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Hollywood's Scariest Celebrities

Not everyone in Hollywood is obsessed with Oscar nominations.

Take Wednesday night's big launch party for Xbox's new "Gears of War" game at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery.

First to arrive at the pre-Halloween bash was a Britney-less Kevin Federline, who played the new Xbox game for hours with his posse of punks. No one on the red carpet heard him mention the Oscars once!

K-Fed was so darn busy gaming that he didn’t seem to notice all the hot babes at the party. Wanna bet he's like that at home too?

Mr. Spears wore a lot of bling and a sweatshirt that said "Playing with Fire." He spent his time acting like the bad ass Rap Star he isn't.

"Bobby" star Lindsay Lohan -- who may have actually mentioned awards during the night -- showed up in a Gucci frock that she'd worn to her previous engagement that night, the "Gucci on Gucci" book party benefitting the Film Foundation at the Bel Air Hotel.

Wow, the same dress? At two parties ? She must be slipping. The old Lohan never would have been caught dead at two parties in just one frock.

What was the scariest moment at Xbox?

A skeletal Kate Bosworth snuck in the side entrance of the cemetery, which was decorated with bright red skulls and spooky Halloween decor.

Safely inside, bony Bos chatted with La Lohan whom she hadn’t seen since they'd hung out together in Paris during Spring '07 Fashion Week.

Just imagine their conversation: "So what designer gave you the most free clothes? Really? Me too!"

Both girls met Epic game creator Cliff Bleszinski and tried to play the game. Bosworth, admittedly not a big gamer, praised the amazing graphics. She told everyone that she'd just gotten her first Xbox 360 a few weeks ago.

Hey, with no steady beau and no meals planned, the girl's got a lot of time to kill.

Photo Credits: K-Fed in a Rap Star costume at the Xbox pre-Halloween party

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Photo Credits: Mistress of the Night Lindsay hits the Xbox bash after doing Gucci duty.
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Lindsay rushed (yawn) to emergency AGAIN

Living in Lindsay Lohan's fast lane must be exhausting.

Car wrecks, late night clubbing', perpetually late for work, getting publically chastised for tardiness by fellow actors and a studio head. Plus she's been rushed to the hospital this year more times than I can count.

Now comes word that Lohan was rushed to the emergency room AGAIN after falling and fracturing her wrist in two places in New York Friday night. 

According to Access Hollywood, she fell at that darn slippery Milk Studios  while wearing flat Channel (Um, I think they mean Chanel) boots. Darn. There goes her Jimmy Choo defense.

Apparently, Thursday night wasn't much better for the actress, who stars in Harvey Weinstein's buzzed-about Oscar contender film, "Bobby," and who reportedly isn't half bad in it.

Page Six sez Lindsay got into a nasty, profanity-heavy public fight with her mother Dina at an Upper East side restaurant. At her mom's birthday party.

After the very public Mom meltdown, the Post reports that Lindsay was - at one point - in tears during the Calvin Klein party as she mixed with the party's hostesses Drew Barrymore and Maggie Gyllenhaal.

Does anyone else think that if Lindsay Lohan were a regular girl, folks might use words like "intervention," not "exhaustion?"

Good, I thought it was just me.

Photo Credits: Lindsay hotfoots it to a fashion bash at 7 World Trade Center after a screaming fight with Mommy Dearest... at her mom's B-day party. The next night she took a tumble at a party in Milk Studios. Blame it on these shoes, Lindsay. Seriously. Everyone will buy it.
WireImage/James Devaney

Lindsay flashes, Britney pops and Dakota poses

Hollywood is deserted. Everyone's either at the Toronto Film Festival seeing Oscar-hopeful films or at New York Fashion Week seeing what the 2007 Awards Season trends will be.

Everyone except me.

And since Hollywood is navel ring-drop quiet, I have absolutely nothing to report. I promise there will be a photo-heavy insider story on celeb shopping, Who Sat in the First Row at the New York Shows, on Friday.

But until then, I've been reduced to reading celebrity gossip blogs for amusement. Yes, it's come to this....

So the big question today is: Is Perez Hilton hooked on Firecrotch? Or does he just have friends with too much time on their hands and really cool Photoshop software?

