Remember back when Dennis and Kimberly Quaid were getting divorced because Dennis Quaid was being overly generous about letting strangers touch his penis and Kimberly Quaid was all, "Ugh, gross, Dennis — you're like seven million years old even if you do have the body of a nubile Greek athlete"? The couple has since…

Watching the trailer for this new movie about Zac Efron Becoming A Serious Dramatic Actor, you can't help but feel like you're watching a sequel to the remake of Footloose. It takes place in small town America. Zac Efron, the poor man's Kenny Wormwald, is in it. Dennis Quaid is also in it. He plays a suffocating…

As if Lindsay Lohan smacking a woman at a nightclub after a Justin Bieber concert over some dude from a band called The Wanted didn't already sound like a demented Canterbury Tale written in glitter pen ("Lindsay got drunker and drunker… and it turned Max [George] off"), there is now a whole new dimension of…

Writing this makes me feel like it's one of the Groundhog Day scenes where Bill Murray wakes up, yet again, to the clock radio playing "I Got You Babe," but Lindsay Lohan got arrested early this morning for smacking a dude with her car on the way into the parking lot of a club in New York's Meatpacking District.…

The Beastie Boys's Adam Yauch, age 47, passed away today after a long battle with cancer. In 2009, doctors discovered a tumor on Yauch's salivary gland, and he has been undergoing treatment ever since. His illness has caused the delay of the Beastie Boys's 2011 album, "Hot Sauce Committee, Part 2
," and prevented…

After six years of marriage, a handful of B-grade action movies, and a move from Los Angeles to the more suitably indie Austin, Texas (probably to start a family blues band), Dennis Quaid may soon be facing life as single guy, a state that might actually suit his boyish features quite well. Quaid's third wife, …

• Ladies and gentlemen, Swiftenhaal is no more.

• Ellen DeGeneres is starting her own record label!

• It would be fairly epic if Madonna became a judge on American Idol.

• Ashlee Simpson-Wentz has been fired from Melrose Place along with co-star Colin Egglesfield, with whom she was rumored to be flirting on-set.

• Supposedly, Johnny Depp doesn't want to make another Pirates of the Caribbean because he knows the last two "sucked." Disney will offer him a huge paycheck and if he refuses, he'll be replaced by a younger Zac Efron-type.

• According to this report, Jennifer Aniston is "struggling" to stay away from John Mayer:

• Madonna has flown a nanny and a nurse to Malawi to look after Mercy while adoption papers and visas are being arranged. The deal's not done and the kid already has an entourage! [The Sun]

• Nancy Pelosi left a health-care forum at the White House to meet with Brad Pitt. This piece calls them "Brancy." [WaPo]

• Britney's big eff you to her (chef) dad: Skipping dinner: "Britney thinks that if she doesn't eat much she will lose weight, then people will notice," an insider says. [MSNBC]

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Smart People is a new movie that tries to be both quirky and semi-intellectual by putting respectable actors in roles that they had already successfully played in movies made by more creative people. Dennis Quaid plays Lawrence, a douchebaggy literature professor, who has a wise-cracking, vintage-wearing teenage…

• Pamela Anderson is pregnant. And getting divorced. And asking for spousal support. But not child support. It's OK, take a minute. We'll wait. [TMZ]
  
• Fill in the blanks! Adrian Grenier to NYC girl: "How about we go home and I [blank] the [blank] out of you?" [Page Six]
  
• Amy Winehouse just doesn't believe in rehab. "I'm of…

• Pete Doherty says he speaks to Amy Winehouse "almost every day." He says they are helping each other battle drugs and Amy's been clean since her husband, Blake Fielder-Civil, has been in prison. Uh, is this a good idea? [The Sun]
  
• Meanwhile, Amy's mom says of Blake, "Thank God he's gone [to jail]. Everyone else can see…