Michelle Williams to Play Marilyn Monroe and More Fame Updates

Michelle Williams is slated to appear in an upcoming biopic as Marilyn Monroe, and the first pictures of the actress in costume have been released. For my money, they’ve got nothing on the shoot Lindsay Lohan did as Monroe for Vanity Fair two years ago. [The Daily What]

Speaking of damaged, iconic actresses, Lindsay Lohan is back in rehab, this time at the Betty Ford Center, where in addition to narcotics and alcohol, she is being required to swear off Twitter and the telephone. [Popeater]

Standup comic and author of Are You There Vodka? It’s Me, Chelsea, Chelsea Handler, recently went to the interwebz to deny rumors that is going out with rapper 50 Cent, tweeting “Everyone, calm down. I met with mr. Cent about a potential project. There’s nothing to report yet, ill let you know if there is.” Meanwhile, good ol’ print media in the form of Us Weekly has this quote from an anonymous source: “It’smore of a hookup thing — whenever they are in the same town.” [Huffington Post]

Speaking of Us Weekly, that fine publication wants to let us know that comic Jason Sudeikis of SNL is on the absurd BluePrint Cleanse diet, consisting of six bottles of juice a day, so that he can measure up (or down) to his slim new girlfriend, January Jones of Mad Men. An anonymous source tells the magazine “January is so gorgeous and thin, it’s hard to look good next to her.” New relationships! Hollywood! Disordered eating! How charming. [Us Weekly]

Equally charming is the apparent proclivity of fellow Mad Men star Jon Hamm, who plays Don Draper, the ex-husband of January Jones’ Betty, to appear at pubic, er, public events without underwear. Many red carpet photos indicate that the dashing actor is packing heat. View the photos at the link for a very good or a slightly upsetting time (maybe both). [Gawker]

While you used to have to seek out Gwyneth Paltrow’s patronizing advice by subscribing to GOOP, her abstemious, self-righteous lifestyle newsletter, you can now find it right in the pages of Elle magazine, where she pities those weak, silly struggling actors who might think “‘My career will be ruined if I don’t give this guy a blow job.” [NY Mag]

Kim Kardashian and her sisters Khloe and Kourtney were just trying to have a quiet Thursday night at the bar when a drunk man approached Kim and asked her for an autograph. The man’s jealous girlfriend threw a drink at Kim, who says she’s “totally fine.” I would be too if going out for the evening got me free advertising for my upcoming reality show. Stay tuned for the premiere of Kim and Kourtney Take New York, if you must. [People]

Speaking of reality TV, all those years with Nicole Richie on The Simple Life, and the reality show after their subsequent falling out, My New BFF, meant nothing to heiress Paris Hilton, who says she’s found “a new BFF” in the 7-year-old daughter of her boyfriend, Cy Waits. Finally, Paris, someone age-appropriate! [Jezebel]