They must not have made a lot of progress on The Simpson’s Movie, because this second trailer for the film is just like the first one with a stupid throwaway introduction of Mel narrating while a bunny hops around. The new part at the end is not that promising, and just shows Bart and Homer working on the roof while Homer hurts himself. Hysterical.

The old trailer was equally dumb, with a clip of Homer getting stuck between a rock and a hard place. It doesn’t matter what crap they put out, though, this movie will be wildly popular and I know I’ll go to see it.

- Britney’s people put out another “personal” message on her website, saying she “gets it” and “the media has been exaggerating my every move.” Exaggerating your four separate crotch-baring incidents and constant nights out, you mean? Yeah, all that was blown way out of proportion. [Seriously? OMG! WTF?]
- Jive records says they’re not dumping Britney Spears and that her album will come out in the middle of the year [I'm Not Obsessed]
- Britney is so pretty [Egotastic]
- The porn industry is having a slump, but MILFs remain popular [Agent Bedhead]
- James Brown’s girlfriend is batshit crazy [Rhymes with Snitch]
- Paris Hilton substitutes monkeys for men, says she’s “normal sized” and likes to eat [CelebSlam]
- Jessica Alba in yet another bikini [The Blemish]
- Nice Leonardo DiCaprio interview [ecorazzi]
- Nicole Richie consulted a shaman about her bad “luck” [Junkiness]
- Beyonce says she can’t pee in public bathrooms because people bother her too much [Metadish]
- Hillary Swank and Patrick Dempsey at the premiere of their new film [Socialite's Life]
- The hot lesbian from The O.C., Olivia Wilde, is now a brunette [Bastardly]
- Scarlet Johansson named the most beautiful celebrity of all time [Popoholic]
- Hugh Laurie’s House audition tape [Wampoon]
- Jabba the billionaire [Pretty on the Outside]
- Lilly Allen’s dog was kidnapped and held for ransom, but she’s got it back now after paying the kidnapper [CelebWarship]
- Scott Stapp and his wife had a baby daughter, want you to forget all about that sex tape and the public drunkenness [Glitterati]
- Mary Carey vs. Mariah Carey [CityRag]
- The first video off Jennifer Lopez’s new Spanish-language album [Mollygood]
- Wentworth Miller says he’s not gay [Hollywood Rag]
- Adrienne Curry is stacked [Hollywood Tuna]
- Florida woman runs around Walmart setting fire to merchandise with her cigarette [White Trash Mom]
- Billy Corrigan and Courtney Love are hanging out together [DListed]

Will Smith got his start rapping in the late 80s as part of the rap duo DJ Jazzy Jeff and The Fresh Prince. He launched his acting career in the early 90s sitcom The Fresh Prince of Bel Air. Smith’s last album was his 2005 solo work “Lost and Found” with the hit single “Switch.”

He’s now a big box office star and is moving on. Smith suggest he may close the door on his music career and tells Star Magazine that he’s passing the torch to his 17 year-old nephew:

Q: Are we ever going to hear you rap again?
I have a 17 year-old nephew who just started rapping, and he told me it’s time to hang it up. He’ll take it for the family from here.

[From Star Magazine print edition, January 8, 2007]

Smith doesn’t explicitly say that he’ll never rap again, just that his nephew told him not to, so maybe he’ll just take a break for a while and come back.

I remember my friends and I reciting all the lyrics to “Parents Just Don’t Understand.” Here’s the video:

And here’s his last hit single, Switch:

Smith is a talented rapper and I love his pop hip hop style. It seems to me like he’ll get back to music after a break like most other musicians that say they’re finished. I know Jay-Z’s retirement didn’t last long.

Smith currently stars in The Pursuit of Happyness with his son, Jaden.

Claire Danes and Billy Crudup both ditched their partners of seven years to shack up together after they met while filming the movie Stage Beauty in London. Most people disapproved of their relationship because Crudup’s longterm girlfriend, actress Mary Louise Parker, was seven months pregnant when he left her. Now the word is that these two cheaters have ended their three year relationship.

Acting couple Claire Danes and Billy Crudup have reportedly ended their three-year romance after splitting just before Christmas (06).

American publication In Touch reports the romance went sour when Danes started talking about marriage.

The couple hooked up in 2003 after Crudup left his heavily pregnant girlfriend Mary-Louise Parker to court the Shopgirl star.

What a shame. Billy Crudup plays an evil bastard in the super-boring Good Shepherd and has the movie Dedication coming out next year. Claire Danes has three films coming out in 2007 after a brief hiatus in 2006.

Thanks to ecorazzi for alerting us to this pretty slick website claiming to offer autographed, mounted pubes from A, B, and C list celebrities to order with the proceeds to benefit charity. They claim to be an “international PR agency” but don’t provide a name. It looks like they’re pulling a Glam Network and are trying to get buyers before they have sellers since there are no celebrities mentioned, but the site is well designed and well written, which convinces easily-influenced celebrity-focused designers like me. They have a countdown clock claiming they’re going to reveal celebrity donors in just nine days. (Is Minnie Driver one of them? I hear she lives in a trailer park and from the looks of her bikini line she’s shed some hair down there recently.)

