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Amanda Bynes' post-rehab future looks very bright ... pink -- the color of choice at her prestigious fashion design school

Amanda -- carrying an oversized bag of school supplies -- appeared in the colorful lobby of the Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising in Irvine, CA ... looking like a typical college student.

Bynes -- who lives at home with her parents -- enrolled in design classes as part of her recovery ... after she was released from rehab in December.

Aaron Eckhart pumped up his 45-year-old physique by lifting weights on the beach in Santa Monica yesterday, and showed off his rock hard ... abs.

The bulging actor sported some unfortunately clingy swim trunks during the workout session ... nearly overshadowing his scar free bod.

Aaron reportedly busted his ass in the gym for 6 months to get in fighting shape to play 200-year-old Adam in the new film "I, Frankenstein."

Nice build.

Lindsay Lohan has no problem collecting a paycheck from convicted cocaine smugglers ... TMZ has learned.

Sources close to Lindsay tell us ... it's inconceivable that she'd bail out of the film, "Inconceivable" ... despite reports the money men -- who've backed several Hollywood movies, including "Lone Survivor" with Mark Wahlberg -- were convicted of coke trafficking.

L.A. Weekly reported the men -- Remington Chase and Stepan Martirosyan -- were convicted in 1993. There were even allegations they put a hit out on a guy in Moscow.

Our Lindsay source tells us ... she was in the dark about the guys until recently ... but she's never run from coke before ... so she's doing the movie -- period.

Here's her thinking -- film financing is a business matter and of no concern to an actor.

Whatever Halle Berry's taking ... it's working like a charm -- the 47-YEAR-OLD stepped out last night for the first time since giving birth to her SECOND kid ... looking like someone half her age.

Halle was at the Acapulco Film Festival in Mexico ... but her bod was the real show.

Halle and fiance Olivier Martinez welcomed son Maceo in October ... which is crazy enough considering Halle's age ... but even crazier because the pregnancy had ZERO effect on her physique.

In fact, it might have made her even hotter ... just look at those boobs.

File this Under: "Only In Hollywood" -- the caged lion at Meek Mill's humongous Grammy after-party moonlights as an actor ... and once starred in a movie with Matt Damon, TMZ has learned.

Sources connected to the lion tell us ... the lion's name is Felix -- and rapper Meek Mill shelled out $9,000 for the king of the jungle to appear at his Hollywood Hills mansion party for 3 hours.

As we previously reported, Mill's party was PACKED with huge stars like Diddy, Drake, Nicki Minaj and more ... but Felix happens to be a heavyweight in his own right.

We know ... Felix had a starring role in the 2011 flick, "We Bought a Zoo" ... which featured Matt Damon and Scarlett Johansson.

Felix has also starred in several commercials (he's not as proud about those -- but hey, he's gotta pay the bills).

Here's "Legally Blonde" lawyer Reese Witherspoon doing serious time in a safety-cone-orange outfit at a benefit in L.A. this week -- and Taylor Schilling's character Piper in her signature state issued scrubs from "Orange is the New Black."

Only one of them was actually arrested in the last year.

Goldberg the Goalie from "The Mighty Ducks" has been ordered to stay the hell away from his ex-GF ... after allegedly punching her in the face during a nuclear fight last year ... and trying to pee on her.

TMZ broke the story ... Goldberg's ex Sonja Dimitrievska filed the request for the restraining order in November, claiming Goldberg -- actual name Shaun Weiss -- had been physically abusing her for two years.

She claims the final straw was a fight in April ... when a drunk Goldberg punched her, threatened to kill her, then tried to pee on her ... saying, "This is all you're worth."

The intergalactic adventures of Lt. Colonel John Sheppard have been derailed ... at least as a married man -- TMZ has learned, "Stargate Atlantis" star Joe Flanigan's wife has filed for legal separation.