'Cause I find it pretty hard to believe that Lindsay Lohan forgot her underwear again. She may lose a designer bag filled with expensive jewelry in the London airport from time-to-time but gosh, who doesn't? Underwear? Never.

Not that she forgot it the first time. I got an email from Lohan's super chic stylist Rachel Zoe who confirmed that Lindsay was definitely wearing undies under her green chiffon Prada frock at the Venice Film Festival.

So grow up, people. Just say no to Photoshopped celebrity cooch.

According to National Enquirer's breaking news desk, there's a new Tater on the block. And nearly 1-year-old Sean Preston (born Sept 14) and his Caesarean-born new baby brother will be able to celebrate their B-days together. Think of the money Britney and Kevin will be able to save on trailer park barbecue birthday parties. Those clowns, petting zoos and batting cages can mount up.

Teen Vogue snagged Dakota Fanning for her first editorial fashion spread. And they let the child keep a pair of Marc Jacobs boots. This is how it all begins.

And finally, the real reason why Jude Law left his first wife Sadie Frost.

We get it now, Jude

Photo Credit: Photoshop this, PerezHilton! Let's see the blogging crotch-mongers try to make Lindsay's Venice frock -  a lady-like Marchesa gown -  into something lewd and lascivious. 
WireImage/Jeff Vespa

Lindsay lets her fingers do the talking

In response to my query about what the double finger salute from by the perpetually partying and late-to-the set actress Lindsay Lohan and her "I scowl, therefore I'm tough" DJ pal Samantha Ronson at the Entertainment Weekly pre Emmy party really meant...

Turns out It's not a new millennium Peace Sign or a modern V for Victory double digit flash.

An HB reader writes "The "peace sign" Lohan's friend is giving you is the British version of the finger, meaning "Get Stuffed" or, translated, "Up Yours."

Just to refresh, here are the girls flipping us off. Gosh, their mothers must be so proud.

             

Lindsay's NOT late to EW Emmy Bash

The hot topic at Saturday's Entertainment Weekly Pre-Emmy bash at Republic on that once-quiet little WeHo street known as Melrose Place?

Is poor maligned Lindsay Lohan POed with William H. Macy for calling her out in People about her constant “rude” tardiness on the set of “Bobby?”

Seems she was also late a lot on that film, as well as on the set of “Georgia Rule,” which also stars Macy’s wife Felicity Huffman. So yeah, let's forget about all those “dehydration” excuses.

But Miss Lohan was all smiles - clad in leggings, loose white top and multiple bracelets - arriving with her pal Samantha Ronson, who was actually not late to work for her DJ duty that night.

“Why do they play the music so loud at a party where all people come for is to talk to each other?”  wondered one guest trying to find a spot to stand without blasting ear-drum destroying speakers.

In between screaming and/or struggling to read lips, guests grabbed Revlon lipsticks (even Blythe Danner, who looked like she could use some), scads of really big TV stars, anxious publicists and happy-to-be-invited anywhere civilian guests ate ice cream, checked out the new Chocolate cell phones and grabbed EW mags strewn about the warehouse-sized club.

One issue had "House" doc Hugh Laurie on the cover. So natch, he was there. The other issue’s cover peeps were “Project Runway”’s perpetually pregnant Heidi Klum and her PR costar Tim Gunn.

Hot babes included Allison Janney, posing with Mariska Hargitay,  in a brown jacket/black jeans, Lisa Edelstein, Kate Walsh,Maggie Grace, Rebecca Gayheart, Sarah Chalke and Angie Harmon.

Tina Fey, Lauren Graham and a tan and actually hot-looking Matthew Perry posed together for photos. Cheryl Hines and Kim Raver, looking tres sexy in a fitted white dress with a bit of black bra showing, were in the house, as well as Lisa (“my lips are so real”) Rinna and Harry Hamlin.

“Rescue Me” nominee Denis Leary showed up with his whole darn family. He and his wife hit the by-contrast rather subdued official Academy of TV Arts and Scienes cocktail party on Friday night at the Pacific Design Center, which was I think is supposed to be like the Oscar nominees lunch.

