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Murphy's Flaw



Are you stuck with Subway for your midafternoon meal? Ever wish you could split a Cobb salad with Brad and Angie or clink mimosas with Posh 'n' Becks? Well, you'd better hang on to that sandwich-club card, 'cause the likelihood of that happening is pretty much a billion to one. Howevs, if you call Hell-Ay home, you can always take an extralong munch break at Sunset Boulevard’s Chateau Marmont hotel for some celeb delicacies to fill your A-list appetite. Just take a gander at one afternoon in par-tick at the infamous inn that’s as notorious as its tenants...

A bunch o’ Hollywood hotshots and not-hots came out to dine on the posh patio, midday hump day. Brittany Murphy and her screenwriter hubby, Simon Monjack, sat in the shade, tho almost every spot lacked sunshine on this overcast day. Still, Si-Si sported sunglasses...Is he trying to cover up a hangover or is he just a d-bag who doesn’t want to make eye contact with the staff? Your pick. Both Mr. and Ms. were fancied up in nice clothes, but even a wondrous wardrobe can’t compete with the shiny, yellow shade of B.M.’s sickly skin.

Maybe catching our subconscious disgust, Britters took off to the bathroom for 10 minutes, reemerging to display a face caked with makeup, like she'd just graduated from a streetwalker master class. Girl then lit up and started chain-smoking, even striking a flame for her guy’s cigar, which he puffed on like Tony Soprano. The pair sipped Diet Coke, partaking in the Skinny Bitch Diet: cigarettes and zero-calorie beverages, trust. Just a note, Murph-hon: No amount of sugarless sweets is gonna bring your swollen trout pout down to normal size.



At one point, B-doll actually jumped out of her chair and into her hub-unit’s lap, sticking her tongue down his throat while playing with whatever hair he has left. Seriously, sweetie, you can slide so far down from Ashton Kutcher-type companions to a guy who, let’s just say, isn’t even "photogenic" to the naked eye. What else explains such dreadful decisions?



Elsewhere on the patio, director McG of Charlie’s Angels fame sat with a bunch of Industry types, watching footage on a laptop and looking over stills printed on giant paper. Our guess? It’s all about Terminator 4, starring megathesp hunk Christian Bale as John Conner. First he trumps Michael Keaton as the go-to Batman, now Eddie Furlong is out of his career-defining role. Can we get C.B. to breathe new life into every dying franchise? Chrissy-babe could make even the Saw movies worth a watch.

There’s more T-town talk to be had at the Marmont, fer sure. A style-maven missy, you know the type, dined with two other gal-pals, all the while gabbing about her clothing doings with Mandy Moore and Jennifer Aniston. She was loud and spoke like a texting teenager, and the only person laughing at her jokes was, guess who...herself. Turns out even the obnoxious get to hobnob at H'wood hotels.

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A Diva in the Life

Finally, some true star wattage waltzed into the place. Charlize Theron graced the Chateau with her gorgeous puss for a one-on-one fanzy rag interview...for practically the whole joint to hear! C.T. looked all sorts of chic-goddess, in jeans, an olive green leather jacket and an emerald ring ‘round her wedding-ring finger to match. Char-hon had the flu, which she told everyone hoping to shake her well-manicured hands, and apologized. Such manners. I’m surprised she didn’t curtsy with a book balanced on top of her head.



Char talked shop about how normal her and boyfriend Stuart Townsend’s relaysh is—she even asks him the dreaded question: "Does this make me look fat?" Except the difference between Charlie-babe and Stu’s relationship and every other union on the planet is that Charlize Theron will never look fat in anything. This, mind you, is an even more painful fat-oid due to the awful truth that Char hates to work out, or didn’t you know? Whatev. Just nice to learn even gazelle-like gals such as Charlie aren’t completely confident all the time. Says the actress: “We’re expected to be mothers and whores, but be beautiful and perfect no matter what. We’re more comfortable watching a man on screen be ugly or violent or bad. When a woman is flawed onscreen, it’s so uncomfortable...Women are supposed to be gorgeous all the time and perfect all the time. And that’s what made the Aileen [in Monster] story so great.”



Right on. Char-doll even harked back to the Janet Jackson wardrobe “malfunction” (is that dated pop-culture controversy still permissible to bring up in a convo?), wondering how that was “the worst thing to happen in the world, yet we can watch little girls grow up wearing midriff-bearing shirts and be complimented on reality shows for looking trashy?” We’re so with ya, hon. Then again, you’re at the Chateau Marmont, a place that let Lindsay Lohan have a lease. Maybe you’re better off finishing your interview at a motel with some morals.

Poll: David Archuleta To Take ‘Idol’ Crown



Teenage contender David Archuleta is going to sweep “American Idol,” according to a new poll from Reuters.

