Hard Rock hotel hunk Harry Morton opened a brand new Pink Taco LA in Century City last night. But he had to celebrate without two of his usual party pals Paris Hilton and former girlfriend Lindsay Lohan, both of whom are really busy, what with getting sprung from jail and still being in rehab, respectively. Plus Paris is currently getting over her prison blues (and freshening up her tan) by spending a few days in Hawaii. 

So the hotties of the night were a T-shirt and jeans-clad Jessica Alba (with her sweetie Cash Warren)  and a Dolce & Gabbana-wearing Kimberly Stewart who explained, "I haven't been out in a long time and I wanted to dress up for Harry's big night."

Also in the crowd: Kelly Clarkson, Tommy Lee, Michelle Rodriquez, Randy Spelling,  Brett Ratner, Amy Smart, Jennifer Finnigan, Mary Kate Olsen, Slash, Steve Tisch, Tom (I’m on the market again) Arnold, Marlon Wayans, Kevin Connolly, and Harry’s proud pops, Peter Morton.

For their entertainment: a giant pink burro named Pinky, midget wrestlers, and a mariachi band, all creating an irreverent Mexican carnival atmosphere

At least the fire marshals showed up to shut down the over-packed party before midnight. That’s always a good sign for a restaurant opening.

Photo Credits: She's no Paris or Lindsay. But Kimberly (my liver is fine, Dad!) Stewart was the hottest blonde at Harry Morton's Pink Taco opening in a sequined bondage bodice Dolce & Gabbana black minidress.
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Photo Credits: Harry's new Westfield Century City bar/restaurant opens without Paris or Lindsay! Bummer. But never fear, they'll be back soon.
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Jonathan Rhys Meyers is high on some awards prognosticators’ Emmy nod lists for putting the sex and sizzle back into pompous old King Henry VIII in Showtime’s highly acclaimed series, “The Tudors.”

But I bet most Emmy voters don’t know he's more than an actor. He's also a rock star.

Well, he could be. The actor nailed Elvis in the 2005 TV movie and won a Golden Globe for it. And he was a charismatic glam rock star in Todd Haynes’ 1998 film, “Velvet Goldmine.” His songs were even on the film’s soundtrack, which I confess, I bought and still listen to.

Get ready for JRM’s singing in the Warner Bros film “August Rush,” due out in October. In it, he plays an Irish punk singer named Louis Rush who falls in love with a sheltered classical cellist (Keri Russell). Fate separates the lovers after one magical night. But she ends up pregnant and the child ends up in an orphanage. But the boy, played by Freddie Highmore, who broke your hearts in Marc Forster’s “Finding Neverland,” is a musical prodigy and ends up playing guitar on the New York streets (under the tutelage of a Dickinsian-like Robin Williams) and communicates with his lost parents through his music.

The story is a sweet, unbelievably tender and involving fairy tale about music, love, communication and faith. But it also shows JRM’s softer side, after TV audiences have been delighting to his cruel, power-mad and downright lusty British monarch. And trust me, the dude can really, really sing.

Photos courtesy of Warner Brothers

Paris Hilton was jubilant when she was released from jail last night, according to a TMZ.com report.

But here's the kicker: According to law enforcement officials, Paris lost 10 pounds in prison! That's right, folks. It's time to prepare yourself for Paris's Prison Diet (how I lost 10 pounds in 23 days) book.

Thinking ahead, it may not be such a great idea to slap Nicole Richie in jail. If she loses ten pounds, she's gonna disappear. Better cop a plea, Nic.

Photo Credits: Whee! I'm free at last, free at last! And I lost ten pounds! Now that's hot. And that's how I'll look on Larry King's show tomorrow night.
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Was Hayden Panettiere actually eating boogers at a Hollywood party?  That would be yes.

Okay, they were booger-flavored Bertie Bott’s Every Flavor Beans. But still….

Boogers were the "save the world" cheerleader's candy-of-choice of all the sweet treats - mountains of chocolate coins, Blow Pops, Pixie Stix, Ring Pops, chocolate frogs, saltwater taffy, candy necklaces, jelly beans  - served at Electronic Arts' launch bash for the new "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix" video game last week.

After popping some of Bertie’s boogers, she went for a pack of Fizzing Whizbees, but with heroic restraint, she put the popping candy down. Hayden, admittedly paid for her party appearance, sez she's a big Harry fan.  "I just got to play the game and it is fabulous--everything that you see in the movie you can do in the video game. I actually got to stupefy someone, which I found very exciting."

Her fellow "Heroes" Masi Oka, Greg Grunberg, Noah Caby and Zachary Quinto also tried their best with the game but no one could top Hayden's spell-binding skills. Hayden was also stupefied about getting a new Wii system and a couple of copies of the Potter video game (hits stores on June 28) when she left the party.

