[Sevilla, Spain; September 28. Image via Flynet.]

• A voicemail recording has surfaced of Britney Spears leaving a message for a lawyer about ending her father's conservatorship. She says Jamie Spears has threatened to take her children away. [TMZ]

• Rihanna is reportedly refusing to cooperate with the L.A. District Attorney's case against Chris Brown. A source says she, "just wants the whole thing to go away." [Perez Hilton]
• Josh Hartnett's rep says that he went to the hospital early this morning because he is "suffering from a flare-up of a gastro-intestinal problem that plagued him while he was starring in the West End of London during the production of Rain Man." She said he is under observation but resting comfortably. [Star]
• Once again, a relative may complicate Madonna's plans to adopt a girl named Mercy. Lucy Chekechiwa, Mercy's grandmother, says she is against the adoption. "Why doesn't this singer pick other children?" she said, "It is stealing. I want to go to to court. I won't let her go." [Star]
• Pete Wentz says rumors that his marriage to Ashlee Simpson is on the rocks are ridiculous. "I laugh out loud at them. I laugh at all of that stuff," he said, adding, "it's like if someone wrote on the internet that John McCain was our president right now, it's just not true." [Pop Dirt]
• Matt Dillon has been fined $828 for driving 106mph on the Vermont interstate. [Perez Hilton]
• Katie Holmes has a weird burn mark on her back that looks like a heart. Is it related to Scientology, or is it just a mole? [Perez Hilton]
• Gisele Bundchen is on the cover of the new Vanity Fair and though she's semi-nude in some of the accompanying pictures, it's still nothing we haven't seen before. [Egotastic]
• But Heidi Klum won't let this aggression stand! She's actually nude in this new set of artsy photos. [Celeb News Wire]
• Kate Moss sings in a new recording of the song "Dirty Robot" by the Lemonheads. [NY Magazine]
• For their one year anniversary Nick Cannon bought Mariah Carey a Jack Russell terrier. Her name is Cha-Cha and she's 8 weeks old. [Perez Hilton]
• In an interview to be aired tomorrow, Michael J. Fox tells Oprah Winfrey he doesn't let Parkinson's define his life. "I'm a dad, I'm a husband, I'm an activist, I'm a writer and I'm just a student of the world," he tells Oprah. "This is one fact of my life, but it's not the totality of my life. It doesn't define me." [Entertainment Tonight]
• Oprah Winfrey interviewed Elizabeth Edwards at her home over the weekend. The interview will air on May 11th. [Politico]
• In this video, Suze Orman shares some dollar menu dining tips to survive the recession. [TMZ]
• Hugh Hefner wants Bachelor winner/reject Melissa Rycroft to pose for Playboy. "Hef really wants Melissa to do a pictorial because she's the ultimate girl next door," says a source. "He thinks she has it all: beauty, brains and spunk. And it doesn't hurt that she has a terrific figure." Unfortunately her Dancing With The Stars contract specifically says no posing nude until the season's over. Do you think Steve Wozniak has the same clause in his contract? [Star]
• NASA doesn't know what to do about Stephen Colbert winning their contest to name a part of the international space station, but U.S. Representative Chaka Fattah has some advice: "NASA decided to hold an election to name its new room at the International Space Station and the clear winner is Stephen Colbert," Fattah said in a statement. "The people have spoken, and Stephen Colbert won it fair and square — even if his campaign was a bit over the top." [Yahoo]
• Soon you'll be seeing music videos on MTV again, if you're watching between 3 am and 9 am. [NY Times]
• Green Day's album American Idiot will be performed as a musical onstage at the Berkeley Repertory Theater. [Variety]
• The parents of Rubina Ali, one of the young stars from Slumdog Millioniare, say she earned more from shooting a soft drink commercial with Nicole Kidman and Ridley Scott than she made from the film. [The Daily Mail]
• Several stars are in dire financial straights, including Lindsay Lohan, Annie Leibovitz, Ed McMahon, and Michael Jackson. Stars, they're just like us! [ABC News]
• It looks like Sasha Baron Cohen's new film Bruno may get an NC-17 rating. Apparently the MPAA doesn't like a scene in which it appears as though Bruno has anal sex with a man. [E!]
• Ashley Tisdale has shared some profound thoughts about her new hair color on MySpace. She says: "Well I'm originally a brunette, so I feel kind of back to myself. The blonde and brunette I think are both amazingly great, but I feel with the brunette I just have this whole new attitude. I feel kind of myself and that the fans can get to know me in a different way that they haven't seen me. I was really inspired by the fact that I've been blonde for so long and I wanted to go back to who I am." [Pop Dirt]
• Simon Cowell says it's hard having three successful shows, American Idol and Britain's X Factor and Britain's Got Talent. Simon says: "I got to the point where I was doing Idol, finishing auditions, getting room service at 10pm and then working for another six or seven hours on the British stuff. You do that week after week, month after month and it takes its toll on you." [Perez Hilton]
• Terry Gilliam says of his film, The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, which was Heath Ledger's last, "I just didn't want to waste any moment of Heath in life or on screen and that's Parnassus." He added that Heath's death, "was very difficult but somehow we got adrenaline going and everybody was so determined to make it work and we did it and it ended up in some ways a more extraordinary film because of that." [The Star]
• All the original stars are in Ghostbusters 3, but they have more of a "sage mentor" role to the young Ghostbusters, according to Harold Ramis. Two writers from The Office are currently writing the script and Ramis says, "I'm consulting with them, as is Dan Aykroyd and Ivan Reitman. Bill Murray is just waiting for the truckload of money to arrive to get him out of his office." [Ain't It Cool News]

• Last night the White House staff set up a scavenger hunt for Malia and Sasha so they could learn about the history of their new home, and they found a huge surprise at the end.

