People magazine and pretty much every other celebrity-gossip outlet with access to the Net says Spears holed up early Sunday in an LA hotel with a photographer named Adnan, checking out a few hours before sons Sean Preston, 2, and the other one, 15 months, were to arrive at her Beverly Hills house for a scheduled visit.

The slumber party ended several late nights that saw the Troubled Pop Star{trade} driving aimlessly through LA - at times with headlights off and trunk up. OK! magazine adds that Spears blew many red lights as she toured some of the city’s finest gas-station restrooms. People says Spears parked in a handicapped spot at a Rite-Aid drug store (”I have to buy stuff for my babies,” she told paparazzi) and purchased a 32-inch plush horse, labeled “For ages 4 and Up” (translation: Spears may not be a good mother).

Celebrity parents are out of control.  Joe Simpson inks Jessica to any cheesy movie deal he can muster before her looks completely jump the shark. Lynne Spears daughter got knocked up at 16, and the other one “appears” for any bizarre reason in convenience stores or Starbucks always looking unwashed and unkempt.  Then there is Michael Lohan, the user and abuser who did his time in the pokey, and now has Jesus and career caveats working for his little Lindsay.

In “Extra’s” exclusive interview with Michael Lohan, he comments on the Spears’ family saga.

Lohan says, “People just don’t realize what it’s like to live under the whirlwind that families like mine and the Spears and other families out there are caught up in. It takes a lot to hold it together.” But he does offer some words of wisdom, saying “Stand together. Stand by each other and don’t let anyone come between you.”

Papa Lohan also clears up the new rumor that Lindsay is dating “Entourage” star Adrian Grenier, saying, “He’s a friend. She went over there for dinner one night over the holidays for an hour or so. They drank water and she went home.”

When asked how Lindsay is doing, Lohan responds, “She’s doing amazingly well.”

She might not be sixteen, but, heck, this is Hollywood, the home of the strange and the wierd.  Reportedly, actress Jessica Alba, is pregnant and is engaged to Cash Warren.  Last week, it was announced that Britney Spears little sister, Jamie Lynn Spears, also an actress is pregnant.  So much for role models.

Speaking of role models, Hollywood on Thursday, it was announced that Mischa Barton is the next casualty of getting arrested for DUI.  Barton adds her name to the scores of stars who have been arrested for DUI this year or who have grown an albatross to bear.

Josh Groban’s and Mary J. Blige are actually two stars with good news this Christmas season.  Groban’s “Noel” now heads the pop album charts for a fifth week and Blige’s new CD “Growing Pains,” hit No. 2 with 629,000 copies.

In the land of celebrities, there is even more good news so things are not always so wacky.  Barron Hilton, announced he will donate nearly all of immense fortune to a philanthropic foundation in the family name which does great work for the needy.  Now, if some of our self-absorbed young talents would take advantage of their gifts and share with others, wouldn’t this be a much better place for all? 

antiMusic) Since it is such a slow news day, we’ll end the final Day in Rock report of the year with an editorial I wrote about the current state of the music business. - Keavin antiMusic editor.

I started antiMusic almost ten years ago with the crazy dream of using it to showcase quality music that was being ignored by the mainstream. The last thing I thought it would turn into was a chronicle of the demise of the music business. Where I once was an optimistic and passionate music lover, today I’m pretty cynical about the whole “business” of music where the very last consideration seems to be the music. I’m still passionate about music, but I have utter contempt for the entertainment business at large and its culture of mediocrity, trend mongering and lack of passion about what really should be important and that is the art.

A few years back, I wrote a couple of related editorials about this trend and how it has only grown over time. One piece dealt with how some of the biggest selling albums of all time came about by mistake because given the general operating procedures of the music business they would have never had a chance. I wrote about how the Beatles were turned down by every major record company of the day. Not once, but twice. Now, think about that for a minute. The people at the record companies that supposedly know the music business turned down The Beatles twice because they didn’t think they could “market” them. It has only become worse since then. There is a good chance that a band that could be as revolutionary as the Beatles is sitting in a garage somewhere, playing pay-to-play gigs and getting ignored by the corporate record company machine and you’ll never hear them because they don’t sound just like everybody else or won’t make good pin-ups for teen magazines.

The sad state of affairs at the end of 2007 is that our biggest selling music stars are coming from a television karaoke contest. Sure they are talented, but do they really bring anything new to the game? Or are they, by the very nature of how they achieved their fame, playing it safe and putting out music which is basically a Xerox of what has come before? Sure, some inspire real passion from their fans. Some fans go to the point of insane obsession but when you really look at it, it usually boils down the cult of personality over the love of their decent, but mostly forgettable and interchangeable, music.

The record companies are corporations in the business to make money. God bless them for that, but somewhere along the line they lost almost all focus of the fact that great music can and does sell. And the last thing that seems to be in their mind these days is creating long-term careers and instead they want to focus on cashing in on “what’s hot” today; as they pass out pink slips to their employees when their latest signings received a lukewarm reception. It interesting that the first music business billionaire was David Geffen, a man that made a career of taking chances on what he thought was great music, even if it didn’t exactly fit in with the flavor of the week. He pretty much took chances and as a result made the trends, didn’t follow them.

They’re trying to make Amy Winehouse go to Norway, and she might not be able to say no.

The troubled chanteuse was summoned Thursday to appear in a Bergen court in connection with her appeal of the fine she and her husband paid in October after they were busted for marijuana possession.

Winehouse has said that she didn’t know that, by paying $715 apiece in fines, she and Blake Fielder-Civil were basically pleading guilty to the charge.

The couple spent the night in jail following their Oct. 18 arrest at their hotel, forking over the fees the following day.

Two weeks later, their Norwegian attorney, Ole Kvelstad, said that the Bergen police made a mistake by not making a translator available to the two Brits to explain the charges, and that Winehouse was basically tricked into signing a document she didn’t understand.

Authorities say otherwise but, regardless, they’re requesting a command performance.

“I can confirm that she must appear in court,” Bergen police spokeswoman Liv Karlsen told the Associated Press. “If one appeals a conviction, it’s the rule that one has to appear in person, so this is not surprising.”

A conviction could make it harder for her to obtain permission to enter the U.S., thereby hurting Winehouse’s career opportunities abroad, Kvelstad has said.

While she’s been keeping her distance, the 24-year-old “Rehab” singer’s myriad troubles don’t seem to have hurt her standing among the Yanks so far.

She’s been photographed looking dazed and disheveled, booed during live performances and forced to seriously curtail her schedule due to “health reasons” (not to mention busted for pot possession), and Fielder-Civil is in jail awaiting trial on witness-tampering and assault charges. But still Winehouse was nominated for six Grammy Awards earlier this month, including nods for Record, Song and Album of the Year.

And none of those nominations were revoked when Winehouse herself was arrested and questioned by British authorities in connection with her hubby’s case. Fielder-Civil has been remanded to custody until Jan. 18, and Winehouse is scheduled to undergo more questioning in March.