Ecorazzi says it’s either a joke or an actual charity campaign. I’m thinking it’s a bit of both:

OK, you see what I mean? It looks reasonably legit. Then again, it could also be an elaborate joke of either a.) a very experienced and bored graphic/web designer or b.) a celebrity with a little too much time and money on their hands. I mean, seriously, there has been so much celebrity charity stories lately, that someone might be taking the mickey out on us. (and yes, British slang is appropriate here.) Anyways, 200 Euros will get you ULTRA CELEBRITY STAR PUBES (think David Beckham), 70 Euros will get you B-List Celeb Pubes (think Mario Lopez or Lindsay Lohan), and 60 Euros will land you with some C-List Love (think Screech from Saved By The Bell or Paris Hilton).As the site promotes, “All profits go into selected charity organisations and become an important part of making the world a better place. In short: We turn Hair into Care. It sounds dumb, but it is smart.”

This reminds me of that scene in Richard Linklater’s Slacker in which a chick went around claiming to have a Madonna pap smear with a real pubic hair. My perpetually-stoned college friends convinced me to watch it and I was not dissapointed.

I’ll be watching that site to see which celebrities are donating their pubes. Most of them won’t have many to go around, if the crotch shots I’ve seen are any indication.

Splash News took this video of Lindsay Lohan walking out of the hospital the day after her supposed appendix surgery. TMZ posted the video and they say it’s a miracle that’s she walking and didn’t she heal quickly? She looks like she’s walking fine to me and doesn’t walk gingerly or anything. People are going to say it brings her story into doubt, and that she had some other reason for going into the hospital.

Word is that Lohan hasn’t attended an AA meeting since the beginning of December and that she’s been drinking vodka out of water bottles to make it look like she’s staying sober. All these rumors about Lohan coupled with her trying to hide as she nonchalantly strolled out of the hospital make it seem like she needed a medical intervention for some other reason.

My aunt had her appendix removed recently, and she was kept in the hospital for two days. She says she could walk the next day, but wasn’t as steady on her feet as Lindsay seems in this video. She wasn’t 20 at the time, though, so who knows about Lindsay?

Update: commentors on Oh No They Didn’t! are saying that if Lohan had a less invasive form of appendectomy she could be out walking in a day without a problem. It’s easy to believe the worst about her given her history.

Renee Zellwegger, who we don’t see a lot of in the gossip news apart from her spectacularly failed marriage, has a new interview in Time. She’s guarded, vague and well-spoken in her comments but it’s clear that she’s having difficultly coming to terms with fame and has trouble with all of the constant speculation about her private life. She doesn’t sound like a happy person. It seems like she would rather bury herself in her work and stay home than go out shopping for designer crap and eat at the best restaurants and have everyone talk about her.

She said that she just got through the days last year and when asked about the hardest part of her year she almost starts to cry:

LIFE: In your new movie, Beatrix Potter best expresses herself through the characters she created, like Peter Rabbit and Flopsy Bunny. How do you best express yourself?
ZELLWEGER: Oh, I don’t know. I’m not a performer. I don’t want to hop up on a stage and go “Look at me! I’m Renée! What do you think?” That’s not me. What I do is very different. If I want to express something, it’s through the filter of a character. So I never feel exposed.

LIFE: You made the movie in a very difficult part of your life last year.
ZELLWEGER: It was important for me to make this film—going to work and being with my friends, getting through the days.

LIFE: What was the hardest part about 2006 for you?
ZELLWEGER: Well, I’m sure that if you buy groceries, you might have read something about it. It’s not on the top of my favorite things that have ever happened. [Her eyes well up] I’m not a superficial person. I don’t care about what’s on the grocery-store shelves. That’s just salt in the wound. But it’s not a television show. I lived it. It’s a very sad experience for anyone to go through, and it’s not fun when people decide that it’s a lovely thing to capitalize on. But you’re oblivious to that because you are living the reality of the experience—which is devastating.

LIFE: Are you two still friends?
ZELLWEGER: I’ll tell you that I was saddened. I’ll tell you that it took . . . it’s, it’s not something I could reason away. It’s something that I’ll live through, but I don’t want to talk about it beyond that because it matters to me.

LIFE: But is there anything that you feel you need to change about your life in the coming year?
ZELLWEGER: Yes. I need to find a way to manage the things that are very difficult for me in terms of fame. I need to find a way to have more grace in certain situations. I’m not good at the majority of things that come with celebrity. I like my job. I don’t mind getting up at three in the morning on the Isle of Man, working in a cowshed that smells like poo. I’m okay with 16-hour days. I’m okay with living out of my suitcase. I am not good at the commodification of me as a person—it’s dehumanizing. I’m not good at it because my values are different than that, and so I’m disappointed by it. But it’s not my place to be disappointed by it. I need to find a way to be okay with those things.

