After three months of court-mandated treatment, actress Lindsay Lohan was released from a rehab facility on Tuesday, reportedly headed for a stay with a sober coach. But the 27-year-old won't be avoiding the limelight for long.

Lohan's buzzy film directed by Paul Schrader and co-starring porn actor James Deen, opens Friday (August 2), and as a bit of publicity, Lohan will fill in as host of Chelsea Handler's late-night E! talk show "Chelsea Lately" on Monday. Then there's the eight-episode docu-series for Oprah Winfrey's OWN network slated for 2014, which will be preceded by a sit-down with the veteran host, airing in August.

To be sure, it's a pivotal moment for the troubled actress, who has another opportunity to start anew after a trying few years. And if she's looking for advice on how to proceed, she need look no further than her own career, which has boasted its fair share of highlights. Here, five moments that hit the mark and the lessons Lohan can use going forward:

"The Parent Trap"
Lohan made her big-screen debut in this Disney remake of the classic 1961 film, and audiences were smitten with the cute, bubbly redhead they met on screen. It may have helped that there was twice as much to love as she played twins.

The Lesson: Family fare is a safe zone. Provocative content will get you headlines, sure, but not necessarily the kind you want. A heartfelt project in the vein of "The Parent Trap" could go a long way toward rehabbing your image and would also prove that ...

Katy Perry didn't exactly play it coy when it came time to announce the title and release date for her new album, eschewing the normal press release in favor of printing the information on the side of a gold-plated semi-truck wheeling through Los Angeles.

So, while it was difficult to miss the fact that Prism will be hitting stores on October 22, we still have no idea what's inside that golden 18-wheeler, and Katy's not about to tell us, either. In fact, when she was asked that very question by a fan, well, she suddenly decided to get all mercurial on us.

Okay, Katy, we'll play along. Surely you're not just sending an empty semi across the country — since, y'know, that would be pretty bad for the environment (what would Smurfette think?!?) — and while we love the idea of you trucking copies of your new single to retailers everywhere, we suspect you don't have your Commercial Driver's License, so that's out too. Also, we didn't notice any air holes poked in the trailer, so we're pretty sure you're not keeping your dancers back there, either.

So, just what is inside Katy Perry's gold-plated 18-wheeler? Here are our best guesses.

» Cats. A whole lot of cats.

» Kathy Beth Terry.

» The mobile unit of the NSA's PRISM surveillance program.

» All of Russell Brand's stuff.

» An even smaller golden truck.

» The Smurfs, whose escape will no doubt lead to some wacky adventures in the real world!

» All the remaining copies of 2001's Katy Hudson album, ...

Put your hands together, it's almost time for Lady Gaga to drop her new track, On Wednesday (July 31), the singer hopped on Twitter and revealed some more details about her highly anticipated August 19 single off ARTPOP.

"The single 'Applause' and it's MUSIC VIDEO will BOTH debut on same day. ARTPOP. 8/19," she tweeted to her near 40 million followers. The video was shot by Inez van Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadin, who worked with Gaga on her in 2011 as well as the artwork for "Applause," which she debuted earlier this week.

As if that wasn't enough new information for her Little Monsters, she also teased a few lines off the track, which she recorded with longtime collaborator and producer DJ White Shadow. She wrote, "Give me that thing that I love/ Put your hands up make 'em touch/ A-P-P-L-A-U-S-E."

Days after she premieres "Applause," Gaga is slated to take the stage on August 25 at the 2013 MTV Video Music Awards taking place live at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn.

The VMA performer also doled out some more details regarding the ARTPOP app. "The ARTPOP app is Free, available in App Stores on your device. You can purchase the music through the ARTPOP app once it's downloaded. Or you can purchase the album at the music store+download the free app separately at the app store," she shared, revealing that it will be available worldwide and on iTunes and GooglePlay.

A "placeholder" app will be available on August 19, ahead of her album's November 11 ...

Now-legal Selena Gomez just got another great reason to turn it up at a club
: her first #1 debut. Gomez's solo bow, Stars Dance,
 will top the Billboard 200 album chart next week after moving nearly 97,000 copies, according to figures provided by Nielsen SoundScan.

Among the other debuts in the top 10 were the latest from Latin star Marc Anthony, 3.0 (#5, 39,000) and the YMCMB-spawned Rich Gang, whose self-titled debut entered at #9 (24,000).

After two weeks at the top, Jay Z dropped down a slot as sales of Magna Carta ... Holy Grail were off 40 percent to 77,000 for a three-week total just shy of 735,000.

