It's always a sad affair when the relationship between high-earning talent and their people sours to the point that litigation becomes necessary, but at least the lawyers for Handprint Entertainment, the management company currently suing Ghost Whisperer star Jennifer Love Hewitt for money they believe they're owed, are having some fun with it. In addition to the zingers about Hewitt "having troubles resolving unfinished business with the living" and "listening to the tortious whispers of her new manager" you can see excerpted above from the complaint posted at THR ESQ, there's also one claiming she "knows what she did last season" in not turning over the 10 percent the prodigiously breasted actress "racked"* up in commisions.

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An operative who attended last night's Oscar viewing party and fundraiser at The Abbey sends in this report, where television's Ghost Whisperer demonstrated an aloofness and general lack of Oscars spirit that set hundreds of Gay Whisperers' tongues wagging, while Joe "I Will Trade You This Fine Girls Gone Wild T-Shirt For a Lifetime Of Shame And Humiliation" Francis impressively demonstrated how he he can find eager female (at least they looked female) companionship anywhere—even at WeHo's premiere sausage factory:

TMZ reports that Can't Hardly Wait star Ethan Embry was mugged at gunpoint in his Studio City driveway on Sunday night, but rather than just accept the powerlessness of victimhood, allegedly returned to the scene of the crime with a firearm to seek his own brand of semicelebrity vengeance:

Juggsy TV ghost-whisperer Jennifer Love Hewitt doesn't just sit around on her hands and wait for studios to offer her hooker housewife roles. She goes out and finds hooker housewife roles:

No matter how many times an exasperated Jennifer Love Hewitt demonstrated how her character on The Ghost Whisperer adjusts the orientation of her breasts to tune in messages from the dead, Tyra Banks could not establish a reliable connection to the spirit world.

· ABC will develop erstwhile feature script The Flyover States as a red-America drama series. They're showing admirable restraint in not retitling the project The People Who Ruined Our Lives Because Gays Kissing Is A Sin to pander to viewers on the coasts. [Variety, sub. req'd.]
· ABC (again!) gives the Jennifer Love Hewitt comedy project a six episode midseason order. For our thoughts on this unfortunate shitergistic exercise, go here. Then close your eyes and say, "How bad could it be if they dub Hewitt's lines into Pig Latin and make her wear tight shirts?" Well, we'll probably get the tight shirt part without too much of a fight. [THR]
· Catherine Zeta-Jones and Ocean's 12 producer Jerry Weintraub are teaming up again for The Ivy Chronicles. Adapted from the book of the same name, the film would star Zeta-Jones as a Wall Street woman who starts a kindergarten referral service. And the world will team up again with a DVD of Mask of Zorro. [THR]
· ABC publicists obviously worked serious overtime yesterday: ABC submits ratings world-beater Desperate Housewives in the comedy category at the Golden Globes. Good idea to stay clear of those HBO shows. [Variety]
· Michael Goldenberg will adapt the fifth Harry Potter book, as Steve Kloves has opted to work on another Warner Bros. project, adapting The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon. Please, be gentle: That book doesn't deserve to be fucked up by some executive who has "ideas" about talking dogs. [THR]