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Britney Spears spent her first night out of UCLA Medical Center at home with her parents.

After leaving the hospital (much to her parents’ dismay), she spent an hour driving around West Hollywood, Beverly Hills and the Pacific Palisades with a bodyguard in her new $50,000 Mercedes.

Puffing on a cigarette, the singer seemed “subdued and not quite as loopy,” an eyewitness tells Usmagazine.com.

She tossed a bodyguard out of her car and then picked up a paparazzo from the x17 photo agency while en route to the Beverly Hills Hotel at 3 p.m. PST.

There, Spears checked into a room and met with attorney Adam Streisand, whom she wants to be her new lawyer.

Her paparazzo beau, Adnan Ghalib, was also also on-hand.

Later that afternoon, Spears and Ghalib went to Streisand’s Century City law offices, but sneaked out of a side entrance to evade the 70 paparazzi and two hovering helicopters. They returned to the Beverly Hills Hotel for a few hours before returning to Spears’ Beverly Hills pad shortly before 9 p.m.

After midnight, Lynne was spotted leaving Spears’ home, but Jamie stayed overnight.
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British singer Amy Winehouse will not perform at the Grammy Awards as planned, because she has been denied a visa to enter the United States, according to a statement Thursday.

inehouse, who is being treated for drug addiction, was invited to the Sunday event in Los Angeles, California, after being nominated in six categories, said the statement from the singer's British publicists.

"Unfortunately, her application for a visa to enter the United States of America has been rejected at this time by the American Embassy in London," the statement said.

"Amy has been progressing well since entering a rehabilitation clinic two weeks ago and although disappointed with the decision, has accepted the ruling and will be concentrating on her recovery.

"Amy has been treated well and fairly by the embassy staff, and thanks every one for their support in trying to make this happen," the statement said. "There will of course be other opportunities and she very much looks forward to visiting America in the near future."

Winehouse entered the rehabilitation clinic January 24 after the leak of a home video that showed her smoking something in a glass pipe, just minutes after she is heard saying she had taken six tablets of the anti-anxiety drug Valium.

The Sun, Britain's best-selling daily tabloid newspaper, made the 19-minute video public, saying it had been shot days earlier at Winehouse's East London home.

In a two-minute portion of the video posted on The Sun's Web site, Winehouse walks around her home in a dark tank top, talks to a friend on her cell phone, and talks to the person shooting the video. At one point, she says, "I just took about six Valium."

Sitting on her bed, she then lights a glass pipe and inhales. What was in the pipe was unknown.

Scotland Yard has said it is looking into the the video after receiving it from The Sun.

Winehouse has become famous for her battles with addiction. Her hit song "Rehab" describes her reluctance to enter a rehabilitation center. She previously entered rehab last summer.

In October, Winehouse and her husband, Blake Fielder-Civil, were arrested at a Norwegian hotel for marijuana possession, and soon afterward fans booed her on stage as she slurred and stumbled her way through her set.

In December, tabloids published pictures of Winehouse with a mystery white powder in her nose. She was also photographed wandering barefoot on a London street, wearing only jeans and a bra and appearing disoriented.

Fielder-Civil is currently behind bars in London on charges of perverting the course of justice following a bar fight.
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Winehouse's parents have publicly expressed concern that their daughter is succumbing to the pressures of fame.

Winehouse's Grammy nominations include record and song of the year for "Rehab" and best album for "Back to Black."
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Call Simon Cowell what you will—heartless critic, closet case, shameless self-promoter—but the true star of American Idol is no dummy. He knows, far better than all of the wannabes he mercilessly flays week after week, that you have to control your own press. His "autobiography," I Don't Mean To Be Rude, But..., is more whitewashed than a pair of '80s jeans. So if all you know about the man is that he possesses hundreds of snarky put-downs, an enormous ego, and too many tight T-shirts, it's because that's all he wants you to know. But there's more, much more. Radar searched far and wide to bring you 50 revealing facts on the Englishman we love to hate. The Cowell who emerges— a Kool-smoking high-school drop out mama's boy with a fondness for strip clubs—has a few minor kinks in his armor.

