U.S. Senator John Kerry’s elder daughter, Alexandra, who made a red-carpet splash at the Cannes film festival five years ago in a see-through dress, was arrested in Hollywood on Thursday on suspicion of drunken driving.

The 36-year-old aspiring filmmaker was stopped by police, jailed briefly on a misdemeanor charge of driving under the influence and released on $5,000 bail, Los Angeles police said.

A statement issued on behalf of the Massachusetts senator and 2004 Democratic presidential nominee, said Kerry’s daughter was pulled over for an expired automobile registration “and was released after the results of a breathalyzer test at the police station were under the legal limit.”

“Senator Kerry supports his daughter and will have no further comment on a private matter,” the statement said.

Celebrity news website TMZ.com reported that Kerry was stopped for a traffic violation and placed under arrest after failing a field sobriety test. According to TMZ, she refused to take a preliminary alcohol screening test at the scene, before a formal blood-alcohol test conducted later at the police station showed her to be just under the legal limit.

Police can still arrest a person on suspicion of drunken driving if officers believe the motorist is impaired.

“It depends on the expertise and opinions of the officers at the time,” said police spokesman Gus Villanueva..

The case was later turned over to prosecutors who will decide whether to formally charge Kerry or dismiss the matter. A spokesman for the Los Angeles City Attorney’s Office said the case was under review.

Kerry raised eyebrows during her father’s unsuccessful White House campaign with an appearance in a see-through gown at the Cannes film festival, where her short film, “The Last Full Measure,” premiered that year.

According to the Internet Movie Database, she is in pre-production as co-writer and director of a film based on Jessica Shattuck’s novel “The Hazards of Good Breeding.”

Kerry had minor roles as an actor in the David Mamet films “State and Main” and “Spartan.” She also appeared in several episodes of the short-lived TV political drama “Mr. Sterling,” which starred Josh Brolin.

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It looks like Carrie Prejean spoke too soon when she called her recent sex tape the “biggest mistake” of her life.

Either the seven other sex tapes that have just surfaced aren’t actually salacious, or else the former Miss California has a little more to atone for.

Radar Online has just learned that the dethroned beauty queen has no less than eight sex tapes and 30 naked photos to her name. As in her previous sex tape, she performs solo on each video.

Some of the new sexy photographs that have been unearthed Prejean allegedly took herself, of own reflection in a mirror, alternately topless and completely naked.

Prejean created a national controversy earlier this year when she spoke out against gay marriage during the Miss USA pageant. Her stance put her at odds with the pageant committee, which she later sued for libel, claiming she had been discriminated against for her religious views.

Prejean settled out of court on November 3 after her first sex tape surfaced. On Wednesday she threatened to walk off Larry King Live when the host questioned her about the deal.

Perhaps she can chalk up the moment as another error to add to her growing list.

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Lindsay Lohan fled a nightclub in tears after a confrontation with her ex- gal pal, Courtenay Semel, who has begged her to go to rehab.

The starlet stormed out of Brittny Gastineau’s birthday party at Crown Bar in Los Angeles Wednesday night after coming face-to-face with Semel, who dated Lohan in 2007 but recently asked her to seek help.

A source said, “Everyone was trying to keep [Lohan and Semel] apart, especially since Courtenay is recently out of rehab and has pleaded with Lindsay to do the same.

“Everything was fine for a while, and Lindsay seemed happy, but then there was a confrontation when she came out of the bathroom, and she ran out in tears. Everyone fears she’s on some kind of self-destructive collision course.” Other guests at Gastineau’s party included Jill Zarin, Nicole Murphy and Jamie Foxx.

A rep for Lohan said of her storming out, “That’s news to me,” while Semel’s rep did not return calls.

Then, on Thursday night, despite pleas from her father, Michael Lohan, to go into rehab, Lindsay continued partying, joining up with Greek shipping heir Stavros Niarchos and staying out with him until 7 a.m. yesterday in LA.

Earlier in the night outside club Voyeur in Hollywood, she blasted her dad as an attention-seeker for releasing private recordings of her mother, Dina, sounding panicked about her condition. She told photographers, “Why don’t you go find my dad, he’s the one that wants the pictures,” before heading to Niarchos’ pad at about 2 a.m.

Beverly Hills addiction counselor Marty Brenner told us, “Her dad is putting her in a scary situation. Getting her into rehab should be done quietly with love and respect, not by public criticism. He is just forcing her to rebel, and it’s just a time bomb waiting to happen.

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After he was photographed smoking what looked like a joint at a London party. The boy-wizard actor insists he was puffing on a hand-rolled cigarette. Radcliffe was pictured on a newspaper front page smoking with a bizarre, comic-looking beard etched on his face.

His rep said, “Daniel does smoke the occasional roll-up cigarette, but he was not doing anything more than this.” “Potter” fans have already been rocked by the clean-cut star’s nude turn on Broadway in “Equus,” and his admission that he likes cougars. But enjoying the magical weed apparently would have been a step too far. The incident comes months after Radcliffe’s “Potter” co-star, Jamie Waylett, who plays Vincent Crabbe, admitted that he grew cannabis plants and was ordered to do 120 hours of community service.

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Playboy founder Hugh Hefner changed American pop culture, one centerfold at a time.