Katherine Kousi -- who starred in a bunch of 90s classics like "Encino Man" and "Bio-Dome" -- filed the docs in L.A. citing irreconcilable differences. They got married 17 years ago and separated in November.

They have three sons -- a 13-year-old, an 11-year-old, and a 7-year-old -- and Katherine wants physical custody. She's open to splitting legal custody and giving Joe visitation.

As for spousal support, Katherine's not feeling generous ... she wants to block the court from awarding him money. And she wants him to foot her legal bills.

Calls to Joe's people weren't returned.

Jason London can now say he was never convicted of crapping in a police car ... even though he pled guilty ... TMZ has learned.

Jason had pled guilty to disorderly conduct -- for sharting in a squad car after getting popped for a drunken bar fight in Scottsdale, AZ.

According to the plea deal he struck, Jason was required to complete a 16 hour alcohol-ed course. Once classes were completed, the judge agreed to erase the conviction -- as if it never occurred.

Well Jason graduated magnum cum laude from his class ... so it's like he never crapped in the car.

Vin Diesel felt the urge to dance ... by himself ... to a Katy Perry song ... and thankfully, he recorded the entire session on video to share with the world.

Diesel took a break in the middle of rockin' out to explain why he felt like dancing -- "Universal just called me and told me "Riddick" is number one on the DVD charts."

Vin says he's especially stoked because it was such a challenge to get the movie made in the first place -- so to celebrate, he cranked some KP (and later Beyonce) and let himself go.

The Charlie Sheen charity train chugs on ... TMZ has learned, the "Anger Management" star just donated an $8,000 pitching machine to a high school in L.A.

Sources tell TMZ, one of the baseball coaches at Santa Monica High School is an old friend of Charlie's ... so the actor decided to chip in and help his pal's team practice with a HomePlate Sports Tutor pitching machine ... an impressive piece of equipment that costs roughly $8,000-$9,000.

The guy who claims he wrote the movie, "Trouble With the Curve," only to have it stolen out from under him, now says he has CSI-type evidence proving the guy who's getting credit boldly LIED about writing the script before him.

Ryan Brooks has sued Randy Brown, claiming he and others stole a script Brooks wrote, entitled "Omaha" ... tinkered with it, and then renamed it "Trouble With the Curve."

Brown claims he wrote the script on his own way back in 1997. But now Brooks has filed legal docs -- obtained by TMZ -- in which he claims his team of high-tech forensic experts has picked apart data from Brown's floppy disks which contain notes and manuscripts, which Brooks says have telltale signs of manipulation.

-- The disks themselves were created between 1999 and 2001.

-- The floppies are sloppy ... The operating system that saved the manuscript wasn't created until AFTER 1997, which Brooks says is clear FRAUD.

-- One of the disks contains a folder named "Trouble w/ Curve" and that was created in 1993. Brooks says it makes no sense if Brown says he didn't even come up with the idea til 1996.

Quentin Tarantino isn't taking kindly to Gawker posting a link to his latest screenplay, "The Hateful Eight" -- which leaked online last week -- in fact, he just SUED the website ... accusing it of hitting him where it really hurts ... his wallet.

Tarantino's lawsuit reads, "Gawker Media has made a business of predatory journalism, violating people’s rights to make a buck ... This time they went too far."

Rather than reporting the story of the "Hateful Eight" screenplay leak, Tarantino claims Gawker went out of its way to publish the full script ... and even relished in it ... encouraging its audience to read the script illegally.

Tarantino is suing for copyright infringement.

Boyz II Men are on bended knee asking a filmmaker to change the title of his new movie "Boys 2 Men" ... and if he refuses, the group says they're going to court.

Reps for Boyz fired off a letter to the movie makers this week saying they never gave permission to use the name ... so they're ready to pull out the heavy artillery against the filmmaker, as well as any theater or website that runs the flick.

The writer/director for "Boys 2 Men" tells TMZ ... they will not change the title of the movie unless they're boxed in a legal corner ... and so far they don't think they are.