Indie darling Maggie Gyllenhaal has made some comments that sound suspiciously like a Katie Holmes slam.

The two actresses bear a striking physical resemblance, which we’d never noticed before. And, though Gyllenhaal will be playing Rachel Dawes in "The Dark Knight," according to MSNBC, she says that marks the end of any similarities between her performance and the one phoned in by Holmes for the last Batman installment.

“I’m not walking into Katie Holmes’ performance,” Gyllenhaal said, reports WENN. “I’m thinking of it as an opportunity to play somebody who’s alive and smart. Chris (Nolan the director) asked me to do this because he wanted me, not because he wants some generic lady in a dress.”

Alive and smart. You couldn’t come up with a pithier, more accurate way to describe "the opposite of Katie Holmes since she married Tom Cruise."

Will Paris Hilton’s suffering never end??

The only ones who seem surprised to learn that Hilton received special treatment in jail seem to be members of the Sheriff’s Department Union.

MSNBC reports that the union members’ inquiries sparked an investigation that was opened Thursday.

The internal probe will examine whether the hotel heiress was given free access to a cordless phone instead of being forced to wait in line to use a pay phone at certain hours, sheriff’s spokesman Steve Whitmore said.

Also under scrutiny are claims Hilton received a new jail uniform instead of the recycled ones given to many inmates and that her mail was delivered by a captain instead of inmate trusties, Whitmore said.

But, wait, didn’t Paris even draw a picture for TMZ of her sad self, waiting by the pay phone? Let’s hope they log that as "evidence" that she did suffer just as much as everyone else. Bologna sandwiches and freezing cells, kind guards, but no special treatment. That’s the party line at the Hilton camp.

If just one of these guards had managed to take a cell-phone pic of Paris on the potty and shared the proceeds with the other union members, there wouldn’t be an investigation.

We’ve seen the pictures. We already know. Brit-Brit is a hot mess.

Now even MSNBC is passing along tabloid details on the areas where Britney Spears is just losing it.

Spears is “drinking heavily again, binge shopping and eating like there’s no tomorrow,” according to Star magazine. What’s more, the "Toxic" singer is jeopardizing her cherished relationship with kid sister Jamie Lynn because of her ongoing feud with her mother, Lynne.

“On several occasions, I have seen her pouring alcohol into energy drink cans,” a source told the tab. And, says one insider: “Britney requests that her alcohol be served in carafes rather than in bottles. Once, a waitress made the mistake of bringing her a bottle. Brit grabbed her arm and told her she couldn’t be seen with it.”…

Spears reportedly caused a scene at the L.A. nightclub Joseph on June 25. The singer stripped down to a purple bra and “was dancing and singing her own music, which she brought in,” an “observer” told Star.

Ooh! A new twist on the vodka or champagne in the water bottle trick.

Though if Britney wants to keep her implosion under cover, she should try keeping her shirt on.

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It’s like a celeb epidemic. Angelina Jolie, Victoria Beckham and now Madonna blatantly dictating which questions are forbidden during interviews.

Leave it to Madge to take it one crazy step further, according to MSNBC.

“Eye contact must be maintained at all times,” interviewers were told, according to the London Mirror. “Never look down to check notes — all questions must be memorized or the interview will be terminated.”

“We thought her people were just joking,” a source told the paper. “But it soon became apparent that they were deadly serious.”

Interviewers were also given a list of questions they were not allowed to ask: no inquiries about the state of her marriage to director Guy Ritchie, about their adoption of a Malawian child, or about her religion, Kabbalah.

“She did not want to do any interviews, which I told the Live Earth folks from the start,” Madonna’s rep told The Scoop, adding that she didn’t know about any backstage demands.

Of course she didn’t know, or she wouldn’t admit it. What rep wants to be linked to this kind of nutty stuff?

Eye contact? Memorizing questions in advance? Forbidding journalists from looking down at their notes?

Feel sorry for those reporters. Have you seen Madonna lately? She’s scary like Medusa. The correspondents probably feared they’d be turned to stone.

Like a stringer statue garden, backstage at Wembley.

Clay Aiken is okay folks. Not to worry, though we almost entitled this story “Clay Aiken’s Brush With Death on an Airplane” or “Gaykes on a Plane”…really, the list goes on and on.

MSNBC is reporting that the closeted crooner…er….very masculine American Idol runner up and a female passenger had a spat in the air and the FBI was called.

FBI Special Agent Gary Johnson said there was a dispute between a male passenger and a woman on the flight but could not confirm the passenger was Aiken. He said the dispute was over the male passenger’s foot resting on the woman’s armrest. He said there was an allegation the woman gave the male passenger a “minor shove” during the argument.

“At that point the flight crew was able to resolve the situation,” Johnson said.

According to MSNBC, at his concert later that night, "Aiken joked on-stage about being beaten up by a girl earlier in the day."

We’re thinking Aiken might want to tone down the joking. We all know that if the those flight-attendant fans of his hadn’t jumped in to help him, that lady might have taken him out.

Can’t you just picture a smug Aiken refusing to move his foot. Don’t you know who I am?

Wonder if Clay’s seatmate offered to hold him down, while the shover bitch-slapped him?

By all means, we really aren’t condoning air-rage. We’re just saying that, in theory, one might be inclined to help a sister out by blocking the arrogant Aiken’s escape to the lavatory.

Or maybe tripping him.