Sideshow: 'Glee' star Lea Michele has big ambitions

Be yourself, go after your dreams, and don't let the haters get you down. Life lessons from

Lea Michele

.

"How many managers told me, 'Get a nose job. You're not pretty enough'?" the Glee star asks in a chat with Harper's Bazaar. "But I proved them wrong." Totally.

Lea has denied rumors she did get that nose job. "In 3-D, my nose is going to look fabulous," she quips, referring to the 3-D Glee movie out Aug. 12.

Lea isn't exactly Heidi Klum-sexy. And she's fine with it. "I'm 5-foot-3. I don't look like a lot of other people, you know what I mean?" she says. "I look like I'm 12." The actor, who turns 25 on Aug. 29, also has a 12-year-old's energy. "I don't stop," she says. "It's my nature. People have to tell me to slow down. I plan on playing every role on Broadway. I want to do Evita. I want to do Sweeney Todd with [Glee's] Chris Colfer. We want to do Wicked. I'll be Elphaba and he wants to play 'Guy-Linda.' I want to do movies, make music." Is that all?A big O for the Big O!

Oprah Winfrey will be one of three personalities to receive honorary Oscars Nov. 12 at the fabu gala do, the Governor's Awards dinner in Hollywood, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced Tuesday. The Color Purple star will be presented with the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award, which honors movie folk "whose humanitarian efforts have brought credit to the industry." Esteemed thesp (and Darth Vader's vocal cords) James Earl Jones and movie makeup artist Dick Smith also will receive honorary Oscars.

A vid clip has gone viral showing

Matt Damon

getting all Jason Bourne all over a hapless reporter at the Save Our School march in Washington on Saturday.

Matt, 40, who was accompanied by his mom, teacher Nancy Carlsson-Paige, delivered the keynote address, a passionate defense of job security for America's teachers. He was none too pleased later when a reporter suggested teachers may want to work harder to keep their jobs.

"You think job insecurity is what makes me work hard?" the Oscar-winner scoffed.

"I want to be an actor. That's not an incentive. . . . It's like saying a teacher is going to get lazy when they have tenure. A teacher wants to teach. I mean, why else would you take a [bleep] salary and really long hours and do that job unless you really love to do it?"

In a shocking revelation, London's Daily Mail, er, reveals that the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge flew back to London from the Edinburgh, Scotland, wedding of royal kinfolk Zara Phillips and Mike Tindall on budget airline Flybe, which doesn't even have first class.

The Mail reveals that Prince William paid £16.50 for the flight (for both tickets?!), though he did have to pay an extra £10 to check in his "green army-issue bag." Flybe would not confirm whether the couple were passengers.

Beloved babe-hunting abs-cruncher and acclaimed fashionista

Mike "the Situation" Sorrentino

has inked a reported six-figure deal to promote a line of men's formal wear from FLOW Formal. (I admit, every time I fantasize about tripping the light fantastic at a black-tie gala, I

totally

think of The Situ.)

FLOW CEO Brian Weintraub tells TMZ the Sitch's James Bond suaveness will save the tuxedo from becoming "an old man thing."

The Sitch's fashion roots run deep. Last August, he was hired by Dilligaf USA to market a line of loutish beer-guzzlin'-on-the-dunes wear called DILLIGAF (an acronym for an epithet-filled witticism). The company this week filed a breach of contract suit against him, claiming the Sitch ditched photo shoots and other promo events.

Financial wiz mag turned celeb fanzine Forbes says

Titanic

young'un turned international megastar

Leonardo DiCaprio

is the highest-paid male actor in the universe, having made $77 mil in 2010 - and only from two lil' jobs,

Christopher Nolan

's

Inception

and

Martin Scorsese

's

Shutter Island

.

Johnny Depp

, who has two kids and the stunning

Vanessa Paradis

to feed, shelter, and clothe, is at No. 2 with $50 mil. An unlikely candidate,

Adam Sandler

, rounds out the top three with $40 mil.

Forbes released the female actor list last month.

Duran Duran

, standard issue for the Izod 'n' pastel-shoulder-padded-dress set in the '80s, is back.

Simon Le Bon

and the boys will play two shows in the region to back their 2010 album,

All You Need Is Now

.

They'll be at the Tower Theater in Upper Darby on Oct. 17 (Info: 1-800-745-3000 or LiveNation.com) and at the Borgata Event Center in Atlantic City on Oct. 29 (1-866-900-4849 or www.TheBorgata.com). Tix for both shows go on sale Saturday at 10 a.m.

Britain's acclaimed, totally reliable tabloid the Sun (the one with the famous topless "Page 3" girls) claims

Amy Winehouse

became secretly engaged to horror director

Reg Traviss

(

Psychosis

) weeks before her death. Reg, 35, proposed with a (secret? invisible?) diamond ring, says the Sun, and Amy immediately said yes, because "she so desperately wanted to put her wild lifestyle behind her."

. . . reality-show dollars.

Vienna Girardi

, 25, world-renowned for her role on

Bachelor Pad 2

, tells Us Weekly she feels awesome about her recent nose job (courtesy of castmate

Erica Rose

's surgeon dad).

"I always felt like I had this little face with, like, a Mr. Potato Head nose!" she says.

"It's something I've wanted since I was 9 or 10." Is there anything more sublime or profound in humanity's journey through reality than a lifelong dream come true?

William Petersen

's replacement on

CSI

,

Laurence Fishburne

, will in turn be replaced by

Cheers

good guy

Ted Danson

. Can he carry the torch so lovingly held aloft by Petersen for all those years? "I was thrilled, happy, surprised" to get the job, Danson says. "I'm trying to sound intelligent, but my jaw is still hanging down a little bit of a little bit."