Rosario Dawson at a Clinique event in NYC.

Let’s see you beat that, Brangelina! American Idol’s “very special” Idol Gives Back has raised over $60 million for the newly formed Charity Projects Entertainment Fund. The proceeds will be split between the U.S. — funding literacy programs, food banks, children’s health programs and Boys & Girls Club — and Africa, where they will help fight malaria, AIDS and TB.

Viewers phoned in a record 70 million votes on Tuesday night, and NewsCorp, which owns Fox, kicked in $5 million by shelling out ten cents a vote for the first 50 million votes (NewsCorp reported $2.3 billion in net income for 2006). Ellen Degeneres chipped in $100,000, and so many viewers called in to donate additional funds during Wednesday night’s two-hour telecast that the lines were often busy.

You can continue to donate at AmericanIdol.com. The final fundraising tally will be announced on Tuesday’s show.

In the wake of StupidThoughtlessLittlePig-Gate, Alec Baldwin has begun making the talk-show rounds to apologize for calling his 11-year-old daughter names clearly intented for his ex-wife on her voicemail. He started things off today with a pre-taped interview airing on The View, where he manages to kinda-sorta apologize for turning his anger toward Kim Basinger on his daughter and plug his website at the very same time (video here). Now that’s talent!

Said Baldwin, “Obviously, calling your child a pig or anything else is improper and inappropriate and I apologize to my daughter for that. There’s nothing wrong with being frustrated or angry about the situation. It’s the way you do it, and as people often do in this world, I took it out on the wrong person.”

The embattled actor recently split from his agents at CAA, and the rumor mill is now reporting that he bailed because CAA also represents FunnyOrDie.com, which put together a (hilarious!) video of Alec Baldwin’s voicemail addressed to Dora the Explorer. (FunnyOrDie.com is also responsible for the infamous Will-Ferrell-and-the-Drunken-Two-Year-Old-Landlord video, which has been quite the viral hit.)

There are 248 images from this event on WireImage right now. I swear to you that 239 of them are of Lindsay Lohan.

Pics of people other than Lindsay after the jump.

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A month ago I mentioned that I hoped this guy died soon.

And now he has. Everyone is rushing to lionize what a pioneering and wonderful man he was but this at best a half-truth. He was a proud censor, a man who made sure a priest helped form our rating systems, a bigot and a homophobe. He was a world class fuckhead, and even in death he’s not going to get a pass from me.

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Joss Stone thinks that maybe Britney just wanted a little airing out.

We shouldn’t be mad at Britney Spears because she didn’t wear underwear. That’s her choice. She wasn’t hurting anybody. That was her. She decided not to wear underwear. Maybe she wanted a little breeze. That’s her decision. But we should be mad at the guy who posted it on the Internet. What an [expletive], what a [expletive] [expletive]. That’s a really mean, nasty, malicious, terrible thing to do to somebody.

When you flash your cha cha to a bunch of paps and you are also hanging out with Paris Hilton at the time we have no other choice to post it on the internet. I have a feeling she knew the va jay jay was going to end up on the web…why else would you listen to the drone of that celebutard?

Julian Schnabel at the Breakthrough 2007- NFAA youngARTs Event shows us why old dudes shouldn’t try to be hip. From the waist up I am not thrilled with the outfit but it isn’t tragic. Waist down he is funky in a bad way. Those are some hip shoes but they should be worn by Zack Efron not some random old dude. I’m also worried that your sarong is going to fall off. I don’t want to see old guy naked.