ROSIE O’Donnell is the opposite of a sex object in Kevin Smith’s “Zack and Miri Make a Porno,” starring Seth Rogen and Elizabeth Banks. In the trailer for the flick, Banks argues, “Nobody wants to see us [bleep], Zack!” Rogen shoots back: “Everybody wants to see anybody [bleep]! I hate Rosie O’Donnell. But if someone said, ‘I have a tape of Rosie O’Donnell getting [bleep]ed stupid,’ I’d be like ‘Why the [bleep] aren’t we watching that right now?” Rosie’s rep had no comment.

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An insider says newcomer Lacey Schwimmer is getting the cold shoulder from veteran hoofers Cheryl Burke and Julianne Hough because they’re jealous she’s been teamed up with Lance Bass. “When Lacey was one of the finalists on the Fox show ‘So You Think You Can Dance,’ they were all buddy, buddy. But now they totally ignore her because she has the best partner. They won’t talk to her,” our spy said. An ABC spokeswoman insisted: “I have not heard a negative word. This is a group of professionals.”

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Jennie Garth may be reprising her role as the stylish Kelly Taylor on the new 90210, but earlier this year, looks were the last thing on her mind.

“I had this six months of hell,” the actress, 36, tells PEOPLE. “I had a sick daughter and then my father passed away, so there was a six month period in my life when I didn’t think about my looks or my weight or my body or anything.”

Fresh off her stint on Dancing With The Stars – and toned from months of 8-hour-a-day dance practices – Garth suddenly faced every mother’s worst nightmare. Her 5-year-old daughter Lola, “got very sick and we didn’t know what was wrong with her,” says Garth, who has three girls with husband Peter Facinelli. “I was basically locked in a closet with her for three months.”

Leaving all vanity behind, “I didn’t exercise or eat healthy,” she adds. “I had been a 27 in my jeans after Dancing With the Stars and I was so excited. But it really went back quickly. I definitely gained inches and a size.”

Finally, doctors were able to diagnose her daughter’s ailment. “It turned out to be a form of JRA [Juvenile Rheumatoid Arthritis]) and we treated her and its in remission,” says Garth. “It was tough, but she’s better now.”

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A Los Angeles man claims in a lawsuit that Gene Simmons took him for a ride on a marketing deal with the Indy Racing League.

Allan Brown on Wednesday sued Simmons and two business partners, claiming the group cut him out of a 2006 deal between the Kiss bassist and the racing league.

Brown is seeking unspecified damages and is claiming fraud and slander. His suit alleges he helped broker the deal between Simmons and the IRL, but was cut out of the contract while on a personal vacation.

He also claims Simmons and his business partners mischaracterized him as “lazy” and “rich” to racing league officials.

Simmons promoted IndyCar racing in 2006, and even co-wrote a song, “I Am INDY.”

An e-mail message left for Simmons’ attorney was not immediately returned Wednesday.

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Bill Melendez, the animator who gave life to Snoopy, Charlie Brown and other “Peanuts” characters in scores of movies and TV specials, has died. He was 91.

Melendez died of natural causes Tuesday at St. John’s Health Center, according to publicist Amy Goldsmith.

Melendez’s nearly seven decades as a professional animator began in 1938 when he was hired by Walt Disney Studios and worked on Mickey Mouse cartoons and classic animated features such as “Pinocchio” and “Fantasia.”

He went on to animate TV specials such as “A Charlie Brown Christmas” and was the voice of Snoopy, who never spoke intelligible words but issued expressive howls, sighs and sobs.

Melendez was born in 1916 in Hermosillo in the Mexican state of Sonora. He moved with his family to Arizona in 1928 and then to Los Angeles in the 1930s, attending the Chouinard Art Institute.

Melendez took part in a strike that led to the unionization of Disney artists in 1941, and later moved to Warner Bros., where he worked on Bugs Bunny, Porky Pig and Daffy Duck shorts.

