Sideshow: No prison for LiLo (whew!)

You know how people always ask, "Where were you?" when the most cosmos-shattering events occur? Well, remember where you are right now as you read this unlikeliest of alliterative phrases: Lucky Lindsay Lohan. Yes, lucky is the word at least one celeb news report used to describe the actress who Friday was once again in court. The luck wore a black robe, when L.A. Superior Court Judge Elden Fox ordered her to complete three more months of rehab rather than sending her to the pokey for failing a court-ordered drug test for a previous drug-problem problem. Whatever.

As "SideShow" reported Friday, Russell Brand and Katy Perry are in India to tie the knot. As "SideShow" is reporting Saturday, some news photographers accuse the British comedian of leaving them to be pre-wedding tiger tidbits in the country's Ranthambore National Park. The photogs were trailing two Jeeps, one carrying Brand and guests, the other with his bodyguards, when one of the muscle men went up to their vehicle, scuffled with the occupants, and grabbed the keys. Brand and his, ahem, security detail drove away, leaving the photographers and the driver in the park with tigers, leopards, wild boars, hyenas, and sloth bears - oh, my!

People don't like him again, but that's not really news anymore, is it? Mel Gibson, he of frothing mouth and bad police mug shots, had been lined up for a cameo role in the flick Hangover 2. But, reports say, cast and crew, including actor Zach Galifianakis, protested even the most cameo-est of roles for Gibson, leading director Todd Phillips to say Mel would not be hanging around Hangover. In his place, it was announced Friday, will be Liam Neeson.

Former National Public Radio journalist Juan Williams and NPR chief Vivian Schiller have been trading angry remarks since the latter fired the former for comments he made on Fox News about Muslims. Schiller said Williams' feelings about Muslims should be between him and "his psychiatrist or his publicist - take your pick." Hmmm, no tote bag for you, Ms. Schiller. Williams told ABC's Good Morning America Friday that his dismissal was a personal attack amid a rising mood of antagonism at NPR toward him. About his ex-boss' comments, he said: "If she has an argument to make that I somehow violated some journalistic ethics or values of NPR, make the case. I think it's a very weak case." As words flew, so did money: Fox gave Williams a new, three-year contract reportedly worth in the neighborhood of $2 million.