The Hollywood Palladium is likely going to be bought by a development company, which – in this age of blandness, means it’s going to have the cool pissed right out of it.

The sharp-eyed folks blogging over at Franklin Ave. also offer this warning about another Old Hollywood landmark: “Personally, I think it’s time to throw our attention over to Columbia Square, which could disappear within the next year if we’re not careful.”

Brandy is rumored to become The View’s new Star. The just-this-shy-of-a-has-been actress will fill in for a “try-out” next week.

Just Another Day — In Court: Michael Jackson’s latest court travails began this week in Santa Monica, with promises of smutty sex secrets, charges of faking his goofy persona and a guest appearance by his former nose.

World Domination: The Academy is dropping its requirement that a film be in the official language of the submitting country to qualify for Best Foreign Picture. The announcement will allow Poland to submit movies in languages that don’t make audience members think of their grandparents.

People invites you to quiz yourself on your Brangelina knowledge.

“How well do you know the world’s most beautiful couple?” the quiz asks. If, like us, you get one out of the five questions right, the mag tells you, “You don’t know Brad and Angelina like we do.” If you get all five right, your dead grandparents override your computer with a prompt telling you they’d like their DNA back.

J. Lo’s first ex-husband (think he has that on his business card?), Ojani Noa wants to publish a tell-all about their sex life. Lopez hopes an L.A. Superior Court judge stops him. So do we.

New Line Cinema is hoping to make a fortune on a 12-year-old British schoolgirl with a stripper’s name. Beating out 10,000 girls who auditioned across Britain, Dakota Blue Richards won the role of Lyra Belacqua, the heroine of best-selling children’s trilogy His Dark Materials, that the studio is hoping to turn into its very own Harry Potter. If the trilogy doesn’t make serious bank, we’re guessing the studio will hold on to Dakota for a Showgirls remake in six years.

Tell That To Jen: In defending CNN’s decision to air an interview last week with Angelina Jolie and call it “news,” network chief Jonathan Klein basically says he wouldn’t kick her out of bed for eating crackers. His actual quote: “I don’t know of any news organization that would not have talked to Angelina Jolie.”

We know, Jonathan. That’s the problem.

Good Review: The Devil Wears Prada is getting good reviews pretty much everywhere. but none are as utterly charming as Carina Chocano’s.

To wit: “With her crested gray mane, laser glare and perfectly modulated stealth missile sarcasm, Miranda Priestly, the editor in chief of the fictional Vogue clone, Runway, is still a monster. But as the sage Bugs Bunny once noted, monsters are the most interesting people.”

Some of My Closest Advisors are Gay: He doesn’t like gay marriage, but he does like gay votes, so Arnold Schwarzenegger deigned to speak to the Log Cabin Republicans on Thursday. He told the crowd “everyone needs someone to love.”

True. But what people really need, is someone to represent them.

Squirming Their Way To Victory: Jury prizes went out to two films that deal with the painful, uncomfortable and downright icky at the Los Angeles Film Festival. Gretchen, the story of an awkward teen’s slavish devotion to bad-boy types, and Deliver Us From Evil, a documentary about a pedophile priest, each won $50,000.

DiCaprio Goes Counterculture: Leo is going to blow our minds, man. The prettiest face in Hollywood is considering developing (and starring in) a biopic about LSD advocate Timothy Leary.

We’ll Laugh Later: Fox entertainment president Peter Liguori is hunting for new comedy projects that can be ready to air when American Idol returns in January. This is good news to all those out-of-work comedy writers who have been cursing unscripted programs like — well, like American Idol.

Rather than create anything new and interesting for the TV network (Ryan Seacrest counts as neither), the folks at E! are betting on that sure-fire, never-fails, no-one-has-ever-lost-a-dime-on-it medium: The Internet.

The Answer Bitch, L.A.’s hottest little vixen of gossip, tells us – and only us, because we’re that cool – that she filmed a short-form Internet program on her brand-new set yesterday, joining other short-form nuggets, such as The 2006 Tater Tops Awards and a Web-only complement to The Simple Life, Life Ain’t Simple.

Why do networks insist on relegating their good stuff to the Web? It’s nice to have something to watch at work, but our TiVo is hungry.

Denise Richards is selling her $4.3 million house. She only lived in it for a year, but we’re guessing her move has something to do with the fact that the Westlake Village home was virtually next door to the house ex-friend Heather Locklear once shared with Richie Sambora, Locklear’s former husband and current Richards flame.

The Orange County Register’s new computer system somehow replaced a page that was suppose to run yesterday’s Sudoku and Dear Abby advice column with a page from June 8.

Incensed readers flooded the paper with calls, prompting a features editor to leave a promise on her outgoing voicemail that she’d send individual angry callers the right Sudoku puzzle if they left their names and numbers. The editor told us she got between 75 and 100 calls – and that was just for an error that ran in some of the papers.