Wonder if she grabbed some boogers for the road.

Reporting by Samantha Bonar

Photo Credits: Masai and Hayden battle it out at the Harry Potter video game launch party. Can a "Heroes" video game be far off?
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To all the devoted Reese Witherspoon fans who rallied to her defense after I posted what I considered to be a relatively gentle assertion, illustrated by a past imperfect fashion shot. Your rationalizations of her carpet behavior have left me no choice but to further defend my initial premise that:

A. Reese's style savvy has inarguably improved over the last few years and she's now an impeccable fashion force.

B. Also improved, her red carpet mugging.

Still need more evidence after seeing these inexplicable poses at the "People vs Larry Flynt" LA premiere? Then keep going for even more embarrassing shots. Hey, you asked for it.

Chanel designer Karl Lagerfeld’s latest fashion accessory is a pair of fingerless gloves. He now wears them constantly and they've totally surplanted his omnipresent fluttering fan, an ornament that he affected into the late '80's.

He’s even got Lindsay Lohan sporting fingerless leather Chanel gloves. Although at this point, she's the only Hollywood hottie to show the glove love.

But turns out there may be a very deep-seated raison d’etre for Herr Karl’s finger fashion fetish.

Reese Witherspoon is considered one of the most fashionable young actresses in Hollywood.

She's been seamlessly stylish on all her awards carpets for several years. And she earned rave reviews for her flawless 2006 awards season wardrobe, all designed by Nina Ricci's (no relation to Christina) head designer Olivier Theyskens. His elegant purple ombre strapless chiffon Oscar gown is shown here.

But trust me, Reese wasn't always so effortlessly pulled together. I stumbled upon one past fashion faux pas that's well worth revisiting.

Life is getting pretty serious for Hollywood's perennial Party Girls.

Paris Hilton is still in the pokey for driving on a suspended license. The jail bird is reportedly looking pretty without makeup, say her visiting friends, and learning how to make Father's Day Cards. Oh, and she's found God. Who knew he was missing?

Now comes word that her "Simple Life" partner/pal Nicole Richie faces a maximum 90 day stay in jail, if she's convicted of her recent DUI. Richie's trial is now set for July 11. Might be tough to convince a judge/jury since cops say that she confessed to having smoked pot and taken Vicodin.

Even more interesting, Lindsay Lohan, safely tucked away in rehab after crashing her car a few weeks ago, faces further consquences from a past car accident. Raymundo Ortega has filed suit against the actress/singer for hitting his vehicle on Robertson Boulevard in October 2005. Also named in the suit: the Ivy restaurant, where she was having lunch just before she crashed her Mercedez Benz into Ortega's van. The suit - filed in LA by attorney Robert G. Klein, claims Lindsay's crash was caused not by fear of the paparazzi but by intoxication.

Photo Credits: Will Lindsay have to ask Paris for prison beauty tips?
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Talk about Truth or Consequences.

For all you "Lord of the Rings" and Peter Jackson fans who are pretty P.O.ed about New Line Cinema yanking the beloved Oscar-winning director off of their production of the LOTR prequel, "The Hobbit," here's some news to cheer you up.

Gandalf, Frodo and their loyal pals and faithful helpers are back. So are the evil wizards, the lumbering Ents and those nasty Orcs.

No, the "Hobbit" hasn't started production. Everything's still in a messy muddle with New Line and MGM. Click here to find out more about that.

But there is a stage production of "Rings" now onstage in London. And it's reportedly, pretty cool. Click here for ticket info and reviews. Then book your flight to London. All is not lost. Frodo still has that darn ring.

Keep reading to see Treebeard!

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This just in:

The controversial celebrity breeding experiment has proven successful. Little Shiloh - the birth daughter of People magazine's "Most Beautiful" stars Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie  - has in fact received the genetic code for Daddy's baby blues and for Mommy's lush pillow lips.

Although truthfully, even if it had gone the other way, or any number of ways, this child would probably still qualify as potential cover material for the magazine's "Most Beautiful" issue in the year 2012.

Shiloh's first People cover was just over a year ago. The magazine paid a reported $4.1 million (which went to charities) for the rights to her first photos. Wonder how much her first "Beautiful" cover will go for.

To get a closer look at the results of the Brangelina Genetic Engineering Project, keep reading...

If a Hollywood star's wattage is measured by the quality of the swag (diamonds, luxury vacations, designer jeans, free phones, and plasma screen TVs) they receive at awards show gifting suites, then the stars of daytime TV have dim bulbs indeed.

Daytime Emmy Awards nominees and presenters - including Barbara Walters, Joy Behar, Elizabeth Hasselbeck, Lisa Rinna, Vivica Fox and Elmo - who visited the official Talent Gift Lounge at the Kodak Theatre this week, walked away with beach bags from the very friendly Kmart representatives. Kmart?

