Sideshow: The 'shabby chic' Britney Spears

Britney Spears doesn't go around shaving her hair, doing drugs, yelling at cats, eating rose petals, and throwing herself at all manner of men in her spare time.

Celebdom's onetime banshee is veritably a homemaker.

"My house is very traditional. And I love 'shabby chic.' It's a very homey-cozy vibe," Brit tells Brit mag Stylist. "We spend a lot of time in the kitchen actually; maybe my kids [Sean and Jayden Federline] will be doing their homework or that kind of thing when they get home from school. I love my kitchen."

Tinseltown company Prospect Park, which produces ABC's defunct soap operas All My Children and One Life to Live, has announced that it has scrapped plans to continue making both shows as Web-only series. Methinks I can hear fan hearts crumbling all around the globe.

The company cites cost, putting blame on the unions that rep the shows' staff. "The constraints of the current marketplace," Prospect Park chief Jeff Kwatinetz says in corporate gobbledygook, "including the evolution and impact of new media on our industry, simply proved too great a match for even our passion."

Seattle's proudest son, Jimi Hendrix, is the greatest guitar player in the history of the cosmos, declares the keeper of the culture, Rolling Stone. The mag has released its list of the top 100 axmen as ranked by a panel of experts.

"His playing was effortless," writes Tom Morello of Hendrix. "There's not one minute of his recorded career that feels like he's working hard at it - it feels like it's all flowing through him." Eric Clapton, Jimmy Page, Keith Richards, and Jeff Beck round out the top five.

Beloved singer and sometime actor Jewel, 37, her hub, Ty Murray, and their 4-month-old son, Kase Townes Murray, opened their Stephenville, Texas, home for a video shoot to plug Hallmark's online holiday campaign. It includes a Facebook page where Hallmark users can connect with one another and find tips on making holiday shopping and cooking fun and easy! Think of it as a public service.

Jewel tells USA Today she loved doing the video, which is chock-full of tips! "I love shows about creating and cooking," she says. Jewel stresses that holiday homemaking isn't about perfection, but about making "a nice, heartwarming holiday and not trying to be so perfect. Enjoy your mistakes." She admits she's no Martha Stewart, that maven of domestic perfection.

"I love her. God bless her," Jewel says. "I don't have that much talent - or time."

Leave it to MegaÜberSuperEgo Kanye West to be embroiled in a dispute involving German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche. Kanye is being sued by Virginia-based songwriter Vincent Peters, who claims the ridiculously famous singer's megahit "Stronger" was stolen from Peters' earlier song, also called "Stronger."

The Hollywood Reporter says Peters argues that the songs are too similar: They both refer to Kate Moss (but what song doesn't?), and both paraphrase a famous line by Nietzsche in the chorus - to wit, the maxim "that which does not kill us makes us stronger." Both songs even go on to rhyme stronger with wronger (now that's just plain wrong). Peters' case was thrown out of court by a federal judge earlier this year. He's currently appealing that decision in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit.

Actor and funnyman Jason Segel says meeting celebs isn't always a pleasant affair.

"I have had that experience where I met people who were my heroes and came away feeling very differently about them. I would be devastated," Segel, 31, tells USA Today. The Muppets cowriter and costar says that wasn't the case when he met his all-time personal idol, Nietzschean poet Kermit the Frog.

"This experience was quite the opposite," says Segel. My love for Kermit has only grown. It was everything I had hoped for."

Kermit, the Muppets' marquee star - brought to life by his puppeteer of 20 years, Steve Whitmire - chimes in. "We could hit the road together. Maybe the USO tour."