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You Try Getting Randy & Evi Quaid in a Courtroom

Mon., Nov. 2, 2009 2:22 PM PST by Natalie Finn and Josh Grossberg

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Randy and Evi Quaid still aren't up for a road trip just yet.

After failing to turn up three other times to answer to charges of stiffing a resort on their $10,000 bill, the couple opted to pass on appearing in a Santa Barbara court on Monday as well, despite the fact that they had requested this date.

Santa Barbara District Attorney spokesman Lee Carter didn't sound surprised when the twosome failed to turn up.

"I've been burned...but I'm not going believe they're going to be here until I see them," he told E! News earlier today. "It's still voluntary. I can't make them show up, at least not yet."

The Quaids did, however, call into court this afternoon to ask what's going to be happening now.

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Mischa Barton Cops a One-Way Ride to the Hospital

Thu., Jul. 16, 2009 7:30 PM PDT by Natalie Finn and Josh Grossberg

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We finally know where the cops took Mischa Barton yesterday.

The 23-year-old actress has been hospitalized and is currently under a doctor's care after making a nonemergency phone call to the police on Wednesday, Barton's rep confirmed to E! News Thursday.

"Ms. Barton was safely transfered to medical treatment for which she remains hospitalized, as per the recommendation of her doctor," Craig Schneider said.

He opted not to comment on Access Hollywood's report that Barton has been placed under an involuntary psychiatric hold at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center.

The trouble apparently started yesterday afternoon, when Barton called the cops because she's Marissa from The O.C.

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Tonight Show, Hollywood Hail Ed McMahon

Tue., Jun. 23, 2009 7:15 PM PDT by Natalie Finn and Josh Grossberg

Conan O'Brien, just three weeks into hosting the Tonight Show, wouldn't let his audience forget where Ed McMahon made his most indelible mark.

"It is impossible, I think, for anyone to imagine the Tonight Show With Johnny Carson without Ed McMahon. Ed's laugh was really the soundtrack to that show," O'Brien, who employed the sidekick format with Andy Richter on Late Night until 2000, said during Tuesday's taping.

"For 30 years Ed played his part perfectly, he played it with effortless joy, and sitting alongside Johnny, Ed was an indelible part of what I think is the most iconic two-shot in broadcasting history," he continued.

"There will never be anything like that again. Now everybody here at the Tonight Show mourns the loss of this warm and really truly funny man. Our thoughts go out to his family and to his fans everywhere...Ed, you will be missed."

From the late-night couches to the Twitterverse, the tributes to McMahon poured in all day as his fellow celebs recalled his contributions to showbiz:

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Cate's Three Sons

Mon., Apr. 14, 2008 5:14 AM PDT by Natalie Finn and Josh Grossberg

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Cate Blanchett and Andrew Upton have made it a threesome.

The Oscar winner and her playwright hubby of 10 years welcomed their third child together, son Ignatius Martin Upton, Sunday in Sydney, according to a rep for the Sydney Theatre Company, where the couple serve as coartistic directors.

"All are well and very happy," said Tim McKeough.

Ignatius, weighing in at 7 pounds, 9 ounces, joins brothers Dashiell, 6, and Roman, 3.

Blanchett, glammed out in bump-friendly gowns while strolling the red carpet during the recent awards season, confirmed her pregnancy in November, telling the reporters who informed her of rumors she was having a boy, "You know more than me. It's early days yet. It's due in April."

The 38-year-old actress pulled double duty on the big screen last year, reprising her star-making role as the Virgin Queen in Elizabeth: The Golden Age and as one of six Bob Dylan-incarnates in Todd Haynes' I’m Not There.

Before she started to show, she had completed filming on David Fincher's The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, opposite Brad Pitt and Tilda Swinton, the Brit who beat out Blanchett for Best Supporting Actress at this year’s Academy Awards.

Next up for the Australian thesp is the long-awaited Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, in theaters May 22. Benjamin Button will be along Dec. 19.