The goodie bags held bottles of blowing bubbles; cable knit throws from Levitz (?!); and the new, "younger" versions of Love's Baby Soft and English Leather also available at your nearby drugstore.

The really big stars, like Barbara, probably scored some "antique-inspired" crystal jewelry or colorful flip-flops festooned with beads and bows. Every visitor, however, was more than welcome to a tin of chocolate-covered Altoids.

What, no Costco memberships?

To see the Daytime Emmy's high - and low - fashion moments, click here.

Photo Credits: Even Barbara and Joy look a bit unimpressed by the Daytime Freebies. But perhaps "the Nazi" could use this boxing glove on "Grey's Anatomy" to keep those darn interns in line.
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Intrepid reporting by Samantha Bonar

For the inside scoop on who got what and why and what they said about their On3 Gift Lounge gifts, keep reading...

Attention, Britney, Lindsay, Paris and anyone else caught panty-less by the paparazzi.

Accepting the Dorothy Arzner Award from her pal Diane Keaton at the Women in Film Crystal Awards, writer/producer/director Nancy Meyers ("Baby Boom," "The Holiday," "The Parent Trap") had a few choice words about this excruciatingly revealing new trend.

“What's up with those women in Hollywood who try giving women a bad name? The ones who think it's okay to drink and drive, and they don't wear underwear? I understand burning your bra, but it is NOT okay not to wear underpants!”

Needless to say, she got massive applause.

"The Devil Wears Prada" star Emily Blunt politely wore MaxMara to accept the MaxMara Award. Chandra Wilson and the women of "Grey's Anatomy," including Kate Walsh, accepted their Lucy Award.

At the tail end of a long evening honoring Blythe Danner and Kathleen Kennedy and featuring presenters Steven Spielberg and Diahann Carroll,  Renee Zellweger accepted her Crystal award from Mr. Movies himself, Harvey Weinstein.

Earlier in the evening, Big H had been the last to arrive at his table next to the stage in the Beverly Hilton ballroom.

The table was full. Only one seat was vacant, the unwanted seat, the seat with its back to the stage.

Slowly, the movie mogul circled the table, eyeing all the other occupied seats until... an underling finally realized someone was supposed to jump up and offer Big H their seat. Which someone very quickly did.

Thank God.

Anyway, after Harvey talked about how Renee is the angel to his devil and read some of her sweet emails to the audience (isn't that against the law?), the award-winning actress held  up her trophy, thanked everyone profusely and smiled her trademark squinty smile.

""I didn't expect this to be such an emotional experience," said the perpetually Carolina Herrerra clad actress. "Now my fake eyelashes are going to fall off!"

Photo Credits: Chris Polk/FilmMagic

Jeepers. Hope Angelina Jolie takes time out from her busy sked - actress/mommy/life partner - to eat something soon. Forget Darfur. If the Oscar-winning star of "Mighty Heart"  loses any more weight, we're gonna have to start an international Feed Angelina Fund.

Photo Credits: A bone thin Angie signs autographs for fans at the "Heart" New York premiere. Toss her a sandwich, someone!
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Paris Hilton has been transferred back to Lynwood after being evaluated and deemed ready to leave the med ward and return to the normal jail facility. Seems she has been getting the proper medication to keep her mental state stable.

But according to TMZ, some fear she will quickly deteriorate again. The crux of Hilton's problem, it seems, is "severe panic attacks."

Not to belittle Ms. Hilton's anxieties, but don't the majority of people put in prison suffer - at least initially - from panic attacks ? Cause I've never heard of anyone who wasn't at least a little freaked out about getting locked up. Isn't that normal? Jeepers, Paris. Suck it up, will ya?

And do prisons have to medicate everyone who feels justifiably panicky? Bet there will be a lot of prisoners who will be happy to sign up for the Hilton treatment. Bring on the meds!

Also, call me crazy, but I'd be more panicky about courting fame, posing and preening on red carpets, constantly surrounded by press and hunted by the paraprazzi. Amazingly, that doesn't seem to phase Paris. She just gets freaked at the prospect of being alone in a room without her Blackberry. How telling is that?

Photo Credits: Paris surrounded by fans in Miami Beach. This looks way scarier than jail to me.
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Vince Vaughn?  He never had a chance.

Jennifer Aniston's true taste in men is revealed here. Check out the eery similarity between Jen's ex-hubby Brad Pitt and her rumored new British model beau, Paul Sculfor. Creepy, isn't it? They're like separated-at-after-birth.

Photo Credits: John Shearer/WireImage

Are you crazy about movies? Me too. And apparently, we're not alone.

Now you can find solace and meet like minds at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ cool new interactive multimedia exhibition, “Movies on the Mind: Psychology and Film since Sigmund Freud.”

