After months of enduring Barbara Walters's insidious campaign of passive-aggression, the hosts of The View (led by Sherri Shepherd) finally had their revenge today by implying she was a veritable painted harlot.

People like Nadya Suleman, the IVF junkie mother of 14, and Alfie Patten, the 13-year-old father from England, are getting famous just for reproducing. It's a pretty gross trend.

Superstar statistician Nate Silver has used data upon data to accurately forecast some of baseball's and politics' most complex developments. So how to follow up the election? How else: by being wrong at the Oscars.

Typically, Project Runway rolls into Fashion Week with a huge swath of catchphrase-aspiring designers already cut. However, ongoing legal battles are forcing the new, still-delayed season to employ some subterfuge for Friday's big show.

The greatest auction in the history of the universe will be held this April at The Beverly Hills Hotel, featuring over 2000 of Michael Jackson's completely insane personal effects. Here's a preview:

Ideally it would have been great to see Jimmy Kimmel come out and cut Nightline's throat in his just-released interview with Broadcasting & Cable. But! There remain some jagged edges in his late-night diplomacy.

Hollywood ambassador Mike White made his Amazing Race debut last night—did he go down in reality TV flames, or did he register a win for screenwriters everywhere?

Salma Hayek weds, African baby thought he had dibs. [E!]

The makers of Star Trek have finally caught up with the real-estate vanguard, offering new, 360-degree virtual tours of their lovely, pricey new interstellar property.

I mean, did you really think it would be a hit? Joss "Buffy" Whedon's new Fox series Dollhouse had television's second lowest-rated premiere of the season, after something called Crusoe. Its lead-in, Terminator, also tanked.

EW reported the other day that Chris Brown was looking to hire a crisis expert, and we imagine that the guru's first advice to him was, "Maybe apologize? For that thing you did? Finally?"

Happy President's Day! What better way to honor the legacy of America's bold leaders than to sacrifice our own day off, starting with an historic Monday Morning Box Office?

[Teen scene queen Lindsey Lohrmer with fashion guy Matthew Williamson, leaving the Bowery Hotel last night; image via INF]

Hey, America's #1 numbers whiz Nate Silver has already figured out who will win all the Oscars! Thanks for spoiling the "female Super Bowl," Nate, you misogynist. Click through to see the future of cinema:

Today we have several crumbling relationships. A chef stepping out on his wife A wife cheating on her husband. And a power couple about to get divorced. And so soon after Valentine's Day.

So says plastic-faced German fashion designer Wolfgang Joop, anyway. Yes, someone named Wolfgang Joop has criticized someone else for something. Heidi's reps say that the designer is just trying to ride her coattails.

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"The new [Project Runway] season will air later this year."

Lindsay Lohan's Valentine's Day got off to an awesome start at 1 AM Saturday: A fight on the streets of Nolita, trailed by paparazzi and a reporter for the New York Post.

Having tried to block it for years, a broke Michael Jackson has finally agreed to auction off a large collection of his belongings. Auctioneers for Julien's Auctions were let into Neverland Ranch to ransack it.