Forty percent of the viewers questioned chose Archuleta as their top pick, according to E-Poll Market Research, who conducted the survey on behalf of the news agency.

Archuleta emerged as a frontrunner in the competition early on after he gave a stunning rendition of John Lennon’s “Imagine” in February. Though the baby-faced, blue-eyed boy has had a less-than-steady run on the show since, picking songs the judges slated and forgetting the words to Beatles cut “We Can Work It Out,” he has managed to stay out of the dreaded bottom three every week.

When asked who they wanted to win however, Archuleta came out in a tie with rocker David Cook. Both contenders netted 25% each.



Voters chose Cook as most talented however, giving the rocker 31 percent to Archuleta’s 27. Irish singer Carly Smithson came in third followed by curly haired Brooke White, Australian Michael Johns, dreadlocked singer Jason Castro, country-cutie Kristy Lee Cook and Syesha Mercado.

And they gave high marks to Simon Cowell as well. Though voters claimed his biggest trait is being “rude,” 64 percent of those polled said he was their favorite judge.

Around 1,100 people ages 13 and over were polled for the survey last week.

ROLL CALL: Tisdale Not Committed To Fourth ‘HSM’ & Animated Miley

Rosie’s Little Republican: It’s been almost a year since Rosie O’Donnell and Elisabeth Hasselbeck had their notorious spat, that led to Rosie leaving “The View” — and Rosie is still talking about it. The former talk show host and current blogger told Martha Stewart on her morning television show, “I tried my best but it’s hard for me when I’m not the boss. There was [sic] people there telling me what to do. There was a little Republican who scared me.”



No ‘HSM4’ For Tisdale?: The announcement that Disney is already planning a fourth installment of the “High School Musical” series has fans wondering if Troy, Gabriella, and Sharpay will be back for more singing and dancing. But don’t count in Ashley Tisdale just yet. The actress told Us Weekly, “It will always be a part of us that we loved to do. All of us have gone through so much together, like winning the Billboard Award and an Emmy and an American Music Award! That’s something that we’ll always remember!” So what’s next for her? “I’d love to do more romantic comedies in the future.,” she added, calling Kate Hudson an inspiration. A “HSM” without Sharpay is not something we’re going to be able to handle!

Miley Gets Animated: Miley Cyrus will lend her voice skills to Disney’s animated film “Bolt,” opposite John Travolta, Variety reports. Fifteen minutes of the animated film was recently screened by Disney and received enthusiastic applause from the audience of Disney exec’s and reporters…proving no one is immune to the power of Miley.



Paris Declares Her Love For Benji: If you’ve questioned the sincerity of Paris Hilton’s latest relationship with rocker Benji Madden, click on over to the hotel heiress’ MySpace Celebrity blog, to find out just how serious she is-- beware, she’s using a four letter word. “I’ve never felt so happy and in love,” she wrote in a blog post on Tuesday. “He’s such an amazing guy and life has never been better.” Celeb-love never stops warming our hearts!

Mike Myers To Host MTV Movie Awards: Funny man and ‘Shrek” star Mike Myers has been announced as the host the upcoming MTV Movie Awards, People reports. “Hosting the MTV Movie Awards is like a party, but without having to do beer runs in your mom’s mini van,” Myers said in a statement. “We do beer runs in Will Smith’s four-story motor home,” begging the question…why hasn’t Mike sprung for a new (non-mini van) car for his mom, and why is Mike driving it?

George Clooney Jabs Brad Pitt Over Lack Of Oscar



George Clooney admitted he loves “gloating” about his Oscar win over buddy Brad Pitt

The “Leatherheads” star threw down a new gauntlet in the ongoing witty repartee between the two actors, during an interview with Britain’s GMTV anchor Penny Smith, which included a reference to his Oscar for Best Supporting Actor in “Syriana.”

“It’s over a fireplace at my house,” George said of the golden statue. “When my friends come over I make them pick it up and we take photographs of them giving an acceptance speech. I actually did that with Walter Kronkite.”

Smith then asked gentleman George if he makes Brad feel bad that he has yet to pick up one for his own mantle.

“That’s what I enjoy doing with Brad is gloating,” George said tongue-in-cheek. “Because things aren’t going well for him.”

And Angelina is “ugly,” Penny suggested in jest.

“She is hard to look at,” George joked.

And while he may tease Brad and Angelina through the media, George revealed he is happy to pull gags on the press too.

George confirmed to GMTV he is not hosting the couple’s nuptials at his Italian villa in Como, but when that gossip began several years ago, he took the opportunity to have a giggle at the expense of the press.

“The rumors started once a couple years ago and there we literally — I’m not exaggerating — a hundred reporters outside my house in February, which is not the time to get married in Como,” he laughed. “When we found out about it, we hired high-top tables and had them all laid out in the lawn just so [the press] all hired helicopters and flew around for ten days waiting for a wedding that wasn’t happening.”