The exhibit explores the connections between film and psychology and is divided into zones including a psychoanalytic area, a crying room, a drug-induced delirium room and the all-important voyeurs’ area. 

Visitors can lie on a primitive sanitarium bed, recline on a psychiatrist’s couch and view clips from dozens of crazy films including “Psycho,” my personal favorite “Marnie," "Annie Hall,” “Being John Malkovich," "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde,” “The Silence of the Lambs,” “Talk to Her” and “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.”

The big press opening is tomorrow night, Thursday, June 14th. But the unsettling exhibit - made possible by the generosity of the Goethe Institute - opens to the public on Friday, June 15. Should you need follow-up treatments, it will be open until Sept. 16. AMPAS is located at 8949 Wilshire Blvd., Beverly Hills. Click here for more info. And don't forget your meds.

Photo Credits: "Secrets of a Soul" (1925/26) courtesy of Deutsche Kinemathek, Berlin.

First Arianna Huffington, now KP International.

Why do people keep putting words in George Clooney's mouth?

George was furious about Arianna's  Spring 2006 faux blog - cobbled together using quotes from past TV and print interviews, signed it George Clooney and posted on her Huffington Post website. She finally took the 'blog' down and,  after much back-and-forth brouhaha and criticism, she eventually apologized to her readers and swore she would never ever use unattributed quotes again and make it look like a blog. Although she never did formally said "sorry" to George.

Now KP International, who distributed what Clooney's rep says are faux quotes, is being called out by the actor.  Clooney says he never slammed Paris Hilton by saying,  "You can only go so far without any discernible talent. Then you either work or use cheap publicity stunts to keep the public's attention. Then you are in no position to complain if you are on the receiving end of bad publicity." 

Clooney wants an immediate retraction and an apology AND he wants to know the source of that erroneous quote.  What was it that Bill Pullman shouted out the window to Linda Fiorentino in  "The Last Seduction?"

"You better run!"

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"Shrek the Third" star Cameron Diaz has a type! Meet her old boyfriend - actor/rocker Jared Leto- same as her new boyfriend - magician Criss Angel. Apparently, clean-cut singer/actor Justin Timberlake was just an aberration. Now she's back to her usual MOC: jet black-haired punky bad boys.

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Like many people following the Paris Hilton debaucle last week, I was baffled by the full page ads in the Los Angeles Times and the New York Post that read: "We love you, Paris. The Darling Family." And the airplane towing a banner with the same message that flew over the courthouse on Friday? That threw me. Who are these people? They must have beaucoup bucks to afford that kind of sympathy card!

So I confess I googled the Darlings that day. But nada. Couldn't even find a Darling on WireImage.com that had ever been photographed with Paris Hilton. Then I heard it was a publicity stunt for ABC but it didn't really register.

Anyway, I found out all about the Darlings last night when I popped the ABC Fall 07 DVD in my player and watched their new show, "Dirty Sexy Money."

The show stars Jill Clayburgh and Donald Sutherland as the absurdly weathly matriarch and patriarch of the dysfunctional Darling clan. Peter Krause of "Six Feet Under" plays the son of their longtime lawyer, who, after his dad's death, gets sucked back into the family's sick orbit again. He's forced to fix every  scandal the family encounters. And there are a lot of them. There are five spoiled rotten Darling siblings who are either vindictive, clueless, aimless, or addicted to sex and/or drugs. One of them is Billy Baldwin, and I'm not saying which adjective fits his character.

But one daughter, a wanna be-actress played by Samaire Armstrong, is deliciously like Paris: a stylishly self-centered, pouty-lipped, purring blonde who smoothly seduces the media. Until she's riled. When a reporter on a red carpet asks about her latest small role in a movie by remarking, "But you're a terrible actress," she spits back the worst insult she can think of. "And you're.... POOR!," she hisses and storms off. 

The show starts this fall. And since I'm not supposed to "review" the show, all I'll say is that if you love Paris or if you hate Paris, if you think she should or shouldn't be in jail, you will love this show. It's quite the guilty pleasure, almost ripped from last week's headlines. And probably next week's too. The writers have got to be having a field day with this stuff.

By the way, when I initially called the ABC photo department to ask for a photo of Samaire for the Styles and Scenes blog, they told me they did not supply photos to "bloggers."

So... the studio that capitalized on Paris Hilton's predicament with faux shows of support for her in major newspapers and even hired a blimp to hover over the courthouse to promote their new show doesn't want to be sullied by giving a cast photo to a blogger? What's wrong with this picture? Anyway, ABC's crack press department intervened for me and voila, photos appeared.

Thanks, guys.  But - in Sarah Silverman's immortal MTV Movie Awards words - why do I feel dirty?

