Celebrity Dirt - 10.17.11

DALLAS star Larry Hagman has been diagnosed with cancer. In a recent statement Hagman said,  "As J.R. I could get away with anything -- bribery, blackmail and adultery. But I got caught by cancer."

The 80-year-old actor didn't specify what kind of cancer he has, but did say it's "a very common and treatable form." Hagman begins production today on TNT's remake of Dallas.

Lindsay Lohan is due in an L.A.court Wednesday to answer questions about her community service. Rumors are that she might have violated her probation after getting booted from the Downtown Women's Center, where she was doing her service. She's accused of being a no-show at the center nine times and not spending a minimum of four hours there when she did show up. According to TMZ, she could be sentenced to more than a year in jail if the judge decides she violated her probation.

And they continue to fall....ABC has cancelled Charlie's Angels. The Hollywood Reporter had this to say about the remake: "It's beyond heinous. It contains some of the worst acting of the last decade on network television, much of it by Minka Kelly."

Taylor Swift has donated 6000 books to a library in Reading, Pennsylvania, near her hometown of Wyomissing. Librarians hope that the books, which will each be marked with a white star on the spine and inside the cover, will encourage kids to read more