American Idol 7 — Who Got Kicked Off?



YIKES!!!!!



MICHAEL JOHNS! MICHAEL JOHNS!

The other bottom three: Syesha Mercado and Carly Smithson

FYI: Idol Gives Back donations have so far reached $60+ million

Abigail Breslin and Cameron Diaz Are “Sisters”



Cameron Diaz and Abigail Breslin film scenes for their latest movie My Sister’s Keeper on a beach in Malibu on Wednesday.

During one scene Cameron, 35, and a male co-star were play fighting and kissing while Abigail, 11, was filmed holding an umbrella as she walked along the ocean.

My Sister’s Keeper is a movie about a young girl (Abigail) who sues her parents for the right to make her own decisions about how her body is used when a kidney transplant is planned in order to potentially save her older sister. Cameron Diaz plays Sara Fitzgerald, Abigail’s mom in the movie.

Anne Hathaway is Waiting to War



Anne Hathaway waits around to film scenes on location in Boston for the movie Bride Wars, co-starring Kate Hudson.

Anne, 25, recently told MTV, “I’m about to go off and make a movie with Kate Hudson called Bride Wars, it’s like Wedding Crashers meets Old School,” she grinned. “Kate Hudson and I play people who’ve been best friends since we were little girls. Through a series of mishaps, our weddings get booked on the same day, and through a series of misunderstandings we think the other took it.

Also, Candice Bergen recently signed on to play Marion St. Claire, the queen of all wedding planners.

Fergie Pops Up at Music Awards Show



Stacy “Fergie” Ferguson attends ASCAP’s 25th Annual Pop Music Awards at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood on Wednesday.

Fergie’s hit “Big Girls Don’t Cry” and Gwen Stefani’s “The Sweet Escape” tied for song of the year.

“To get any honor in that room is something very special,” she said. “Songwriting is an expression of your soul, so to be honored as a writer feels like an approval of your soul.”

Fergie, 33, was also at Idol Gives Back and sang with Ann and Nancy Wilson of Heart.

Tyra Banks Plants One on Bloomberg



New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg joins Tyra Banks, Claire Unabia, Saliesha Cooper and Jaslene Gonzalez of America’s Next Top Model to plant an Oak tree on Ninth Avenue on Wednesday.

Together, they planted the tree as part of “Million Tree Month.” The show was taped Wednesday and will air sometime after Earth Day. Tyra even planted a kiss on Mayor Bloomberg’s cheek!

Tyra, 34, also received a proclamation to honor The Tyra Banks Show.

Hayden Christensen Flies Through the Gas Station



Hayden Christensen stops by a gas station in Los Feliz, Calif., on Wednesday, but forgets to zip up on the way out. XYZ!

Hayden, 26, along with Orlando Bloom and Ethan Hawke are among the stars that just signed on for New York, I Love You.

The movie, which comprises 12 short films from different directors, is currently shooting across the city’s five boroughs, reports Variety.

New York, I Love You is “a mixture of contemplative romance and unabashed civic boosterism. The anthology of shorts follows the format of ‘Paris, je t’aime,’ a surprise specialty hit released last year.”

Nicole Richie @ Pop Music Awards 2008



Nicole Richie glows in a strapless floor-grazing Missoni gown at the 2008 ASCAP Pop Awards held at Kodak Theatre in Hollywood on Wednesday (ASCAP = American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers).

Nicole, 26, was accompanied by her 9-year-old sister Sofia and 58-year-old father Lionel, who was honored with the ASCAP Golden Note Award for achieving extraordinary career milestones. Legendary songwriter/producer Quincy Jones and ASCAP President and Chairman Marilyn Bergman presented the award to Lionel.

The invitation-only awards celebration honored the songwriters and publishers of ASCAP’s most performed songs of 2007. Songwriter of the Year was awarded to Timbaland while Song of the Year was a tie between Fergie’s “Big Girls Don’t Cry” and Gwen Stefani’s “The Sweet Escape.”

Britney Spears Donates $25,000 to Idol Gives Back



Britney Spears was so moved by the stories told on Idol Gives Back on Wednesday, April 9, that she donated $25,000.

“She did it all on her own. She watched the show and cried for like two hours over the children in Africa with malaria,” a Spears family insider tells Life & Style. “She didn’t know much about the disease, so she Googled it. She was horrified to realize kids were dying from mosquito bites. So she went online and donated after getting [her dad] Jamie’s permission. She used her Amex.”

A rep for FOX declined to comment. Goooooooooo, Brit Brit!

BELIEVE in Chris Brown and Rihanna



Chris Brown and Rihanna continue to play the “we’re just friends” card but have been spotted out and about together in New York City the last few days.

