Sideshow: Gandolfini to marry longtime gf

It's official: HBO reps yesterday confirmed to People and Usmagazine.com that

Sopranos

star

James Gandolfini

has become engaged to his longtime gf,

Deborah Lin

. The question was reportedly popped in the Bahamas.

"Reps are happy to announce . . .," etc., says HBO's statement.

Pamela Anderson

denies two claims made by celeb site TMZ.com: that she is pregnant, and that she's

re-

filing for divorce from her hubby, the handsome sleaze and sometime pornographer

Rick Salomon

. Pam, 40, filed for divorce on Dec. 14, but withdrew the filing a couple of days later, saying she and Rick were working on their issues. The couple's 13-

week

anniversary is tomorrow (talk about longevity!).

US Weekly says that even though

Katie Holmes

failed to qualify for the race, she has been given the OK to enter the Boston Marathon under a "charity entrance" exemption.

The Palm Beach Post says

Bruce Springsteen

has paid $200,000 to settle a lawsuit by Olympic equestrian

Todd Minikus

, who claims the Boss reneged on a deal to buy one of Todd's horses as a gift for his daughter,

Jessica

.

Neither side will comment.

The L.A. County judge who sentenced hottoughchick

Michelle Rodriguez

, formerly of the smash hit ABC show

Lost

, to 180 days in jail for a DUI-related probation violation is steaming mad at the L.A. County Sheriff's Department, which yesterday released Rodriguez from the Century Regional Detention Center in Lynwood, Calif., after only 18 days. TMZ.com, which notes that the actress had served only 10 percent of her sentence, says the sheriff's deep motivation was fairness.

He wanted to treat Michelle the same as any other inmate, despite her preternaturally feminine muscle strength. Because of jail overcrowding, women convicted of nonviolent offenses are sprung early - usually after they serve 10 percent of their sentence.

Mischa Barton

yesterday shared her feelings about her recent DUI arrest with

Ryan Seacrest

on Seacrest's radio show, says E!Online. "Obviously, I'm 100 percent responsible for my actions . . . and I'm really disappointed in myself," the former

O.C.

star told Ryan. "I don't know what to say about it except I'm not perfect."

It's always so painful to find out that heroes one once worshipped are not really perfect.

Radiohead

, the critically acclaimed, iconoclastic PoMo, post-pop, post-human band, freaked out the music industry in October by offering a "pay what you want" digital download of its new record,

In Rainbows

. Stupid biz move, right? Wrong: The record's CD version has debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard charts, selling 122,000 copies. The CD is

so

hot that a week

before

its release, it was already at No. 152. (That's because some, no doubt immoral, vendors sold 9,000 early copies of the record.)

Alicia Keys' As I Am is at No. 2, selling 112,000 units, while Mary J. Blige's Growing Pains sold 89,000 copies, dropping from No. 1 to No. 3.

People mag says music phenom

John Mayer

, 30, and

Friday Night Lights

thesp

Minka Kelly

, 27, split up last month, but wanted to keep it quiet. No wonder it's over: Would

you

want to date a guy who was once gaga over

Jessica Simpson

?

Mayer-Minka reportedly remain buddies.

Toni Collette

, the remarkable Aussie actress who has an uncanny ability to vanish completely into her characters, on Wednesday gave birth to

Sage Florence Galafassi

, her first baby with hub

Dave Galafassi

, says USAToday.com.

Soledad O'Brien

has been awarded the inaugural Soledad O'Brien Freedom's Voice Award, named after her by Community Voices: Healthcare for the Underserved, a dot.org that provides health care for the needy. Soledad, who will be honored April 11 at the end of the three-day Freedom's Voice conference in Atlanta, was cited for being a "leading voice for freedom and justice" through her reportage on civil rights issues.

Embattled personality

Alycia Lane

no longer

is

- at least in that nebulous existential plane, the media. The former CBS3 anchor, who got into bags of trouble after being accused of hitting a NYC cop and allegedly using a homophobic slur, has been disappeared by CBS3. Yesterday, the link to her "bio" page on CBS3.com (

» READ MORE: http://cbs3.com/bios/Alycia.Lane.CBS

.

9.226141.html) led to a nonpage that read: "Yikes! It appears you have come across a page we do not have . . . but don't go away." Poor Alycia. Always liked her.

Even though

Britney Spears

announced she is taking a brief sojourn in Manhattan, TMZ.com says she's been spotted driving around in Mexico with her boyfriend, paparazzo

Adnan

Ghalib

. It has long been Brit's destiny to become the girliegirl incarnation of that feared outlaw, hero and patriot

Pancho Villa

.