LINDSAY LOHAN IN UTAH REHAB  —  Just in!  The starlet has checked into a posh Sundance facility.  —  "The Insider" Online breaks news that LINDSAY LOHAN has entered the Cirque Lodge drug and alcohol rehab in Sundance, Utah.  According to sources within the facility, the 21-year-old star arrived …

Madonna is told her little African baby may have to return home  —  Madonna's controversial adoption of an African baby was under threat last night amid accusations that the child welfare expert overseeing it has become too close to the case.  —  Penstone Kilembe has been banned …

SNAKE OIL CURE  —  CELEBS will go to great lengths to keep their skin looking young - Gwyneth Paltrow even uses snake venom to de- wrinkle.  A spy at Sonya Dakkar spa in Beverly Hills said Pal trow, a frequent customer, walked out with a line of Ultra Lux 9 products - including a cream that contains the spit of a snake.

SHEEN-RICHARDS WAR RESUMES  —  THE détente between Charlie Sheen and Denise Richards is over, and it's about to get very nasty again between the exes.  —  Sheen is trying to haul Richards into L.A. Family Court to get looser visitation rights with his daughters, Lola and Sam, that won't require him to be supervised.

COZY TURN FOR REESE, RYAN  —  REESE Witherspoon and Ryan Phillippe sure seem cozy these days for a Hollywood power couple supposedly on the outs - and observers of their recent behavior believe a reconciliation may be in the works.  —  The Oscar-winning cutie and her husband …

Exes Vanessa Williams, Rick Fox Hook Up for Ugly Betty  —  Their last partnership may have ended in divorce, but Rick Fox and Vanessa Williams are making another go at it - at least onscreen.  Fox, 38, will join the cast of ABC's Ugly Betty in its second season, a source confirms to PEOPLE exclusively.

Paris' clothes make the dog at this home  —  Though some celebrities adopt rescue dogs, Paris Hilton makes no apologies for purchasing her babies from high-end pet shops and breeders.  —  "I got (Hendrix) at Bel Air Pets when I was shopping for a house," Hilton says of her newest purchase, a 3-month-old Chihuahua.

SEX SURPRISE  —  DIRECTOR Brett Ratner based a scene in "Rush Hour 3" on a sexual encounter he had with a transvestite.  Asked by The Advocate about the sequence "when the girl takes off her wig and Chris Tucker becomes angry and accuses her of being a man," Ratner responded, "That's from my personal experience.

Barry and Rupe have hull of a time  —  No wonder you don't know any billionaires — they're too busy hanging out with each other.  —  Barry Diller and his glamorous wife, Diane Von Furstenberg, hosted Rupert and Wendi Murdoch aboard their yacht Wednesday night to celebrate Murdoch's takeover of The Wall Street Journal.

OVER-ENERGETIC  —  JON Bon Jovi's efforts to shut down a new energy drink called Mijovi may have backfired.  Publicity generated by the controversy has sales of the coffee-based beverage shooting through the roof in Red Bank, N.J. - a stone's throw from his mansion.

Eli G: Liz Taylor out-blings rap stars 50 years her junior  —  Not so long ago, her frail appearance had left her fans fearing the worst.  —  There was such a furore that Elizabeth Taylor even felt the need to appear on a U.S. chat show to insist that rumours of her imminent demise had been greatly exaggerated.

Spencer Pratt Strikes Back!  —  He's inviting The Hills' fans who blame him for coming between former BFFs Lauren Conrad and Heidi Montag to feel free to blast him on his  —  website.  —  And in the wake of Us Weekly's exclusive interview this week with Conrad and her anti-Pratt MTV co-stars …

'The Bourne Ultimatum' earns $70 million  —  LOS ANGELES - Superspy Jason Bourne delivered more than an ultimatum this weekend as the third in a series of spy thrillers topped box office charts and delivered the biggest August opening of a film ever.  —  "The Bourne Ultimatum" …