LINDSAY LO-DOWN  —  IT'S once nude, twice shy for Lindsay Lohan.  The Sapphic-leaning star has turned down a $700,000 offer to do an eight-page topless spread in Playboy's 55th-anniversary issue this January.  “If there's nudity, then the answer's no . . . She's not going down the [New York] …

Columbia calls up new ‘Ghostbusters’  —  Eisenberg, Stupnitsky to write reunion film  —  Columbia Pictures is getting serious about scaring up a new installment of its blockbuster “Ghostbusters” franchise.  —  The studio has set “The Office” co-exec producers Lee Eisenberg and Gene Stupnitsky …

T.I., Christina Aguilera, Kid Rock Announce VMA Plans  —  Kid Rock to perform with Lil Wayne!  —  HOLLYWOOD — There are press conferences, and then there are press conferences.  The difference between the two is a lot greater than just some lousy italics.

Top Model's Nigel Barker: We're Having a Girl!  —  America's Next Top Model judge Nigel Barker will welcome his own little catwalker this winter.  —  He tells Usmagazine.com that he and wife, model Christen Chin Barker, are having a girl.  —  “We found out it's going to be a little girl …

Cindy McCain's $300,000 Outfit  —  One of the persistent memes in the Republican line of attack against Barack Obama is the notion that he is an elitist, whereas the G.O.P. represent real working Americans like Levi “F-in' Redneck” Johnston.  —  It caught our attention, then …

Britney's mum tells all on her daughter  —  TROUBLED BRITNEY SPEARS began boozing aged 13, lost her virginity at 14, then started taking drugs at 15, according to a shocking tell-all book by her mum.  —  Wild child Britney allegedly first hit the bottle after joining Disney's squeaky-clean Mickey Mouse Club.

Eva Mendes: “I'm Big on Therapy”  —  Eva Mendes is one happy camper.  —  “I'm big on therapy,” Mendes told me yesterday.  “I've always said I love talking about therapy, because there's nothing wrong with it.  Why wait until something goes terrible in your life to start fixing things?”

Jesse Jackson checks into hospital  —  THE REV. Jesse L. Jackson has checked into Northwestern Memorial Hospital reportedly with severe gastric distress and undergoing tests.  Get well soon.  —  BRISTOL PALIN, the 17-year-old pregnant and unwed daughter of Sarah Palin …

“Paris, Not France” — almost not Toronto, either  —  Even before she arrives for the Toronto film festival, the business of being Paris Hilton has rolled into town.  —  Hilton made headlines on the first day of the Toronto International Film Festival when the New York Post's Page Six reported …

Mary-Kate Olsen cheats on boyfriend with Jonah Hill  —  Yesterday I mentioned that there are some couplings that are just so beyond the realm of psychological comprehension that our brains actually block them out.  Then we were talking about Michael Jackson and Pamela Anderson.

Shia LaBeouf Pal: ‘I Have His Back’  —  It's been a rough summer for Indiana Jones star Shia LaBeouf, who crushed his hand in a car accident resulting in his arrest on suspicion of drunk driving.  But don't count him out, says a pal.  —  “He's been through a lot, he's had a hard life, and he grew up with some scars.

Rumer Willis' Bruce blame  —  Rumer Willis blames her father Bruce for her angular jaw.  —  The 20-year-old star - the daughter of ‘Die Hard 4.0’ star Bruce and his ex-wife Demi Moore - can't stand her unusually large chin, and thinks she inherited it from her dad.

Lohans Bury Hatchet With Family Funeral  —  Jemal Countess/Getty Images; Jeff Frank/ZumaPress.com  —  Despite a brief, and quite public, war of words, it seems that all is once again well in the Lohan household.  Or at least on its way to being so.  —  Lindsay Lohan's father, Michael …

Beyonce: Gaining 20 Pounds “So Much Fun”  —  For her role as Etta James in the upcoming drama Cadillac Records, Beyonce Knowles had to pack on 20 pounds.  —  See photos of Beyonce as Etta - and other celebs who played real people in movies.  —  Gaining weight “was so much fun,” …