● John Mayer is valiantly trying to reconcile Lindsay Lohan and former/current paramour Samantha Ronson, playing the relationship whisperer to the two at Butter the other night. [Hollyscoop] ● Because Natalie Portman was busy making those pesky Star Wars films in her high school years, the actress didn’t get to enjoy the finer points of education -- like pot or getting flat-out drunk -- ‘til her college years. [JustJared] ● Ashley Green has picked a side in the hottie civil war of the Twilight Saga, and she’s on Team Edward, adding that Taylor Lautner’s pubescent (albeit buff) body does nothing for her, preferring the pale sparkly bod of Robert Pattinson's alter-ego. [Showbizspy]

● Joe Simpson would like to set the record straight: just because his daughters have been publicly dumped and fired, respectively, this year doesn’t make them failures. [NationalLedger] ● Alyson Hannigan, a.k.a. Willow, says "hell no" to appearing in the Joss Whedon-less Buffy the Vampire Slayer reboot, adding that without Whedon the proposed film is just a “very big mistake.” [CinemaBlend] ● Gwyneth Paltrow is about to get a little bit country for the film Love Don’t Let Me Down, with Tim McGraw playing husband/manager to Paltrow’s fallen country singer character. [THR]