Today, the pair were spotted near their Manhattan hotel. Last night, Chris came out to support Rihanna at her concert held at the Highline Ballroom. The concert helped fund the BELIEVE Foundation, which Rihanna created in 2006 to “ensure the health and well-being of our future leaders.” BELIEVE is also “committed to creating change in the lives of our youth by providing, educational, financial, social and medical support when and wherever it is needed.” (FYI: Rihanna’s tee reads “Eye Need Flash Nerds.”)

American Idol champ Jordin Sparks recently confirmed Chris and RiRi’s relationship status to UK’s Young Voices:

Are Chris Brown and Rihanna dating? Yeah, they are. It was really cool because I walked on the set and she was sitting there with Chris Brown and I was like I can’t believe she’s here. She came and she told me that she loved “No Air”, and that it was one of her favourite songs. It was really cool hearing that from one of my peers. She just wanted to support him.

Did it feel weird doing intimate scenes with Chris Brown with his girlfriend watching you? (laughs) It was hard at first, but then I said, ‘you know what? I have to work!’ It had to look like I was in love with him, so I had to do it. Hopefully she won’t kill me!! (laughs)

American Idol Performs “Shout to the Lord”


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The American Idol “Final 8″ performed “Shout To the Lord” as its closing song Wednesday night during Idol Gives Back, a music celebration raising awareness and funds to benefit various U.S. and international charities. Here are some sample lyrics:

My Shepherd, My Savior
Lord there is none like You
All of my days, I want to praise
The wonders of Your mighty love

“Shout to the Lord” is a popular worship anthem, written by singer/songwriter Darlene Zschech in 1993. However, the original lyrics start the song off with “My Jesus” but was replaced with “My Shepherd” for American Idol.

Pictured left to right: Brooke White, David Archuleta, Kristy Lee Cook, David Cook, Carly Smithson, Jason Castro, Syesha Mercado and Michael Johns.

Tina Fey - “Marie Claire” May 2008



Former SNL funny woman Tina Fey takes the May 2008 cover of Marie Claire, on newsstands April 15th.

The 37-year-old 30 Rock star chats about what it’s like to be a huge celebrity - from ignoring underlings to playing outrageous pranks like George Clooney and Matt Damon, to her beauty rituals and what she did during the writers strike.

On playing pranks with SNL comedienne Amy Poehler on the set of her new movie Baby Mama: “We love pranks. I mean, we’re kind of like Cloons and Damon that way, doing a lot of, like $250,000 pranks. I did a really funny prank where I got my assistant to paint all the cars in your neighborhood white so you would wake up and think it was snowing. That was a good one.”

On what she did during the writers’ strike: “I worked out three times. Well, I went to the gym three times, but I only worked out two of the times. One other time I used the bathroom. Actually, I spent the whole time with my kid, which was nice. It was like the maternity leave that I never got. She is now able to pick me out of a lineup of four or five women.”

On good advice from her mother: “Always wear a bra. Whether you think you need it or not, just wear one. You’re not going to look back and regret it.”

P.S. Don’t miss an all-new episode of 30 Rock tonight! Baby Mama opens in theaters nationwide on Friday, April 25.

Carrie Underwood: My Dating Life Sucks




Country music superstars Carrie Underwood and Keith Urban have been sharing the stage together on their “Love, Pain & the Whole Crazy Carnival Ride” tour.

Last night at the 1st Mariner Arena in Baltimore, Maryland, a newly single Carrie strutted the stage in thigh-high black boots and lamented about the lack of romance in her life.

“I don’t know how y’alls’ dating life is, but mine’s not so great,” said the singer, who recently split from Gossip Girl hottie Chace Crawford via text message.

Meanwhile, Keith celebrated his upcoming daddyhood “I’m gonna be a dad soon, and it only took me 40 years!”

Keith and wife Nicole Kidman are expecting their little one in July.

Tina Fey is Red Hot



FEY-CKIN OVERLOAD

Tina Fey is one hot Mama on the latest cover of Entertainment Weekly. Upper West Side apartment.

On only having “four moves” as an actor: ”four moves” as an actress: ”Eye-rolling; the ability to eat food on camera in real time; I think I’m a decent straight man. Do I have a fourth move? Um, unpleasant dancing.”

On if she really wants a larger fanbase: ”They should draw up an equation: What level of fame do you need to achieve to keep doing what you want? Because you don’t want any more than that. You don’t want someone to take a picture of your butt on the beach…. How do you get to be Christopher Guest? Just live your life, make hilarious movies with your friends, and then go home.”

On doing the movie Baby Mama with Amy Poehler: . ”I liked the topicality of the fertility issues that affect so many people. There’s so much weirdness and emotion about it. If you start with something juicy, you end up with a better [movie] than if you just start with some jokes. And Amy liked that it did not have anything to do with a goddamn wedding.”

Gerard Butler: I’m Not Dating Cameron Diaz!



