You're still abusing Ritalin for weight-loss purposes? Girl, that shit is so 2006. Get with the program: the horse asthma drug program! Clenbuterol is the drug that Gatecrasher recently "blind"-itemly indicated that Hilary Duff uses to keep her figure trim. It's also what Rachel Zoe was rumored to be dosing her clients with. What is it, exactly? Well, according to the extensive research that we did by typing "Clenbuterol" into Wikipedia . . .

• Hilary Duff and Joel Madden are seeking a restraining order against a 19-year-old Russian man who, they believe, came to the states "for the sole purpose of meeting and becoming romantically involved with Ms. Duff." Christ, Lizzie, don't flatter yourself. [TMZ]
• After Alec Baldwin was photographed yelling at a police officer on the scene of that inconvenient Cory Lidle plane crash, he then headed over to the Grand Havana Room to berate the ESL crowd. [Page Six]
• Dixie Chick Natalie Maines still thinks that "Bush is a dumb fuck." [R&M]
• A Telepictures interview with John Mark Karr, the creepy freak who falsely claimed to have killed JonBenet Ramsey, was too disgusting for Good Morning America. Karr was paid for the interview, given six drinks beforehand, and told that it was just a run-through, though it wasn't. The dubious situation is perfect for the Today show, wh ich bought the footage. [Page Six]
• K-Fed says his kids come first. Aw, shit, K-Fed — you one funny playa! [People]

Underappreciated thespian Hilary Duff has held her head high in regards to bitchy Times critic Stephen Holden, who referred to her as "talent-challenged" in a 2004 review of A Cinderella Story. After two long years of suffering, Duff is ready for her PR cagematch. She tells Elle:

An ABC publicity photo promoting their annual depressing-party-in-a-box, New Year's Rockin' Eve, is causing controversy for having Photoshopped in a smiling, fully upright, pre-stroke Dick Clark next to co-hosts Hilary Duff and Ryan Seacrest:

It's been so long since we've heard anything about the once-intense Lindsay Lohan-Hilary Duff feud (starring Aaron Carter as Helen of Troy) that we'd assumed it had sputtered out all on its own; after all, how is Lohan supposed to find the time to actively hate on a bitch while spending seven nights a week haunting Hollywood clubs and monitoring her extreme, puberty-driven weight loss? There are only so many hours in the day. To her publicist's credit, however, Lohan's now claiming that she tried to be the bigger starlet and attempted to finally squash the spat, but Duff's sister was all, I don't think so!: