Publicist: Lohan attending Alcoholics Anonymous

New York – Lindsay Lohan has been attending Alcoholics Anonymous meetings, her publicist said Friday.

“She started attending some, and I think it’s a positive thing,” Leslie Sloane told The Associated Press. “My biggest fear is who’s the big idiot to out which (chapter) she goes to.”

She said Lohan, 20, made the decision on her own to attend meetings, although Sloane added, “And, by the way, she’s not saying … she’ll stop drinking tomorrow.”

“It’s a place to go and feel safe,” she said. “No one judges her, and it’s going to be a slow process. But, to me, the fact that she’s seeing that there’s something not right makes her smarter than the next person.”

In an interview Friday with E! Entertainment Television’s Ryan Seacrest, Lohan’s mother, Dina, echoed Sloane’s comments. “That is true … It’s a positive thing,” she said.

The New York Post first reported sightings of Lohan at an AA meeting.

McCartney saw psychiatrist about marriage breakdown

London – Paul McCartney said Friday that he’s seen a psychiatrist for help since the breakup of his marriage in May.

McCartney, 64, and Heather Mills McCartney, 38, announced their separation in May after four years of marriage and began divorce proceedings in July. They have a 3-year-old daughter, Beatrice.

Mills McCartney has threatened to sue at least three British newspapers that published disparaging claims about her husband, alleged to have been contained in divorce court papers drawn up on her behalf.

In an interview with Britain’s Radio Times magazine, the former Beatle said he had sought solace in writing music, but had been helped by professional psychiatric counseling.

“You can be in an argument, or feeling down, and if you’re lucky enough to be able to write, you go into a corner and work your way through the emotions,” McCartney told the magazine in comments published Friday.

“Instead of sitting down with a psychiatrist, you sing ‘I’ve been feeling bad’,” he said.

Clooney talks about ‘brutal night’ out with Danny DeVito

New York – Blame it on the shots of limoncello. George Clooney says he woke up tipsy after a “brutal night” out on the town with his pal Danny DeVito.

“Well the funniest thing was, ah, you know, we were just at a restaurant,” Clooney says in an interview to air Monday on NBC’s “Today” show.

“It wasn’t like we were out drinking. We were at a restaurant, sitting down, drinking. I was in bed by 11:30 at night and I woke up at, you know, 7 (a.m.) and I was still drunk (laughs). … It was a brutal night.”

Clooney, 45, tells “Today” co-host Matt Lauer that he and DeVito “were doing shots of limoncello and that’s all I can really say on the subject.”

DeVito made a loopy appearance Wednesday on ABC’s “The View,” saying he’d had a late night out with Clooney.

When Lauer asks Clooney how much was consumed, he replies: “A lot. … I got to the point where I was dumping the shots into, ah, you know, a plant next to me and, um, … I don’t think Danny saw me do that.”

Leno, other comics sue editor over joke books

Los Angeles – It’s no laughing matter to Jay Leno.

The “Tonight Show” host and NBC Studios have sued humor editor Judy Brown and her publishers in U.S. District Court, claiming that her collection of joke books has profited from material filched from his standup routines.

Leno and other comics are seeking unspecified damages and a permanent injunction against Brown’s 19 books.