1. Simon had his first kiss when he was nine and lost his virginity eight years later.
2. Since then, he's slept with 100 or so women by his best guess. "I based my estimate on when I lost my virginity, figured that it was roughly 25 years ago and guessed that I had slept with an average of three to four women a year," he explains.
3. Those women include lap dancer Georgina Law, '80s pop star Sinitta, and current girlfriend and Extra correspondent Terri Seymour.
4. Sinitta, an African American from Seattle, was also Cowell's first client. With just $17,000, they put together a single and video for her song "So Macho," which went on to sell 900,000 copies.
5. Simon turned out to be a less reliable boyfriend than producer. According to Sinitta, he not only cheated on her three times, he made passes at her sister and her best friend and is "incapable of being faithful."
6. Certainly, no relationship has ever curtailed his strip-club habit, which he indulges girlfriend or no, because, shockingly, he "like[s] it."
7. Cowell has forbidden Seymour from asking him questions after 11 p.m. and suggested she get her boobs enlarged.
8. Last summer, British tabloids reported that he had been cheating on Seymour for six months with Jasmine Lennard, a bisexual 21-year-old former coke addict and model.
9. Simon was once approached by a man who said he would pay six figures to have Cowell judge him and his wife in bed. He refused—which he says he regrets.
10. Simon's ex-girlfriend Jackie, whom he dated 19 years ago and refers to as his "best friend in the world," accompanies him on family vacations with his girlfriend, brothers, and mother.
11. When in London, Cowell meets with his mother, Julie, a retired ballet dancer, for lunch twice a week. In 2005, he spent $500,000 on her surprise 80th birthday party.
12. His father, Eric, died in 1999 and was a real estate developer for EMI—where Cowell got his first real job, in the mail room.
13. His many part-time jobs include car cleaner, baby-sitter, caroler, waiter at Elton John's London restaurant, and film set gopher.
14. Bette Davis frequented his childhood home, Abbot's Meade, and Stanley Kubrick eventually purchased it.
15. Simon was suspended from boarding school for four months after being caught drinking—something he started doing at the age of nine, the same age he started smoking. He dropped out of school at 16.
16. Cowell now smokes Kools and says, like a proper control freak, "I've a golden rule, which is to drink only in the evening. I'm never drunk."
17. He left his job at EMI to start a record label, Fanfare, with Iain Burton in his early 20s. He had made almost two million dollars by the time he was 29, but lost it a year later when a buy-out of his company went bad.
18. Simon then followed British record producer and Pop Idol judge Pete Waterman "around like a dog" for two years, learning the business.
19. Eventually he was hired by BMG, making albums for acts like the Teletubbies, the WWF, David Hasselhoff, and the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers.
20. Tamyra Gray is his favorite Idol contestant.
21. To convince two British television actors, Robson and Jerome, to record a track for him, Cowell called the duo every day, three times a day for seven months. Their lawyers threatened legal action, but eventually the actors agreed, and the resulting song became the UK's best-selling single of the '90s.
22. Cowell turned down both the Spice Girls and Take That.
23. His Irish boy band Westlife has sold more than 45 million records.
24. Cowell has produced 25 number one singles and has sold more than 60 million records.
25. He owns an $11 million Victorian townhouse in the Holland Park neighborhood of west London that once belonged to a French ambassador.
