Sideshow: Winehouse's lung troubles

Amy Winehouse

, 24, who was rushed to a London hospital after collapsing at home on June 16, must quit drugs and cigarettes or risk losing her voice - or her life - her father told the Sunday Mirror this weekend.

"With smoking the crack cocaine and the cigarettes, her lungs are all gunked up,"

Mitch Winehouse

said. "The doctors have said that if she had continued the way she was going she could have ended up an invalid."

Mitch told the Mirror that Amy had been diagnosed with emphysema. "There are nodules around the chest," he said. "She's got 70 percent lung capacity."

But in an interview Monday with BBC Radio 1, Mitch clarified - and qualified - his earlier claim.

"Amy really hasn't got emphysema. There's traces of emphysema," he said.

All in all, Mitch seems optimistic. "[Amy is] smothered in nicotine patches," Mitch said. "She's responding brilliantly to treatment. She's actually flourishing."A passage to India for Sly

Sylvester Stallone

is being outsourced to India. Actually, Sly has signed on to star in a Bollywood movie.

Incredible Love

, which also will feature

Arnold "The Govinator" Schwarzenegger

, will costar Bollywood stars,

Ashkay Kumar

and

Kareena Kapoor

. It's about an Indian stuntman who conquers Hollywood, yet fails to find true love. To be honest, Sly isn't actually going to India. The movie, which at $21 mil will have the biggest budget of any Bollywood film, won't be shot in Bollywood but at Universal Studios in Hollywood.

Cynthia Nixon

denies a New York Post report that she's had breast enhancement surgery, says the New York Daily News.

"We got a call from [The Post] asking if I'd had breast augmentation, and my publicist laughed at them and said, 'No, of course not.' But they printed it anyway," Nixon said. "If I was going to get a boob job, wouldn't it make sense that I'd get it before

Sex and the City

?"

So how could the Post get it wrong?

"I was at St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital for my 'three-monthly' checkup," said Nixon, who is a breast cancer survivor.

"I was in the Oncology Department. I guess they think that means 'plastic surgery.' "

Nathaniel Dawayne Hale

, better known as hip-hop and R&B singer

Nate Dogg

was arrested yesterday on the 405 in Los Angeles by officers from the California Highway Patrol, says TMZ.com.

Mr. Dogg, a cousin of that other,

famouser

dog,

Snoop Dogg

, was stopped when cops received a 911 call from a woman claiming to be his estranged wife, who complained that Dogg was making death threats against her and was following her car. No comment from Dogg's reps.

Celebrated hip-hop and urban pop producer

Timbaland

(

Timothy Z. Mosley

), who has previously collaborated with

Nelly Furtado

,

Justin Timberlake

and

Madonna

, married publicist

Monique Idlett

, 33, Sunday in Aruba.

Maybe U.S. authorities really want to hurt

Boy George

, who has been denied a visa to enter this country. The Culture Club front man had planned a U.S. tour this summer, including a free August concert at the New York City Department of Sanitation's Family Day - an agency where he performing court-ordered community service in a 2006 drug case. His managers said yesterday that the visa denial was because he is awaiting trial for imprisoning a man at his London home.

Minnie Driver

, it seems, adores berry cake from Sweet Lady Jane. That's one of the many fun facts one could pick up at Minnie's baby shower Saturday at a friend's house in Malibu.

The house was decorated with pink and white peonies. Ms. Driver continues to deprive the gossip-hungry masses the name of the baby's dad.

Will Smith

threw down the glove yesterday against his most dread thespianic foe in all things cinematic,

Willow Smith

. Will went for the surprise blitz by issuing a challenge to his daughter live on the

Today

show.

"Daddy loves you, but he must stomp you at the box office," said Will, whose blockbuster

Hancock

will go up against Willow's kiddie blockbuster

Kit Kittredge: An American Girl

over the July Fourth weekend.

Good news for the Bread and Circuses Industrial Complex: This weekend Paramount became the first film studio to cross the

$1 billion

mark in domestic sales - and it's still only June. The studio got a nice push from blockbusters

Iron Man

,

Indiana Jones

, and

Kung Fu Panda

.

The world is still waiting to hear whether

Janet Jackson

, 42, will ever wed her honey, producer

Jermaine Dupri

. Jackson has been brilliantly and shrewdly evasive when asked if she's ready to get married, but apparently, she's ready to have kids.

"Janet would be a great mom," Dupri tells People mag. "She was around so many brothers and sisters all her life, so she's got to know what that is. And her mom is a great mother."

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has invited 105 lucky - oh-so-lucky! - actors, directors, producers, screenwriters and so forth (though, I imagine not best boys) to join their exalted ranks.

The newbies include such big names as best screenplay Oscar nominee

Sacha Baron Cohen,

best actress Oscar-winner

Marion Cotillard

(

La Vie En Rose

), supporting-actress nominee

Ruby Dee

, along with

Jet Li

,

Josh Brolin

,

Allison Janney

and

Ray Winstone.

The academy is a small club (how else can everyone fit in the tree house?). It has fewer than 6,000 voting members.

"That's the stupidest thing I've ever heard," says

High School Musical

sweetie

Vanessa Hudgens

about rumors that her boyfriend and costar

Zac Efron

prefers not to shower. Or bathe. Ever.

"Whoever came up with that is completely idiotic," Vanessa tells Newsweek. "He showers! He showers! Believe me, he does."