Photo Credits: Samaire Armstrong and the cast of "Dirty Sexy Money" courtesy of ABC
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George Clooney thinks Paris Hilton is a hypocrite for manipulating the press to fuel her current "star" status, then whining about the insane media frenzy over her arrest/incarceration. And now she's calling Barbara Walters to talk about finding God in jail over the weekend.

In other words, you reap what you sow, Paris.

On June 10, WENN reported the "Ocean's Thirteen" star and Oscar-winning actor as saying, "You can only get so far without discernable talent - then you either work, or use cheap publicity tricks to keep the public's attention. Paris has no reason to complain if she is on the end of bad publicity."

One might add that since most of her past publicity - late night partying, feuds with friends, sex videos - has been bad, this past week's headlines may actually be the highlight of her entire career.

But on June 7, Clooney still felt sorry for her. He had this to say to WENN then: "If I were as famous as some of those kids who are on the magazines right now at 21 years old, I'd be shooting crack under my eyeball."

He added:  "They'll get through it, but I wouldn't want to be growing up around that."

Maybe enduring three whole days of non-stop Paris in Jail TV coverage did him in. Just like it did the rest of us.

You gotta think George scratches his head and wonders why he can't get that kind of international media blitz for the holocaust in Darfur. Hey, there's an idea! Invite Paris to tour the Sudanese refugee camps when she gets out of jail!

Photo Credits: Manipulating the media? Paris?  Here she is with her pal Caroline D'Amore, making nice with her scathing blogging nemesis, Perez Hilton, in Cannes last year. How about dragging the paparazzi to Darfur?   
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Two years ago, Paris Hilton and her mother Kathy were riding high. Specifically, they were riding down Santa Monica Boulevard and waving at thousands of fans as the 2005 Grand Marshalls of the annual Los Angeles Gay, Lesbian, Bi-Sexual & Transgender Pride Parade.

This year Paris sat out the festivities in a solo cell at the so-called Twin Towers downtown; her sister Nicky and her on-again/off-again boyfriend Stavros Niarchos were her only visitors this weekend. Mom and Dad are coming tomorrow.

Meanwhile, the man who managed to make Paris's life even more miserable by surreptitiously springing her, unleashing a flood of criticism and resulting in a swift judge-ordered reincarceration, was happily marching in the parade. 

Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca smiled and waved to the crowd as he strolled down Santa Monica Boulevard today taking part in the Pride Parade in West Hollywood, along with motorcycle cops and troopers in shiny patrol cars. A few people hooted and hollered and some yelled out, "Free Paris!" But Baca didn't blink an eye or crack a smile. He just waved his little flag. Chief of Police William Bratton walked next to him, waving his very own little flag.

Baca looked comfortable with the limelight. But, as an LA Times article points out, 'Baca's been to the Oscars and the Golden Globes, played golf with Michael Douglas, given a concealed weapons permit to Ben Affleck, hired Lou Ferrigno as a reserve deputy and taken campaign contributions from Sylvester Stallone.' So he's used to a level of celebrity status himself. 

According to piece, Baca previously faced 'accusations of celebrity favoritism in 2006 when a deputy who arrested actor Mel Gibson for drunk driving in Malibu was told to delete from the arrest report references to anti-Semitic comments made by the actor.'

Baca said he was not involved in the decision to edit that report. But look, here's a lovely 2002 shot of Baca and Gibson - part of the Los Angeles Sheriff's Star Organization - when they presented the daughter of a slain officer with a college savings bond. Hmmm.

Wonder how comfy Baca will be when (and if) he meets with the Reverend Al Sharpton tomorrow at 1:30 in Monterey Park, a meeting already arranged, according to an email from Sharpton's office. Yes, as if it's not enough of a media circus, another clown's come to town. The People's Powerhouse wants to discuss the rights of all people - no matter their race, class or creed - in the justice system.

Oh, for the record: big Al's staying at the luxurious Four Seasons, which is closer to Beverly Hills than Monterey Park, isn't it? Hey, I'm just saying...

Photo Credits: Paris was probably thinking, "Thanks a pantload, Sheriff" on her way back to jail.
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Photo Credits: Baca and Gibson did a good deed together back in 2002. But celeb favoritism? Fuggedaboudit.
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Jerry Weintraub, George Clooney's producer pal and partner in "Not On Our Watch," which has raised an estimated $9 million in aid for Darfur, is worried that Paris Hilton "is gonna explode."

"Paris Hilton is obviously a troubled kid," sez Weintraub, at Saturday's Magic Castle scavenger hunt/premiere after-party for his wholesome new teen adventure flick, "Nancy Drew," starring Julia Roberts' niece, Emma Roberts.

"I’m a father of four and a grandfather of four and I feel badly for Paris and for the way the whole thing has been handled. She's wrong and she’s a troubled kid and she needs help. I don’t know that locking her up for 45 days is help or if letting her out and then locking her up again is help. That certainly can’t do her any good. This is all too public. It’s too much for this kid. This kid is gonna explode."

