LA's Prop 8 protests reached a high point on Saturday, as a Silver Lake rally/march drew an estimated 12,500 — and, crucially, a higher class of celebrity endorsers! We spotted actors like Milk's James Franco in the crowd, and when thousands of protesters broke away from the main group to head west on Sunset, they were eventually joined by Drew Barrymore, who addressed them at Sunset and San Vicente. After a tearful speech, the Beverly Hills Chihuahua voice actress descended into the crowd, while an organizer reminded the Drew-lovin' masses to treat her as just another protester (translation: no autographs, and please, no Facebook profile pics). [YouTube]

Not Your Average Bear. Family Guy spinoff The Cleveland Show has received a full-season order from Fox, but has been pushed all the way to Fall. In another announcement we totally saw coming, THR reports that "Arianna Huffington will join the cast in a recurring role as the [talking] matriarch of a bear family," who says things like, "Da eeconomeec game is not supposed to be rrrigged like some shaydee ring toss on a carneeval midway. Now who vould like another helping of flopping sah-mon?" [THR]

Expectations are high for the next administration, but they're even higher for your work and personal life. Spoilers below! If today - November 10 - is your birthday: It's time to make some hard decisions with your primetime lineup. It's like deciding which child you love more - only harder - because you love your actual daughter a lot more than any of those step-kids. Scorpio (October 24 - November 21): That long distance relationship can be difficult to endure, especially when you're both so career-focused. Either break it off or consider moving, because driving from Venice to Silver Lake is killing your Miata. More star signs after the jump!Sagittarius (November 22 - December 21): Trying to juggle all of those projects - album, clothing line, reality show - has stressed you out beyond belief. Close the blinds, turn off your phone and combine a couple medications — your troubles/pulse will melt away.

No one in Hollywood likely ever expected to see the words "Batman" and "Turkey" in the same sentence, but a developing story out of the Balkans reaffirms our faith in the impossible: The mayor of an actual Turkish city called Batman announced over the weekend he plans to sue director Christopher Nolan for naming infringement.Frustrated over the superhero's incursion into his centuries-old city's cultural turf, mayor Hüseyin Kalkan's proposed lawsuit would nevertheless omit Batman creator Bob Kane, publisher DC Comics and film franchisee Warner Bros. as Nolan's co-defendants. Instead, it would hold the filmmaker himself singly responsible for the region's growing international reputation as a brooding, froggy-voiced world capital of mayhem — none of it in glorious IMAX:

Who would've thunk it: apparently, The View's dunderheaded, error-ridden discussion of California's Proposition 8 didn't go over so well with the gay community! On today's show, Whoopi Goldberg divulged that the co-hosts had received angry phone calls from both GLAAD and Ellen DeGeneres in the wake of Friday's conversation. Unfortunately, Goldberg's list of errata and fact checks didn't stop Sherri Shepherd and Elisabeth Hasselbeck from committing a few more blunders.

So the election is over! What good news for us and what terrible news for... um, news. All the CNN and MSNBC and Fox junkies who were glued to the tube while the election Wehrmacht rolled its ruinous iron wheels over the land will now be leaving the news behind and returning to their regularly scheduled shitty programming. Or at least the people in charge of that shitty programming hope so! It's kind of a crock theory because news nets' ratings weren't that high that they seemed to be distracting a huge amount of TV watchers, and regular television was in a decline long before people started caring about politics anyway. But there must be some folks who traded their CSI for their POTUS and would now like an inroad back to the glorious world of primetime entertainment TV, hopefully with a methadone-dash of politics thrown in to add a bit of spice. And we've got a guide to Politics-related television for them, after the jump! How handy!

