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Diana Ross annoyed a crowd of 40,000 who paid from $80 to $307 to watch her perform by forbidding her image from being shown on the big screen. "To honor Miss Ross's wishes, she will not be shown on the monitors," organizers told the crowd, which started booing when she came onstage at the stadium.

Britney's mom Lynne showed up at the L.A. airport -- could she have been headed to see her estranged daughter? Meanwhile, TMZ.com has learned that the court has ordered that Britney can talk to her sons on the phone. Brit pal Sam Lufti spoke with -- of all people -- Barbara Walters, who passed the info along to the ladies on The View. Lufti says Brit has seen a psychiatrist and has mental health problems that "are treatable."

The NYPD won't question Mary-Kate Olsen to find out about phone calls made by the masseuse who found Heath Ledger's body a week ago. Filming of Michelle Williams' new movie is on hold while she deals with the loss of her former fiance, who was the father of her toddler.

Now that the SAG dust has settled, we can admit that some of the red-carpet choices were .. puzzling. Jane Krakowski, Kate Hudson and Sandra Oh weren't crazy Bjork wearing a swan costume, but what were they thinking?

What Angelina Jolie was thinking by wearing that swirly brown caftan was: 1) I'll give all those pregnancy rumor-mongers something to think about, or 2) the twins (not THOSE twins, the other, rumored ones) can hide out under this huge dress.

The Hulk and the Hoff are having some high drama in the divorce courts, where David Hasselhoff and Pamela Bach are wrangling over a golf cart and a motorcycle and Linda Marie Bollea says husband Terry Gene "Hulk" Bollea tricked her into handing over confidential info.

Wesley Snipes' attorneys didn't call any witnesses in the federal tax case against him -- they say the government's case is so weak they don't have to.

-- Anne Neville