Sideshow: Jerry Lee Lewis, the 'religious man'

Jerry Lee Lewis

turns 75 on Sept. 29.

But he's not ready to retire. "I could have retired a long time ago," the self-described "Southern boy" tells USA Today. He punches his fist in the air:

"I keep rockin'!"

Lewis, who divorced his sixth wife in '05, says he probably won't marry again.

And even though his songs were once called the devil's music, Lewis says he's still "a religious man. . . . I never lost my connection, and I'm looking forward to going to heaven." He adds, "I certainly hope they need a piano player."

Lewis' new CD, Mean Old Man, came out on Tuesday.

Katie Holmes

says she owes her terrific look to her brilliant new fashion adviser, 4-year-old daughter,

Suri

.

Tom Cruise's wife admitted on Live With Regis & Kelly that she asks Suri to pick out her clothes each morning.

"She won't let me leave unless I'm wearing what she wants me to wear," Katie said. "She's got great taste!"

Sheee's back! And how.

The View

's mother hen,

Barbara Walters

, 80, returned to her gabfest for its season debut Tuesday, after having heart-valve replacement surgery in May.

Babs was shown taped greetings from Elton John, David Beckham, Martha Stewart, and others. And she chatted live and in the flesh with late-nighter and fellow heart-surgery veteran David Letterman. Asked why he doesn't watch his own show, DL cracked, "Why should I be different from the rest of the country?" DL, whose son Harry is 6, told Elisabeth Hasselbeck he'd love to have more kids.

Maura Tierney

, who was diagnosed with breast cancer in June '09, may have played a nurse turned doc on

ER

, but in real life, she has no love for physicians.

"I was so scared of going to the doctor," Tierney says in Parade. "I felt something [in my breast] and my boyfriend at the time made me go."

Tierney, who stars in ABC's new show The Whole Truth, says she came to adore her doc. "From the beginning [he] told me, 'You're going to be OK,' and I chose to believe him," she says.

Britain's most prestigious literary award, the Man Booker Prize

, announced its six finalists Tuesday:

Peter Carey

(for

Parrot and Olivier in America

),

Emma Donoghue

(

Room

),

Damon Galgut

(

In a Strange Room

),

Howard Jacobson

(

The Finkler Question

),

Andrea Levy

(

The Long Song

), and

Tom McCarthy

(

C

). The winner will be announced Oct. 12.

Meanwhile, this year's Kennedy Center Honors will go to Oprah Winfrey, Sir Paul McCartney, Merle Haggard, choreographer Bill T. Jones, and composer Jerry Herman, USA Today says. Prizes will be handed out by President and Michelle Obama at a do on Dec. 5, which will air on TV Dec. 28.

Heidi Montag

, who could single-handedly support the plastic surgery industry, tweeted on Tuesday that she keeps her breast implants in good working order by massaging them every day. "Ladies, we have to keep those implants soft," she said from Costa Rica.

Heidi also says that, of all her procedures, the most painful is having your ears pinned back.

Entertainment Tonight

says

Dancing With the Stars

alumna

Niecy Nash

and her electrical engineer beau,

Jay Tucker

, are engaged. . . . California's proudest daughter,

Katy Perry

, tells British TV host

Alan Carr

she plans to become a British citizen once she weds

Russell Brand

. . . .

Parks and Recreation

's

Amy Poehler

will host the premiere of the 36th season of NBC's

Saturday Night Live

on Oct. 2, says Entertainment Weekly. The mag says

SNL

, which is losing

Jenny Slate

, has added new featured players

Taran Killam

,

Paul Brittain

,

Vanessa Bayer

, and

Jay Pharoah

. . . .

Salt

chick

Angelina Jolie

hung up her sizzlin' hotness Tuesday to spend time with flood victims in northwestern Pakistan. Jolie, 35, appealed to the international community to do more to help victims of the devastating flood. . . .

Jessica Simpson

on Monday marked the one-year anniversary of the coyote abduction and cruel death of her beloved pooch,

Daisy Mae

, tweeting that she was "the best pup of all time." Jess advised fans to "give your dog some extra love today!!"