Nicole Richie even had the gall to smile in her jail mugshot, as if saying “this is nothing.”

Soon, they could put up a movie studio inside prison facilities in Los Angeles, California. The jails there are becoming pretty crowded with celebs, that’s why.

On Thursday, a pregnant Nicole Richie was released from the Century Regional Detention Facility in Los Angeles after serving 82 minutes of a four-day sentence for driving under the influence of drugs.

Richie served her 82 minutes at the county jail in suburban Lynwood, the same place her “The Simple Life” co-star Paris Hilton was housed for nearly three weeks after she was convicted of driving on a suspended license while on probation for an alcohol-related reckless driving case.

Soon, Lindsay Lohan could be making this same pose on the walls of her prison cell.

Just hours before Richie did her time, Lindsay Lohan was charged with seven misdemeanor drunken-driving and cocaine charges for two arrests in the last four months. Lohan was sentenced to one day in jail, 10 days of community service and must complete a drug treatment program. She was also fined and placed on 36 months probation.

Richie was arrested on Dec. 11, 2006, after witnesses reported seeing her black Mercedes-Benz sport utility vehicle headed the wrong way on a freeway in Burbank. The California Highway Patrol said they found her parked in the car pool lane.

Richie pleaded guilty in July to a misdemeanor DUI (driving under the influence) charge in a deal with prosecutors that helped her avoid a potential year in jail because it was a second DUI conviction.

Her first conviction was in 2003 for driving under the influence of alcohol.

Richie, the daughter of Lionel Richie, told authorities after being arrested in December that she had smoked marijuana and taken the prescription painkiller Vicodin, a police officer said at the time.

For her part, Lohan pleaded guilty to two counts of being under the influence of cocaine and pleaded no contest to driving with a blood alcohol level of .08 percent or higher and reckless driving.

Although she faced a mandatory minimum of four days in jail, she was given credit for one day already served. Prosecutors also agreed she could serve 10 days of community service instead of two days in jail.

Lohan, who was also placed on three years probation and ordered to complete an 18-month alcohol education program, has until January 2008 to serve her jail sentence.

Earlier in the day, she dodged felony charges, with prosecutors filing misdemeanor counts after tests found she possessed insufficient amounts of cocaine, authorities announced.

The actress was charged with seven counts, including two counts each of driving under the influence, driving with blood alcohol of over .08 percent, being under the influence of cocaine, as well as reckless driving, the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office says.

Ah, Hollywood girls…so pretty – pretty wild, that is.

She’s definitely a double “B” – bizarre Britney, that is.

Showing once again her “Britneyness,” Ms. Spears posed provocatively in jeans and dark brown wig, her bare breasts covered by her arms for Allure magazine. Shown here are her cover picture and two inside photos for the magazine.

There was no problem with the photo-shoot, according to the magazine. “Britney showed up for Allure’s cover shoot on time and ready to work,” editor-in-chief Linda Wells wrote in a letter for the magazine’s September issue, which was already on newsstands Tuesday.

“She was entirely unself-conscious: She took off her wig and then stripped down to the waist, for no apparent reason, before sitting for hair and makeup,” Wells said. “She was agreeable and cooperative on the shoot and left at the end of the day, followed by a trail of paparazzi.”

After the photo-shoot, that’s when things unraveled – once again – for Britney. She was supposed to be interviewed after that, but the 25-year-old singer missed four appointments with Allure interviewer Judith Newman.

At one point, Spears put off the chat because she was “delayed by important work in the recording studio,” Newman wrote. But, she added, “The paparazzi found her a few hours later at a salon, getting her nails done.”

What do you do when you have no profile to accompany some alluring photographs? Newman wrote a first-person essay about her experience trying to track down Spears.

“Britney has long lost her role-model status,” Wells commented. “That dream of a comeback seems to occupy an ever-more-distant speck on the horizon.”

I highly doubt it if mommies would still prefer to name their newborns “Britney.” Unless they’re bizarre mothers who want to have bizarre babies. Oh well…

It was almost like the snake of He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named in the Harry Potter series — Nagini, one of the seven horocruxes of Voldemort – oops, I said the name! I hope no Death Eater would come out of my computer!

Well, this is not about the snake, but about a 43-year-old actress who dared to wear nothing else but … the big, slimy green thing with the forked tongue – just to grab people’s attention.

Giant billboards showing the picture above are causing stiff necks all over California.

The naked model is actually Mary-Louise Parker, the actress in the offbeat Showtime comedy series “Weeds.”

