ora takes the bodysuit, dunks it in Las Vegas rhinestone and adds some Las Vegas cleavage at the MTV Music Video Awards in Los Angeles last week. Okay, so now it’s over, right?Reuters

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Wrong! You forgot about Nicki Minaj, who never met a trend she didn’t marry. She scaled off the rhinestone, added the Spidey-piping and topped it with a Greek Sailor Barbie head at the MTV Music Awards in Los Angeles last week. Okay, but NOW surely this is behind us, right?Reuters

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Wrong, because you failed to anticipate the ironic, faux-Sasha-Baron-Cohen piss-take on the trend, as exemplified here by Alexander Antebi of the group Conquistador at the MTV Video Music Awards in Los Angeles last week. Now it’s over.Reuters

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Okay, not quite over. Now it’s over.Reuters

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That’s great: You’re Rihanna, you’ve risen to the top of the pop world, you’re worth millions, you’re a powerful player in the music industry, and some guy still thinks it’s perfectly all right to put a hand on your bum at the MTV Music Awards in Los Angeles last week.Reuters

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Actor Bill Murray, seen here on the red carpet at the Toronto International Film Festival on Monday, shows off the new iPhone 5 he was given in advance of its official launch this week.CP

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Meanwhile, the new iPad is released in Belgium during the annual Balloon Day Parade in Brussels.Reuters

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Winona Ryder’s face during a news conference at TIFF last week is what your face looks like right now after those last two jokes.Reuters

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Avril Lavigne poses intelligently at the presentation of her Abbey Dawn Spring/Summer 2013 collection during New York Fashion Week on Monday. Abbey Dawn: Because you know you want to emulate the taste of a woman who loves Nickelback so much, she’s marrying the lead singer!Reuters

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