"They need to start thinking on a humanistic level for five minutes about this girl. She put herself in the situation to start with. But now they are exacerbating the situation and I think it’s wrong. It’s way over the top and wrong."

"All these kids," he continued. "It’s too much money too soon, too much celebrity too soon. With the tabloids and TV shows, all the things that surround being a celebrity, it's easy to become a celebrity. Just be as outrageous as you can be. I don’t know anything about her but I do know that if you wear skimpy clothes, go to clubs all night and crash cars into walls, you get into newspapers.”

Don't have a clue know who Jerry is? Then you don't live/work in the Hollywood film industry. Check him out: the legendary larger-than-life producer has a role in the new "Ocean's Thirteen," playing a suave, silver-haired high roller.

Additional reporting: Joel Stratte-McClure

Photo Credits: Paris sings her heart out but she's crying her heart now.   
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Photo Credits: George and Jerry at Cannes for the "O13" premiere, know a little something about how to handle fame and celebrity.
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Over and over, we keep hearing that Paris Hilton was released from jail because of a "medical condition." But  as a general rule, prisoners are not released if they have cancer, AIDS,  diabetes and/or heart problems. So what was/is this serious "medical condition" that got her released from jail in the middle of the night anyway? And will it cause problems for her during her re-incarceration? Click here for the answers!  Then click on the Paris: Addicted to Fame gallery to see proof!

Photo Credits: Boo-hoo! I don't wanna go back to jail, Mommy!  Make it stop!
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Thanks to Paris Hilton's release from jail yesterday, West Hollywood is now under attack from fleets of noisy choppers hovering over her Hollywood Hills home.

Check out this email that Pro Tempore Mayor Jeffrey Prang just sent out in response to  a flood of calls and emails from annoyed residents.

Please put Paris back in jail! These taxpayers can't take 40 days of this noise! It's like living in Baghdad!

                                                          


                                        HELICOPTER NOISE

Dear Neighbors:

I have received an enormous number of calls and e-mails today about the helicopters hovering over the City.  As you may know, Paris Hilton lives in Los Angeles, just off the Sunset Strip and immediately adjacent to West Hollywood.  Given the publicity and controversy surrounding her recent incarceration and re-assignment to house arrest, the media has converged on our community, including a flock of helicopters.

Like many of you, I too was woken this morning about 5:30 AM by helicopters.  However, I want to let you know that the City of West Hollywood  and the Sheriff's Department, as well as the City of Los Angeles and their Police Department, have no authority or jurisdiction over airspace and helicopters hovering overhead.  Aircraft remain under the exclusive control of the federal government and the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA).

West Hollywood and hundreds of other cities have protested the serious impacts of hovering helicopters, particularly news and paparazzi helicopters, for many years to no avail.

While we shall again register our objections to our federal representatives and ask for more local regulatory authority, I also want to offer some suggestions for you.  If you feel strongly that helicopters hovering over densely populated residential neighborhoods is a problem that needs fixing, please contact West Hollywood's federal representatives and the FAA:

U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer
U. S. Senator Dianne Feinstein
U. S Representative Henry Waxman

You can also call the "Assignment Desk" at local television stations and register your complaints about their news helicopters and their negative impact on the community.

Channel 2
Channel 4
Channel 5
Channel 7
Channel 9
Channel 11
Channel 13

I regret that I cannot do more as a member of the City Council to help relieve our neighborhoods of this problem, but I am certain that our representatives and the news stations would be pleased to know your views on the subject.

Best regards,


JEFFREY PRANG
Mayor Pro Tempore

Mayor Pro Tempore Jeffrey Prang
7985 Santa Monica Boulevard, Suite 109-590
West Hollywood, CA 90046
(323) 934-4816

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Will Paris Hilton be heading back to jail today?

According to the latest reports, the judge who originally sentenced the naughty heiress to 45 days is plenty P.O.ed that she's been released and sent home to serve out her sentence. When Superior Court Judge Michael T. Sauer sentenced Hilton to jail last month, he ruled that she couldn't serve the sentence at home under electronic monitoring. Oops.

Now City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo has filed a petition questioning whether Sheriff Lee Baca should be held in contempt of court for releasing her. And Paris has been ordered to appear in court this morning!

Jeepers. Is the LA Sheriff's department really the Keystone Cops? 

Photo Credit: Jeff Spaulding/FilmMagic

"All these people talking about me and the clips from the movies, i have just one question, 'Why aren't I in rehab?"

Al Pacino, accepting his Life Achievement Award at the star-studded 35th annual AFI Awards last night at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood.

Here's good news for inmates everywhere. Crying will get you out of jail. 

