By Scott Bowles

Nothing serves Hollywood better than a world on the brink.

Look at the year in film. War and a full-blown recession haven't stopped moviegoers from plunking down $10 a ticket. Brisk business over the Christmas weekend pushed 2008 ticket sales to $9.5 billion — within striking distance of the record set last year of $9.6 billion.

Of course, rising ticket prices means that attendance remains relatively flat, and it could dip slightly from last year.

BY Nancy Dillon

A pretty blond Ohio woman used as a decoy for Jamie Lynn Spears in a ham-handed switcheroo to fool paparazzi wants Los Angeles airport police to pay for duping her, too.

Adessa Eskridge, 27, has filed a claim seeking more than $100,000 from the city over the bungled hoax at LAX in September, her Houston-based lawyer Chuck Vernon said.

He said a group of six to eight uniformed cops plucked Eskridge from Jamie Lynn's fli ... Read more »