Don't believe everything you read. Unless you read it here, of course.

USA Today had a story yesterday about the Viggo Mortensen film, "The Road," a lot of which was filmed here.

Howevah, the story claimed that scenes were shot in Pittsburgh when they were actually filmed in other parts of the great state of Pennsylvania.

For example, the abandoned amusement park used in the film was Conneaut Lake Park, Crawford County, and that's not "around" Pittsburgh.

Based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning book of the same name by Cormac McCarthy, the film also was shot in Breezewood, on the Pa. Turnpike, Katrina-ravaged New Orleans, Oregon and Washington state.

So contrary to that little article, Pittsburgh is not ground zero for the apocalypse.

Will Britney Spears be starring in the next Quentin Tarantino flick?

You know we don't know.

But Paste magazine is reporting that the newly sleek-bodied Brit Brit will be part of the cast of Quentin's remake of the 1965 cult film "Faster Pussycat! Kill! Kill!

She'll play Varla, one of three strippers.

Well, it's not as if she doesn't have experience playing that kind of role. We've all seen that "Gimme" video.

Since we're talking about young blonde celebs, we'll let you know that "Heroes" hottie Hayden Panettiere has purchased a $2.6 million, three-bedroom domicile in L.A.

Must be nice when you can do that at the tender young age of 18.

Lord, we need us a television show, stat!

Might as well make it a blondie trifecta and tell you all that Paris Hilton, who has found her celebutante mojo again thanks to Sen. John McCain, is looking for a Las Vegas nightclub she can call her very own.

"I'm in talks right now," she tells In Touch Weekly. PH thinks she has found a spot and already has a name but can't reveal it yet.

We're so glad she'll have something to fall back on if she doesn't end up being POTUS.

That means President of the United States, Paris.

Let's move on to something that just warms the cockles of our heart.

R&B star Usher has kicked his manager, Benny Medina, to the curb and has rehired his momma, Jonetta Patton, to run things, reports E! News.

There's nothing like a mother-and-child reunion.

Rumors that Usher was planning to make this move have been circulating for weeks now. Word is boyfriend was none too happy with the sales of his latest album, "Here I Stand."

Obviously, he has learned that momma knows best!

Guess, Mary-Kate Olsen can breathe easy through that little tiny nose.

Federal prosecutors have dropped the criminal case they were pursing in the whole Heath Ledger thing.

They were trying to find out how the late actor got ahold of some of the drugs that were in his system because he didn't have a prescription for them.

We still don't know what MK had to do with all of that, and she wasn't gonna talk without immunity from prosecution.

Now, she doesn't have to talk at all.

While that made a good week for her, Morgan Freeman's week hasn't been so hot.

First he gets into that one-car accident with a female passenger that's not his wife, and has to have surgery. Then his lawyer lets inquiring minds know that he and his wife of 24 years, Myrna, are divorcing and have been separated since December 2007.

But we're totally thrown off because we saw photos of Morgan and wife together at a movie premiere in April.

Then we read reports that he denied talk of a breakup when asked about it in June.

So we don't know what's going on, but it sounds like lawyers will be involved.

And for something really good, check out the latest "I'm Just Sayin" with your hosts L.A. Johnson and Monica Haynes at post-gazette.com/podcast. You know you want to.