Just ask Paris Hilton. According to TMZ, Hilton was released from jail today after serving only three - count 'em - three days in the clink. The hotel heiress/socialite had reportedly been crying constantly and unable to sleep. As of yesterday, her lawyer and a shrink had been her only reported visitors.

No official confirmation yet but the site reports that the deal was sealed yesterday and Paris, who had originally been sentenced to serve 45 days, which were then hacked down to 23, got out of jail early this morning. And just in time! One more day and her spray tan would have faded, her manicure might have chipped, her extensions might get tangled or she could have broken her teeth on the bars, which Sarah Silverman was concerned about on Sunday night's MTV Movie Awards.

Thank God the authorities allowed this fragile flower to go home to her 100% Egyptian cotton sheets. Justice has been served, the media had a field day and I know Paris has learned an important lesson from this experience, which is  "I really am better than everyone else and I do deserve special treatment."

And crying works! Who knew?

UPDATE: Paris has been reassigned to "Home Arrest" for 40 days. Yeah, that'll work. Sound more like "House Party" to me. And she'll probably make ankle bracelets a must-have fashion trend.

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Euuuw! Could Paris Hilton catch something in jail?

According to an Inside Edition press release, Paris may face a serious health threat at the Lynwood Correction Facility. Seems the women’s prison is rife with staph infection, with over 402 inmates diagnosed with the serious infection last year alone. And for every 1,000 inmates that enter the facility, it's estimated that 13 will contract some version of the infection caused by the staphylococcus bacteria.

Elizabeth Bancroft, an Epidemiologist for The Los Angeles County Department of Public Health, spoke with Inside Edition about the seriousness of the staph strain that is spreading through the jail.

“MRSA is a kind of staph infection that means it’s resistant to the first line of antibiotics we usually use to treat staph infection. That is the kind that is so prevalent right now or so common in the jail. At this time it’s impossible to eradicate staph because it’s spread person to person.  It can be asymptomatic and there is no vaccine.”

Precautions suggested include good hygiene, washing hands, and changing clothes when the laundry services come around. And don't mix with the other inmates. Isolation lessens the chances of contagion.

Frankly, I don't think Paris should be too worried. If she didn't catch anything from hanging out with  Brandon Davis, I think she's safe.

Photo Credits: Relax, Paris. You've got an immunity built up.
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Ellen Barkin and Matt Damon have a pret-ty steamy love scene in "Ocean's Thirteen." I wondered if it was as hot as the one she shared with her other "Ocean's" co-star Al Pacino in the 1989 thriller, "Sea of Love?"

Ellen Barkin: "What was it like working with Matt? Well, he's not good-looking and he's really not very bright. So there's that. And as for his acting career, I just don't think it's going to pan out."

Matt Damon: "Wasn't working with me just like working with Pacino?"

Ellen Barkin: "Yeah. Except not."

Photo Credits: Don't cry, Matt. Ellen was just kidding around at the afterparty.
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Talk about Celebrity Worship.

Like pilgrims to Compostella, several thousand faithful fans lined the closed-off Hollywood Blvd. block  in front of the the Kodak Theatre yesterday. All were desperately hoping to get a glimpse, a moment, some kind of physical contact, a photo or an autograph of "Ocean's Thirteen" stars Brad Pitt, George Clooney and Matt Damon.

Isn't it amazing to see all these people turned out for your premiere?" "Yeah, well, most of them are family, so they don't count,' joked Clooney, adding, "Besides, I think most people came to see Brad."   

Nice try, George. Clooney was the hero of the night. First on the scene, his appearance elicited deafening screams as he ran-walked the whole block-long bleachers, signing, kissing, shaking hands, posing for pix, as his publicist Stan Rosenfield scanned the street like he was searching for crazed snipers.

But Brad wasn't far behind, hopping out of a limo with..  OHMIGOD... Angelina Jolie!! The fans were positively ectastic over the presence of a Versace-clad Angie, who clung to her man initially but broke rank as they split up and did the fan stands solo, signing, shaking, smiling. One girl breathlessly told the actress/mom/humanitarian hottie, "I've been since 4 a.m.!" This was at 7:16 p.m. Now that's devotion.

After the mixing and mingling ended and the stars scooted inside the Grauman's (but still owned and operated by Mann) Chinese Theatre, the crowd did not disperse. They lingered, still in a stunned, almost beatific state. One overwhelmed young woman wept with joy as she stared at the purse Angelina had just signed.

Or she may have been weeping over Clooney's scrawl. Hard to tell.

Photo Credits: Angelina blessed the fans at the "Ocean's Thirteen" premiere last night.
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Michael Kors makes like Charlie to his stylish TV angels-  Heidi Klum and Debra Messing, alongside Victoria's Secret model/actress Liya Kebede - at the 25th Council of Fashion Designers of America Awards last night.

