Hefner's Shannon Twins Packing Legal Baggage  —  Hugh Hefner's new gal-pals aren't quite as innocent as they look.  Um, anyway?  —  Florida police records show that 19-year-old twins Karissa and Kristina Shannon, who appear to be seeking permanent quarters in the Playboy Mansion …

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 …

Video Sneak Peek: Katie Holmes Steams Up Eli Stone!  —  Get a load of Katie Holmes!  She's guesting on an upcoming episode of ABC's fantastical legal drama Eli Stone, and her first appearance is as a jazz-singing nightclub girl in one of Eli's (Jonny Lee Miller) visions.  Check it out:

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: “Barack Obama Would Be Great for My Family”  —  Angelina Jolie doesn't have a problem backing Democrat Barack Obama.  —  “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.

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.

Britney Spears: ‘What the Hell Was I Thinking?’  —  In an upcoming documentary, Britney Spears candidly discusses her loneliness and her regrets about her much-publicized erratic behavior.  —  “I sit there and I'll look back and I'm like: I'm a smart person.

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.

Frank Sinatra Is One of Diddy's ‘Imaginary Friends’  —  Diddy  —  He may have his hands full as a rapper, actor, and CEO, but Diddy is never one to be all business and no pleasure.  In his latest TV ad, he manages to cover both simultaneously by paying homage to Frank Sinatra.

CW sets ‘Top Model’ spinoff  —  The CW is spinning off its hit reality series “America's Next Top Model.”  —  The network has ordered a pilot for “Operation Fabulous,” starring “Top Model” regulars Jay Manuel and J. Alexander and executive produced by “Top Model” chiefs Tyra Banks and Ken Mok.

EVA MENDES - MENDES HATES COMPARISON TO 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.

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 …