Joining him in rehab are Sean Stewart (Sons of Hollywood), Amber Smith (model/actress), Rodney King, Nikki McKibbon (American Idol), Steven Adler (Guns n Roses) and Tawny Kitaen (Actress).

Gary Busey, who is 13 years sober from his cocaine addiction, will also be joining the cast to take the journey with the others and to share his experiences on the recovery process.

Certainly, the cast cuts a wide swath of "celebrity," covering everything from the I.Q.-deficient children of successful recording artists to brutal police-beating victims (who we're concerned might unintentionally set off a second round of LA riots, this time with the city's disenfranchised addicts raging against the Sober Man), with your requisite American Idol contestants, Drummers of the Tribe, and decades-past-their-prime pin-up models thrown in for good measure. The most notable absence: small business owner and aspiring boy-pimp Heidi Fleiss, who was scheduled for intake, but according to the NY Post got cold feet at the last minute.

• Celebrity Rehab [VH1]

In the evening's tensest moment, Conaway (fresh off four unspecified surgeries, and currently welded to some kind of hi-tech plastic exoskeleton) looked on helplessly as his ruby-lipped enabler was attacked by Nielsen, who had the gall to suggest the woman who smuggled a VitaminWater bottle of purple-tinted vodka into her husband's detox facility might be harboring her own addiction issues. We admit, we had hoped for better things for the couple—Jeff claims he's off the coke and booze, and is just "sticking to what they give me," (translation: "I've given up on trying to swallow all those fucking L-Ron brand vitamin horse-pills, and I'm not off the coke and booze")—but for now, at least, we'll close the chapter on Vikki & Kenickie's improbable love story on a high note, by revisiting a performance of their smashed single, "Krazee."

• Celebrity Rehab

"Taxi" star Jeff Conaway...says he has finally kicked his drug habit by practicing Scientology. Conaway: "I've been doing Scientology...My doctor was like holy cow, he says whatever you've been doing keep doing it because it's really working."

Conaway says his former "Grease" co-star John Travolta introduced him to the controversial religion. "John and I stayed friends but he couldn't watch me going down the tubes...He gave me a whole library of Scientology books and he's given me an auditor who comes almost every day."

Regular watchers of VH1's Celebrity Rehab know just how life-threatening Conaway's disease is, with a cure seeming beyond the scope of Dr. Drew Pinsky's science-myth qualifications. An aggressive Hubbardian approach, therefore, might be exactly what the "Krazee" singer needs to dry out, as its amazing how quickly one can overcome the OxyContin cravings when you're locked inside a sauna for days with only a handful of vitamins for sustenance, forced to watch the occasional video of a duct-tape-bound Vikki holding up that day's newspaper to prove she's still alive.

• insideedition.com