Lindsay Lohan's career path may be studded with recent missteps (Labor Pains and a stint on Ugly Betty cut short with just one majestic eye-roll from America Ferrera, to name a few), but if there's one thing that actually seems to be going well in Lohan's life, it's that whole "dating Samantha Ronson" thing. Not only did it appear to inspire near-sobriety and some cogent blog posts, but it also repelled sleaze-meister Joe Francis, breaking him of his addiction to girl-on-girl action forever. So, how has Lohan shown Ronson her thanks? With a couple of cagey disavowals in the new issue of Harper's Bazaar, of course:

Congratulations—if you're reading this, you've survived another round of layoffs. Everyone else: double congratulations. You may no longer be employed, but you're also still in bed, where we all really should be right now. Your box office numbers: 1. Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa - $63.5 million Exceeding even DreamWorks's loftiest expectations for the CGI bestiary, Madagascar 2 had the highest opening weekend of any animated film this year—$500k more than even Wall-E—and the seventh best animated film opening of all time. Many would no doubt credit scheduling for the success, with a post-election America ready to put the "issues" aside for a few hours of family-friendly entertainment. But it would be a discredit to its superstar cast of voice talent not to praise their fine achievements—and in particular, Sherri Shepherd, who plays a lioness mother worried her infant cub might stray from the pride and float right off the side of the Earth, or, even worse, end up in a zoo in some Sodomite metropolis halfway across the world where lions have won the legal right to lie with other lions.2. Role Models - $19.251 million 5. Zack and Miri Make a Porno - $ 6.521 million Surprising everyone was how well this R-rated child-mentoring comedy fared after Zack and Miri Make a Porno's underwhelming debut. No doubt the Weinsteins are at this moment scratching their heads at the unpredictability of public tastes, though one theory involves Models's bold decision not to replace stars Paul Rudd and Seann William Scott with stick-doodles on all marketing materials. 3. High School Musical 3: Senior Year - $ 9.293 million HSM3 fell just 39% in its third week, a strong showing attributable to encore business from this franchise's core fan constituency of lusty Zacamaniacs, who simply can't wait until Disney's HSM: TOTALLY UNRATED DVD release ("Featuring the raunchy Troy Bolton shower scene you've been dying to see!") for their HSM repeat-viewing fix. 4. Changeling - $ 7.281 million Clint Eastwood has likely already surrendered all the great Oscar hopes he held for this bleak period drama ever since reading EW's Oscar pundit Dave Karger fascinating theory that the Academy only plans on rewarding movies celebrating man's "innate human goodness" this year, like The Dark Knight. 6. Soul Men - $5.61 million Hey—don't feel so bad about the performance of Bernie Mac's last film. He was also a voice in Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa! That's got to be the first time a deceased actor was in two movies in the top five—but we're too lazy to actually look that up, so feel free to correct us if we're wrong.

Not much has changed in the last week since industry observers filed a missing persons report on Australia; Baz Luhrmann's $130 million historical romance is still officially unfinished with only nine days to go before its homeland premiere and 16 days before it opens worldwide. Again, Baz, don't hurry on our behalves, but! We learned a lot more over the weekend about those "mechanics of stotrytelling" so troubling the director in his quest to put his Nicole Kidman/Hugh Jackman epic to bed. And massive spoiler aside, it should make for a roiling eternity of second-guessing, DVD revisionism and studio-hating from Luhrmann loyalists.The Daily Telegraph reported yesterday that "disastrous reviews from test screenings" rejected Australia's original ending, in which Jackman's character dies:

· We elected Barack Obama as our 44th President of the United States. Look back to his Hollywood beginnings and ahead to an Ari-friendly White House. · And as always, it was the celebrities who made the difference: Monica Lewinsky in LA. Natalie Portman in New York. Kirsten Dunst in North... Dakota? And Diddy in the headlines, natch. · With the help of skywriting and millions of Mormon dollars, the passage of Proposition 8 denied gay people the basic human right to be married. It goes without saying, but L.A. is pissed. · Sacha Baron Cohen wasn't helping matters any with his earnest protests of asher-shtupping, either. · Still, whatever solution exists, we're sure David Archuleta has it. · Obama's victory meant a party for Madonna fans, a concession from Elisabeth Hasslebeck, and a moving truck for Stephen Baldwin. · While Saturday Night Live's audience laughed with John McCain, Chris Rock's laughed at him. · Tina Fey will play Sarah Palin no more forever, but there's always South Park Sarah to remind us of what could have been. · Is killing a great series the answer to stopping bad TV? And what do we do if one show happens to be both? · Even more than she wants an Oscar, Kate Winslet wants you to apologize for that Photoshop slur you just made. · Robert Downey Jr. defended exiled Iron Man co-star Terrence Howard from a nosy press, and Jude Law defended Robert Downey Jr. from certain naughty-part doom. · Next Halloween, embattled Heidi Klum is just going out as a peapod.

