"I think part of me would love to play a drag queen, just because it would be an excuse to wear loads of eye makeup." That's Daniel Radcliffe, musing in the October issue of Details about his desire to trade in his boyish wizarding robes from "Harry Potter" for something slightly flashier. And while the actor, 19, will soon make a different kind of sartorial statement as he gets into his birthday suit for his Broadway debut in "Equus," he says he's only a risk-taker when it comes to his career. "I don't pretend to do anything particularly wild," he shrugs. "People talk about rebellion and they say, 'Where is the teenage angst?' But I say I try to do it simply by the choices I make in the work I do. I just like wrong-footing people. I write poetry and I love it. I like being different from most other people in my generation." One thing that differentiates Radcliffe from his peer group is the fortune he's made from "Potter," which he's invested in real estate, artwork ("that's the only thing I'm interested in that costs a lot of money") and a surprisingly unpretentious Volkswagen GTI. As for his personal life, he says he's currently flying solo ("I just don't have the time") and, in an admission that will likely spark many a birds-and-bees discussion among the tween set, reveals he received his first lesson in carnal knowledge at the age of 16 -- with an older girlfriend. According to Daniel, the age difference "wasn't ridiculous, but it would freak some people out."

Pam spruces herself up for photogs while promoting "Girl on the Loose" last month.

Pamela Anderson sure seems to be keeping some eclectic company these days. On the heels of rumblings that she's become friendly with a member of Abu Dhabi's royal family comes word that she's been hanging out with a deposed king. In what we're hoping will eventually become a very special episode for Pam's "Girl on the Loose" reality show, the London Daily Mirror claims the hypermammiferous veteran bombshell recently had a pair of "secret" meet-ups with Michael Jackson in Malibu. "They chatted about Michael turning 50, his new album, their kids," says a spy. "And he seemed genuinely interested in Pamela." And while the paper hee-lariously believes the purported gab-fest had date-y overtones (don't worry, we went to a terrifying visual place, too), we're gonna go out on the limb and figure this was just two people getting together to talk about their shared love of animals (Pam doesn't eat them; Michael had a zoo at Neverland and a pet chimp-cum-BFF named Bubbles) and mutual enthusiasm for nipping, tucking and augmenting various body parts.

Last year, we told you about Colin Farrell's random act of kindness to a homeless gent in Toronto, whom he took on a shopping spree and presented with a wad of cash to rent a room. Now, the guy in question -- nicknamed Stress -- is expressing his gratitude to the Irish actor for helping him turn his life around. "Thanks for taking an interest in me and seeing me as a human being," he states (via the Toronto Sun). "To reach out to a homeless person who really needs help? That takes extraordinary character." Stress, who recalls how Farrell urged him to "get your life together, man, promise me -- and make sure you go see my new movie ['In Bruges']," says he's off the streets, sober and a regular churchgoer.

Amy shows she can show up, here at a London concert last month.

Amy Winehouse and Pete Doherty continue to duke it out for the top spot on the death pool list. The London Sun alleges that the beehived tragedy, who is facing legal trouble over a last-minute no-show for a concert Friday in Paris (yes, someone actually expected her to be somewhere at a specific time), has overdosed twice in the last 12 months, and doctors fear she may have suffered brain damage from the most recent episode. "The future is bleak, bleak, bleak," says a Winehouse source, who asserts that the singer smoked "an inhuman amount" of pot before she was hospitalized in July for what her father termed a "bad reaction to her medication." She supposedly suffered a similarly bad fate in August of 2007 after purportedly ingesting a variety of illegal substances. "She is in need of years of psychiatry and medical treatment if she has a hope," contends the insider. Doherty, meanwhile, needed medical assistance after overdoing it while in Austria for a performance at a "porn cinema," claims the Sun, which says an ambulance was called after he collapsed. But he apparently was in the pink enough to hit the stage, albeit four hours late.

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