• Angelina Jolie, as you may know, was in Baghdad yesterday. Saint Angelina walked through a makeshift settlement where 20,000 displaced Iraqis live, and said:

"It is lacking in all of the basic things that you would need, they don't have. They just started to have clean water. They're sleeping on dirt. They have built these areas out of brick by hand. They don't have job opportunities… We have still many young men and women from our country who are fighting every day, there are men and women from all countries who have lost their lives, and this is a time to try to make some positive change." [CNN]

• Angelina told one man: "It takes a lot of strength for you to survive this life. I don't know if I would be strong enough to survive this." And she vowed that this trip would not be her last: "I want to come back and find you in a better place and in a different situation… You need help not because you are poor, but because you are the future of Iraq." [NY Daily News]
• Gerard Butler doesn't have the body he had in 300, says a source. "He's so embarrassed that his six-pack abs have gone, he works out wearing a baseball cap and sunglasses." [Page Six]
• "Mischa's Shocking Interview," filmed a few days before she was taken to the hospital, is not shocking at all. She is talking about fashion and appears very normal. Unless that is shocking? [The Sun]
• Spotted: Tom Cruise out dancing with David and Victoria Beckham. [Page Six]
• Amy Winehouse in court: "I'm probably 5 foot 2 inches to 3 inches tall… But my hair does make a difference." She claims she was wearing flats (ballet slippers, obvs) and could not have hurt the 5 foot 7 woman who claims Amy punched her. [NY Post]
• …And presto! Amy Winehouse has been acquitted of assault. [AP]
• Here's what happens: Kate Major was a reporter, then she "fell for" Jon Gosselin, now other reporters are digging up dirt about her past, like the time she fell down the stairs at a party and loves to drink. [Radar]
• "Jon Gosselin's new girlfriend Kate Major has always sought fame, sees him as meal ticket: insiders." [Gatecrasher]
• Footage of New Moon debuted at Comic-Con yesterday and it "played in part like a matchup of dueling abs." [EW]
• Robert Pattinson seems to have settled in to his new, insane fame: "I pretty much live an almost identical life apart from being recognized," he says. "That's not exactly the worst thing in the world." [People]
• Twilight peeps say Robert and Kristen Stewart have "incredible chemistry." OMG just like the movie! [People]
• More from Comic-Con: Kristen Stewart said, "Uh, I can't wait to get pregnant," in reference to Breaking Dawn. Robert Pattinson added: "I can't wait to perform the Caesarean!" [E!]
• Kate Hudson is a "good luck charm" for boyfriend Alex Rodriguez. [Gatecrasher]
• Megan Fox's rep says Megan Fox never turned down a James Bond movie. "The report about Megan Fox turning down a Bond movie is completely not true. There have been no discussions nor any offers. Megan is a fan of the Bond movies." [People]
• Check out her new AT&T commercials (video at the link) and see how relentlessly fierce Mary J. Blige is. [BrandWeek]
• Michelle Trachtenberg will be working on a new show, Mercy, but she'll still be doing Georgina on Gossip Girl, saying: "Georgina's not going anywhere… She's never gonna die. There's nothing you can do to kill her. It's like one of those horror movies where they're like, 'She's dead,' and then she wakes back up and is like, 'No, I'm not.'" [NY Mag]
• Trachtenberg's "Blacklist" is pretty hilarious: "4. People who refer to themselves in the third person. Michelle thinks that's ridiculous." [BlackBook]
• Twelve-year-old Prince Jackson is "traumatized," as he was the one child who witnessed the doctor's unsuccessful attempts at resuscitation on his father. [Daily Mail]
• This report claims Michael Jackson pleaded for drugs because he had insomnia. [Mirror]
• Katherine Jackson was financially dependent on Michael Jackson and has asked a judge to provide an allowance for Michael's three kids (out of the estate) due to an "urgent need." Court documents claim that Katherine has only "extremely modest" Social Security benefits. [People]