· Tyra went to Disneyland to help Minnie and Mickey work on their runway walks and general fiercitude. That's right, terrorists: Feast your eyes. Ain't never gonna take this away from us. Ain't never! · Oprah will bring her long-running syndicated show to an end in 2011 to focus on OWN. But will she bring her ass-kissy expert panel of Ali Wentworth, Mark Consuelos and Gayle King along with her? · On her marriage to Tom Cruise, Nicole Kidman said, "I thought, I don't deserve to be here. We would go to the Oscars and I would think, I'm here to support him. I felt it was my job to put on a beautiful dress and to be seen and not heard." She then grew profoundly melancholy for a moment, but you'd never know it from her forehead. · Nice try, CNN. Those were tomograms, not holograms. · Here's a peek at Hollywood's newest 24-hour post-partying eatery, called Our Color Scheme Will Coax The Puke Right Out Of You Sweet Love Hangover. · Uh—pardon us if we're the last person on the planet to realize this, but Barack Obama has a Flickr photo stream. With, like, tons of backroom pictures of election night. Riveting. We wish we could just leap in there and restyle Michelle!

Electing a president is one thing, but choosing our five best comments of the week is the real nail-biter. And what a prize up for grabs this time: the utterly superfluous CNN hologram of your choice! Will you stick with Will.i.am, or send away for a customizable, uncomfortably hot Tinker Bell? Don't worry, it's just between us. Click through for the winners!· jwick25 on Reasons Why Harrison Ford May Have Worn This Peapod Costume for Halloween: This is the closest I've ever seen Calista to something edible. · steampoweredboy on Seth Rogen Boned Plenty of Hot Girls When He was Fat and Unknown, OK?: Two people I would never want to see have sex talking about sex? Up next Dr. Ruth and my Zadie chat about big black cocks. · OldTowneTavern on Kendra Ready to Put Her Eggs in New Fiance's Baskett: And now being given away by one's daddy takes on a whole new meaning. · unrequited_narcissism on Courtney Love Reveals Her Confused, Anti-Gay 'Yes on Prop 8' Vote: That should be the photo accompanying her euthanasia application. Please tell me she has applied. · cozymoses on The Gays Strike Back as Prop. 8 Protest Targets Mormon Temple: "Shit is packed..."? Really? Good work, kids. Rahmbo approves.

FRIDAY · Apes & Androids at the Echo, Keller Williams at the El Rey, and Van Morrison at the Hollywood Bowl. · Mark Taper Forum presents Elizabethan whodunit The School of Night. · Synapse Dance Theater inaugurates the new Broad Stage at Santa Monica College Performing Arts Center.SATURDAY · Jeans Team w/ Starfucker at Spaceland, The Dodos at Echoplex, Letters To Cleo at the Roxy, and The Who at Nokia Theatre Live. · AFI Fest continues at the Arclight. · The Sunset Junction Prop 8 protest meets at the corners of Sunset Blvd. and Santa Monica Blvd. at 6 p.m. Please come. SUNDAY · Beck at the Club Nokia (sold out). · Dutch collective Willem Breuker Kollektief performs a live soundtrack to F.W. Murnau's 1926 horror masterpiece, Faust. At REDCAT. · Lovelace: A Rock Opera is based on the life of Linda Lovelace, the troubled Deep Throat star. Music by Anna Waronker and Charlotte Caffey, of That Dog and the Go-Go’s respectively. At the Hayworth Theater.

