Hollywood star Jessica Alba is speaking out in the defense of licking Lindsay Lohan, after only months after the troubled actress was accused of kissing her husband in a nightclub, calling the rumors "ridiculous lies." Lindsay once again hit the headlines in November when a magazine claimed she was spotted getting close to Alba's hubby Cash Warren, at a Hollywood nightclub. Lindsay called the stories "absurd," and now Jessica is speaking out in favor of her friend. She is insisting she doesn't pay attention to tabloid gossip. She tells Cosmopolitan magazine, "Lindsay's had to deal with this for so long. When people wrote lies about me before I had (my daughter) Honor, I'd get upset or I'd get nauseous or I'd get angry or I'd want revenge. Now, it's like, it's just so ridiculous and it's not even close to being the truth."And Alba admits her husband may have a future with Lohan - he's considering teaming up with the actress for a new TV project. She adds, "My husband may do a TV show with Lindsay - ironically, about the ridiculousness of tabloids."
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Licking Lindsay Lohan's media hungry dad, Michael was again arrested in New York yesterday morning after violating a restraining order against him by calling his ex-girlfriend, Erin Muller, at work. Muller's attorney, Bryan Konoski, told the New York Post that the violation occurred on Jan. 21st, when Lohan breached the order of protection by dialing his ex-ladyfriend. As a result, Lohan was booked with criminal contempt. Back in December, he was arrested for phoning Muller and faced the exact same charge, while as far back as last April he was arrested for making a series of threatening phone calls to his ex. In the latter instance, Lohan was accused of threatening suicide if Muller left him and while he denied the allegations, a judge said he would hold off prosecuting him on an aggravated harassment charge if he managed to stay out of trouble for a year. Michael Lohan is due back in court to face the new charge on Feb. 25th. Does this ever end!
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MAD MEL: Mel‘s back in a supremely entertaining thriller-revenge movie called Edge of Darkness. Let’s get it out of the way and say that despite the tabloid headlines Gibson’s made over the past five years (and, no, I won't go into them!) let’s put all that behind us and focus on what a truly entertaining movie presence he’s been … and, still is. This riveting new movie is based on a BBC miniseries that has been developed by director Martin Campbell and producer Graham King (The Departed). In short, Gibson’s daughter is killed at the beginning of the movie and although everyone immediately assumes that Gibson’s Tom Craven was the intended target, as Gibson peels back the layers, he discovers that it was indeed his daughter who was the target. The brilliant Ray Winstone, whose character’s name is Darius Jedburgh, is just brilliant. Almost as good a villain as the marvelous Christopher Waltz from Inglorious Basterds, who’s been winning award after award this year. The movie showcases Gibson at his best. His line readings are terrific and though at times, I took exception to his Boston-accent (sort of an Australia via Boston); his total commitment to the role wings you over. It sort of reminded me of the brilliant China Syndrome (1979) movie all those years ago. It’ll be interesting to see the reaction to this movie … its good, no question about that, but the fires that Gibson set are in some ways still burning. I’ve spoken to people who say they’d never go to see this movie … good or bad. I would hope that the forgiveness with which America likes to bestow so frequently is at work here as well. The movie is that good.

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