Raise your hand if you remember that quirky movie from the seventies, Five Easy Pieces. It was a little short on plot, but it did have at least one great scene in this little diner where Jack Nicholson has a problem communicating his order to the waitress. After a few attempts to make his wishes known, he gets exasperated and clears everything off the table with one swift sweep of his arm. I think we all wish we could resolve our frustrations that cleanly and decisively. Unfortunately, we'd probably find ourselves pretty much shed of all personal relationships. That's where The Buzz Box comes in handy. We bring you today's weirdest and wildest news, along with a little old fashioned gossip, so you don't have to go around breaking up the fine china to make your point.

Madonna to be a mama once more She may be covering Don McLean's eclectic hit "American Pie" in theaters and on radio airwaves throughout the country, but perennial material girl Madonna, 41, probably has baby food on the brain. Recent press reports seem to suggest that she and her English squeeze, film director Guy Ritchie, 31, are expecting a child. No due date or marriage plans have been announced. How very modern! At least now little Lourdes, Madonna's 3-year old daughter with her former hairdresser Carlos Leon, will have someone to whom she can hand off all those threadbare Armani jumpsuits.

A rose by any other name may simply not sell Speaking of hand-me-downs, the woman who made Second-Hand Rose a first-rate sensation has horticulturists everywhere doing high fives. It turns out that the rose Barbra Streisand helped create for the Edmund Rose Company has become the best-selling bloomer in the company's 50-year history. It is a beautiful flower, but what it really wants to do is direct.

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