There’s one big difference. Slim nominee pickings. More may have showed up after I left for The Gersh Agency’s big Grand Centenario-sponsored star studded bash at the Sunset Towers pool bar. But I only spotted Leary, Jane Kaczmarek, Cloris Leachman and Alfre Woodard.

Tip: For better attendance, try throwing the official cocktail party BEFORE the awards ballots are due back, like the AMPAS does. Trust me, it works every time.

Photo Credits: Lindsay Lohan does EW's Emmy bash and she's NOT late! Okay, is that a peace sign Samantha's giving us or some new alternative lifestyle double bird? WireImage/John Shearer
Photo Credits: Blythe grabs some Revlon lipstick. Let's pray the Earth Grandmother wears some to the Emmys.  WireImage/Eric Charbonneau
Photo Credits: Just because Heidi's preggers and Gunn may be a little light in the loafers does not mean that they cannot behave like total EW Publicity Hos. WireImage/John Shearer
Photo Credits: Allison Janney takes a break from swag shopping (thank God) to squeeze her Emmy competition to death. Hey, Allison, is that a knife in my back or are you just glad to see me? WireImage/ Michael Caulfield

Whew! Smells like Teen Queen Spirit

Ooo, that smell. Can't you smell that smell?

It had to happen sooner or later: Lindsay Lohan is getting her very own perfume. Hey, it can't smell any worse than Paris Hilton's bottled stench.

WWD also reports that the busy, busy, busy actress/party girl/singer is also planning to open a used clothing boutique in Paris. Seems she now has so many vintage designer duds that she needs a serious recycling program.

Hey, the girl went through three dresses (Calvin, Versace and LaCroix) at the last Oscar parties. Who knows how many she may wipe out at the Emmy parties this Sunday.

And God forbid, she should start repeating herself. I say, Bravo! Sell your used vintage chic to some unsuspecting Parisians.

Photo Credits: Lindsay poses like Brigitte Bardot at Jeremy Piven's party at the Poloroid Beach House. Will she try to pawn this naughty leetle bit of peach lace off to zee French fashion folks? See the cigarette tucked in her hand? Oh, mon dieu, zat is so French.
WireImage/Jamie McCarthy

Seen "Little Miss Sunshine?" Now wear the shirt!

“I hate everyone”

Anyone who’s seen “Little Miss Sunshine,” Fox Searchlight's hilarious indie summer sleeper starring Greg Kinnear, Toni Collette, Alan Arkin and Steve Carell, knows that line.

Now you can wear it on your chest.

“Little Miss Sunshine” T-shirts are now selling at the trendiest boutique in town - Kitson - located on Robertson Blvd, the hot WeHo shopping street and the site of so many celebrity car crashes, I’ve lost count.

So drive carefully. Paris or Lindsay might be in the hood. But you can’t miss Kitson. The window has a big yellow VW bus cut-out, a blown up film poster and buckets of Dinah’s Chicken (from the actual chicken place out on Sepulveda whose chicken is eaten in the film).

The other LMS shirts are “No one gets left behind” and  “Everybody pretend to be normal.”

The bright yellow shirts ($38) can be purchased online at shopkitson.com starting Sept 1.

Right now there are no plans for more LMS clothing or an expanded merchandize line. But one can always hope. I desperately need a "Where's Olive?" shirt for the 2007 Awards Season.

Photo Credits: Everybody pretend to dress normal! Kitson's new "Little Miss Sunshine" windows.
Photo courtesy of Fox Searchlight

Lindsay wins Zit War, sets Emmy party fashion trend

Even though Lindsay Lohan was recently scolded by a studio head for staying out late, partying like a rock star and being rushed to a hospital (again) for dehydration, she still manages to look fantastic.

How does she do it?

First off, she’s young. At that tender age, everyone bounces back fast, even after a week of late nights.

Plus she has major hair peeps, makeup artists and stylists who keep her looking good, even on two hours sleep. Heck, she can probably get in some shut-eye sitting in the chair while they work their hair/makeup magic.

Natch, rumors are that her "glow" of late is due to her new love interest, Hard Rock Hotel and Casino heir, Harry Morton.

Now Harry's cute and all. But the truth is, it's the zit cream.