Gerard Butler shows off his massive muscles in a skintight tank top as he goes for a morning run in Los Angeles on Thursday.

The 38-year-old husky 300 star reportedly took Cameron Diaz on a double date over the weekend with Jake Gyllenhaal and Reese Witherspoon. But let this be another lesson of don’t believe everything you read!

During his morning run, Mr. Butler bluntly addressed the rumors that he’s dating Cameron Diaz.

In complete Gerry humor, he said,”So if I take my dog for a walk apparently I’m f—ing my dog? No, it’s not true!”

‘Eagle Eye’ Movie Still — FIRST PICTURE



Here is the first movie still from Eagle Eye, the upcoming thriller starring Shia LaBeouf and Michelle Monaghan.

Shia is teaming up again with Disturbia director D.J. Caruso for Eagle Eye.

LaBeouf, 21, plays a slacker who is accused of being part of a terrorist plot, along with a single mother played by Monaghan. They’re then tangled up in a terrorist cell plotting a political assassination.

Eagle Eye opens in theaters on September 26.

Cameron Diaz - “W Magazine” May 2008



Lights, Cameron, Action

Hollywood’s most gorgeous goof Cameron Diaz gets her groove back after a year of soul-searching, taking the May 2008 cover of W Magazine.

On arriving late to the W Magazine interview at Bowery Hotel’s Gemma restaurant: “I’m so sorry. Mercury is in retrograde, and that messes with technology, and I was trying to get on e-mail to approve something, and my computer kept crashing….(furiously wipes her lips with her hands) I feel like I have stuff all over my mouth. Do I have, like, gunk on my lips? Am I grossing you out? (giggles) It’s like, eewwww, gross!”

On loving the New York experience: “You can walk down the street and end up in a gallery or some wonderful ethnic-food restaurant, or you can stop in a shop that sells, I don’t know, staplers from all over the world! You don’t get that in L.A.—that kind of, I don’t know, specialty.”

On spending Saturday nights at Sing Sing, an East Village karaoke bar: “There’d be 30 of us in this really tiny room screaming at the top of our lungs. All of a sudden it would be four in the morning and we’d have no idea what time it was, no idea how long we’d been there, and nobody would be ready to go home. It was awesome.”

On her preference of NY over LA: “Those guys [the paparazzi], you can’t get away from them. You have no options because everybody’s in a car. Here, I can walk down the street like everybody else. [In New York], not everybody is there to be rich and famous or attach themselves to rich and famous people. People want nothing from you. They just want to say, like, ‘Hey, how’s it going, Cameron?’ I like that interaction. I like to be in a place where I can be open to people and not worry about the consequences.”

Jessica Simpson 'Couldn't Be Happier' for Ashlee and Pete



The day after Ashlee Simpson and Pete Wentz announced their engagement, their loved ones say they couldn't be happier about the news.

"My sister is overflowing with joy," says Ashlee's older sister, Jessica Simpson. "Pete is an incredible soul. They naturally bring out the best in each other. I couldn't be happier."

And their dad, Joe, weighed in from Augusta, Ga., where he is in town watching the Masters golf tournament with Jessica's beau, Dallas Cowboys quarterback Tony Romo. He confirms that Wentz, the bassist for Fall Out Boy, asked his permission to propose to Ashlee.

"[Pete] did ask me," says Joe. "I told him that I would be honored to have him as part of my family."

Yesterday the newly engaged couple posted a statement on friendsorenemies.com saying, "We are thrilled to share that we are happily engaged. Thank you for all of your support and well wishes – it means the world to us. We consider this to be a very private matter, and we wanted to be the first to tell you and to hear it straight from us."

Blythe Danner on Gwyneth & Chris: They're 'Happily Married' – Really!



Gwyneth Paltrow's mother, Blythe Danner, is setting the record straight on recent rumors that her daughter's marriage to Coldplay frontman Chris Martin is in trouble.

"Oh no! They are really happily married," Danner told PEOPLE Thursday at an unveiling for Energy Vision natural gas garbage trucks in New York. "They are together all time. The public just does not see them together. They couldn't have a better marriage."

Paltrow, 35, who has been married to Martin for four years and has two children, is rarely photographed with her husband in public, and the Oscar winner (who herself called the rumors "ridiculous") says the public will never see the couple out publicly.

And the reason why? "It has to do with being so inundated," Danner explains. "They get so inundated and it's gotten so awful now that they can't go out and enjoy themselves. If they were both out together they would just get so overwhelmed and not enjoy themselves. So they do it for that reason."

With so much speculation, Danner says it's something she recently started to hear herself. "It's just so silly that people have to make a great big thing about it. It's just their way of being private and you've got to respect that. I guess they feel that being apart in the public will cause less heat."