Jay kept the crown over on the iTunes album chart, with Gomez down at #2, the Rolling Stones' Hyde Park Live release at #4 and the self-titled release from Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeroes at #7.

After ruling the summer
 with his smash 
 soul swinger Robin Thicke will see if fans are in for the whole game when his Blurred Lines album hits the charts next week, along with new efforts from Five Finger Death Punch, "X Factor" finalists Emblem3 and the Backstreet Boys.

It was all about One Direction on the Billboard Digital Songs chart, as the group's 
 smashed into the #1 spot with 322,000 in sales, dropping Thicke's "Blurred Lines" down to #2 (312,000). Miley Cyrus slipped one to #3 with "We Can't Stop" (191,000), followed by Jay Z's "Holy Grail" (160,000) and Imagine Dragons' tenacious "Radioactive" (159,000). ...

Jay Z once joked that he'd "inspired a generation of bad writers" when he gave up on penning lyrics in favor of spitting full songs off the top, but we'd like to think that he inspired a generation of quick thinkers instead. Earl Sweatshirt's introspective single for example, was a result of one of those golden moments, or what producers Christian Rich described to MTV News as lyrical "blackout."

Earl enlisted twin brothers, Kehinde "Rich" Hassan and Taiwo "Christian" Hassan, to handle the a bulk of production on his debut album Doris, including "Chum," which was birthed during a memorable studio session.

"Most of the sessions were about five hours of talking crap — what artists you like and you don't like, having fun — and then he'll just black out and be like, 'OK I got a verse,'" Kehinde explained. "That's how 'Chum' worked."

"We were just playing around and I didn't even think the beat was done yet, and he's like, 'Yo I got a whole song.' He goes in the booth and just spits it in one take. One take. What happened to that dude was chillin' and talking crap? He said 'I'm gonna do this in one take, and he really did."

During his time working with Christian Rich and The Neptunes, who assisted on "Burgundy," Earl continued to improve his production skills. In that particular session he watched Pharrell take a 20-minute break from recording what would eventually become Robin Thicke's hit "Blurred Lines" to knock out the "slowest beat he's ever done" for "Burgundy."

Now ...

The details for Katy Perry's Prism have been teased for some time now, but the most tantalizing information rolled through the sunny streets of L.A. on Monday, when she announced the title and release date on the side of an eye-popping gold truck.

With fans counting down the days until October 22, MTV News is rounding up what we know about the release... so far.

She Has A Lot To Address
Perry's 2010 Teenage Dream not only spawned hits like "California Gurls" and "T.G.I.F. (Last Friday Night)" but a re-release billed as "The Complete Confection." In the years since, Perry has divorced Russell Brand, changed her hair color numerous times and found love again with John Mayer.

So, perhaps that will all help shape her latest musical confection? She teased, "It's gonna be three years later, how about that? Pick up where we left off."

It May Be Loud
With the album title and release date confirmed, fans are anxiously awaiting to hear what the lead single will sound like. And it may be a loud one. According to a new report from Idolator, that lead single might be called "Roar," but Perry and her camp have yet to confirm the rumored title.

We May See A Double Rainbow
Back in the spring, in line with the then-unknown album title, she shared that she and Bonnie McKee had penned a track called "Double Rainbow" that may find its way on there. In an interview with Vogue, where she addressed her pre-album jitters, she teased that another track, "Bad Photographs," ...

Lindsay Lohan was released from a rehab facility on Tuesday after three months of court-mandated treatment
 as part of a plea deal in a traffic case.

TMZ posted a photo of Lohan, looking bright-eyed and smiling, as she was leaving the facility and reportedly headed to her stay with a sober coach for several days.

The 27-year-old actress agreed to spend 90 days locked down in a rehab facility to avoid a possible eight month jail term stemming from accusations that she lied to police
 about a June 2012 car accident.

Though she was also ordered to complete 30 days of community labor and submit to 18 months of psychotherapy, Lohan will hit the ground running following what is believed to be at least her sixth trip to rehab.

Her new movie, 
 opens on Friday and she has agreed to fill in for Chelsea Handler on Monday's episode of the E! late night show "Chelsea Lately."

She will also be the subject of an exclusive eight-episode docu-series on Oprah Winfrey's OWN network, which will follow her as she tries to reboot her career and stay sober after leaving treatment. The series is slated to air in 2014. Lohan will also sit down with Winfrey for an interview that is scheduled to air in August.

Though some critics have not been kind, the director of "The Canyons," had high praise for his star.
 "Similarities? Tardiness, unpredictability, tantrums, absences, neediness, psychodrama — yes, all that, but something more, that thing that keeps you watching someone onscreen, that thing you can't ...