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• Have you heard? Actress Mischa Barton has learned to play the sitar for her new movie in a misguided attempt to make us all forget that she's Marissa Cooper. Nice try, Coop, but we're not falling for it. And neither is Atwood. (ICYDK)
• And speaking of our fave prematurely-cancelled show, remember Michael Cassidy? We knew -- and loved -- him as hippie/rich kid Zach Stevens in the post-Marissa era O.C., and now he's reportedly leaving crappy CW teen dramedy, Privileged. We're not sure why. Presumably, because it's terrible. (TV Squad)
• Scrubs creator Bill Lawrence says he won't be coming back for another season, and neither will the show's neurotic/effeminate star, Zach Braff. (New York Times, via TS)
• Paris Hilton is said to have spent somewhere between $5,000 and $10,000 buying 31 "beautiful sexy dresses" during a quickie Aussie shopping spree. It's good to be an heiress. (INO)
• Notorious lout Balthazar Getty has managed to get himself bounced from Brothers & Sisters. (Dlisted)