• Oh, God. "Michael Jackson wore a prosthetic nose, according a report — and it was missing from his surgically mangled face as he lay in an LA morgue." [NY Post]
• Demi Moore is suing an Australian magazine for printing a series of photo booth-style photographs, which Demi owned and did not give permission to be published. In the pix? Demi, Rumer Willis, Orlando Bloom, P. Diddy, Cameron Diaz and Amanda De Cadenet. [Sydney Morning Herald]
• A judge has awarded Kelis a whopping $55,000 a month in combined spousal and child support from estranged husband Nas. [TMZ]
• Hmm, this report says Nas will pay $40,000. [People]
• Solange cut her hair and people are freaking the fuck out. [People]
• Bono has invested in the smartphone maker Palm, but is doing commercials for BlackBerry. [NY Post]
• Cailtin Moran on Kendra Wilkinson getting married at the Playboy Mansion and referring to Hef as a "father figure": "Because if there's one thing that holding your wedding in the building that has come to represent licentiousness, misogyny, exploitation and cheap nylon split-crotch panties at the breakfast table, it's referring to the soft pornographer who was 'intimate' with you all those years as 'Dad.'" [Times of London]
• Someone really wants you to keep watching Drop Dead Diva: Upcoming guest stars include Liza Minnelli, Paula Abdul, Tim Gunn, Delta Burke, Jorja Fox and more. [Pop Wrap]
• Jerry Hall will be nude on stage in Calendar Girls on London's West End, and says she is "terrified." "Nudity is always terrifying, even now… And yes, I have to admit I've been trying to eat less. I've been doing yoga classes with some girls in Richmond and eating lots of salads. The nudity scene is brilliantly comic — I was roaring with laughter when I saw it — but I'm worried about whether the buns are going to cover my breasts." [Daily Mail]
• This item is about John Lennon's penis. [Page Six]
• Travis Barker and Shanna Moakler: Still on. [Page Six]
• John Cleese is being treated for inflammation of the prostate gland — and will miss the Just For Laughs festival in Montreal, Canada. [The Sun]
• Eddie Van Halen: Recovering from hand surgery. [Rolling Stone]
• "I started smoking when I was 24, because I'm an idiot. I don't enjoy it so much now, because I've become such a slave to it. I hate planning my life around when I'm getting a cigarette." — Katherine Heigl. [Daily Mail]
• "I just loathe homophobia. It's just disgusting and animal and stupid and it's just thick people who can't get their heads around it and are just scared. I grew up around gay people entirely. I was the only child in my class who had any experience of homosexuality or anything like that." — Daniel Radcliffe, who looks pretty cute on the cover of gay magazine Attitude. [The Sun]
• "One day, sure, but pregnancy scares me. I know I'll be one of those women who looks pregnant all over the body. I'll get fatter and fatter from my toes up." — Katherine Heigl, when asked if she will have kids some day. [Daily Mail]
• "In a way it's good, but I also don't want people thinking of me as this blond heiress… airhead. But that is kind of my brand. I make a lot of money by doing that. I always looked up to Princess Diana and all these women, and now I could never be like that. I want to have a family. I want to be normal. I want to be happy." — Paris Hilton, on the "character" she invented. [Yahoo News via E!, E!]
• "I'm playing Speckles, the mole, and he's an outsider. He's an iconoclast — he doesn't fit in… I'm comfortable with the mole, yeah. I mean, yeah, he's different, he's got issues, you know? I don't want a perfect character, I want a character who has, as strange as it sounds, some humanity, some flaws, some needs. But to be fair, I'm not in a lot of this movie. This is Darwin's movie, um Sam Rockwell and Penelope Cruz's movie — they're the stars. I'm only in it at the beginning and the end." — Nicolas Cage on his role in G-Force. Yes, that is the guinea pig movie. [CNN]
• "I'm probably 20% atheist and 80% agnostic. You'll either find out or not when you get there. Until then, there's no point thinking about it." — Brad Pitt. [Gatecrasher via Bild]

