It's tough to be an Oscar favorite in October, five full months before the awards. And a little film called Precious is learning that it's even harder to be Oscar's front runner, especially if no one has seen you yet.

Hollywood has been in awe this week watching the details trickle out about the group of teens arrested for burglarizing the homes of stars including Lindsay Lohan, Orlando Bloom and Audrina Patridge.

Twitter's not all narcissistic minutiae and celebrity retweets: Jonathan Ames used it to obtain a TV, from his employer, via "whining."

If you see a bunch of suspicious-looking nerds loitering in your dorm courtyard and plotting privacy violations, don't panic, according to Johns Hopkins University administrators: It's just Justin Timberlake and his buddies pretending to be Facebook founders. (Update: No Timberlake!)

Just as America settled into a laissez faire consensus on office sex, some new confessions out of Fort Letterman have appeared to remind us of why we're all against the bosses-sleeping-with-their-employees thing in the first place.

Our little Serena is finally a working girl, and she certainly looked like one last night. But the scariest thing about Halloween on the Upper East Side is it looks like S is finally gaining some power. Trick or treat!

After much deliberation, Microsoft has decided against sponsoring the upcoming Family Guy special, 'Seth MacFarlane's Holocaust Incest Tampon Hour.' They join an illustrious list of Family Guy haters.

There's nothing wrong with a few brewskis, but not when it comes in the way of work. Also a couple torn apart by religion and a celeb spawn's stalker extravaganza. Come on in, we've been opening your mail.

Nikki Finke officially crosses the Forgetting Who She Is Rubicon in one groundbreaking headline.

David Spade, a real human with a real human heart, is so wounded by the criticism of his new ad "starring" his dead pal Chris Farley that he's come forth with a heartfelt statement from his flack.

For the first time since 1995, the Golden Globes awards will have a host, and that host will be idiosyncratic British comedy star Ricky Gervais.

If ever there were an industry in need of an intervention, it is Hollywood. And today, Disney boss Robert Iger sat show biz down and said, I just can't watch you do this to yourself any more.

Hollywood will always remember where it was when it first heard the news that Saw 6 had underperformed at the box office. Yes, times, are tough. Sure, media is in freefall; but who imagined it would come to this?

Scientology may be having its problems lately, but it's working on one high-level recruit. Also being sought after dates for a comedian to take to an orgy and new boyfriends for a famous, married wife. Uncle Sam wants you!

Things you'll learn on comedian/actor Adam Goldberg's fantastic "tour" of LA with VBS.tv: (1) Rihanna's (supposedly) his neighbor, her security guards are shitty, (2) Silverlake restaurants: shitty, (3) his Silverlake hipster friends: shitty cheapskates. It's bizarre, wonderful, and very LA.

The trustees of the estate of Chris Farley agree: The deceased beloved portly comedian would really enjoy DirecTV, were he not dead and all. Also, David Spade is available for kids' birthday parties and cheap blowjobs. Sleazebags.

Project Runway is all about vision and delusion. The vision to get an orange man to host a challenge. The delusion that it will be any good. The vision of far away places, and the delusion of escape.

It's a day of horrors for Hollywood; the goblins taking over the big-screen for our annual, mandated block when Only Scary Movies Can Be Released. And in the counting house, the scarier news that even U2 may have money troubles.

The best things in Hollywood are hidden: contracts to stay with a gay lover, condoms in clothes and handbags, celebrity couple threeways, and a sex tape...with a goat! Here we are bringing these things to light. It's God's work.

ABC is developing an extreme reality weight loss show for the morbidly obese.