To say that Tina Brown is more fond of hype than any other major magazine editor is not necessarily to say anything bad about her; it's just to point out that she is Tina Brown—the editor who pathologically loves to celebrate celebrity. The editor whose Talk magazine launch party defined an entire era of media excess! It's worked for her. But suddenly, she's shy and retiring?

Over the last several years, Libya has transformed itself from regional pariah into a country where foreign leaders are begging to pose for a grip-and-grin with Brother Leader Muammar el-Qaddafi. How did this happen?

The Vatican has issued a statement in response to travel agencies trying to sell tickets to the May 1 beatification of Pope John Paul II, because there are no actual tickets for the event. From Vatican Radio:

Let's say you're going to hold up a gun store. You'd at least load your pistol, right? Well, someone should have told that to the two guys who tried to rob a 65-year-old gun store clerk in Kansas City yesterday. The would-be robbers asked for ammo and put $40 on the counter. Then, from the Kansas City Star:

Former CNN celebrity profiler Larry King was interviewed by BBC Radio 4, and he had a few things to say about his replacement at CNN, Piers Morgan! King started out with this: "I don't want to be horrible about him, I think he's a fine broadcaster" — which roughly translates to "this guy is an obnoxious prick, but he's got a good television voice, I guess." King goes on about the guy he once said he didn't know:

Jennifer Aniston bought the Beverly Hills home she calls "Ohana" (named after a Hawaiian concept of extended family) for $13.5 million back in 2006, spent some $15 million turning it into a Zen palace that feels "like a hug," put it in Architectural Digest, and is now selling it.

New York Times staffers just received the following exciting memo from editor Bill Keller and editorial page boss Andy Rosenthal. The paper is reinventing the "Week in Review" section! We've read this memo twice, and it sounds to us like the new section will be... exactly like the current one? But maybe with more letters to the editor? See if you can spot what the fuss is about.

Lady Gaga has been traipsing around for the past few days claiming she was in that damn egg thing she arrived to the Grammys in for 72 hours straight before the show. "It was a very creative experience, and it was time for me to prepare and really think about the meaning of ["Born This Way," which she performed on stage] and get prepared for the performance," she told Ryan Seacrest.

Oprah Winfrey's opulent vanity project, the Leadership Academy for Girls in Johannesburg, continues its tragic slide from hope-filled dream-school to dysfunctional hellhole. First there were Winfrey's attempts to cut off her students from their families. Then there was the school matron accused of sexually molesting the girls. And now a 17-year-old student there has concealed her pregnancy and given birth to a child that was found dead "in a plastic bag filled with bloodied clothes."

Inevitably, Justin Bieber has inflamed both the left and the right with his controversial Rolling Stone interview. Will Bieber become the latest casualty of our never-ending culture wars?

A man says he stole Paris Hilton's fancy birthday cake, and offers photographic proof. Lindsay Lohan goes clubbing, then home with Samantha Ronson. Ashlee Simpson parties until sunrise with sk8er bois. TGIFriday gossip.

Popular Mechanics has a feature this month called "Confessions of an Apple Store Employee," wherein an employee dishes about life in an Apple store. One thing stuck out: Apple stores are apparently swarming with drug dealers. Said the anonymous Apple store employee:

Today we looked at the potential bad aftermath of the Borders bankruptcy. What will happen now??, we all wondered. Though one commenter chose to turn around and take a look at what already happened. It's an interesting bit of inside businessy analysis.

It's time for all the designers, models, and assorted hangers on to finally head home and get over the constant champagne buzz of New York Fashion Week. Yes, today is the final day of the festivities, and we're still bringing you the best images of the day, like this model at Elie Tahari, who does not want to be messed with. [Image via Getty]

Famous playboy Leonardo DiCaprio has dated a string of beautiful models, but there's really only one special person in his life. Also today:

In your springy Thursday media column: Nir Rosen and Jeffrey Goldberg deserve each other, turnover and understanding at the New York Times, Essence weaves, Helen Thomas regrets nothing, and a Meet the Press veteran passes away.

Everyone's favorite working mother, nü-British will-o'-the-wisp Gwyneth Paltrow, has released upon the world a new issue of her GOOP newsletter, with a big section about kids clothing. What kind of garments should you buy for your growing child? $82 pajamas of course!

"My fantasy is to have Keeping Up With Kardashians, Season 26. Who knew it would be this profitable? I should have had more kids." —Kris Jenner to The Hollywood Reporter, on her family's $65M income and fear of "overexposure."

The sexual assault on CBS' Lara Logan in Egypt did, indeed, shock the nation. That doesn't mean that the White House should make it a top agenda item.

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is going to meet Barack Obama in San Francisco next week, along with other "business leaders in technology and business." Would love to be a fly on the wall in that room. Obama has a sort of complicated relationship with Facebook! On the one hand, college students clicking "like" got him elected in 2008. And Zuckerberg is running a successful business, which Obama likes, even if Facebook probably creates a net-loss in GDP due to hours wasted on Farmville.