• Jennifer Lopez finally gave birth to her twins: She and Marc Anthony are the proud parents of a boy and a girl. The names have not yet been announced, but we're hoping they don't pick Jenny Jr. and Marc Jr. How about something like Luz and Libertad? [People]
  
• The 5-pound, 7-ounce girl arrived first, followed by her 6-pound brother minutes later. Jennifer and Marc are "thrilled and over the moon." [CNN]
  
• Amy Winehouse "trashed" her hotel room before the Brit Awards: Booze was spilled, cigarette butts were scattered, bottles of champagne and "unwashed knickers" were all over the floor. She also blackened the tub by using it to dye her hive. And there was a large mirror taken off the wall and lying on the floor. She's only a half-naked groupie shy of the full rock cliché box set! [The Sun]
  
• The restraining order finally served to Sam Lutfi means he must not contact Britney — including via telephone — through March 17. Progress! [TMZ]
  
• A bartender at NYC hotspot Socialista has hepatitis A, so Ashton Kutcher, Demi Moore, Madonna, Lucy Liu, Salma Hayek, Kate Hudson and Bruce Willis had better get shots! [Page Six]
  
• Hip-hop mogul Damon Dash during the lunar eclipse: "I'm a little scared." LOL. [Page Six]

• Dating Natalie Portman a while back made Moby "a target of a lot of nerd wrath." Poor baby! [Page Six]
• Prince is throwing a post-Oscars bash! Expected guests include Katie and Tom, Will Smith, Salma and Penelope. [Gatecrasher]
• Blind item! "Which member of the Black Enterprise 'Top 25 Hollywood Money Makers,' whose sexuality long has been in question by fans, was seen trying not to be seen with a same sex pal at an L.A. restaurant Wednesday evening? "They were trying not to look like they were together, but they looked together," says a witness." [Gatecrasher]
• Aaron Carter, 20, was pulled over for speeding in Texas and cops found two ounces of marijuana in his car, uh-oh. Not found: His career. [TMZ]
• Heather Mills is on FHM's list of the world's most sexiest women. She's 95th, but that's ahead of Gwen Stefani, Paris Hilton and Kirsten Dunst. [Mirror]
• Does Lindsay Lohan have a new man? Does she love anyone as much as she loves leggings? [The Sun]
• Beyoncé is going to play legendary singer Etta James in an upcoming film; Ms. James says, "It's a privilege and an honor to have somebody like that girl. I don't think she looks like me, but that's all right. I wasn't as bourgie as she is, she's bourgeois. She knows how to be a lady, she's like a model. I wasn't like that... I smoked in the bathroom in school, I was kinda arrogant, so those are some of the things I would want to tell her." [Concrete Loop]
• Angelina and Brad are cohosts of an Oscar party on Saturday — and so is Jennifer Aniston. The bash is being held by the pool of the Beverly Hills Hotel, we can only dream of a scenario in which the ladies wrestle and fall into the water, then Brad has to strip down and break them apart. What? It could happen. [MSNBC]
• An entertainment news agency has apologized to Will Smith for distributing a story alleging he called Adolf Hitler a "good person." [Guardian]
• A portrait of Heath Ledger is up for a prominent art prize in Australia. The portrait was painted by Heath's friend Vincent Fantauzzo, who says, "When you paint someone, you meditate over them. I was painting Heath every day for 10 hours a day." [People]
• Harrison Ford blames his decision to sport an earring on Jimmy Buffet and Ed Bradley. [UPI]
• Valerie Bertinelli says she and Eddie Van Halen cheated on each other, if you care. [People]
• Delta Burke, who checked into a psychiatric hospital in January, says she suffered from anxiety as early as kindergarten. Also: Her hoarding is a problem! "At one time I had 27 storage units. I don't have a big enough house!" she claims. "My mom had it, it's my mother's fault. She saved the diaper I came home from the hospital in!" [USA Today]
• OMG Tori Spelling's autobiography is gonna be awesome! On Shannen Doherty: "Shannen had everything, but she could be arrogant and carefree. Jennie [Garth] was outspoken when she thought Shannen was out of line. Sometimes they got along, but there were explosions. Once they got into a fistfight. A night with [Shannen] meant going to the hottest club and drinking until the early hours. I knew she was a 'bad influence,' but I liked her anyway." [Perez Hilton]

• Angelina Jolie is in Iraq, and has meetings with Gen. David Petraeus, Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki and Iraqi migration officials. Oh, and she's sleeping with Brad Pitt, has four kids and is probably pregnant with twins. What are you doing today? [Yahoo News]
  
• Scarlett Johansson has an "extremely erotic" scene with Penelope Cruz in the new Woody Allen movie. Girl-on-girl action, hot! [Page Six]
  
