Seriously? OMG! WTF?

They are the three most photographed women in Hollywood – possibly the world – and usually they claim to be best mates. That’s why it comes as more than a bit of a shock when they start physically attacking each other. Lindsay Lohan has accused her on-again-off-again rival Paris Hilton of hitting her for no reason at a party held at a mutual friend’s house in LA. Sporting a bruise on her left arm, she made the astonishing claim to a camera crew that was waiting outside her Los Angeles hotel. She said: "I’m saying this on tape. She hit me for no reason, apparently, at my friend’s house. I didn’t know she would be there and she hit me with a drink and poured it all over me. It hurts and it’s not OK. "I’m sorry for everyone who thinks I’m crazy but I’m just trying to act." Paris and Britney have become virtually inseparable since Britney dumped her husband Kevin Federline a few weeks ago. While they definitely attended Saturday’s party, no-one in the Paris camp is commenting on the Lohan allegation. The whole affair was the low point of a couple of days that Lindsay would rather forget. After a weekend when all cameras pointed to Paris and Britney, the only attention Lindsay got was from three traffic cops – who ticked her off for speeding.

Daily Mail 

I don’t believe this, Paris gets other people to do her dirty work like the Shanna incident.

Producer Jordan Kerner (“Charlotte’s Web”, “George of the Jungle 2”) gave Moviehole a bit of an update on his forthcoming projects today, including the feature film version of “The Smurfs”. “It’s a 3-D/CG Smurfs”, said Kerner. “You just can’t make those guys live – it’d be a little weird, but a 3D Shrek world of them – that’s fantastic.” Kerner says he has been researching the popular 80s cartoon extensively. “Having seen all 234 episodes of the show, numerous times, Herb Ratner and I have been working really hard at looking where all the holes were in the episodes – ya’know, like all of a sudden another woman appears, it’s not just smurfette – and what we’ve done is we’ve plugged all those holes in a trilogy of three movies, and we reveal things as we go along”. “They’re all so very protective of [The Smurfs], so it took me five years of negotiation to get the rights. And then, they were very uncertain about what story we wanted to tell – we weren’t going to tell them until we had the rights, either. Then we got the rights on everyone’s faith that they also had an ability to veto, and presented them with the treatment. They just loved it. To be told that they loved it – not just liked it – and to be told that [creator] Peyo would’ve loved it, is a huge blessing and a great thing to have happen”. The “Smurfs” trilogy will be “the animated Lord of the Rings – through the world of these idiots. Because they’re sweet characters but they’re goofs. It’s a comic version, but still very heartfelt, version of Lord of the Rings – though not literally Lord of the Rings, but an epic story like that.” The fan favourite to voice the character of Gargamel seems to be John Lithgow. “Very interesting”, smiles Kerner. “I love John Lithgow”. Gargamel’s back-story is going to be fully examined in the film trilogy. We’ll learn “[more] about Gargamel and Smurf Soup and how all that began and what really goes on in that castle. What his backstory really was. There’s an all-powerful wizard… there’s all sorts of things that get revealed as we go along”.

Moviehole

How cool would that be? 

Roma Downey (Touched By An Angel) has become engaged to marry reality TV super-producer Mark Burnett (The Apprentice, Survivor), Celebrity Week has learned exclusively. The proposal, we hear, took place in Mexico over Thanksgiving weekend. The couple began dating in 2004. No wedding date has been set. The twice-divorced Irish actress, 46, eloped and married actor Leland Orser in Rome in 1987. Her 1996 wedding to Rudy director David Anspaugh – (they have a daughter together, Riley Marie, 10) – was officiated by her friend and co-star Della Reese. Burnett, 46, divorced wife Diane in 2003. They have two sons, James and Cameron.

Celebrity Week 

I wonder how much she will get when they divorce?

In a story unusual even for a soap opera and believed to be a television first, ABC’s “All My Children” this week will introduce a transgender character who is beginning to make the transition from a man into a woman. The character, a flamboyant rock star known as Zarf, kisses the lesbian character Bianca and much drama ensues. The storyline begins with Thursday’s episode of the daytime drama. There have been a handful of post-surgical transgender characters in television shows, including a college professor in the 2001 prime-time CBS series “The Education of Max Bickford” and a model in the short-lived ABC soap opera “The City” in 1996, according to the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation. Showtime’s “The L Word” currently features a character changing from a woman into a man. “All My Children” was looking for something new, and knows its audience is always interested in anything to do with sexuality, said Julie Hanan Carruthers, the show’s executive producer. “After 36 years, you start rehashing,” she said. “It’s inevitable. We didn’t want to fall back on the baby-switch story again.” The show wasn’t interested in doing something just to be sensational, she said. GLAAD and some transgenders were brought in as consultants in shaping the character, teaching the producers when it is appropriate to call a character “she” even before surgery, she said. Damon Romine, a spokesman for GLAAD, said he hasn’t seen the show yet but feels people involved were genuinely interested in telling the story with dignity. Emotions are so close to the surface in soap operas, and this story can serve a purpose by showing what transgenders go through, he said. “I think it’s groundbreaking and breakthrough television for daytime to put a spotlight on transgender people and tell their story,” he said. “All My Children” could use some attention. Mirroring the decline of daytime dramas in general, its average audience has slipped from 8.2 million in 1991-92 to 3.1 million last year, according to Nielsen Media Research. Particularly last summer, “All My Children” has tried several new characters, said Carolyn Hinsey, editor of Soap Opera Weekly. “They’re trying really hard and they’re throwing a whole lot of desperate stuff against the wall to see what sticks,” she said. Actor Jeffrey Carlson portrays Zarf, an American who nonetheless speaks in an exaggerated British accent. He was on the show for one day last summer and was surprised to get a call pitching him the new story. Carlson said it can be intimidating feeling that he is representing the entire transgender community. “I worry about missing something, but I guess that would be the same with any character,” he said. “I want the ‘All My Children’ audience to go along. It’s not for shock value. It’s just another person whose story is being told in Pine Valley.” After Zarf establishes a bond with Bianca that leads to the kiss, an angry Bianca tells him she’s a lesbian. It triggers something within Zarf about why it made such sense to be falling in love with a lesbian. It’s not clear, Carruthers said, whether “All My Children” will stick with the Zarf character through any surgery; one suspects the reaction of the soap’s audience to the story will have a lot to do with it. “She talks about peace so much,” Carlson said of his character. “I hope that she finds some peace.”

MSNBC 

Good for them! AMC has done some really important storylines in the last few years and they have done a good job with them!!!

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