Pushing Daisies Cancelled? Word from an informant on the set of ABC's long-struggling show hints that Daisies has baked its last pie. We can't say we didn't see it coming, but at least it died painlessly: The author who yesterday cited an anonymous sophomore series doomed by internal strife later assured us Daisies was not the victim — just another casualty of terminally ill ratings. Expect ABC to rerun the Obama infomercial in Daisies' slot indefinitely until an official replacement is announced. [The Film Experience Blog]

Dave Chappelle's most recent AWOL streak ends Monday on Bravo, when he will appear on the 200th episode of Inside the Actors Studio. Except, in a clever twist we're presuming occurred only because Diana Ross was unavailable, Chappelle will interview Lipton for the whole show.Today we got a glimpse of the comic delivering the episode's customary windy introduction, which comes as close as we've been to a Chappelle performance in years — properly reverential of Lipton's mile-long resume (even the "literary perennial An Exaltation of Larks," a title no one can read with a straight face) while dropping random bursts of profanity and invective when necessary. The only thing that likely would have improved this would have been a Chappelle-esque three-hour wait for Lipton's arrival, followed by a chain-smoking binge of payback from their last tilt in 2005. Or maybe that comes later in the episode. Either way, congrats, Jim! [Bravo]

Making history sure takes a lot out of a country. Re-energize for tomorrow's Sunset Junction Prop 8 protest with some tube. WATCH Elvis Mitchell: Under the Influence [8 PM, TCM] - The former NYT film critic and apparent bank skeptic, interviews actor-writer Edward Norton. After the interview, TCM will air two of Norton's favorite movies: Annie Hall and A Streetcar Named Desire. Odds are, they were going to air those tonight no matter what Norton said, and then tomorrow night, and probably on Sunday, too.

Black Sheep, Black Tie. Gossip Girl's new ad campaign features a low-angle shot of rapscallion Chuck Bass, dapper in a tux with his face in shadow, and the tagline, "The price of winning could be losing his father's empire." They certainly have toned things down since the last campaign, which featured images of Blake Lively getting triple-stuffed by Chace, Ed, and Penn under a review pullquote reading, "If your child watches this, THEY ARE SODOMIZING BABY JESUS. -Leah Rozen, People." Click for a full-size view. [Videogum]

If there's a hell, it might look, feel and sound like the slapfight between aggrieved Oscar bloggers Patrick Goldstein, David Poland and Tom O'Neil, who today aired their tired tussle for all the world to overlook. But with your awards-season intelligence at stake, you really mustn't miss a minute of the wheezing action that so influences how Hollywood's biggest prizes are distributed every year. Your highlight reel follows the jump.· Back before the Internet, Patrick Goldstein used to sit at an old-fashioned typewriter and daydream and have the whooooole Oscar beat to himself at the LA Times. Then came bloggers, whom he couldn't read on his typewriter. Word got back to him they were writing about the Academy Awards! The effrontery! Grumpy Goldie upgraded and eventually wound up blogging himself, culminating in today's bitter screed arguing: "Anyone who doesn't believe that the Oscars haven't been thoroughly hijacked by a gang of daffy, clown-suit-clad Oscar bloggers making endlessly moronic best picture predictions just hasn't been paying attention." He specifically referred to political commentary like yesterday's insane EW item "How Obama Helps Batman," but the point was clear: Patrick misses his typewriter! · Not one to back down from an opportunity to write 5,000 words of self-defense from a piece where he isn't even mentioned, early blog adapter David Poland fired back:

At last! We meet one of Decision 2008's most memorable and accidental heroes: Oprah Winfrey's anonymous "Mr. Man," her randomly selected human-leaning-pole and blubber-sponge throughout Obama's historic Grant Park victory speech. Who was this stoic, liverlipped everyman? An intensive search for the mystery face in the crowd—the likes of which hasn't been undertaken since the days of American Idol's Sanjaya-lusting Crying Girl—unearthed unassuming family man Sam Perry, who appeared on her show today to a rapturously appreciative audience. [Oprah]

On The Office last night, we learned that Dunder Mifflin customer service rep Kelly Kapoor threw an America's Got Talent finale party, where she gave out personalized gift mugs featuring every worker's face over a blue star. (In a nice touch, you can purchase said mugs at the NBC online store. We'll take six Phyllises—something about her smile puts us in the mood for warm beverages.)A mugless Jim and Dwight never bothered showing up, however, and begin to realize that a vengeful Kelly was the reason behind their poor performance review scores. All of this is really just set up for the scene above, a perfectly executed comic gem in which the two engage in a role-playing sales call. It eventually climaxes with Dwight shouting something at the top of his lungs which, we think it's safe to say, has never been uttered on network primetime before. We'd suggest it veers on NSFW—but if it's safe for their office, we guess it's safe for yours. Enjoy!