In an interview, the actress said had qualms before doing the snake pose. “I didn’t think I was going to do it actually,” she said. “But then, they were there and the snake was there, and I didn’t want the snake to win, so I put the snake on.

“And actually, I grew to really love the snake — by the end of the day.”

Parker is shown with the snake over her shoulder and down her back.

Parker stars as a widowed suburban mother who starts selling marijuana to support her family in “Weeds.”

The actress won an Emmy Award for “Angels in America.” She’s won two Golden Globe Awards, one for “Angels in America,” the other for “Weeds,” and had a recurring role on NBC’s “The West Wing.” Her screen credits include “Fried Green Tomatoes,” “Boys on the Side” and “The Client.”

Hmm, actually, it’s only now that I’ve come to know about Ms. Parker and her “Weeds” series. Thanks to the snake, I now have the urge to watch her.

Guys, you now have a chance: Britney Spears is now officially single again after her divorce to Kevin Federline was finalized in court last Monday.

Britney Spears and now ex-husband Kevin Federline in a Feb. 8, 2006 file photo.

On the day of her divorce from Kevin, Britney wears her favorite outfit – barely-there cutoffs and a see-through tank.

Spears’s lawyer, Laura Wasser, said the couple planned to continue splitting custody 50-50 of their two sons, Sean Preston, born in September 2005, and Jayden James, who was born almost exactly one year after.

Spears, 25, filed for divorce on Nov. 6, 2006, citing irreconcilable differences with Federline, 29, after just over two years of marriage.

In March, the couple reached an initial divorce settlement, which continued their interim arrangement of joint legal and physical custody of their children. But in June, Federline was still resisting signing the papers over growing concerns about Spears’ erratic behavior. The singer, who spent a stint at Promises rehab center, has also been a fixture on the nightclub and party scene.

Spears has continued to raise eyebrows with her wild antics. Most recently, she went swimming in Malibu, stripping down to just her underwear. She also acted up on an ill-fated photo shoot documented in a recent issue of OK! Magazine.

But now free from Kevin, Britney is said to be focusing her attention solely on career-related matters. Not only does she plan on getting back to the top of the charts, she is also rumored to be in talks to host “Saturday Night Live” in the months to come.

From one erratic behavior to another, Britney Spears is knocking herself silly with her crazy antics lately!

Oops! Is she screaming at the papas? Well, her outfit is screaming for attention, too.

Last July 18, the 25-year-old pop star and her unidentified blonde gal pal stopped off in Malibu for an impromptu afternoon dip — with Britney wearing only her bra and see-though mesh panties! — before a crowd of photographers.

Another bizarre report last week had Britney applying to be a cocktail waitress at a Hollywood bar.

Her erratic behavior continued the next day when, after filming a new video (self-funded, according to a source), she reportedly had a “meltdown” during an ill-fated photo shoot for OK! Magazine.

In the course of the session she apparently fretted that the ceiling might cave in, she allowed her newly acquired puppy to soil the floor and she wiped her hands on a couture gown after devouring fried chicken.

Finally, on July 20, Spears drew another wave of criticism for going boating with sons Sean Preston, 22 months, and Jayden James, 10 months – without life jackets.

Britney, who has no manager or personal publicist, “won’t listen to anybody,” says a family friend. “[Her family] is frustrated with the situation – and worried about the children.”

Britney’s controversial new interview with OK! magazine started 45 minutes late and ended with the pop star storming off after two hours with more than $15,000 of designer clothes and jewelry brought in specifically for the accompanying photo shoot.

After settling down for the interview in a pink Alisha Levine dress, Britney quickly opted to break for lunch–where she dined on fried chicken and used the dress to wipe her hands.

Britney then donned a Zac Posen gown for the photo shoot portion of the OK! session, but appeared “disorientated” and “erratic” after one of her many toilet breaks with her dog Funk.

After a brief photo session, the “Toxic” singer suddenly stormed off, taking the Vera Wang dress she had just changed into and a collection of jewelry and accessories.

OK! editors chose not to use the photographs taken during the shoot for their article. The pictures were such bad quality that OK! called them unpublishable.

“A shocked crew, which had bent over backward to accommodate Britney’s demands, packed up and left with nothing but sour memories of a young lady so eager to tell the world the truth about herself,” OK! said.

The OK! shoot followed weeks of unusual behavior by Britney. Last month, tabloid media reported a “slapfest” between Britney and her mother Lynne, whom the singer had earlier attacked in a poem in apparent retaliation for being coerced into rehab earlier this year.