After wrapping his latest film, Hancock, Will Smith gave the set crew cards redeemable for a personality test at the local Scientology center.

Kate Winslet has filled the role recently vacated by Nicole Kidman in Scott Rudin’s forthcoming film The Reader.

Thanks to the canceled Golden Globes this year, L.A.’s economy stands to lose $75 to $100 million.

Director Julian Schnabel wore pajamas to the Critics Choice Awards on Monday, where Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie were able to sneak Heinekens from the “closed” bar.

A Miami gallery owner, who designed the logo for Nicky Hilton’s clothing line, says Ms. Hilton failed to hold up her end of the bargain.

Bill Maher was seen getting “several lap dances” at Scores East strip club.

L.A. socials Francesca Cecil and Brittny Gastineau were seen fighting over Andrew Freston, 23, son of former Viacom chief.

Jamie Lynn Spears is apparently “gaga” over the Juno soundtrack.

Joey Buttafuco says he’s “[bleep]ing furious” over his sex tape, which is being released this week.

Power publicist Lizzie Grubman claims she’s been hounded by “every single candidate” for money and help.

Another employee of Michael Shvo, vice president of sales Tali Geva, has just quit.

Some five years after producer Julius Nasso pleaded guilty to trying to extort money from Steven Seagal, the two men have made up.

Burlesque star Dita Von Teese is suing dominatrix Cynthia Butler for allegedly stealing her half of the rights to a film she made.

Comics David Cross and Patton Oswalt are feuding over Mr. Cross’ decision to take a part in the Alvin and the Chipmunks movie.  read more »

To keep her kids away from the paparazzi, Reese Witherspoon sends them to the set of her new movie well in advance.

Norman Mailer once wrote US immigration officials a letter recommending Tina Brown be given a green card.

A new “behind-the-scenes” Sex and the City book may be in the works.

Mary Jo Buttafuco is extremely displeased with all the attention Amy Fisher has been seeking and getting for her new sex tape.  read more »

Nicole Kidman, rumored to be pregnant, had dropped out of Stephen Daldry’s drama The Reader, which was supposed to begin shooting this month.

Friends of Paul McCartney say the former Beatle has been battling heart problems for years.

Sarah Jessica Parker will host a screening of Today’s Man tonight at the Tribeca Grand.

Hollywood is scrambling to figure out what to do without writers for Awards Season.

Lots of celebs are hanging out on Harbour Island: Drew Barrymore and Justin Long; Cameron Diaz; Richard Gere; Thom Filicia; and Uma Thurman and Arpad Busson.

Maxim has poached a top editor from OK!.

Longtime couple Norah Jones and Lee Alexander broke up recently.

A company is planning to make neckties with John Lennon’s paintings on them.

CNBC’s Erin Burnett is turned on by men who can plan trips to Mongolia, Mozambique or Papua New Guinea.

Ann Coulter is no longer dating Andrew Stein.

When Shaquille O’Neal stays at the Marriott in South Beach, many women leave his hotel room.

Gus Wenner, son of publishing mogul Jann, was accepted early to Brown.

Nicollette Sheridan and fiancé Michael Bolton were difficult guests at a St. Barts resort.  read more »

Cops were called to Britney Spears’ home last night to handle custody dispute. 

In Denzel Washington’s new film, The Great Debaters, dialogue among student orators that is meant to be fact-based is not.

Mischa Barton may have arranged to have the paparazzi photograph her walking out of an L.A. church wearing white, carrying a parish brochure.

Amy Fisher will deejay a party tonight promoting her hard-core sex video. 

Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthony are expecting twins—friends of the couple are shopping for one girl and one boy. 

Jay-Z is stepping down as the head of Def Jam records because the position didn’t pay him enough. 

Jeffrey Epstein’s court date has been pushed back to March. 

Avril Lavigne almost cried at a New Year’s Eve party when Lil’ Jon stole the mic and the spotlight. 

Kim Kardashian’s friends keep insisting that she is marrying Reggie Bush.

Comedian Chris Rock brought the house down with laughs and applause at his sold-out New Year’s Eve performance at MSG.

Lindsay Lohan’s finances are not so hot right now.

White-shoe lawyers for Britney Spears quit yesterday, apparently because of a “breakdown in communication.”

Diane Keaton doesn’t mind being older and unmarried.

Wyclef Jean got carried away on a live MTV show and invited “everybody” to his Saddle River, NJ, home for New Year’s.

After Dina Lohan learned that Lindsay’s ex, Riley Giles, sold his story to Britain’s News of the World, she called his mother.

In a relatively major procedure, Paul McCartney had his clogged arteries cleared last fall, his rep confirmed.

ABC anchor Bob Woodruff has recovered completely after being wounded by a bomb in Iraq two years ago.

Former Dawson’s Creek actor Joshua Jackson forced guests to leave the penthouse suite at the Soho Grand on New Year's Eve.

Musician Pete Wentz told a videographer at a New Year’s party that he wanted his girlfriend, Ashlee Simpson, to practice the countdown so she wouldn’t “[bleep] it up.”

Director Ang Lee had trouble shooting the sex scene in his new film; it took him two weeks to do.

The US publication of Lady Colin Campbell’s roman-a-clef is sure to displease Lily Safra.

Pamela Anderson was seen in Vegas with her ex-boyfriend, who is only 5’ 5”.

The “Jints”—a fake football team in I Am Legend—and the New England Patriots are in “separate conferences,” so they couldn’t play one another as the film suggests.  read more »

The Box owner Simon Hammerstein: “[Bleep] Ashton and Demi, they are so up their own arses.”

Mischa Barton’s ex, Cisco Adler, thinks she looks hot in her mug shot.

Lindsay Lohan made out with three different men in the course of one day in Capri.

