It is now being reported the L.A. Airport Police and the City of Los Angeles is being sued by an attempt to protect Jamie Lynn Spears.

Last September 11, when Jamie Lynn flew to Los Angeles, LAX cops tried to divert the paparazzi by using a decoy whom they escorted to baggage claim. The impromptu decoy Adessa Eskridge happened to be on the same plane as Jamie Lynn.

To ring in 2009, Miley Cyrus is planning her own kind of high school musical.

E! News has exclusively learned that the tween queen has booked a New Year’s concert at an unlikely venue: Inside the gymnasium of Beckman High School in Irvine, Calif.

Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve With Ryan Seacrest returns to ABC tonight, hosted primarily by American Idol’s one-man media conglomerate. Though it’s unclear how much airtime Clark, 79, will have, he’s scheduled to appear for the fourth straight year and the 36th of 37 shows since it premiered in 1972.

“Dick will do the countdown and bring the ball in, and we’ll do a bunch of (short segments) with him,” says longtime show producer Larry Klein.

Time Warner Cable subscribers may wind up starting the new year without MTV, Nickelodeon, Comedy Central, VH1 and other Viacom-owned cablers on their channel lineup.

Viacom Inc. has threatened to pull its programming in a high-stakes showdown over pricing. Nearly 2 million homes in the Los Angeles area that are customers of Time Warner Cable Inc. could lose such Viacom channels as Nickelodeon, MTV, VH-1, Comedy Central, Spike, TV Land and BET.

Time Warner contends that consenting to an increase by Viacom could encourage other cable networks also to demand higher fees, a scenario that could lead to $30 a year in increased charges for cable subscribers.

In the face of reports that the duo have been fighting and are headed for a split, E! News has learned exclusively that J.Lo and her hubby are spending a few days together in San Juan, Puerto Rico, where Anthony is scheduled to perform as part of his ongoing tour.

Revenge of the Fallen is catching more media attention as USA Today posted a second article about the upcoming movie. The article describes the army equipment and cooperation that was needed to make this sequel.

WHITE SANDS MISSILE RANGE, N.M. — The United States military has declared war on giant, shape-shifting alien robots.

Amid blinding platinum dunes baking in the 105-degree sun, scores of elite servicemen and women cluster in and around real tanks, rocket launchers and personnel carriers as they unleash a machine-gun barrage at an invisible (and entirely fictional) enemy: Transformers.
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In 2008, VHS finally died for good, DVD sales flattened and Sony’s Blu-ray format bested Toshiba’s rival HD-DVD in the war for the next-generation high-definition media.

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Marley & Me made 37 million this weekend to easily become the number one movie.

S. Epatha Merkerson is the subject of a $220,000 lawsuit for allegedly failing to hand over a cut of her earnings from Law & Order.

The Gersh Agency insist the crime drama’s 15-year veteran broke an agreement to pay them 10 per cent of the $2,229,084 she has pulled in from the show.

They have filed a $229,908.40 suit in Los Angeles Supreme Court.

Isnt this just a sweet photo of Katie Holmes and little Suri.

They both look like angels.