Gwyneth's Childhood Activism
Just in time for Earth Day, Danner, 65, helped unveil new energy-efficient natural gas garbage trucks in New York City's Union Square. For the actress and longtime activist, she says her work paid off with Gwyneth and her grandchildren, Apple, 3, and Moses, 2.

"Gwyneth was actually 3 years old when she had a placard that we made, this homemade sign that said 'You are Polluting.' And we would ride around Los Angeles where we lived," Danner adds. "I said, 'Gwennie, when you see dirty, black spewing out of a bus or a truck, hold up a sign.' "

After delivering the instructions, the mom-and-daughter team had a scary moment – when the young Gwyneth proceeded to roll down her window at a stop light. "Before I could stop her, she was saying to this big guy in this huge truck, 'You're polluting!'

"He said, 'I am? I better go to the big garage and fix that.'"

Composting with the Grandkids
As for her grandkids, Apple and Moses "compost with me," Danner says. "It's a nice thing we like to do together out in our garden. They are great helpers."

"Apple said to me the other day in the car, 'You know we have to keep the world clean.' and I said, 'Yes! That's my girl!' She is getting the message."

Mischa Barton Sentenced to Probation in DUI Case



Mischa Barton was sentenced to three years of unsupervised probation in a Beverly Hills courtroom Thursday in her DUI case.

The former O.C. star pleaded no contest to drunken driving in a plea deal reached with prosecutors and which will spare her jail time.

In addition, a marijuana possession charge against Barton was dropped (due to the small amount found, a source told to PEOPLE). Another charge of driving without a license was reduced to an infraction.

The actress did not attend the hearing. Her attorney, Anthony V. Salerno, was there on her behalf. "The DAs were very fair in handling this case," Salerno said outside the courtroom. "Mischa's glad the case has been resolved."

Barton, 22, was ordered to complete a three-month alcohol-education class and pay a fine of approximately $2,000.

Legal experts say such a deal is common for first-time offenders.

In a statement released after the hearing, her lawyer added: "Ms. Barton understands the seriousness of this situation and assumes full responsibility for her actions. She and I are grateful to the Court and the District Attorney’s Office for the prompt and respectful resolution of the case."

The actress was arrested for DUI in Los Angeles on Dec. 27, after sheriff deputies spotted her weaving between two lanes of traffic and she failed to signal when making a turn.

On Jan. 10, Barton said on Ryan Seacrest's KIIS-F.M. radio show: "Obviously I'm 100 percent responsible for my actions in this case. I'm really disappointed in myself. I don't know what to say about it, except that I'm not perfect, and I just don't ever intend to do something this stupid again."

Rihanna’s Jumpsuit Joy



OOH BABY, IT’S RAININ’… FLOWERS

Rihanna makes a Chris Brown-less appearance as she makes her way to a middle school in Los Angeles on Thursday afternoon.

The 20-year-old “Umbrella” singer wore a very bold sleeveless jumpsuit with a floral print. RiRi accessorized with heart sandals, big hoop earrings and a ######llic handbag. The nail polish on her fingers and toes were mismatching blues but each ###### of blue matched flowers on her jumpsuit!!

Only someone like Rihanna could pull off such a look!

Amy Winehouse Has a Wonky Leg



Amy Winehouse shows off a protruding muscle sticking out of her wonky leg as she takes a break from a recording studio in North England on Thursday.

The 24-year-old “Rehab” singer has been busy working on a song for the soundtrack of the new James Bond movie, The Quantum of Solace.

Back in February, a source said, “If Amy is clean then, [the Bond song is] hers.”

Amy must be clean then if she’s continuing with the Bond song!

P.S. This picture is not Photoshopped!!!

UPDATE: JJ reader Dani writes in to say that Amy’s protruding muscle is the Sartorius muscle, a long thin muscle that runs down the length of the thigh. It is the longest muscle in the human body! Who knew!

Vanilla Ice: Arrested, Arrested, Baby



Rapper and recent reality TV star Vanilla Ice (real name: Robert Matthew Van Winkle) was arrested on Thursday night for allegedly hitting and kicking his wife.

“He started yelling at me for going out to buy a bedroom set. In front of my daughter,” Winkle’s wife, Laura, told a deputy. “I’m sorry I can’t say any more until I talk to an attorney.”

According to the Palm Beach Post, Winkle, 40, was charged with simple domestic battery and is being held at Palm Beach County Jail.

The Van Winkles has two daughters, Dusti Rain, 10, and KeeLee Breeze, 8.