LIFE: Is it a question of trying to distance yourself from it? To care less about what’s written about you?
ZELLWEGER: It’s hard to not care. It takes a long time to realize the only way to win is to resign yourself to losing, because then you lose less. Because you are going to lose. There are going to be people who capitalize on your losses, on your sadness, and they’ll create it. I expect that if I have a personal crisis, somebody is going to sell magazines because of it. I expect that there will be paparazzi in the street. It’s the other side of fame. I’ve seen stories where people speculate about what it is that [you're] saying based on your body language. It’s incredible to me that that’s where our society has gone.

When asked about what she looks forward to this year she says Leatherheads, a new movie she’ll be filming with George Clooney.

She almost makes me feel guilty for gossiping about celebrities all day. She seems to hate the personal price of fame and tries to avoid it, perhaps at the cost of a personal life. Having people make up shit based on your body language is what goes along with those multi-million dollar paychecks for a few months work. At least that’s what I tell myself so that I don’t feel guilty for dehumanizing the celebrities as Zellwegger mentions.

Paris, Lindsay and Britney seem like well-deserving targets, but people like Renee make me think twice about talking smack about famous people. Good luck Renee. There are a lot of fun superficial things you can do as a celebrity. Why don’t you try to enjoy them for a little while instead of hiding and making yourself miserable thinking about the downside of it?

A lot of people will comment on this article about how Renee looks and not bother to care or read what she’s saying. She kind of has a point.

I watched this whole worthless video of Mariah Carey talking to these two teenaged high school students in Aspen. She talks about her rebellious younger brother and it seems like the whole rambling point of the conversation is to figure out where to get her brother some clothes as a gift. She tells them she stopped school in the eigth grade, but she was like, advanced, to get into eigth grade as a 12 year old. She also says she’ll record songs with their names in them, especially since one of the teens has the same name as her hairdresser.

They tell her where to go in town and she relates to them very well, which is quite a testament to her maturity. One guy name drops his girlfriend, probably to keep drunk Mariah in check.

In the middle of the video the guys are talking about themselves and Mariah abruptly changes the subject, asking a woman who’s either her friend or the help “How many websites does my dog have? My dog?”

“23 maybe,” the woman answers. She then talks about her dog losing an online poll to Miss Piggy or some shit.

One of the guys says he could win at those million dollar trivia gameshows because he knows all the answers, and Mariah is like “I don’t” and the guy says “you’re already rich,” but she says something about not being that rich. At the end she tries to convince one of the guys to give her his gloves.

Mariah is off the charts on that narcissism scale, and now I know she has yet to complete junior high.

Don’t waste your time. Mariah is tipsy talking to teens, that’s the basic idea.

Thanks to NinjaDude for finding this and Fark for linking it.

I didn’t even know these two cuties were dating, but Jennifer Morrison and Jesse Spencer, who play young doctors on the excellent Fox series House are engaged. My husband loves that show and is always quoting House.

Actress Jennifer Morrison and actor Jesse Spencer, who costar on FOX’s hit medical drama House, became engaged over the holidays in Paris, PEOPLE has learned.

Morrison, 27, who plays Dr. Allison Cameron, and Spencer, also 27, who portays Dr. Robert Chase, met while filming the pilot for the series, which debuted in 2004.

Jennifer Morrison was born in Chicago and got her start as a child model appearing in catalogs and commercials. Jesse Spencer is Australian like his character Dr. Chase on House. He started out in the popular Australian soap Neighbours. His father, two brothers, and sister are all doctors in Australia, which must give him a lot of insight into his character. Wikipedia claims that his family members watch House and enjoy trying to figure out the rare medical conditions before they’re diagnosed on the show.

Congratulations to Morrison and Spencer. They make such a cute couple and every time I watch the show I’ll now be looking for little signs that they’re being flirty with each other.

Trashtastic Anna Nicole Smith and her weird boyfriend/lawyer Howard K. Stern took in the Samuel Peter vs. James Toney boxing match Saturday night in Florida. Smith and Stern are stateside by court order, and must submit Anna’s baby to paternity testing by January 23rd. Stern claims to be the father of the baby but the general consensus is that paparrazo Larry Birkhead is the biological father. Birkhead is suing Smith for custody.

MSNBC’s The Scoop reports that Anna is trying to set up an offshore company in order to hide potential assets from Birkhead. Anna is still fighting for a piece of the $1.6 billion estate of J. Howard Marshall, the 89 year-old guy she married and jerked off for a year before he died in 1995. His son, who was trying to bar Anna from cashing in on the will, passed away last summer, but word is that Anna doesn’t have much of a chance of getting the money now.

Anna Nicole showed off a new huge back tattoo that features her and her baby Dannielynn in a cute pose together. I first thought it was Anna’s departed son Daniel on the tattoo, but now it looks more like Anna to me. Whoever did the tattoo was probably as medicated as Anna usually is, and they certainly weren’t a talented artist. It would make more sense if it was supposed to be Daniel, but doesn’t it look like Anna?

These pictures show what a parasite Howard K. Stern is. He looks like he’s smelling Anna’s hair here and in every photo he’s grabbing onto to her. What a freak he is.