"Bollywood filmmakers are blatantly recreating Hollywood themes while ignoring India's abundance of great tales ready for adaptation for the big screen." So says Rajan Zed, a prominent Hindu statesman.

What's got people upset is that Indian film is going increasingly American with their source material. Most recently announced: plans for an Indian re-make of... 'Stepmom'.

Seriously? If Bollywood has to go Hollywood, couldn't it do better than that decidedly mediocre point in Julia Roberts' career. If you recall, she played the stepmom trying to make good with the kids of the ex-wife, played by Susan Sarandon.

It wasn't a terrible movie, but it sure wasn't good either. 'Stepmom' was like the filmic equivalent of a kind of useful but not really flattering pair of shoes.

Still, for some utterly unfathomable reason, just the presence of Roberts in India last month — where she was busy filming her new flick 'Eat, Pray, Love' — seems to have been enough to spark this madness.

No fun for Bollywood fans. And none, either, for the stars of 'Scrubs'.

Those poor bastards have to live in fear of being nipped to pieces by their small, grey, on-set companions. That's because the old, abandoned North Hollywood Medical Center is home not only to the hit comedy, but also a fair-sized rat colony.

The hospital has been used for a few shows over the decade since the real doctors and patients left. Unfortunately, it's proved as attractive to our wee, furry friends, as it has to producers.

'Scrubs' creator Bill Lawrence says that the medical center is the lousiest place he's ever had to do a series — admitting that, "We encouraged people to bring dogs to fight off the vermin." Fun times!

More fun, and not too much commitment, for 'Gossip Girl'-ers Blake Lively (Serena) and Penn Badgley (Dan).

They are dating in real life, of course — despite going their separate on-screen ways. But their reps are denying the rumours that Penn popped the question and that the pair of 22-year-olds are now planning a trip down the aisle.

Getting married that young, and in the midst of overwhelming new-found fame, is perhaps not the ideal thing. So, let's hope those are genuine denials from the GG-stars' flackers.

On the subject of 22 year olds and non-ideal things... the man who makes sure to propel himself back to the top of the terrible parenting charts every week or two — Michael Lohan.

Is there anything he doesn't think the tabloids need to know about his embattled young daughter of 22? No, is the short, and accurate, answer.