Steve Shickles

E! Online - Maybe Snoop Dogg should’ve popped for the pine-tree air freshener.

E! Online - John McCain may have given Paris Hilton a costarring role in his latest political ad slamming opponent Barack Obama, but he shouldn’t expect a thank you note any time soon.

E! Online - It posted the biggest opening weekend in Hollywood history. It scored the biggest opening week in Hollywood history.

AP - An attorney for Britney Spears said Wednesday that he will not seek an extension for a restraining order against Osama “Sam” Lutfi, but that doesn’t mean the pop star wants her former sidekick back in her life.

AP - An attorney for Britney Spears said Wednesday that he will not seek an extension for a restraining order against Osama “Sam” Lutfi, but that doesn’t mean the pop star wants her former sidekick back in her life.

Reuters - Call it “Mythbusters”
meets “The Da Vinci Code.”

AP - Philip Morris International has pulled down billboards and posters promoting an Alicia Keys concert Thursday in Indonesia’s capital after the singer protested the cigarette company’s sponsorship.

AP - NEW YORK (AP) — A New York lawsuit claims Ed McMahon owes lawyers more than $275,000 for handling his daughter’s divorce. The suit says the former “Tonight Show” sidekick and his wife hired Hartman & Craven and the Sarcone Law Firm to represent his daughter, Linda Schmerge. It was filed Wednesday in Manhattan, where she lives.

AP - Entertainment highlights during the week of Aug. 3-9:

Reuters - Graphic novelist Phoebe Gloeckner,
whose depiction of sex and childhood traumas has courted
controversy, is now contributing to a book about the largely
unsolved murders and disappearances of hundreds of women near
the Mexican border town of Ciudad Juarez.