26. He bought his L.A. manse on Palm Drive for $8 million, then sunk a few million more into renovations.
27. He has a $2 million villa on Palm Jumeirah island off the coast of Dubai.
28. A housekeeper comes to his house three times a week in London; in L.A. he has a live-in housekeeping couple.
29. He flies back and forth between L.A. and England 30 to 40 times a year.
30. He received a $2 million advance for his autobiography, I Don't Mean To Be Rude, But...
31. His anti-aging cream costs $135 a tube.
32. He sports veneers.
33. He owns no less than 30 black Armani T-shirts. When in L.A., he calls ahead to the Armani store so they can set out clothes in his size, then shops for all the clothing he will need for the next three months in half an hour. The most he's ever spent on pants was $1,000, on—surprise—a pair of Armani slacks.
34. Despite his allegiance to the designer, he's been abused in Britain for wearing extremely high-waisted trousers—and has taken to untucking his shirts as a result.
35. He sleeps in the nude.
36. If stranded on a desert island, Simon, who thinks Bob Dylan is garbage, would want to take Bobby Darin's "Mack the Knife," The Righteous Brothers' "Unchained Melody" and Wayne Newton's "Danke Schoen."
37. The one luxury item he'd take to the island? A mirror, "because I'd miss me."
38. He was sued by Idol co-creator Simon Fuller after X Factor appeared on British TV featuring Simon and Sharon Osbourne as co-hosts. The only difference between X Factor and Idol is that the former has no age restrictions. They recently settled the suit, with Fuller reportedly winning 20 percent of The X Factor
39. American Idol was turned down by every network before getting picked up by Fox—only because Elizabeth Murdoch told her father Rupert it was good.
40. He only reads tabloids.
41. He arrives at work around noon.
42. He drives a Rolls Royce, when he's not driving his Ferrari or Bentley.
43. Supposedly 5'9", he sports shoes with enormous heels.
44. Outside his office door there is a cardboard cutout from his turn on The Simpsons.
45. Cowell says the most "personal touch" in his London home, where he never entertains, is that it's "uncluttered." No surprise then that it's modern and minimalist with a grey, beige and black color scheme, and only a Picasso sketch on the wall.
46. His bookshelves brim with Ken Follett, Clinton's autobiography, and Hip Hotels guides.
47. If he could invite anyone, living or dead, to a dinner party, he would have Sinatra, Bill Clinton, and Natalie Wood.
48. Cowell was bullied as a child, and he allowed five British children who'd also been harassed to visit his office, reassuring them, "It happened to me and my friends, too.... But it's the people who are picked on that are the cool ones."
49. Growing up, he had an enormous afro and mustache, and regularly performed before a mirror—wearing only a towel—singing into a hair brush.
50. Cowell pays more than $41,000,000 per year in income tax, suggesting that his taxable annual income is over $100,000,000.
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Vapid model Kimora Lee Simmons can do more than marry a rap mogul and plan a trip to Africa to "talk about fabulosity:" She is also identified by Scientology as a key lieutenant in the church's campaign against psychiatry. In a clip posted to YouTube yesterday, creepy church MC David Miscavige said Scientology planned to "smart bomb" and "booby trap" the profession of psychiatry with a "diabolical" media campaign. Simmons' role? Indoctrinate underaged African American boys into Scientology by funneling booklets into inner-citiy neighborhoods on both coasts. At least, that's how Miscavige presents it, but then he also claims to have planted stories in virtually every newspaper and TV network, from the New York Times to Fox News. Videos after the jump.

