He said Matt Drudge and Karl Rove held the key to the presidency. His last book was embarrassingly wrong. Barack Obama won by studiously ignoring his advice. Someone put Mark Halperin in pictures!

On second thought, WHDH decided it might not go out of business if it airs Jay Leno's show at 10 pm, so the station reversed a short-lived effort to reject Leno's whatever-the-hell-it's-going-to-be at 10 p.m.

Following his conviction on second-degree murder charges in a Los Angeles court, music producer Phil Spector was immediately taken into custody. TMZ obtained his mug shot; click through for a larger version.

Crazy-haired music producer Phil Spector has been found guilty of second-degree murder in a Los Angeles court for the 2003 gruesome shooting death of actress Lana Clarkson. This was his second trial on the charge.

The child found inside a comet by actors Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes will turn three this week, then be shipped off to a strict Scientology school, as it is her father's most ancient religion.

Scarlett Johansson's assistant wrote about the media's dangerous weight obsession in the Huffington Post today, and it sounds like she didn't like a post of ours. But that wasn't the weight we were talking about.

Not even the "traditionalist" Catholics can keep it together! Mel Gibson's wife Robyn has filed for divorce, citing irreconcilable differences. Married in 1980, the couple has seven children together and millions of Passion-of-the-Christ dollars.

British people make the best vampires, they also make good crooks. Pirates are all the rage! As is crazy Glenn Beck. An HBO pilot gets more interesting by the day, while Showtime finds none of its pilots worth keeping.

Hannah Montana opened big, meaning we get six more years of Miley Cyrus. Fast & Furious continues to do donuts in America's muddy backyard, and those few who Observe'd did not Report good things.

[Former actress Melanie Griffith watches an Easter parade from a balcony in Malaga, Spain; image via INF]

Today we have a starlet with a secret same-sex tryst, a fading actor who had a quickie with a fan, an actress who gives hobos her autograph, and an actress about to have an intervention.

For all the talk about NBC Universal's flagship network or about its urbane Bravo cable network, it turns out the entertainment company makes its real money on the channel with professional wrestling and re-runs.

Billy Bob Thornton's band has canceled their Canadian tour after Thornton's bizarre on-air meltdown Wednesday.

Amy Poehler's Parks & Recreation premiered last night. We thought it was pretty good. Detractors' complaint? It's too much like its older bro, The Office. To which we say: Nonsense! They're so totally different.

Only a little news trickles out of Passover-quieted Hollywood, but we press on regardless. Melora Hardin lands a role, Showtime slows down, Gossip Girl gets real, Osama gets acquitted, and Grey Gardens gets lauded.

[Those things Heidi and Spencer from "The Hills" film the lady thing's new music video, surrounded by paps, in LA; image via Splash]

Today we have a singer who's getting serviced by men on the sly, another singer who hates her husband, a TV star with a vibrator, and one of those Ted Casablanca items about gay people.

At long last, the Greg Daniels/Amy Poehler sitcom premieres tonight. It's been a long time coming for Parks & Recreation, so how will the mockumentary series fare? Pretty well, we hope.

OK. Let's just get it out of the way: Didn't see that one coming! OK. That's over. Now, let's go on and discuss the elimination of Scott and hopefully not make any more terrible jokes.

Oh dear. Former Price Is Right host Bob Barker was on the Today show this morning hawking his new memoir, and it seems that he, for a brief beautiful second, almost entered the porn industry.