OUTFOXED: Vivica A. Fox surprisingly booted off Dancing with the Stars Wednesday night, making Jerry Springer the safe bet to get the ax next week.

GIRL FIGHT: Paris Hilton and Dancing with the Stars also-ran Shanna Moakler filing dueling police reports early Wednesday morning, LAPD confirms. Hilton claims Moakler approached her at Hyde nightclub and punched her in the jaw, while Moakler says the heiress' ex, Stavros Niarchos, threw a drink at her and pushed her down stairs. Hilton has recently been spotted canoodling with Moakler's estranged hubby, Blink-182 drummer Travis Barker.

MADONNA, WITH CHILD?: Madonna's longtime publicist Liz Rosenberg denying to Us Weekly the reports that the singer adopted a one-year-old boy in Malawi this morning.

STORK DELIVERY: In more verifiable baby news, Maggie Gyllenhaal and Peter Sarsgaard welcomed daughter Ramona in New York Tuesday night. Thank god they broke free from the double vowel. Spell check's gonna be hard enough on that kid's name as it is.

DIRTY DOZEN: Kim Basinger pleading not guilty to 12 misdemeanor counts of criminal contempt for allegedly disobeying court orders regarding ex-hubby Alec Baldwin's visitation rights with their 10-year-old daughter, Ireland. The LA Confidential Oscar winner is facing up to 60 days in jail and a $12,000 fine if convicted on all charges. But she should be out in time to celebrate the golden anniversary of her and Baldwin's custody dispute.

EXIT, STAGE LEFT: Jim Carrey and Cameron Diaz pulling out of their much hyped big-screen reunion, the dramedy A Little Game Without Consequence, due to "substantive creative differences," per the Hollywood Reporter. It's the third Carrey film to get axed in pre-production this year, pushing the moviegoing audience ever closer to seeing Ace Ventura 4: When the Mortgage Company Calls.

FROM HERE TO PATERNITY: A Los Angeles judge postponing a hearing in which Larry Birkhead was expected to request a court order to bring Anna Nicole Smith and her baby back to California in order to undergo drug and paternity testing. In lieu of the hearing, moved to Oct. 26, one of Birkhead's lawyers made a public plea for Smith to return from the Bahamas. Both Birkhead and Howard K. Stern have claimed they are the father of the month-old girl.

NUMBER ONE SPOT: Ludacris' Release Therapy debuting at number one of the Billboard album charts, selling 309,000 copies its first week.

BABS IS BACK: News sure to get the mothers of the world all in a tizzy: Barbra Streisand is kicking off a 20-date, 16-city tour tonight, nearly six years after announcing she would never perform live again, proving she can never really be stopped. Just like cockroaches. And Cher.

SINKIN' SORKIN: Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip drawing in just 8.9 million viewers Monday night, managing in three weeks what it took Saturday Night Live more than 30 years to achieve: A bleeding viewership and flat jokes. Tina Fey, all hopes are on you.

JACK IS BACK: The clock is ticking on the new season of 24. Fox has announced that the sixth season of the Kiefer Sutherland drama kicks off with a two-night premiere Jan. 14 and 15.

STORKWATCH: Tori Spelling is expecting her first child with hubby Dean McDermott, sources confirm to E! News. Judging by the amount of time she's tried to keep this pregnancy a secret, we'd say she's due in about three months.

WEDDING CRASHER: Low-profile couple Bradley Cooper and Jennifer Esposito announcing their engagement to People magazine. There's no wedding date yet for the acting duo, who assure fans their marital status will not affect their ability to make canceled sitcoms.

THE OLD SWITCHEROO: CBS announcing plans to swap the time slots of two of its Monday night comedies beginning Oct. 9, moving How I Met Your Mother into the 8:00 p.m. slot and The Class back to 8:30. The announcement has already been looked on favorably by advertisers and indifferently by viewers, who don't care what the network does, so long as Two and a Half Men and CSI are on the air.

CURSE THIS: CBS also picking up Julia Louis-Dreyfus' sitcom, The New Adventures of Old Christine, for a full second season, boosting the original 13-episode renewal to a full 22. The show has been averaging 13.6 million viewers and earned Dreyfus a surprise Emmy. Can't say that about Bob Patterson.

KUDOS: Former Kinks frontman Ray Davies honored with BMI's Icon Award in London for his enduring influence on the music world. They really got him.

THONG FOR THE LONELY: An auction featuring hundreds of personal items belonging to Cher kicking off in Los Angeles Tuesday, with Bob Mackie dresses, portable record players, sketches and boots belonging to Sonny Bono all among the hawked memorabilia. Leather chaps, anyone?

DOWN THE DRAIN: The company that makes In-Sink-Erator garbage disposals has filed suit against NBC, claiming the Heroes pilot, which features a girl placing her hand down the sink, flipping on the product and removing her mangled digits--only to have them quickly return to normal--"irreparably tarnished" their product by implying it could cause significant injury and also violated their trademark. Though they did admit it was pretty cool.

MIZ-ERY LOVES COMPANY: Les Mis?rables kicking off yet another revival on Broadway, raising its curtains Oct. 24, while next week the London production surpasses Cats as the longest-running musical in the world, having been in business for 21 years. Feels more like 80.

DANCES WITH LAWSUITS: Kevin Costner taking two former business partners to court over a battle for sole ownership of a South Dakota restaurant-casino that houses costumes Costner donned in each of his films. The men are holding off on selling their share until the actor coughs up more money or explains what he was thinking when he made Waterworld.