With his Playboy Enterprises Inc in talks to be sold for about $300 million, the 83 year-old Hefner will be giving up control over the iconic adult entertainment empire he founded that was instrumental in shaping society’s opinions on nudity, sex and free speech.

With $600, Hefner in 1953 published the first Playboy magazine with a partially nude photo of Marilyn Monroe at its center. The magazine would become not only one of the most successful publications ever, but also a brand that led many Americans to think about sex in a more carefree way.

“Hef” turned Playboy and its bunny head logo into a symbol for a lifestyle he embodied as bachelor extraordinaire, living in a mansion surrounded by wealth and beautiful women.

“This guy was one of the major players in the transformation of American culture in the second half of the 20th century and not just because he had a magazine with naked women in it,” said Robert Thompson, a professor of pop culture at Syracuse University.

In 1972, Playboy had a worldwide circulation of 7 million, but that has been in decline ever since, as the liberalization of sexual attitudes Hefner promoted became more mainstream — and more competitive.

But even as it grew ever more popular, the magazine created rivals such as Penthouse and Hustler. In the 1980s, adult videos grew into a major business and by the late 1990s, the rise of the Internet and free pornography on the Web became Playboy’s greatest rival for an audience.

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Hefner remains in the limelight today, showing up at media events with numerous girlfriends by his side. He enjoyed a role in reality television show “The Girls Next Door” on cable network E! and his dating life and break-up with model Holly Madison made him a staple of celebrity magazines.

Hefner has said that growing up during the depression he always looked back wistfully to the 1920s age of flappers as an era of freedom he had missed.

He has described himself as having liberated America from its Puritan past and experts agree he did make sexual images and content more acceptable to Americans.

But Playboy magazine also showed men how to enjoy stylish clothing, good liquor, sports cars and other luxuries, and became a standard bearer for that lifestyle — real or imagined.

“All that kind of stuff just piled up issue after issue — promoting that idea of consumer abundance as being synonymous with the good life in this country — and Hefner is very important in promoting that idea,” said Steven Watts, author of “Mr. Playboy: Hugh Hefner and the American Dream.”

But as Playboy’s fortunes waned, some of the symbols of wealth that surrounded Hefner became harder for him to hang on to.

In the early 1980s, he had to give up a private jet plane with a bedroom, a miniature disco and a kitchen, Watts said.

Through the decades and despite the loss of business, Hefner continued to live the good life and made sure everyone knew it.

“Hefner really tries to completely disengage the notion of guilt and sin from having a good time and, the last couple of generations, that has pretty much prevailed,” said Thompson, the Syracuse professor. “Certainly, when I talk to my students, I don’t get a sense they’re feeling guilty about the good deal of fun they’re having.”

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TV host Rachael Ray made her first ever appearance on yesterday’s edition of ‘The Martha Stewart Show’. It was a day of firsts as Rachael joined Martha in the kitchen to bake her first pie.

Rachael admitted that a failed attempted to bake her mother a birthday cake 30 years ago left her traumatized, so Martha, who appeared on Rachael’s show yesterday, taught the effervescent daytime star how to bake an apple-blackberry pie perfect for the holidays. While baking, Rachael commented, “I haven’t been this nervous since I was nervous Iron Chef.’

Martha and Rachael on Puffy, Eminem and rap music:
RR: When I learned that you love rap, we had this [hat] made especially for you, Mix Master Martha.
MS: Puffy [Sean Combs] is having his birthday party next week, and I got an invitation. Did you?
RR: No, I didn’t. I love Puffy too. I even wear a little of his cologne around the office.
MS: Maybe he’ll send you an invite.
RR: And I heard that you love Eminem, so I got [you] all Eminem [CDs].
MS: I can listen to him all weekend! By the way, I have invited Eminem on this show – every year we invite him and he has never showed up. He is so cute.
RR: He is very cute.
MS: All those rappers are cute. Don’t you think?
RR: I think they’re all pretty darn cute.

Rachael on her infamous acronyms:
MS: I put a question on my Twitter yesterday asking everyone to write in what their question would be for me to ask you.
RR: No kidding! Did I get any responses?
MS: Hundreds! They wanted to know where you get your acronyms from.
RR: Standing alone, all those years in Food Network, making food and talking to yourself – you get sick of saying extra virgin olive oil.

Martha on her alleged feud with Rachael:
MS: I just want to point out that there has never been any animosity or a feud [between myself and Rachel]. People emailed me and said, ‘The feud is over?’
RR: What feud?!
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Zsa Zsa Gabor’s lawyer blames convicted swindler Bernard Madoff for a hefty tax bill owed by his client.

According to documents obtained by The Associated Press on Friday, the Internal Revenue Service filed a lien of more than $118,000 for the years 2001 and 2002 against the 92-year-old actress on Oct. 5 in the Los Angeles County Recorder of Deeds.

Gabor lawyer Chris Fields estimates that Gabor lost about $7 million in Madoff’s Ponzi scheme and the tax bill is part of the fallout. Fields says third-party money managers invested Gabor’s money with Madoff.

Fields says Gabor and husband Frederic von Anhalt are pulling together their resources and working out a payment plan with the IRS.

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