Aaaaaaaand, we're back! Time for more 'Bitch and Famous', dear readers. I missed you all as I roadtripped my way across the US over the holidays, but now I'm back and ready to serve up your weekly fix of all the best celeb gossip.

Of course, the big question on Hollywood's mind is: Will the Oscars happen?!

The Academy Awards are supposed to be the cherry on top of a long, glamorous awards season, but this year things have been decidedly muted. And still the Hollywood writers strike continues.

The trouble is not just that the Oscars may have no-one to write those groan-inducing snippets that the stars read off the teleprompter before handing out the little golden statuettes. What's worrying for Oscar organisers is that nobody in Tinseltown wants to look as if they're dissing the writers and making merry while the poor scribes' battle with the studios drags on.

And, as the Golden Globes pretty conclusively proved — there really is nothing exciting or magical about reading out the winners at a glorified press conference. We want the celebs! I mean, come on, watching them walk the red carpet and critiquing their outfits is 90 percent of the Oscars' excitement.

"The Oscars exists to shine the brightest possible light on you and your work," says Academy Awards President Sid Ganis, "and it would be such a terrible shame, through no fault of yours and no fault of ours, if the current conditions prevented us from shining that brightest possible light." So true.

But, happily, he's also just commented that, "things are looking very, very good now", prompting speculation that not only will the Oscars be going ahead as planned, but that the writers strike could finally be nearing resolution.

Thing is, even if the strike ended tomorrow — the Academy Awards just won't be able to generate the usual pre-Oscar buzz. All the awards show cancellations and Hollywood's generally sombre mood have put a definite dampener on the lead-up to Lala-Land's big night.

Still, there has been some Oscars talk. The one thing just about everyone is saying, is that Daniel Day-Lewis will win Best Actor. Sure, there are a few other people nominated — you know, like, George Clooney, Viggo Mortensen, Tommy Lee Jones and Johnny Depp. No-one that good or anything…

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But, as Clooney recently joked, there's really not much competition. "If you want my honest opinion, I think it's going to be Daniel Day-Lewis. He sort of irritates all of us because he's so good. I'll tell you right now, I don't like him!"

Lindsay Lohan's not joking when she says there are some people she doesn't like. Turns out she's even had to dump some friends who were trying to lead her back to her bad ways…

"There are friends that have been hard to hang out with because they've gone down a different path," admits Lohan. "It's hard because I'm the kind of person who wants to trust everyone. I'm fine being alone during the day, but I hate being alone at night. I like having friends around me."

So, how have things been going since her whole crashing-her-SUV and one million-stints-in-rehab 2007.

Even her lawyer confirms that she drank on New Year's Eve, but it was all a big mistake he assures us. Said lawyer to the star, Blair Berk: "After being handed a champagne bottle while on a dance floor in Italy on New Year's Eve and drinking from it, the good news is that Lindsay stopped herself, called her sponsor, and got herself back on track."

"There is no magic cure here," he reminded us. "The most unfortunate part of this is that Lindsay has to share her 'one day at a time' with the entire world." True, it can't be easy — but LiLo has hardly tried hard to stay out of the way of the paparazzi.

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