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· Academy Award nominations: Oscar curls up with Brokeback Mountain in a roadside motel for a little post-coital cowboy cuddling. The nominees react, and react some more, with the general consensus being that it's nice to be important, but it's more important to be nice. The best directors bond over Blair Warner. We have an Oscar fever dream.
· Speaking of directors and Oscar fever, we know of one who got a little too carried away with this year's prevalent themes.
· And you shall know Brad Grey by the trail of the dead...
· In other awards news, Crash is the big surprise winner at the SAG awards, while the DGA hearts Brokeback. Tom Cruise is nominated for a Razzie: Audit that, bitch!
· Somehow, someone let this e-mail from Jeff Berg leak: ICM is not buying Endeavor.
· While we were shocked at first that either of these chicks was capable of committing an inner-thought to paper, the ensuing media coverage suddenly made it not all that shocking.
· Marcia Cross narrowly averts tragedy, but ends up having to fly Southwest anyway.
· Britney Spears is looking forward to sampling the legendary Will & Grace craft services, as her episode is protested by a group that stands up for history's long-persecuted, voiceless minority, the Christians.
· Brillstein Grey drops James Frey.
· Moneypenny?...Q?...Where is everybody?!
· "Singin too ra loo ra laddie, fetch me a wee pretty whore..."
· The first thing Joaquin Phoenix heard after his car wreck was Werner Herzog's voice, which he immediately recognized since it occupied nearly every frame of the Grizzly Man soundtrack.
· Katie Holmes exploits the caffeine loophole in her birthing contract.