Lindsay Lohan is striking back at her daddy, who publicly blasted LiLo's girlfriend, Samantha Ronson.

Michael Lohan, who really needs to go sit down somewhere and do something productive, called SamRo "dark, hideous and a disgusting representation of humanity!" in an e-mail that was published on X17Online.

Well, his baby girl had a few things to tell Page Six about daddy's comments.

"My father obviously needs to be on medication to control his moods," Lindsay said. "He is out of line, and his words show how much anger he has, and it's dangerous and scary, as it reminds me of how he treated my mother and I my whole childhood. He needs to be stopped. This is yet another reason why we aren't speaking."

All we can say is do what you gotta do, girlfriend. But we do hope some day you and your poppa can be close.

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Speaking of poppas, we saw the trailer for "Notorious," the biopic on slain rapper Notorious B.I.G., a k a Biggie Smalls, a k a Christopher Wallace, and it looks pretty hot.

We love it when they call him Big Poppa! Check out the trailer at Yahoo Movies at movies.yahoo.com.

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While we're on the hip-hop tip, let's bust a rhyme:

"Cause I'm black and I'm proud

I'm ready and hyped plus I'm amped

Most of my heroes don't appear on no stamps."

That's a line from Public Enemy's "Fight the Power," and PE fans know the rest.

Anyway, the group's 1989 black power anthem, which was featured in the opening credits of Spike Lee's "Do the Right Thing," topped VH1's list of the greatest 100 hip-hop songs.

Remember Rosie Perez dancing her butt off?

Anyway, coming in at No. 2 is "Rapper's Delight" by Sugar Hill Gang, and Salt 'N Peppa were the only ladies repped in the top 10, with "Push It."

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Man, the economy is hurting everybody. Even celebrity baby pics are not bringing in the dough they used to.

Seems the photos of Clay Aiken's little bouncing baby boy, Parker, went to People for only $500,000, according to our girl Courtney Hazlett of MSNBC.com.

The way folks are hurting right now, we'd take $500 and be happy. But in the celeb world, that's a downgrade from the multi-millions that Brad and Angie and JLo got for their bambinos.

Court talked to one celeb magazine editor who said the days of paying out mega bucks for celebrity photos are over!

Still, we're not gonna sneeze at six figures. Maybe Clay, who is probably not hurting for cash, can take some of that money and donate it to hurricane victims in Texas, Louisiana and Haiti.

Just a thought.

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While we're talking about Clay, we'll let you know that "American Idol" judge Simon Cowell told "Extra" that he was "shocked" at the news that Clay is gay.

Then he busted out laughing.

Not really. The show's resident grump was joking about being surprised.

"I don't think anyone cares," Simon said when asked if Clay's coming out of the closet would affect his career. "Let's face it. It's 2008. You know, who cares?"

Our sentiments exactly.

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Has anybody seen R&B singer Ciara on the cover of Vibe magazine?

Girlfriend looks like she doesn't have a stitch on, and she tells MTV News that she's not happy about it.

"It's very, very upsetting and somewhat misleading," she said.

But Vibe editor-in-chief Danyel Smith said the whole naked thing was Ciara's idea.

"It was pitched to me in a way that it was time for [Ciara] to grow up and be beautiful and be free and be all the things she wanted to be," Danyel said in an interview with New York's KISS-FM.

Anyway, Ciara said the pictures that ended up on the cover and in the mag aren't what was discussed. She wanted something a little more artistic, she said. But at this point she's going to let it go.

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We're so glad that no matter how popular some of these little half-singing non-instrument playing "artists" become, true talent wins out in the end.

Pittsburgh native and jazz man extraordinaire George Benson is among the 2009 National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Masters.

He will be honored Oct. 17 at Jazz at Lincoln Center in NYC along with fellow jazz masters drummer James Wilbur "Jimmy" Cobb, saxophonist Lee Konitz, harmonica and guitar player Jean-Baptiste "Toots" Thielemans and trumpeter Eugene Edward "Snooky" Young. The A.B. Sopellman NEA JazzMaster Award for Jazz Advocacy will go to recording engineer Rudolph "Rudy" Van Gelder.

Love all the nicknames.