Sideshow: Brit to front for 'VMA'

Britney Spears

, whose appearance at MTV's Video Music Awards last year was considered a disaster, has filmed a promo video for this year's show, reports E! News'

Marc Malkin

. It remains unclear whether Brit will attend the show Sept. 7.

Days after news that

Britney Spears

has signed on to star as a lesbian killer in

Quentin Tarantino

's remake of

Russ Meyer

's classic

Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!

, we hear that

Brad Pitt

will star in Q.T.'s

Inglorious Bastards

, a loose remake of

Enzo G. Castellari

's 1978 WWII film, which was billed as a

dirtier

version of

The Dirty Dozen

.

Simon Pegg

(

Hot Fuzz

) and

Nastassja Kinski

are in negotiations to join the cast.

Jerry Greenfield

says his ice cream company, Ben & Jerry's, will never, ever develop an ice cream flavor named after troubled blues crooner

Amy Winehouse

.

"I'm not sure that Amy has the proper image that Ben & Jerry's wants to be connected with," Jerry told online radio station Heat Radio. Ben & Jerry's has immortalized Jerry Garcia and Elton John in ice cream.

Michael Lohan

tells TVGuide.com that his lovely and talented daughter

Ali Lohan

is deeply hurt by comments CNN newsman

Anderson Cooper

made about her on

Live With Regis and Kelly

. Cooper said that since

Lindsay Lohan

never appears on mother

Dina Lohan

's reality show,

Living Lohan

, viewers are "stuck with these horrific people," meaning Dina and Ali. "There's this perfectly nice - allegedly a 14-year-old - girl, looks to be about 60," said Cooper, who opined that Ali wants to be "a striptease person."

"I'm surprised that he lowered himself to pick on a child and act like a child himself," Pa Lohan said.

British tabloids, including the Sun and the Daily Mail, have an unsubstantiated report that

Paul Newman

has only a few weeks to live. Citing an anon source, the Mail claims Newman, 83, who has been undergoing chemotherapy at a New York cancer hospital, insists he return home to die by wife

Joanne Woodward

's side.

There has been no confirmation or other comment from Newman's people.

Pop singer

Joanna "JoJo" Levesque

tells celeb TV newsmagazine

Extra

that

Miley Cyrus

was cast in Disney's

Hannah Montana

only after Levesque turned down the role. But, she says, she has no regrets - even though Miley's is now a household name while JoJo's moniker is, um, well, not as well-known.

"No regrets. No regrets at all," JoJo, 17, tells Extra. "Yeah, they offered me the role . . . [but] it's not really what I see for myself."

JoJo can be seen in the Lifetime show True Confessions of a Hollywood Starlet.

Following a hallowed tradition set by

Demi Moore

,

Lisa Marie Presley

, who is expecting twins sired by her hubby,

Michael Lockwood

, bares her tummy in a photo spread in the September issue of Marie Claire.

Lisa Marie tells the mag she decided to do the spread to get back at gossipers who claimed, early in her pregnancy, that she looked fat, gross, icky, etc. "They want me to be him," she says, referring to her dad, Elvis Presley. "It's like they can't wait."

The singer says the tabloids altered photos of her to make her look fat.

"There are at least six other famous women pregnant right now who aren't getting picked on," she says.

Ryan Seacrest

will team up with

Dick Clark

again to present ABC's New Year's Eve bash, now titled

Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve With Ryan Seacrest

.

Ryan first jumped on board in December 2005 after Clark suffered a stroke.