• Amy Winehouse still does not have a visa? How is she going to make it to the Grammys on Sunday? Insiders say she is not actually slated to sing, although she wanted to do a medley with Kanye West. She might end up appearing via satellite from London, boo. [Gatecrasher]
  
• Kirsten Dunst is in rehab; she checked into the Cirque Lodge clinic in Utah, where Eva Mendes just finished her treatment and Lindsay Loan spent two months. Such a hotspot! [The Sun]

• Does Eva Longoria Parker have a bun in the oven? She was seen shopping at L.A. celebrity baby store Petit Tresor. [Rush & Molloy]
• Rose O'Donnell is on the wagon. Why? "Cause I was drinking too much, 'cause I didn't want to any more, 'cause it is hard to lose weight when drinking, 'cause I can never have only one," she writes on her blog. [Page Six]
• The Hills' star Brody Jenner and 12 friends were at a party; Brody snapped his fingers and said "I'm out!" and the posse followed him. He's like the Fonz! [Page Six]
• Blind item! "Which famous fashion photographer and admirer of the male physique insists on 'relaxation exercises' when casting his models? He tells them he likes to put his hands on the parts of their bodies where he senses the most stress ... and the ones who respond get to stand in the front of his trademark group shots." [Gatecrasher]
• Designing Women star Delta Burke has checked herself into a psychiatric hospital for depression, obsessive compulsive disorder and hoarding. Wow, being a pack rat is treatable? Might need to look into that. [Rush & Molloy]
• Britney's parents are not happy that she is out of the hospital. They issued a statement that reads: "We are deeply concerned about our daughter's safety and vulnerability and we believe her life is presently at risk." [TMZ]
• Britney was released because a representative from the court found "no just cause" for her to be held — despite the fact that doctors wanted her to stay. [People]
• Some are saying that if Britney is out of the hospital she must not have hit rock bottom. [MSNBC]
• After she checked out of the hospital, Britney checked into the Beverly Hills hotel. [LA Times]
• She was followed to the Beverly Hills Hotel by 20 SUVs of paparazzi. [TMZ]
• Kevin Federline has been trying to keep calm during phone calls from Britney. "The few times they chatted, Kevin had to cut it short because Britney went off on a tangent about Kevin kidnapping the boys from her," says a source. "Kevin loves her — and wants her to get better for the boys — so he's trying not to let her get to him." [MSNBC]
• Jennifer Lopez: Still pregnant, refusing to wear sweatpants or maternity dresses. [People]
• Heath Ledger's father says Heath's death should be a warning not to mix prescription drugs. [Yahoo News]
• The federal government is working with the NYPD to determine how Heath acquired so many prescription drugs. [People]
• Cher, 61, is planning a "visually unbelievable" show in Las Vegas with elaborate choreography, eye-popping costumes, 14 dancers and 4 aerialists. "Our set moves down from the ceiling, in from the sides, up from the floor," she says. "We have screens in the foreground, the center and the back. We can change a city into a forest in two seconds. You'll see a different stage for every song." Raise your hand if this sounds effing awesome! [USA Today]
• Last night, Madonna hosted a party to aid UNICEF — and inaugurate a new Gucci store. Conflict of interest? What about the fact that her charity, Raising Malawi, is headed by the co-director of the Kabbalah Center? [Reuters]
• Paris Hilton spoke at Harvard University yesterday, accepting her Harvard Lampoon Woman Of The Year award. "You guys are so hot," she said. "Harvard's hot." [Reuters]
• Paris has also built a doggie mansion in her backyard that is a replica of her house. "It has a chandelier and the same stairwell and furniture and they all live there," she says. [UPI]
• Don't expect Jerry Seinfeld to return to TV. "I'm old, I'm rich and I'm tired," he says. Touché. [Page Six]
• Brandy's mom says of her lawsuit against the Kardashians: "I decided to afford the Kardashians an opportunity to resolve this matter without a lawsuit," Sonja Norwood says. "When the fraudulent charges were brought to their attention, they apologized profusely, and advised us, through their attorneys, that they would pay the debt in full. However, they have since reneged on that promise." Ms. Norwood claims that the Kardashians owe $120,000 in charges run up on her AmEx, and is also seeking 10% interest. [People]