"I wasn't naked. I just didn't have any clothes on. " -- Josephine Baker view link

Greetings, darlings! I'm starting off this week's Gossip Au Go Go with a quote from my distant and beloved cousin, Josephine. OkokokokOK, so we aren't really related that I know of but we coulda shoulda been. I've always loved her outrageous, brave, glam, smart persona and she’s one of my top role models of women who, as my southern momma always says, had the “gumption” to “ get their mouths open”..

But I digress already.

Breaking Madonna news: Yes, the Material One has won again. Her ex hubby, director Guy Ritchie, 40, has lost his try at keeping his two sons with Madge living in London near him and his family. Now Madonna gets to take Rocco, eight, and adopted David, three, to live with her and daughter Lourdes in New York.

Guy has reportedly been seeing the kids every day but that won’t be possible now... I hear he will take over childcare while Madonna hits the tour road, which she’s planning to do yet again later this year.

Speaking of Brits and Americans, you DO remember Lynn Redgrave, correcto? You know, the star of long ago’s “Georgy Girl” ( l966), countless other films and plays, and also the unfortunate centerpiece of one of the nastiest divorces on record back in 2000 when she caught her long-time hubby having an affair ( and having a baby with) their assistant.

Anyhoo, she’s currently starring in the new production of Oscar Wilde’s “The Importance of Being Earnest" at Paper Mill Playhouse in Millburn, New Jersey, if any of you are up that way.

A great quote from that play, by the by: Redgrave’s character, Lady Bracknell ,asks prospective son-in-law Jack Worthing whether he knows everything or nothing. “Nothing,” he answers. She’s delighted because she doesn’t “approve of anything that tampers with natural ignorance."

(This reminds me a lot of our last president, George W. “The Decider” Bush. Perhaps it could be a quote over the door of his new Presidential Library!)

Redgrave just opened up to a Bloomberg reporter about her acceptance of her dad’s homosexuality: “I didn’t know that my father was gay until I was a young adult," she said, “and it was actually a huge relief. I could then realize what a terrible burden he was living during that time, when as a dazzlingly handsome leading man you couldn’t come out the way Ian McKellen did many years later. I felt so compassionate that it changed my relationship within myself about him and who he was."

Too busy in Paris to see Lynn in the play? Then, darlings, I suggest you zip right over to the Grand Palais and check out the Yves Saint Laurent and Pierre Bergé Collection of art that will be sold by Christie's on February 23-25 . Pierre Berge, who lived with Saint Laurent for years and later remained his best bud, is reportedly both sad and glad he’s getting rid of the art collection that has taken more than 30 years to amass.

Talk about “downsizing”! There are 730 pieces in the collection, including works by Picasso, Mondrian and Matisse, and it’s expected to fetch over £200million. In this fiasco of an economy? Well, I’m just reporting, sweeties... Much as I love art ( and vintage Saint Laurent, by the by), I know I will save MY 200 million or so for other things.. uh-huh.

You have to love Bergé’s outspoken fashion disses – like “"Italians don't make clothes, they make spaghetti." and "Versace is nothing and now that he's dead, it's less than nothing. “ WHAAAT? He doesn’t think Donatella “So What If I’m Scary To Look At With My Trout Pout Siliconed Lips, Boobs like Two Wax Melons and A Leathery Tan From Hell” Versace isn’t a fashionata extraordinaire??

From our Barbie’s Busted files: John Cleese, 69, who dumped his long-time third wife for a new 27-year-old Barbie girl-type girlfriend named – I am not making this up -- Barbie, has dumped Barbie.

I know we’ll all have a group sob about this horrible romantic breakup. NOT.

Yes, the ridiculous couple is kaput, finis, history. Barbie , last name Orr, was blithering in a stand up routine about Cleese’s still working, sort of , “package”.

And she told a reporter: "I can't get into what he really looks like naked.But for an old guy, you know, they're normally saggy down there, but he really has a nice package. He takes a lot of vitamin supplements and eats really well and he works out. His arms are really muscular and he still has amazing legs. He's had his teeth all redone and he recently got hair plugs to cover the bald patches at the front."

What a (low) class act! Cleese was supposedly mortified – which he should have been for getting mixed up with this bimbo in the first place – and dumped her , “unnamed friends” are spewing, because her comments were “undignified. He was very vulnerable." Well, maybe he should have not shown her that “package” while he was ( and, come to think of it, still is) legally married to someone else.

Ciao for now, darlings. Now go out there and have eons of outrageous fun, causing people to line up, smile and sigh, “ The world needs more BOOMing good times like that!!”