When Lindsay Lohan checked into a sober living house shortly after hiring her new lawyer, Robert Shapiro, it looked like ol’ Rob was doing his best to get Lindsay out of jail time in favor of rehab.  But it turns out that’s not the case.  Here’s what he told E!:

“I have agreed to represent Ms. Lohan on the condition that she complies with all of the terms of her probation, including a requirement of jail time that was imposed by Judge Marsha Revel. Ms. Lohan is suffering from a disease that I am all too familiar with. Hopefully, I can be of assistance to Ms. Lohan and Judge Revel in implementing a treatment approach recommended by medical professionals for Ms. Lohan’s long term recovery and sobriety.”

So what happened to the Lohan family whining about unfair trials?  Maybe they changed their minds and realized that Lindsay needs to face up to what she’s done and just go to jail, and that’s why she went and checked into that sober house.  Or maybe Robert Shapiro tricked them while they were all drunk/high/naturally stupid.  Only time will tell – there are only three days left till Lindsay heads towards the slammer.

Paris Hilton got caught with weed again.  She said it wasn’t hers again.  And she got away with it again.

Just a couple of weeks ago, Paris was caught with marijuana as she was leaving South Africa, but she was let go when officials said they misidentified her and it was really her friend who had the drugs.  And I’m sure that’s exactly what happened.

This time, Paris was detained at a different airport because weed was found in her purse.  She was released soon after though, and she’s already Tweeted about it:

So sick of people making up rumors about me. The latest one about me is completely false too. Don’t believe what you read. Silly nonsense.

Silly nonsense, indeed.  I don’t know why anyone would be so quick to assume that Paris Hilton does drugs.  That is just a preposterous notion that needs to be stopped as soon as possible.

With all the various court dealings and the photos and tapes being released these days, keeping up with Mel Gibson is a tough gig.  Here’s a handy little list of the shenanigans that good ol’ Mel has gotten into lately:

- Radar posted a photo of Oksana after Mel knocked her teeth out.  Her dentist, the one who took the picture, has said that he doesn’t believe she was hit in the mouth like she said, but that her injuries were consistent with being punched in the temple – she broke her teeth from instinctively bearing them down.  He says that he even saw bruising on her temple, but in the photo she covered it with her hair because she wanted to protect Mel.  An expert who examined the photo said that the wound looked self-inflicted, but there’s still that whole recording in which he tells Oksana that she “fucking deserved” being punched in the face, so I’m guessing that expert was from Mel’s camp.

- Security at Mel Gibson’s church has gotten real tight since this whole mess started.  Guards have been hired to keep watch over the church on the weekends, and some additional guards have been hired to hang out with Mel 24/7.  Because that makes sense – I think if anybody tried to hurt Mel, he could just pant angrily at them and threaten them with oral sex and they’d run away screaming.

- In the custody battle for Mel and Oksana’s baby girl, the judge ruled that Mel wasn’t dangerous, so their arrangement of full visitation rights and one overnight a week for Mel still stands.  The thing that probably tipped the scales in Mel’s favor was a declaration made by Mel’s ex, Robin.  She said that in the 28 years they were married, he never physically abused her or their children.  I don’t think she said whether or not he ever shouted at her at the top of his lungs about blow jobs.

I just cannot get over how crazy Mel Gibson is.  I mean, yeah, there was that whole “sugartits” debacle, but this is just out of hand.  And things should only get crazier – Radar still has more audio tapes to release.

I don’t want to spoil the joke in this video, but let’s just say that Kate Bosworth and Zoe Saldana prove that despite being childlike “idiots”, they are totally funny. Genuinely. This isn’t one of those FOD videos that’s like , “Oh, it’s funny because those people are famous,” but actually genuinely funny. It’s Friday, this video’s safe for work, so check it out and then have a killer weekend.

Looking at this image of Will and Jada with their kids Willow and Jaden at the London premiere of The Karate Kid is just like looking at so many albums from my own childhood. The paparazzi, the glamor, the historical surroundings… Can’t we all relate to this?

Check the gallery below to conjure up more memories from your own childhood…

The New York Post posted an interesting article this morning about what Broadway has dubbed “the Denzel effect.”  This effect, named after Denzel Washington for his recent role in August Wilson’s Fences on Broadway, describes the growing number of film actors making a move to theatre.  Actors who are currently making this move include Halle Berry, who will co-star with Samuel L. Jackson in an upcoming drama called The Mountaintop, and James Earl Jones is returning to Broadway to star with Vanessa Redgrave in Driving Miss Daisy (which also sounds pretty spectacular), but there’s one rumored casting choice that intrigues me more than the others.

Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith have been offered roles in an upcoming revival of Tennessee Williams’ A Streetcar Named Desire.  If they accept, Will would play Stanley while Jada would play Stella.  And that is just too much awesome.

I absolutely love Will Smith.  I think he’s a magnificent actor; Stanley doesn’t seem like an easy role to play, but I have little doubt that he could do it beautifully.  All acting ability aside though, how crazy would it be to see the Fresh Prince do the famous “STELLA!” bit?