If reports are to be believed, Lindsay Lohan made such an impression on the set of Machete – the film based on the fake trailer from the start of Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez’s misstep Grindhouse – that Tarantino is currently cooking up a “shocking, hardcore” part for her in a forthcoming project that will instantly propel her back into the big league.

Because that’s something that Quentin Tarantino is quite good at. Everybody knows what Pulp Fiction did for John Travolta, dragging him away from Kirstie Alley and the talking babies, and making him a genuine box-office proposition again. Similarly, Jackie Brown brought Pam Grier back into the spotlight, and Kill Bill made David Carradine and, to a lesser extent, Uma Thurman register on the Hollywood radar. If there’s one thing that Quentin Tarantino can do better than anyone else, it’s resuscitate flatlining actors.

Obviously once they’ve been resuscitated, they’re on their own again, at which point their careers usually flounder. After receiving Tarantino’s helping hand, Pam Grier made The Adventures of Pluto Nash; Uma Thurman made the now infamous Motherhood; David Carradine played a horny old triad called Poon Dong in Crank 2, then died; and John Travolta voluntarily chose to star in (deep breath) Battlefield Earth, Ladder 49, Be Cool, Wild Hogs, Hairspray and Old Dogs all in the space of a single decade. And these actors are much more celebrated than Lindsay Lohan – so even if Tarantino does decide to give her a boost, she probably shouldn’t start clearing any Oscar spaces on her mantelpiece yet.

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Jon Gosselin’s lawyer, former assistant U.S. Attorney Anthony F. List, tells TMZ “under the right circumstances” Jon would do a show with Kate, but “the contract would have to be tighter.” He did not elaborate, but we’re guessing it has something to do with the way TLC cleaned Jon’s clock in court.

List did not say what type of show he’d like to do, but said having Jon and Kate around the kids more would be a definite plus.

List says Jon would “love to settle” the latest legal dispute he ignited. TMZ broke the story that Jon filed legal papers asking for primary custody and child support. But Jon will press on with the case, unless Kate gives up her “global commitments.” According to List, Jon feels Kate can’t have it both ways — being both a star and an attentive parent.

List says he and Jon both feel Kate is “addicted to the paparazzi.” He says even if Kate is booted from “Dancing with the Stars” on Tuesday, he won’t drop his custody case because Kate is “caught up in the glamour of Hollywood” and will take other jobs.

Now if Kate brings Jon along for the Hollywood tour, well apparently that’s a whole other Oprah.

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Mario Lopez is so body-obsessed, he persuaded his beautiful girlfriend, Courtney Mazza, to undergo rigorous personal training and encouraged surgery to get her into even better shape.

Sources say friends of Mazza are concerned that the image-conscious “Extra” host started nudging her to perfect her already amazing looks once they got together. They met in 2008 while appearing together in the Broadway revival of “A Chorus Line” and started dating the next year when Mazza moved to Burbank, Calif. She’s expecting their baby in September.

One source told us, “Mario is obsessed with his image. He spends a lot of time working out, and he expects his girlfriend to do the same. Even his new book is called ‘Extra Lean.’ Courtney was engaged to a guy in Queens before she met Mario, but once they got together she dropped everything to go to California and be with him.”

“He encouraged her to work out with a trainer every day. She underwent a boob job and liposuction last spring. Once her body was perfect, he arranged for them to be photographed on a beach.”

Lopez has previously described his obsession with fitness and once told TV Guide, “I never feel awake unless I’m sweating.” He told the magazine he exercises for at least an hour a day, runs, bikes, swims, plays basketball and throws punches three times a week at a boxing gym.

But he says he’s overjoyed at the prospect of becoming a dad, recently telling Ryan Seacrest’s radio show, “I am so excited, dude, I’m fired up! I’m like a little kid waiting for Christmas!”

Asked about Mazza’s exercise regimen and surgical procedures, a rep for Lopez said, “This is silly. Mario and Courtney are very much in love and focusing on the birth of their first child.”

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In a new interview, Lady Gaga praised the idea of remaining celibate, as she is.