In 1948, Melendez left Warner Bros. and over the next 15 years worked as a director and producer on more than 1,000 commercials and movies for United Productions of America, Playhouse Pictures and John Sutherland Productions.

At UPA, he helped animate “Gerald McBoing-Boing,” which won the 1951 Academy Award for best cartoon short.

Melendez met “Peanuts” creator Charles M. Schulz in 1959 while creating Ford Motor Co. TV commercials featuring Peanuts characters.

The two became friends and Melendez became the only person Schulz authorized to animate his characters.

Melendez founded his own production company in 1964 and with his partner Lee Mendelson went on to produce, direct or animate some 70 “Peanuts” TV specials, four movies and hundreds of commercials.

The first special was 1965’s “A Charlie Brown Christmas.” The show reportedly worried CBS because it broke so much new ground for a cartoon: It lacked a laugh track, used real children as voice actors, had a jazz score and included a scene in which Linus recited lines from the New Testament.

However, the show was a ratings success and has gone on to become a Christmastime perennial.

Melendez created Emmy-winning specials based on the cartoon characters Cathy and Garfield, and was involved in animated versions of the Babar the elephant books and the C.S. Lewis book, “The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe.”

He also was co-nominee for an Academy Award in 1971 for the music for “A Boy Named Charlie Brown.”

In all, his productions earned some 19 Emmy nominations, including six awards.

Melendez is survived by his wife Helen; sons Steven Melendez and (Ret.) Navy Rear Adm. Rodrigo Melendez, six grandchildren and 11 great-grandchildren.

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Nastia Liukin, the Olympic all-around gymnastics gold medalist, is seizing the moment.

Her smiling face will appear this fall in Cover Girl ads, and Vanilla Star Jeans aims to launch Nastia Liukin Gold jeans and tops for holiday. She has a stake in Beaconstreetgirls.com, a tween Web site that vends fashion and beauty items, home decor and books. Her image will be featured on a Wheaties box, there is a scheduled appearance on “Gossip Girl,” and the possibility of a line of activewear with GK.

“You work so hard for this, and you’re getting so many opportunities, and now is the time to take those things because they don’t last forever,” Liukin said during an interview here in the gym run by her parents, gymnasts who competed in the Olympics for the former Soviet Union. “Winning the Olympics can change your life, and nothing can prepare you for that. You can go with the flow and enjoy the ride.”

Liukin, who was born in Moscow and immigrated to the U.S. when she was just two-and-a-half years old, grew up in Plano, near Dallas, and now lives with her parents in nearby Parker, Tex. The gymnast said she is eager to travel to New York for fashion week, where her agent, Evan Morgenstein of Premier Management Group, predicts more deals will be made.

“Maria Sharapova invited me,” Liukin said. “I’m going to Peter Som — front row — Isaac Mizrahi and Cole Haan.”

It’s been a whirlwind for the 18-year-old athlete since she returned from her triumph in Beijing with five Olympic medals (a gold, three silvers and a bronze). She’s fielded a dozen or so media interviews a day, was feted with a parade in Parker, and greeted by an estimated 6,000 fans Saturday at J.C. Penney at Collin Creek Mall in Plano, where Liukin signed posters and T-shirts while the store sold more than 2,000 Vanilla Star Ts and jeans, said Mark Levy, president of Vanilla Star.

“It was mass bedlam,” Levy said. “They are selling the posters on eBay today for $250.”

Reflecting on her new fame, Liukin, who was wearing a red Beijing ’08 T-shirt and denim shorts, said, “It’s weird. Now anywhere I go everyone notices me. I don’t think I’ll ever get used to it.”

Liukin has handled it all with remarkable poise, which she credits to her 15 years of gymnastics training. She is conscious that she is a role model, which is clear in the way little girls gaze at her as she walks through the gym.

“I always looked up to the older girls, and I feel like the kids look up to me, so I feel I have to set a good example for them,” she said. “I’ll do anything to inspire them and help them live their dreams.”

Her attitude is what attracted Vanilla Star, whose slogans are “Smart girls rock,” and “Live the dream.”