Ashlee Does HX Magazine

Ashlee Simpson is featured on the cover and in the pages of the new issue of HX magazine. Unfortch for the mag, the interview with Ash was done before news broke of her engagement to Pete Wentz but there are a few gems worth mentioning from this interview:



In her interview, Ashlee reveals that her gay BFF is a guy named James ("We go out to dinners, shopping, all that good stuff.") altho her bestie Ken Paves is a close second ("Oh, we may have a tie! Ken is definitely up there. Ken is the most exciting person to have around. He's so much fun and brings the best energy, and he has the best heart. Ken is like a family member to me—like the long lost Simpson sister.") ... she also reveals that she didn't actually design any clothing for Wet Seal, despite the fact that her new clothing line will launch on April 22 ("Well, I haven't seen all of [the clothes]. I didn't really design them or anything, which I'm definitely going to do in the future, but there are some that are cute. I like them."). Interesting. Ashlee actually opens up about a lot of things, including personal stuff about her relationship with Pete ("[I'm]more of the gay man in the relationship. He definitely wears the man-shoes in the relationship, which is great. I love that guys love him, too—that's wonderful. It's flattering.") and how he DID NOT influence the sound on her new album ("If he would've influenced that, I probably would've made a totally different record. But there are many other ways that he inspires me—through music, writing, and just watching him. But I would never try to sound like him.").

With This Bling, I Thee Wed

Hot on the heels of yesterday's late day announcement that Ashlee Simpson and Pete Wentz got themselves engaged to be wed comes our first photo of Ashlee rockin' her engagement ring. Unfortch, tho, the angle of the ring only shows the bottom of the band but I'm sure we'll be seeing what kind of rock a bandmember of Fall Out Boy can afford to give his betrothed:


Photo credit: X17

From the angle of this photo, it looks like Ashlee's ring has small diamonds all round the band ... which means there is prolly a big honkin' rock sittin' pretty on top. I'm sure there will be much ado about this engagement for days to come now ... I understand that no wedding date has been set yet so folks are gonna have to milk this engagement story for as long as they can in the meantime.

Gossip Goss

Over the past few weeks, there have been a whole slew of photos making their way around the InterWeb from the NYC filming of the CW show Gossip Girl ... and today is no exception ... but this time around, we have a bit of information gathered from an industrious Pink reader who was on the scene, close enough to eavesdrop on the action and provide a short report. Here is what Pink reader Brian was able to glean from recent filming on the show that he was able to listen in on:


Photo credit: Splash News

Brian writes: Spotted on the Steps of the Met: A whole of action going down on the set of Gossip Girl. It appears Blair (Leighton Meister) has been able to wrangle her token Asian and token Black girl away from Jenny (Taylor Momson). But, the other three steps girls are part of Jenny's rebel forces. Which means Blair has to deal with being equals with Jenny. The guy who was on set in those photos you posted is apparently Jenny's plan B. From what dialogue we over heard on set on Monday, Jenny tried to get Nate (Chace Crawford's character first, then settled for the new guy). And, You should see the wardrobe trailer, it's bigger than an 18 wheeler, and each time the door opened someone came out with hangers containing more than my rent's worth of fabulous stuff.

I.Love.It. Being able to spy on the show's filming is kinda like bringing the world of Gossip Girl to life. As soon as this action was "spotted" I'm sure it made its way from cell phone to BlackBerry to Sidekick almost instantly. What a brilliant merging of real life with fiction and vice versa. And I totally believe the bit about the wardrobe trailer ... you can tell that the show takes wardrobe very seriously. I've been very impressed with the look of the show's wardrobe since these new eps have started filming. I'm sure the show is gonna come back with a huge bang come April 21

A bitter comedy gets lost in 'Chaos'



Ryan Reynolds's makeover continues. The onetime snarkmaster of rude college farces like "Van Wilder" and "Waiting. . ." is hitting 30, and his smooth spray-on tan is beginning to look unbecoming - the mark of an ageless oddity like George Hamilton rather than a smartly shallow frat-boy hero.

Chaos Theory

Directed by: Marcos Siega

Written by: Daniel Taplitz

Starring: Ryan Reynolds, Emily Mortimer, Stuart Townsend

At: Boston Common, Fenway, suburbs

Running time: 86 minutes

Rated: PG-13 (language, some bed-hopping and semi-giving-in to adulterous urges)
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So the powers that be have been casting the actor as a befuddled daddy-type in romantic comedies like "Definitely, Maybe" and "Chaos Theory," a new film that's actually been sitting on the shelf for well over a year. "Maybe" was watchable and blandly pleasant; "Theory" is a smidgen better than that, if not the cruelly funny farce the movie's best impulses and its own trailer would have you believe.

After a modern-day opening scene, in which Reynolds is wholly unconvincing as a middle-age father of a bride, "Chaos Theory" flashes back two decades and then forward seven or so years, finally settling into its main narrative about married couple Frank (Reynolds) and Susan (British actress Emily Mortimer, making with a convincing American accent). He's an efficiency expert wound tighter than a tick, she's charming and skeptical, and their banter is pretty sharply honed for a modern multiplex comedy.

Him: "I've got to go, it's 18 after."

