Hef's Twins Love Bottom Feeders  —  Does something smell like rotting fish to you?  —  Just one year before they found their 82-year-old meal ticket and moved into the Playboy Mansion, 19-year-old twins Karissa and Kristina Shannon, were attached to a colder, deader creature — this prize winning red snapper!

GOLLY, PALIN TO PLAY HERSELF ON ‘SNL’  —  SOCCER moms and Joe Sixpacks, listen up.  Get your beer, mooseburgers and caribou dips ready.  Sarah Palin is doing “Saturday Night Live.”  Not Tina Fey doing Sarah Palin doing “Saturday Night Live.”  But the Sarah Herself.  She has already OK'd it.

“Austin Powers” Star Charged in Gang Rape  —  TMZ has learned the actor who played Random Task in the first “Austin Powers” movie has been charged with a vicious gang rape.  —  Joe Son's arrest has been all over newspapers in the O.C., but no one connected the dots — that the suspect is actually Dr. Evil's henchman — until now.

SHE'S THE BOSS  —  MADONNA is a demanding diva even to her peers.  The Swedish pop star Robyn was psyched when the Material Mom invited her to open for a handful of her European concerts but quickly found out there are rules.  Robyn told her hometown Swedish paper that she and her crew were told …

Katie Holmes wants to settle down in NY while Tom Cruise prefers LA  —  Katie Holmes had her first taste of freedom on the stage in NY and she's not quite ready to give it up yet.  She may have banished her mother in law and Tom's sister to the Scientology Celebrity Centre but it seems she'd prefer …

Lindsay Lohan ‘receives vicious threats’  —  Actress assigned police guard for protection  —  Lindsay Lohan is reported to have turned to LA police after becoming the victim of vile abuse.  —  The actress, who is currently the close companion of DJ Samantha Ronson, 31 …

Avril Lavigne's marriage in trouble as husband parties with other women  —  Avril and Deryck out at Koi on 8/22/08.  Credit: Fame Pictures  —  Avril Lavigne's two year marriage to fellow Canadian musician Deryck Whibley, 28, might be in trouble.  While his 24 year-old wife is on tour Deryck …

Angelina Jolie Hints She Supports Barack Obama  —  Could Angelina Jolie be voting for Barack Obama this fall?  —  “Obama is fighting for international justice, he wants to intervene militarily in genocides abroad, and he wants to close down Guantanamo Bay,” she tells the German edition of Vanity Fair.

How Motherhood Has Domesticated Nicole Richie  —  Look who's handy in the kitchen now: Nicole Richie!  —  “Food tastes better coming from your Mom because it's made with love,” says the new mom, 27.  So Richie purees steamed vegetables to make homemade baby food for the couple's 9-month old daughter, Harlow Winter Kate Madden.

Robert Downey Jr. as Sherlock Holmes — FIRST PICTURES  —  Here are the very first pictures of Robert Downey Jr. filming Sherlock Holmes on Friday, currently filming in Central London.  —  When asked what he could bring to a character portrayed countless times on film and television …

Pop Tarts: Audrina Patridge the Target of High School Bullies  —  LOS ANGELES — If you thought “The Hills” was filled with too much bitching and backstabbing, it's nothing compared to what starlet Audrina Patridge experienced growing up in the Orange County town of Placentia, Calif.

Eva Mendes hates comparison to Jennifer Lopez  —  Hollywood actress Eva Mendes has lashed out at comparisons to fellow Latina Jennifer Lopez, insisting her career is “more serious”.  —  The We Own The Night beauty has made a name for herself in Hollywood with roles in box office blockbusters …

Christina Applegate Is ‘Ready to Hug Again’  —  Christina Applegate has been bravely outspoken about her battle with breast cancer.  But, the Samantha Who? star reveals, she wasn't always so forthcoming.  —  “I went back to work for about five weeks right after the second surgery,” Applegate tells Ellen DeGeneres on Friday's show.

Accused John Cusack stalker accepts plea deal  —  LOS ANGELES - A woman accused of stalking John Cusack accepted a plea deal Friday that will allow her to avoid state prison.  —  Emily Leatherman pleaded no contest to a felony count of stalking Cusack.  A judge immediately sentenced …

Rebecca Mader joins ‘Goats’ herd  —  Joins George Clooney, Ewan McGregor in cast  —  Rebecca Mader, best known for playing scheming redhead Charlotte on ABC's “Lost,” is in final negotiations for the lead female role in “Men Who Stare at Goats,” the George Clooney- and Grant Heslov-produced adaptation of the book by Jon Ronson.

Alien lizards set to invade ABC in ‘V’  —  '4400's' Scott Peters to write sci-fi adaptation  —  The 1980s miniseries ‘V,’ in which aliens invaded Earth, served as an allegory for the Holocaust and Nazi Germany.

Soap Opera Legend Eileen Herlie Dies  —  NEW YORK -Eileen Herlie, a stage and TV actress who appeared on “All My Children” for more than three decades as the motherly Myrtle Fargate, has died at 90.  —  Herlie died Wednesday of pneumonia, said Julie Hanan Carruthers, the ABC soap opera's executive producer.

X17 XCLUSIVE - Joel Does Daddy Duty!  —  Carrying a chic black leather diaper bag, Joel Madden got a little one-on-one time with adorable baby Harlow yesterday.  —  Well, one-on-one if you don't count his shaved-headed companion.  —  Harlow, in her frilly white dress, looked extremely comfortable in her tattooed father's arms.