Ellen Barkin, fresh from her "David Letterman Show" appearance, was the last to arrive at the CFDA fete held at the New York Public Library, in a stunning shiny gown by stylist/designer L'wren Scott. To say she's holding up well would be putting it mildly. Ellen, you give us all hope. Will she wear another gown by Mick Jagger's girlfriend at tonight's Los Angeles premiere of "Ocean's Thirteen?" I'll get the scoop when I corner her at the post party.

Oprah Winfrey wore a big pink satin Ralph Lauren schmatta and went on and on about Ralphie's indisputable international image - yada, yada, yada - before handing him his American Fashion Legend Award. "Get the hook," someone muttered. As if being a legend isn't enough, Ralphie was also given the Menswear Designer Award.

Mary Kate and Ashley Olsen wore designs from their own lines. Respectively, a fab fitted shirtdress from their label called The Row, and a cream gown that looked more like a bed sheet from their other collection called Elizabeth & James. Nice but what's with the big black gym bag?

"Starter Wife" star Debra Messing - rumored to be a potential surprise nominee for an Emmy - looked more like dessert in a delish lavender Michael Kors. Uma Thurman accompanied Zac Posen and wore his blue ruffled strap gown. She presented the Eleanor Lambert award to fashion photographer Patrick DeMarchelier.

A slightly meatier (thank heavens) Kate Bosworth came with - and wore a knit dress by - Jack McCollough & Lazaro Hernandez, the Proenza Schouler designer dudes, who tied with Oscar de la Renta to win the 2007 Womenswear Designer of the Year Award, after some initial confusion at the podium.

Eva Mendes - who looked dumpy when she presented at Sunday's MTV Movie Awards in an explicable garden party floral frock - looked stunning in a bright pink Calvin Klein gown by Francisco Costa. And "Ugly Betty" style siren Vanessa Williams got all the looks in her snug slinkly Carmen Marc Valvo.

Will the TV trendsetters stay true to their designer dates and wear their gowns to the Emmy Awards in September? Well, the show is a few months off but I'd say signs point to yes.

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I know we're all supposed to leave Lindsay Lohan alone because she's in rehab finally getting help, blah, blah, blah. But you gotta check this out.

The British paper News of the World has just published photos of the starlet seductively holding a knife to a girl friend's throat at a party. Click here to see it. The report calls the photos "shocking sick images" that "show the depths of depravity she has sunk to in her battle against cocaine addiction."   

Hey, wasn't there another Hollywood Wild Child who loved knives? That's right, it was Angelina Jolie. She admitted to having a collection of knives that she used ... in bed. Seriously. "You're young, you're drunk, you're in bed, you have knives; shit happens", she told press several years ago.

What does this mean? Well, on one level, it means they're both kinda kinky. But on another level, it means there's hope for Lindsay. In ten years, Lindsay may help suffering children around the world and adopt international orphans like a chain-smoker in Paris.

Hey, if you'd bet me back when Angelina was making out with Billy Bob Thornton on red carpets that she'd become a United Nations ambassador, a renowned humanitarian and the mother of a passle of adopted kids with Brad Pitt, I would have bet the bank you were wrong.

Maybe all Lindsay needs is to find her purpose in life.

Photo Credits: And so it begins. Could Lindsay's appearance at the One.org event at  Chateau Marmont in March 2006 be just the beginning of a new direction? Stranger things have happened. Just ask former knife collector Angelina Jolie.
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Photo Credits: Angelina, Brad and their international family. And no knives.
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Will prison stripes become the latest look on the red carpets? Okay, okay. This isn't really Paris Hilton. It's the incredibly life-like Paris Hilton wax figurine just unveiled today in Madame Tussauds in New York. But admit it. Just for a minute, you thought it might be her, didn't ya?

To see the scandalous styles Paris and other stars wore to last night's MTV Movie Awards, click here

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Talk about going out - or going in - with a bang.

Paris Hilton turned herself into the authorities after leaving the MTV Movie Awards last night where host Sarah Silverman took some shots at the heiress about her impending incarceration. TMZ got the video of her and her mom arriving at the Men's Central Jail in downtown LA to turn herself to the LA County Sheriff. Click here to watch.

Paris also made this statement: "I am ready to face the consequences of violating probation. During the past few weeks, I have had a lot of time to think and have come to realize I made some mistakes. This is an important point in my life and I need to take responsibility for my actions. In the future, I plan on taking more of an active role in the decisions I make. I want to thank my family, friends and fans for their continued support. Although I am scared, I am ready to begin my jail sentence."

Did Silverman's opening monologue jabs about her chipping her teeth on the cell's bars make Paris leave the show early and turn herself in? Observers say it was the first time they'd ever seen her flustered and that she "lost her trademark smirk." Dane Cook joked midway through the show that Paris was so upset about the crack that she left and "checked into jail early." But ironically, it was kinda true! Did Sarah go too far? Click here, watch Pari