The news happens all the time, even while you're catching up on your beauty sleep. Check out this brief rundown to bring you up to speed this morning — a quick heads up from your friends at MTV News.

Here's what we've got:

"American Idol" contestants are barred from blogging while they are on the show. Producer Nigel Lythgoe tells us it's an effort to preserve show secrets, while Chris Daughtry says the experience could only inspire boring entries. Last week's loser and avid blogger Chris Sligh is making up for lost time with a good measure of inside info — Saturday's entry even shouts out Standards and Practices.

Jessica Alba knows that "running around in the rain and wearing a wet T-shirt" is all she has to do to ensure a hit performance, but where's the art in that? Alba spoke to us on the set of the Hong Kong horror remake "The Eye," where she's playing a blind violinist — and is torturing herself and others by using the instrument to make sounds that she compares to "a cat in heat."

Public Enemy, Ozzy Osbourne, David Bowie, Pretty Ricky. One of these things is not like the other — and you probably know which, but the why is a bit tougher. Did you guess that Pretty Ricky is the only artist of the four to hit #1 on Billboard's albums charts? Wow, really? Nice work. Now check out all of the other legends who haven't hit that sales high.

Quote of the Day: "I'll do anything. I'll jump off a building!" — Beyoncé on the lengths she'd go to for a good video.

Here's what everyone else is talking about:

The Game hits Tony Yayo and 50 Cent on "Body Bags," a dis track posted on his MySpace page. "We don't do the kid slappin'," he notes — though he does catalog a whole list of other unfriendly activities on the scathing track.

Meanwhile, "Straight to the Bank," a new song from 50 Cent, was posted on the XXL site late last night. The three-minute track features a cackling chorus (He's laughing straight to the bank, get it?) and calls out "Inspector Gadget," shih tzus and high-top fades. Comments have rated it everything from a banger to "average at best."

Sanjaya Malakar is gearing up to sing again tonight, the hater hunger strike has ended and now KFC has offered the "American Idol" holdout a lifetime supply of KFC Famous Bowls if he rocks a bowl cut on the show, RealityTVMagazine.com reports. Sure, he could probably pull it off, but something about linking fast food and hair just seems wrong.

Elsewhere on "Idol" planet, TMZ.com reports that Sanjaya's competitors are peeved by his popularity (no kidding) while Ryan Seacrest picks the other 17-year old contestant, Jordin Sparks, to win it all.

Britney Spears had it — where "it" is " 'Toxic' times 10" — before she went to rehab, producer Sean Garrett tells People, and he has no doubt that Britney's return to recording will prove she's still got it. Stay tuned.

Scott Stapp has settled a lawsuit with an adult-video company that had footage of the former Creed frontman and Kid Rock getting personal with very friendly fans. According to the agreement, the video won't see the light of day. Everybody wins.

And in their continuing efforts to prove that stars really are just like you and me, People reports that Mandy Moore fractured her merely human ankle during a photo shoot, while TMZ.com shadows Jennifer Lopez as she fulfills her civic duty as a Beverly Hills juror.