Seems the once-troubled skin star is now endorsing the anti-acne line called Proactiv Solution, a line she claims to use faithfully. And she's even on the pimple-fighting line’s new national TV advertisement.

But it's not as low rent as it sounds. Past Proactiv endorsers include Kelly Clarkson, Jessica Simpson and Diddy. Yes, that Diddy.

“My skin, thanks to Proactiv, is clear all the time,” chirps Lohan on the infomercial. “Proactiv heals acne, but the best thing is that it’s super gentle, so it works every day like skin care. That’s how I use it, and it works.” 

Keep using whatever detox stuff works, Linds. Cause you're gonna need spotless skin for the upcoming Emmy party scene.

If Lindsay's Emmy party line-up is as crowded as her last Oscar bash sked, she'll be one busy fashionista. On Oscar night, Lindsay wore a different frock to three Oscar post-parties, setting a new Awards Season quick-change record.

Will Lindsay's Oscar fashion show spark a new trend? Will we see other young actresses pulling a Lohan and wearing a different dress - perhaps a Chanel (not vintage, thanks), an Armani, some YSL, a piece of Prada and a decadent Dior - to the TV Guide, EW, ET/People and HBO Emmy after-parties? 

It's highly possible. One Hollywood style insider mused, "That's a lot of frocks for just one night. But who knows? It sounds totally insane but when you think about it, its a great way for these girls to satisfy several designers and not offend anyone."

And if those nasty "pay to play" rumors are true (actresses being financially compensated for wearing designer dresses to awards shows and parties), it's also a great way to make a few extra grand so you don't have to stoop to doing zit cream infomercials.

Photo Credits: Is Harry Morton the cause of Lindsay's glow? Or is it her Proactiv pimple cream?  We may never know. But her skin is on high beam at the Saturn Vue X-games party on August 2
WireImage/Barry King

Stars get waisted at Prada party

With the Emmy awards and Emmy parties on the horizon, it’s no surprise so many stars turned out for Miuccia Prada’s “Waist Down” exhibit of her artistic skirts at her Beverly Hills boutique.

Ben Kingsley, Dustin Hoffman, and Joaquin Phoenix  gave a heavy-weight acting awards feel to the super-chic skirt-loving crowd that included Angie Harmon, Heather Graham, Molly Sims, Eva Mendes, Michelle Trachtenberg, Patricia Arquette, Michelle Rodriquez, Paris and Nicky Hilton along with skinny-mini Mary Kate Olsen, looking tres goth, smothered up in black with ruby red lips.

Also at the party: Hilton's main social antagonists Lindsay Lohan and Nicole Richie. Perhaps their angry rifts are cooling due to some kind of Hollywood nuclear weapons disarmament treaty. Or maybe it was the free frocks.

Richie arrived before Lohan and was seen briefly eyeing the huge seafood buffet before deciding against sustenance and heading upstairs to the VIP area with melted green plastic walls that looked like they were stolen from the set of “Aliens.”

But even though she resisted a jumbo shrimp, Richie is not, I repeat, not anorexic. She probably wasn't hungry because she'd just eaten dinner the night before.

Other stars simply couldn't resist the  sea-faring temptation. Surprise-surprise, Courtney Love made a lengthy pit stop at the seafood bar to refuel with handfuls of jumbo shrimp, lobster claws and giant crab legs. TV fashion pundit Steven Cojocaru was also eating high on the hog and looking eerily more like his idol Joan Rivers every minute.

Longtime Prada lover Lyle Lovett came with a young girl who looked she could be his daughter but was probably his fiancé, April Kimble. “I love Prada, especially the techno pants. I wear them on stage when I perform,” he revealed.

Former supermodel-still-turning-actress Amber Valletta gleamed in a gold Prada lace top and gold satin short-shorts. "I think her hot pants-wearing days are done," whispered one onlooker.

The big question of the night was: will we see mucho Miuccia Prada at the Emmys?

“I really don’t know,” answered Prada prone supe- stylist Rachel Zoe, who arrived at the same time as some of her Prada-clad clones, er girls, including Joy Bryant, Richie and Lohan.

“Miuccia is very specific about who she dresses so we’ll just have to see. But it would be very fun!”

