<strong><span class="subhead">Rihanna speaks &mdash; finally</span></strong></p><p><strong>Diane Sawyer </strong>has scored the first interview with<strong> Rihanna </strong>since the singer was assaulted by former boyfriend <strong>Chris Brown </strong>in February.</p><p>Rihanna&rsquo;s one-on-one interview with Sawyer will air today and Friday on &ldquo;Good Morning America&rdquo; and Friday night on ABC&rsquo;s &ldquo;20/20.&rdquo;</p><p>And why is she speaking <em>now</em>?</p><p>The interview coincides with the release of her new album: &ldquo;Rated R&rdquo; comes out on Nov. 23.</p><p><strong><span class="subhead">An Army apology</span></strong></p><p>The U.S. Army, we kid you not, has apologized to <strong>Ryan Seacrest </strong>for the actions of one of its own.</p><p>The Los Angeles district attorney&rsquo;s office on Monday charged <strong>Chidi Uzomah </strong>with felony stalking after the 25-year-old was arrested at the E! building where Seacrest does a daily radio and TV show.</p><p>On Tuesday, he pleaded not guilty to a felony stalking charge. If convicted, he faces a maximum of four years in state prison.</p><p>Uzomah serves in the Army Reserves in Upland, Calif. and is reportedly assigned to a special forces unit.</p><p>When contacted by TMZ, Army spokesperson Lt. Col. <strong>Nathan Banks </strong>issued this statement:</p><p>&ldquo;We apologize to Ryan Seacrest. Pending the outcome of the local investigation, the Army will decide what further action to take. We take all matters of our personnel seriously.&rdquo;</p><p><strong><span class="subhead">Russell ready for rug rats</span></strong></p><p>This kind of scares us.</p><p>It seems that <strong>Katy Perry </strong>has her new beau, bad-boy English comedian <strong>Russell Brand</strong>, thinking of &mdash; gasp! &mdash; kids.</p><p>In a recent interview, Brand said he was eager to start a family and leave his famously promiscuous ways behind him.</p><p>&ldquo;Regardless of what happens in my current situation, I am unlikely to be satisfied with the calamitous promiscuity of the preceding five or six years&hellip;&rdquo; he says.</p><p>&ldquo;I am ready for children, actually. It&rsquo;s been seven years since I took drugs. I&rsquo;ve made a film. I don&rsquo;t have to fight so much. I&rsquo;ve grown weary of the carousel.&rdquo;</p><p>Run, Katy, run!</p><p><strong><span class="subhead">Ouija board: The movie</span></strong></p><p>How many blondes does it take to get a Ouija board to work?</p><p>We were wondering that as we watched Sunday&rsquo;s episode of &ldquo;The Girls Next Door,&rdquo; the one where <strong>Hugh Hefner</strong>&rsquo;s new girlfriends &ldquo;camped out&rdquo; on the lawn of the Playboy mansion.</p><p>They pitched a tent, roasted wienies and then tried, unsuccessfully, to make a Ouija board work.</p><p>Maybe they should just go and see the movie.</p><p>Universal Studios has plans to create a &ldquo;a supernatural action-adventure movie&rdquo; based on the Ouija board and has hired some big-gun writers to make it happen: &ldquo;Tron Legacy&rdquo; writers <strong>Edward Kitsis </strong>and <strong>Adam Horowitz</strong>, who also wrote several episodes of &ldquo;Lost.&rdquo;</p><p>The Hollywood Reporter leaked these details: &ldquo;It is possible that certain rules of the game &mdash; never use it alone, never use it in a graveyard, always say good-bye &mdash; figure into the plot.&rdquo;</p><p>Can&rsquo;t wait.