Liukin “is unaffected,” Levy said. “Nastia is a new example of a sports figure. The Olympics shelf life is usually a month, and I feel this girl could have a 20-year career. She earned such respect in everyone’s eyes because of the way she accepted what went on in China with her not getting the gold when she tied in the uneven bars. This is not a one-term wonder.”

The 5-foot, 3-inch gymnast, who was accepted at Southern Methodist University but has put off college at least until January, is not a fashion plate. However, she is opinionated about design. Liukin has already suggested a “Peace Love” graphic that Vanilla Star screened onto a T-shirt.

“I design my leotards with my mom, and GK makes them,” she noted. “They’ve approached me about doing a whole line for sale.”

The goal, Morgenstein said, is to build “a long-term career. That is not something that has been available to athletes until recently — that Olympic athletes can have equity in their own name. There are just a handful of female athletes like Amanda Beard, Maria Sharapova, who have been successful in making the transition to beauty and fashion, and that is the sweet spot.”

Liukin said she doesn’t yet know what she wants to do with her life, but she plans to study international business when she enrolls at Southern Methodist. First, she has a 37-city Gymnastics Superstars tour. And, she wants to keep competing.

“I feel I have more to do,” she said. “I have nine World Championship medals, and I’m tied with Shannon Miller, so I want to beat that. That’s the competitor in me. And I’d love to do some acting and modeling, but not as my career.”

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David Spade is the father of a baby girl born last week in Missouri to Playboy Playmate Jillian Grace, the actor’s rep tells PEOPLE exclusively.

“David and Jillian have been in close contact throughout her pregnancy and he plans to go see the baby during his first break from shooting Rules of Engagement,” Spade’s rep, Meredith O’Sullivan, tells PEOPLE.

The actor, 45, announced in January that he had a brief relationship with Grace, and if proven to be the child’s biological father, he would accept responsibility. The baby was born Aug. 26.

No other details, including the baby’s name, were provided.

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Daily Mirror is reporting that the Man in the Mirror Michael Jackson has been having secret rendezvous with Pamela Anderson.

A source said: “It was all arranged by their people in total secrecy, very cloak and dagger.

“They arrived separately at the Shutters Hotel on Malibu Beach so no one would suspect anything and then had a few drinks in the bar.”

Our source went on: “They were very chatty. Pamela was being her usual flirty self and Michael seemed to be responding. They are such a strange couple but they seemed to really hit it off.”

So much so Michael plucked up the courage to ask Pammy out on a second date. And she was more than happy to accept.

We’re told: “They went for a coffee at Country Mart in Malibu and looked very comfortable with each other.

“They chatted about Michael turning 50, his new album, their kids. And he seemed genuinely interested in Pamela.”

I wonder what Tommy Lee thinks of this? 

What a weird couple that actually works in a strange way?

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Rumors are swirling that Britney and Adnan were both seen at the Mirage Hotel in Las Vegas this weekend. What do you guys think? coincidence or intentional? I can’t imagine Britney wanting him back for any reason, he seemed like a real loser but then again, she is not too classy herself. She’s been looking a lot better lately.

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I am probably alone in thinking this but Christina looks like a trainwreck to me. Between the terrible white hair, the awful tan, the worst boobs possible, the ugly skank outfit and her makeup, I don’t know what she is thinking. She looks like pure trash and not fun sexy trash like she was when she was younger. She seriously look like a scary piggish tranny. She needs a makeover asap.

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These girls look like they are loads of fun. Bridget looks better than ever.

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Love her! I do miss seeing her as a brunette but she looks sexy, even in this casual attire.

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It has been confirmed that Alessandra Ambrosio gave birth to a girl on Sunday evening in Brazil. They named the baby Anja Louise Ambrosio Mazur. She was 6 pounds 3 ounces.

I am sure she is absolutely gorgeous. Congratulations to the happy couple!

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Haven’t seen Kirsten in quite a while but I like what I see. She looks cute.

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Jennie looks amazing. Another DWTS favorite.

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