The Rem Koolhaus-designed boutique is a perfect party pad with skyhigh ceilings, low white sofas, and a wide sweeping staircase up to the second floor where you can peek down and check out which guy is a potential Hair Club for Men client.

The Prada skirts exhibited - full skirts splattered on walls and spinning suspended from the ceiling - sure made for fun festive décor. Not to mention all the plasma screens showing past fashion shows. By night's end, none of the small Prada skirt souvenir pins scattered around the store were left. Guests, stars and even stylists were lining their Prada purses with handfuls of the party souvenirs.

One source thought that there just might be an Emmy party in the works for the special store.  But another insider made mock of that idea, “Miuccia would not allow a party to be held here that she was not totally in charge of.”

So we’ll just have to see. But, like Zoe said, It would be very fun. And the marvelous "Waist Down" exhibit will be on display until, fittingly, August 27, the night of the Emmys.

Photo Credits: Angie Harmon fixes Lindsay Lohan's hair when she arrives late at the Prada party. What are friends for? Limos can be so  hard on the hairdo.

Photo Credits: Molly Simms and Eva Mendes get cozy for the cameras in fabulous free Prada dresses.

Photo Credits: Rebecca Romjin and Courtney Love share  - hopefully - some diet tips. Bottom's up, girls. Let's also hope that's just sparkling water in Love's champagne flute.

All from WireImage/Michael Caulfield

Venice, anyone? Will Lindsay or Mischa hit the fest?

Merciful St. Laurent! The Emmy Awards may not be so stylish this year.

Hollywood’s top tastemaker Rachel Zoe – who styles practically every fashion-forward young actress  – may not be available to dress her girls for the 2006 Emmy awards.   

“I just heard the Emmys are in late August this year and that's gonna conflict with the Venice Film Festival,” the super chic stylist told me at the Helio launch party at the Madison boutique in WeHo Thursday. "When are the nominations announced? "

I wasn't sure so I checked. Nominations are released July 6. And the Emmy show is aired live on Aug 27. The 63rd annual Venice International Film Fest is Aug 30-Sept 9. And this year the fest will host the premiere of Kenneth Branagh’s adaptation of Mozart’s “The Magic Flute,”  in case you care.

But Zoe's right, the Emmy/Venice timing will be very, very tight.

So which one of her gorgeous girls is going? That's still a secret. The Venice Fest's official lineup won't be announced for a few weeks.  But how about a guessing game: Could it be Zoe's super-hot girl Mischa Barton? The former "O.C." starlet is anxious to carve out a film career. She even mixed and mingled at Thursday's bash for Kevin Spacey's Triggerstreet.com launch.

And her first big film “Angels and Virgins” with Anakin, sorry, Hayden Christensen, was shot in the Florentine hills so its got a distinct Eye-talian flavor. But it isn’t skedded to open until Jan 2007.

More likely it will be Zoe's other big clothing consumer, Lindsay Lohan.

Lohan's new film “Bobby,” about the assassination of Bobby Kennedy, will release in November 2006. Or there’s her other controversial assassination film, “Chapter 27,” about Mark David Chapman, John Lennon's killer, tentatively skedded for release in 2007.

BTW, "27" is best known for starring Cameron Diaz's ex, Jared Leto, who also dated Lohan for a while. Still with us? Leto porked up about 70 lbs to play Chapman. But he’s reportedly slimming down.

Wonder if his workout program includes strenuous rounds of tonsil-hockey, tongue-wrestling and making-the beast-with-two backs with Jessica Simpson. Leto's been spotted with the newly single Simpson at three different clubs in New York and LA this month.

Hey, in Hollywood, that’s how people date. They meet up at clubs, flirt and make out, then leave separately. Naturally, Simpson’s rep staunchly denies they’re an item because, well, that’s what reps are paid to do.

Photo Credits: Hey, isn't Haley Joel Osment a little young for Mischa Barton, who was pressing the flesh at Kevin Spacey's Triggerstreet.com party in Hollywood on June 16.
WireImage/Jesse Grant

Photo Credits: Venice, anyone? Lindsay Lohan makes an Italian connection with Armani Exchange prez Harlan Bratcher in New York on June 16
WireImage/Jemal Countess