Via Daily Mail:

Gaga on protecting yourself: “I can’t believe I’m saying this – don’t have sex. I’m single right now and I’ve chosen to be single because I don’t have the time to get to know anybody. So it’s OK not to have sex, it’s OK to get to know people. I’m celibate, celibacy’s fine.”

It’s all about a woman’s right to choose: “Something I do want to celebrate with my fans is that it’s OK to be whomever it is that you want to be. You don’t have to have sex to feel good about yourself, and if you’re not ready, don’t do it…And if you are ready, there are free condoms given away at my concerts when you’re leaving!”

No peer pressure: “I remember the cool girls when I was growing up. Everyone started to have sex. But it’s not really cool any more to have sex all the time. It’s cooler to be strong and independent.”

Be safe, little monsters!!

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Bachelor’s Vienna Girardi is back on TV.

Jake Pavelka’s fiancee is joining Extra as a reporter.

“I start my new job today as Ms. Vienna Girardi Extra TV Report[er],” she posted on Twitter Monday. “My first interview is with DWTS tonight!”

Girardi, 24, teased on her Facebook page over the weekend that she’d have a “big surprise for everyone on Monday.”

The former Hooters waitress moved to L.A. with Pavelka to support him while he competes on Dancing With the Stars.

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Michelle McGee says she owes Sandra Bullock “a heartfelt apology” after carrying on a torrid 11-month affair with her husband, Jesse James.

“I do feel guilty. I feed bad for Sandra,” McGee tells Australian TV show TodayTonight (via Yahoo!) in a new interview.

When asked what she would say to the Oscar winner, 45, McGee replies, “I’m sorry for your embarrassment. I’m sorry all this is public. I’m sorry for everything.”

McGee — who was paid $30,000 to sell her story to a tabloid — says she understands what Bullock is “going through.

“She must be hurt, devastated, upset, embarrassed. I want to give her a heartfelt apology,” she adds. “I’m sorry for her embarrassment and pain. I do feel really bad about it.”

But McGee blames James for claiming he was separated from Bullock when she first hooked up with him.

“I feel like I was duped just as much as Sandra was. I feel like I was lied to just as much as she was,” she says. “If Jesse was upfront with me in the beginning, we wouldn’t be in this situation.”

McGee also speculates on why James was attracted to Bullock. “Maybe he was attracted to her goodness, the cleanliness of it?”

McGee says she slept with James “two or three times” after their first face-to-face meeting at his West Coast Choppers shop. (She’d reached out to him just a week earlier on MySpace.)

“I did know he was married to Sandra. When we were sitting on a couch watching a movie, he leaned over to kiss me, and I said, ‘Slow down! What’s going on between you and Sandra?’” McGee explains. “He said, ‘She lives in Austin, I live here. We’re not together because she’s filming a movie…’ I believed him…. he said he didn’t want to talk about it, I assumed because of legalities.”

McGee says they were hot and heavy for two months, but didn’t see each other as often for the next nine months. He texted her every day.

Still, she was “not in love” with James, she says.

“I cared about him. My feelings were growing toward him,” McGee says.

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Jim Carrey’s relationship with Jenny McCarthy isn’t the only thing that’s in the past. So too, he says, is a part of himself he’s happy to shed.

“I have freed Truman at long last!,” Carrey wrote in an explosion of post-breakup Tweets, referring to his alter-ego from The Truman Show whose entire life was surreptitiously filmed for a reality show.

“I am grateful for my avatar’s many yrs of dedicated service, but no one has ever won the Tour De France while back peddling. … so I killed him,” he wrote late Sunday night. “I do not plan 2 bow to expectations or to be confined by the fear of losing altitude in the ‘statusphere’! (my word).”

It has freed him to comment on such delicate matters as the Tiger Woods scandal and make a passing reference to Sandra Bullock’s marital crisis.

Acknowledging that “some folks out there are worried that I stay up too late,” he insists, “This is no breakdown! It’s a breakthrough! And if you’ll just loosen these straps, I’ll show you the difference!”

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