• When the girls opened the doors at the end of the game, all three Jonas Brothers were waiting to hang out with them. Looks like it's going to be a fun four (eight?!?!?) years for those girls. [E!]
• Ugh, Kelly Rutherford's divorce got really dirty today when her husband accused her (in court documents) of not properly wiping their son's bottom. He also says he tried to potty train their 2-year-old son Hermes, but Rutherford hid the mini-toilet seat, and said it's not "reasonable or appropriate for [Rutherford] to be breast feeding when he is nearly 2 1/2 years old." [TMZ]
• A Veronica Mars movie is in the works! Show creator Rob Thomas says his next project will be writing the script, and he has already decided that it will focus on Veronica's last few weeks of college. Kristen Bell told him she wants to do it and he's been talking to other cast members. [E!]
• Here are some Lost spoilers for the first three episodes, which we will thoughtfully not repost here. And don't forget that Tracie will be liveblogging the premiere tonight! [E!]
• How I Met Your Mother's Josh Radnor and Lipstick Jungle's Lindsay Price revealed that they are a couple last night by attending an inauguration party together. Barack is bringing people together! [E!]
• Though Matt Dillion reportedly said "I screwed up, I know, I know" when a cop stopped him for speeding in December, today he had his lawyer enter a not guilty plea for him at a hearing. [Perez Hilton]
• In their continuing campaign to squash the rumors that their marriage is in trouble, J.Lo and Marc Anthony stared into each others eyes performed a duet at the Western Ball last night in D.C. Marc Anthony said he wrote the song, "She Sang To Me," for Lopez and they kissed at the end. [Perez Hilton]
• Jennifer Aniston and John Mayer had to reschedule her 40th birthday party because they are planning to go on vacation together for Valentine's Day and will be away for her real birthday on February 11. So does this mean her actual birthday party has been rescheduled, or just the double-secret probation wedding ceremony the tabloids insist they are planning for her 40th? [Pop Sugar]
• Sorry dudes ... and ladies. Katy Perry has announced that she has taken a vow of celibacy and won't be kissing anyone. Except of course, for her cat, Kitty Purry. [Just Jared]
• Nominations for the Razzies, the Oscar spoof that "dis-honors" the year's worst movies, are out! The Love Guru is leading with seven nominations for worst picture, and worst acting from Mike Myers, Jessica Alba, Verne Troyer, and Ben Kingsley. But is it worse than Paris Hilton's The Hottie and the Nottie? [USA Today]
• Michael Cera, the only major cast member who hasn't signed on to the Arrested Development movie, says the movie is "more hypothetical than people think" and he'd have to see a script before agreeing to the project. Which they can't write yet because they don't know if he'll be in the movie. We think he's making a huge mistake. [ONTD]
• There are new details about Britney's Circus tour. She rehearses seven hours a day, the stage will be in a 3-ring format, and they are testing some trick called "hide and seek" with Britney. [ONTD]
• Did Sigourney Weaver pull a Sharon Stone when she sat down with the ladies of The View this morning? There's a video, but the area in question has been covered with a star graphic. [TMZ]
• The West Wing's Bradley Whitford and Six Feet Under's Richard Jenkins have been cast in the horror film The Cabin in the Woods, which is co-written by Joss Whedon andCloverfield writer Drew Goddard. Jokes Goddard: "It's really just your basic typecasting: When you need two actors to run through the woods in low-cut nighties, you immediately think of Richard Jenkins and Bradley Whitford." [Entertainment Weekly]
• Evidence that this country is still in a lot of trouble: American Idol got higher ratings than Barack and Michelle's first dance at the Neighborhood Ball last night. [Perez Hilton]
• Victoria Lucas, the 9th grader who "booty bumped" with Barack Obama at the Neighborhood Ball last night, is complimenting the President's moves. "He was just a very smooth, cool, laidback dancer. He was just like a normal person," said Lucas. "You would never think this dude earlier today was sworn in as our next president." [People]
• "There's a peace to [being married] and a sense of togetherness that we just didn't have before. And I didn't even realize it would change as much as it has, but it's so lovely." - Portia de Rossi, who has been married to Ellen DeGeneres for five months. [People]

Most of us can probably list at least a few celebrity arrests. If you don’t remember Paris Hilton’s DUI, you might still have heard about Britney’s driving-with-a-baby scandal. It seems like every time a celebrity gets behind the wheel, it makes national news. But, Slate argues, this does not make celebrities bad drivers. They are just overexposed and driving in more dangerous conditions than the rest of us — due to the paparazzi and all. The good news: we don’t care! Bad behavior in cars is usually viewed as a “folk crime,” so even though it may be dangerous to drive after a few drinks, enough people have done it that it no longer seems to count as “real crime.” Celebrities: they’re just like us!

Oops! She Crashed It Again [Slate]

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