Though she does not speak on video, Kimora Lee Simmons is depicted as an inner-city Scientology evangelist for 12-18 year olds. The video then claims Coca-Cola, Philips and Dell, and 7-11 help spread the anti-psychiatry message as well in various countries outside the U.S.. (54 seconds)
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Heath Ledger's family plans to bid a final farewell to the actor at a spot he cherished, according to reports.

Per the West Australian newspaper, the family will hold a private wake Saturday at a Colonial-style waterfront restaurant at Cottesloe Beach, a resort village south of Ledger's hometown of Perth.

Following the service, Ledger is expected to be buried in a family plot next to two of his grandparents.

Among those expected to attend the funeral are Ledger's onetime fiancée, Michelle Williams, and their two-year-old daughter, Matilda, his Brokeback Mountain costar Jake Gyllenhaal and rumored love interest Gemma Ward.

Since returning from their trip to the United States to collect the actor's remains, relatives have reportedly been holed up at the home of Ledger's mother, Sally Ledger-Bell, where two bouquets of red orchids were delivered Thursday.

Allen Carpenter, the premier of Western Australia, urged the media to respect the family's privacy.

"The family have been thrust into the spotlight, obviously in the worst of all circumstances," he said. "I think the Ledger family should [have] the right to some privacy.

"One of the great things that Heath Ledger was able to reflect upon was that when he came back to Western Australia, it was a haven where he could just walk around like a normal citizen," Carpenter added.

Ledger's body was discovered Jan. 22 in his Manhattan apartment by a masseuse with whom he had booked an appointment.

The cause of death was ruled to be an accidental overdose of prescription medications.
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It's hardly a titanic struggle, but a dispute between Leonardo DiCaprio and his neighbors isn't departing anytime soon.

DiCaprio and the cousin from whom he rents a house are suing dozens of building contractors in an ongoing legal fight over a basketball court that neighbors claim destabilized their Hollywood Hills property.

The cross-complaint filed Jan. 30 lists contractors hired by the neighbors and by DiCaprio and cousin Robert Hrtica themselves.

Neighbors Joan and Robert Linclau sued DiCaprio and Hrtica in May for at least $250,000 in damages. They claimed their property was illegally excavated and some plants removed in 2004. They also said the work undermined a slope behind their home and left their deck and pool in danger of collapse.

The latest complaint from DiCaprio says the Linclaus' lawsuit has no merit, but if damages are found then the contractors are to blame.

Phone messages left after business hours to attorneys for the two sides and to the central contractor named in the suit were not immediately returned.

Previous court papers filed by DiCaprio contend the Linclaus may have caused the problems by installing an "illegal railroad tie retaining wall."
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Do not, repeat, do not, believe anyone who claims that the writers strike is over yet. (Like the sign says in photos taken by Jim Stevenson from today's WGA picket at Disney Studios.) Here is what informed sources are telling me as to the WGA's plans for the next few days...

The WGA leadership is hoping to finish tonight or early tomorrow drafting the language of the deal they've negotiated with the moguls. ("Our friends at the DGA didn't leave us language that could serve as a template. In fact, the DGA has no language beyond what was in their press release because they figured they had until June to work it out," an insider tells me.)

Then the WGA intends to email to members and/or post on the WGA.org website that language so the members will have an opportunity to digest it before Saturday's meetings.

Saturday, the WGA West membership meets at the Shrine Auditorium and the WGA East convenes at the Crown Plaza Hotel in Times Square for a definitive informational confab with the leadership. (A guild phone bank has been making calls to members today urging them to attend.) The WGA governing bodies intend to "take the temperature" and "get a sense of the room" at this time. There'll be lots of open mike time "where people can say whatever they want," I'm told. Everyone anticipates these will be very long and very contentious meetings on both coasts.

On Sunday (not Monday, as some thought), the WGAW Board and the WGAE Council both meet and will have to vote to approve any tentative deal before it goes to a membership vote. So, the WGA's Negotiating Committee, WGAW Board and WGAE Council all must approve the contract before any decision on a strike can be made. Board members tell me that, since the WGA governing bodies were authorized by the membership to call the strike, then those bodies are authorized to call it off. As I've reported previously, the moguls have insisted that the WGAW and WGAE governing bodies call off the strike before the membership ever formally votes on the contract, apparently so the CEOs, especially Disney chief Bob Iger, can count on an unpicketed and well-attended Academy Awards in 16 days.

I'm told that one of the purposes of Saturday's informational meetings is for the governing boards to decide whether the membership will approve the contract or not. This, insiders say, will determine if the bigwigs call off the strike or not.

Once the governing bodies recommend the contract and call off the strike, then procedures will kick in to send out ballots to the membership on both coasts to vote on the contract.

Of course, some snafus may occur. For instance, I'm told that if no draft language is ready in time for Saturday, "it's a very different ballgame".
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