Her: " 'Eighteen after' is not a time, it's a symptom, like a twitch."

Him: "You used to think it was adorable."

Her: "I used to pound Jagermeister."

Daniel Taplitz's script natters along like this for a bit, introducing the couple's young daughter Jesse (Matreya Fedor), and then it starts to pull Frank's little world apart with glee. Overnight in the city after giving a motivational speech, he allows himself to be reeled in by a seminar groupie - is there such a thing? - played by Sarah Chalke, and follows that up with an emergency assist to a pregnant mother (Jocelyne Loewen) in need.

Such things are meant to be misunderstood by movie wives, but "Chaos Theory" proceeds to twist the wrench further, until the hero's gears are well and truly stripped and the only recourse is to run across the ice naked at a professional hockey game.

At a certain point in Frank's carefully delineated nervous breakdown, he comes to understand that keeping one's life in order is futile. He embraces whim with the zeal of a born-again convert, making lists of anti-social behaviors then choosing one at blissful random. Reynolds deftly blurs the lines between joy and rage; he's a light comedian playing entertainingly with heavier weights than usual.

There are the pieces of a remarkably bitter and clear-eyed comedy here, something I can imagine Elaine May directing Jack Lemmon in a few movie generations back. Taplitz and director Marcos Siega aren't up to that level. "Chaos Theory" keeps jerking in the direction of melodrama, and finally the cart tips over completely.

A subplot involving Stuart Townsend as Frank's best friend, a cad who has long pined for Susan, trods ever deeper into the slough of seriousness. The film also raises the possibility of bad behavior on the part of the wife before dodging the issue in a way calculated to please the movie's audience while sapping the life out of its characters.

Savor the sharp bits, then, and forget about the cluttered ending, which combines comic attempted homicide with young Fedor behaving as no little girl would under the circumstances. "Chaos Theory" is pretend grown-up fare for moviegoers who've been out of college a decade or so and who are just beginning to freak out about getting older. It's genial enough, but it should be called "My First Mid-Life Crisis Movie."

Just shoot me
‘Street Kings’ spreads the blam



If you can imagine Keanu Reeves in a “Dirty Harry” update about an out-of-control Los Angeles police detective who finds himself framed for the gruesome murder of a fellow cop, you have some idea what to expect from “Street Kings.”

But I find it hard to think of Keanu as New Clint.

Directed by David Ayer, the writer of the L.A.P.D.-based bad-cop drama “Training Day,” “Street Kings” is replete with hard-boiled dialogue, grunting he-men and action so testosterone-pumped it gave me a raging ’roid migraine. It is scripted by that bloody prophet of lurid L.A. stories James Ellroy (“L.A. Confidential,” etc.), veteran Kurt Wimmer (“Ultraviolet,” “The Recruit”) and newcomer Jamie Moss from a story by Ellroy.

Meet (Dirty) Tom(my) Ludlow on a typical “morning,” which is to say sunset, as he wakes up, pukes, packs his heat in the trunk of his 425-hp SRT Charger, buys three nips of vodka, which he sucks down, and makes racist remarks to the Korean gangbangers to whom he’s trying to sell a vintage 50-caliber machine gun.

Tom’s supposed to be one bad mutha ... oh, shut my mouth.

But the truth is the racist remarks are just part of an act (unless, of course, they aren’t) because Tom is undercover trying to rescue a pair of Korean twin girls who are being used as sex slaves by these bad guys. How he knows any of this when a citywide hunt for the girls is on is left to our imagination.

Soon a whole pile of bullet-riddled punks aren’t feeling so lucky, and Tom finds himself caught between his powerful captain (Forest Whitaker), who wants to protect Tom and believes he is “the tip of the spear” in the fight against evil, and that snoopy Captain Biggs (Hugh Laurie) of Internal Affairs.

As my ###### might suggest, “Street Kings,” the cinematic equivalent of gangsta rap, has a slight credibility problem, although this may not be an issue for people who get off on this sort of grossly violent and profane lowbrow entertainment.

Reeves is no Eastwood, Tom no Dirty Harry and Ayer no Don Siegel (“Dirty Harry”). Academy Award-winner Whitaker proves himself as capable of overacting (and picking up a paycheck) as anyone else. But perhaps no one could deliver such lines as, “Wash your mouth out with buckshot,” credibly.

Yes, that is “Everybody Hates Chris’ ” Terry Crews as Tom’s hostile former partner Washington. As a young cop who gets caught up in Ludlow’s nightmare, Chris Evans (“The Fantastic 4”) is actually quite good. Also good and even better are Cedric the Entertainer as a junkie named Scribble and Naomie Harris as Washington’s wife. As a stone-cold killer who has a dead shark in his aquarium and tries to intimidate Ludlow, the rapper Common may have a whole other career on the big screen. Otherwise, these “Kings” are knaves.