• MSNBC executives are searching for a star to replace Keith Olbermann, who quit abruptly last week, and a network source says Alec Baldwin is at the top of their list.

• View host Sherri Shepherd announced today that she and TV writer Lamar Sally are engaged. Sally proposed on December 26 after asking Shepherd's 5-year-old son, Jeffrey, for permission.

• Nicole Richie is pissed at the paparazzi.

• George Clooney is in Sudan — along with an NBC news team and Ann Curry — trying to raise awareness about the upcoming election in January.

• Why is Courtney Love looking so awesome these days?

• A judge has given Lindsay Lohan, who is currently in NYC, until Thursday to make up four alcohol education classes or she'll go to jail. But rather than heading back to L.A., Lindsay is going to the Cannes Film Festival.

• Jenna Jameson says she isn't extending her emergency restraining order against Tito Ortiz, and he's moving back into their home today. "To be honest, I'm not hurt at all," she said.

• Though Mo'Nique gave Oprah Winfrey permission to interview her brother Gerald, who molested her, she isn't happy about how Monday's interview went down. She feels, "Her brother lied and that it was not sympathetic enough towards her," says a source.

• Vogue India, which has been criticized in the past for promoting only light skin as beautiful, has five darker-skinned models on its new cover. [Vogue UK]
• Illustrator Kate Bingaman-Burt drew everything she purchased since 2006, and made a book. [Racked]

[Los Angeles, April 2. Image via Getty.]

• Chances are you've never been to a christening like this: Today Nicole Kidman and Hugh Jackman became the godparents of Rupert Murdoch's two youngest daughters, who are six and eight, at a baptism ceremony held next to the River Jordan.

• TMZ claims that people close to Lindsay Lohan, "both personally and professionally," have been "quietly" trying to convince her to go to rehab again. "If she doesn't get help soon, she's going to die," says a source. [TMZ]

• Sandra Bullock and Jesse James have both been in touch with "high-end" divorce lawyers. [TMZ]

• After the Oscars, Madonna hosted a party at her manager Guy Oseary's house with Demi Moore. A source says, "Madonna danced non-stop for four hours. She and Gabourey Sidibe were dancing together at one point. They had a great time."

• Lindsay Lohan is suing E-Trade for creating a commercial in which a boyfriend-stealing, "milk-aholic" baby is named Lindsay. Here's the thing about LL's lawsuit:

• There's a rumor that Sean Penn was thrown out of the Governor's Ball last night for punching Greg Shapiro, a Hurt Locker producer reportedly dating Robin Wright. Though there are numerous sources, gossips can't seem to get their stories straight:

• Sandra Bullock's post-Oscar plans:

[Los Angeles, March 7. Image via Getty]

• Does Mo'Nique's open marriage involve one person straying, but not the other? She tells Barbara Walters in the upcoming Oscars special:

• Is Katie Holmes being "prepared" for a second baby?

• Johnny Depp and Vanessa Paradis: A "very smelly couple."

• The L.A. Coroner's office released a preliminary report today declaring that Brittany Murphy's death was accidental. She died of a combination of pneumonia, anemia, and "multiple drug intoxication."