Burbank, CA -- Journalists who are on the mailing list for Warner Home Video found an interesting surprise in a recently-mailed press kit for the June 15 DVD release of the TV series "Nip/Tuck:" an "instant face and neck lift kit" that simulates plastic surgery. The elastic and tape contraption pulls skin back and under the hairline for that "just nipped" look.

NEW YORK -- Cheap underwear is helping Sean "Puffy" Combs perfect his part in a Broadway play. The rapper turned actor says he had to take extra steps to stay in character as struggling father Walter Lee Younger in "A Raisin In The Sun" -- including buying cheap underwear from the drugstore. World Entertainment News Network quotes Puffy as saying, "I just felt from head to toe I wanted to live the life that this man was living."

NEW YORK -- Grammy award-winner Alicia Keys will be giving fans something to read about. Her memoirs, based on her diaries and titled after her second album "The Diary of Alicia Keys," will be published by Putnam in the fall of 2005. In addition, a songbook of her music will be published in November.

NEW YORK -- Now you can smell like P. Diddy. Estee Lauder has decided to sell a line of fragrances under the rap mogul's Sean John brand. Estee Lauder executive John Demsey calls Diddy "the Great Gatsby of our times."

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