Robert Kennedy, Jr., may be Vladimir Putin's newest eco-adviser.

On New Year’s Eve, Britney Spears spent the day and night with her two sons, a court-appointed monitor and her new boyfriend.

If so inclined, hotel guests may now meet the Ritz staffer who served Henri Paul drinks before he drove the car that killed Princess Diana.

Jimmy Fallon used to want to be a priest; now he’s married.

Turns out conservative billionaire Richard Mellon Scaife, who once wanted to oust Bill Clinton from office, actually likes the former president.

Model Rie Rasmussen is directing her first feature film, a drama about her adopted Vietnamese sister.

Kristi Schiller, a.k.a. Lucy Lipps, wants to sneak aboard Microsoft mogul Paul Allen’s huge yacht, currently moored next to her hosts’, and force him to fix her frozen computer.

Since Steven Spielberg is directing a biopic about Abbie Hoffman, the director might want to call Bob Fass, who has many taped interviews with Mr. Hoffman.

Dave Chappelle and his wife, Elaine, got into a spat at Union Square Coffee Shop, caused according to one report because the comedian flirted with a model in front of his children.

DJ AM, a.k.a. Adam Goldstein, reveals to Glamour magazine that his life has not always been easy.

Things are super down in Palm Beach, where a new bar for thirsty dogs has just opened.  read more »

Will Leitch has penned a tell-all, God Save the Fan, which reveals scandals involving ESPN anchors.

Heather Mills threw a $60,000 New Year’s party, which reportedly included personal remote controls for the guests and fireworks.

Sting sucks on the toes of his wife, Trudie Styler.

Mischa Barton was so difficult to deal with at the opening of a Las Vegas club, the proprietors were happy to hear about her DUI bust.

At the opening of Jay-Z’s new 40/40 nightclub, in Las Vegas, the rapper partied with Mary J. Blige, Alan Thicke and LeBron James.

New York Ranger Brendan Shanahan just nabbed a $13.44 million condo on Park Ave.

Actresses Laura Linney and Daryl Hannah like getting older.

Drinking booze and frequenting strip clubs helped Erik Lindsay make his American Pie sequel films.

Singer Travis McCoy of the Gym Glass Heroes will leave Brooklyn for a one-bedroom pad in Murray Hill.

Adam Sandler, David Spade and Kevin James celebrated Judd Apatow’s birthday at The Bank at Las Vegas’ Bellagio.  read more »

Well-knowns like Philip Glass, Anderson Cooper and Amy Sacco recount nightmare New Year’s Eve tales.

Sean McEnroe, son of tennis legend John and actress Tatum O’Neal, threw a tantrum when he wasn’t let into Pink Elephant nightclub.

When Mary-Louise Parker had dinner in the West Village the other night with sometime lover Jeffrey Dean Morgan, she was overheard trashing one of her Weeds co-stars.

Kate Moss’ rep was appalled by the mere suggestion the supermodel be a guest on Web show LateNet with Ray Ellin.

Before Beyoncé performs somewhere, she demands “"juicy baked chicken legs heavily seasoned with fresh garlic, seasoned salt, and black and cayenne pepper;” singer Eve, on the other hand, requires “there be no use of Styrofoam or plastic goods, no leather furniture, and only recyclable materials."

Eliot Spitzer’s daughter, Elyssa, has no intention of going into law.

When Lauren Bacall recently arrived at midtown restaurant '21,' she rasped: “When was the last time you people polished my plaque?”

Ivana Trump and fiancé Rossano Rubicondi are spending New Year’s in Aspen.

In New York, New Year’s Eve parties will be hosted by John Legend and Scott Weiland; Federico Castelluccio, Paul Sorvino, Jerry Masucci and Chazz Palminteri; and Kevin Dillion.

Bigwig residents of Chelsea apartment building are fed up with construction noise coming from new Wyndham Hotel next door.

Jenna Fischer, star of Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story, gets a tad racy on her MySpace blog.

ANTM winner Saleisha Stowers learned about family values from her grandmother.  read more »

Film producer Jon Peters has been slapped with two sexual-harassment lawsuits. [Page Six]

Jessica Simpson’s new film, Blonde Ambition, took in a whopping $1,322 on its opening weekend. [Page Six]

Russian heiress Anna Anisimova’s onetime fiancé, David Weisser, moved all his stuff out of the houses they shared. [Page Six]

Producers of Ryan Phillippe and Abbie Cornish’s new film, Stop-Loss, would rather focus publicity on the film than on the couple’s 2006 fling. [Page Six]

Former NBA star Manute Bol will hold a rally in Des Moines on New Year’s Day, demanding that the presidential candidates address the genocide in Darfur. [Page Six]

When Giorgio Armani showed up at the Armani Exchange in Soho, all hell broke loose. [Page Six]

A woman rumored to have slept with Prince Philip in the late 1940s, when Queen Elizabeth was pregnant, has now died. [Page Six]

Vanessa and Donald Trump, Jr., will celebrate their December birthdays tonight at classy Miami club Mansion. [Page Six]  read more »

Lindsay Lohan spent Christmas Eve at Entourage star Adrian Grenier’s Brooklyn pad. [Page Six]

Leonardo DiCaprio and Bar Refaeli have rekindled their romance. [Gatecrasher]

Many celebrities spent the holidays in hot and luxe locales; in St. Barts alone: Padma Lakshmi and financier Teddy Forstmann; Nicolette Sheridan and Michael Bolton; Ronald Perelman; Terrence Howard; Donny Deutsch and others. [Page Six]

To avoid paying a parking ticket, Drew Barrymore and boyfriend Justin Long chased down the parking cop who slapped one on their Vespa. [Page Six]

David Beckham said he has no problem with men checking him out; he’s honored to be a gay icon. [Page Six]  read more »