Sarah Palin famously claimed she had "absolutely no diva in me," but former McCain aides did their best to demolish that assertion in a super-juicy Thursday Times story. Among their embittered, anonymous and still entirely plausible claims: They budgeted the Republican vice presidential nominee around $25,000 for clothes and were shocked at her $150,000 shopping spree; Palin wrote a concession speech that she desperately wanted to deliver Tuesday night; and she never told McCain about a call she thought she had scheduled with the president of France (really a DJ prank). Now they're talking about sending lawyers to audit her family's closets and just generally trying to destroy her chances of running for anything anywhere, ever. Here's what they told the Times about Palin's clothes shopping:

Twilight star Robert Pattinson is our kind of teen idol: the sort of guy who calls his chest hair "early pubes" and stumbles out of Crown Bar at 1:45 am, unshaven, bleary-eyed and slurring. Most young girls prefer their locker-room pinups to be clean and unthreatening, but Pattinson doesn't quite fit that mold, and at an appearance last night in New York (where the actor was greeted with Beatles-worthy shrieking), he seemed determined to push his young fans' tolerance of the scruffy, Silver Lake aesthetic as far as it would go:

The FCC is having its own vote today, on whether or not to allow future wireless gadgets to operate in parts of the radio spectrum already in use by wireless microphones. Google is all for the new spectrum-sharing policy. Professional musicians and their audio engineers are dead set against it.In theory, smartphones will detect when a wireless mic is in use in the area, and not interfere with it. In practice, who are they kidding? New York City's Broadway League is campaigning to keep that part of the radio spectrum free for roughly 450 wireless microphones used in Manhattan's theater district. Out here, I'll be furious if Journey's next show at Shoreline is ruined when 853 Google employees check their mail during "Wheel in the Sky." (Photo by Getty Images/Justin Sullivan)

Looks like Sarah "Pit Bull" Palin is just like your supernice Midwestern neighbor who remains polite and doodly-dorable on the phone, even when annoying telemarketers or French president Nicolas Sarkozy calls. The Canadian radio show duo that prank-called her told ABC how they did it. It was duh-easy, just like they taught you in Reporting 101: they "simply began at the bottom of her staff and worked [their] way up."Where to start? Alaska, of course: "'We started by calling the governor's office in Alaska, and after that, we were transferred from one person to another. It took us about four days. We spoke to about a dozen people,' Audette told ABCNews." Once they got her on the phone, they figured that the jig would be up soon enough:

Paul Allen, the gazillionaire cofounder of Microsoft who has spent his subsequent years frittering away his cash on tech startups, sports teams, and a cable company or two, is ailing, reports Seattle tech blog TechFlash. Allen missed a "First Citizen" awards ceremony thrown by local realtors in his honor because of "an undisclosed medical procedure." We're thinking it can't have been something minor, or at least not easily postponed. Bill Gates attended the event, as did Patty Murray, one of Washington's senators. Murray's praise for Allen's civic contributions — including the Experience Music Project museum and the purchase of the Seattle Seahawks — brought the crowd to its feet. In 1983, Allen was treated for Hodgkin's disease. (Photo by Mark Wilson/Getty Images)

For a movie that the religious right hasn't even gotten around to touching yet, Milk certainly has caused its fair share of controversy this week. First, a questionable THR column on the movie's marketing earned the ire of Focus Features, and now that the film had its first public screenings last night, the reactions range from rapturous to...fight-inducing? Let's take a look!The initial salvo came from David Poland, who said, "For the first time in my memory, we have a major Oscar movie that actually is a gay agenda movie. But on the making, it is so much more. It is a brilliant, powerfully humane piece of work that reaches well beyond the issue of gay rights or any idea that this is a gay-only film." Jeffrey Wells chimed in with an "8.5" score and this statement, "I felt a genuine gayness from Sean Penn, who plays the title role of the late San Francisco supervisor Harvey Milk, that I didn't think he had in him." Yes, acting — isn't it marvelous? Then, the wheels came off the Typepad bus, as dissenter Kris Tapley of In Contention spent less time going over the film's flaws and more time picking fights with every other Oscar blog, but most especially Milk partisan Scott Feinberg. Tapley posted a delightfully catty, personal attack on Feinberg ("We as bloggers have to be careful to understand the context of our work...That is a lesson I truly hope Feinberg learns sooner rather than later, for his sake and, certainly, for the sake of the LA Times, who rather hastily threw him an editorial voice after behind-the-scenes plans for the upstart fell through") that prompted a lengthy rebuttal from Feinberg and a "fight, fight" taunt across the blogosphere. Truly, it is a continuation of Harvey Milk's legacy that he could inspire so many self-publishing Oscar pundits to set aside their petty grievances with a film and turn those attacks on each other. You gotta give 'em hope, kids — and you have! Kudos! [Photo Credit: Getty Images]

The Wall Street Journal is running a strange article about Twitter. Everything about it strikes me as bizarre, right down to the picture, which shows Jack Dorsey, the cofounder recently ousted as the company's CEO. Indeed, the article is more telling in what it doesn't cover than what it does.For example, it doesn't even allude to the company's office drama; cofounder Biz Stone subs in as spokesman for new CEO Ev Williams. It also skips over Twitter's latest privacy violation, which even affected the author of the piece. But it does, in a roundabout way, get at the heart of Twitter's problem: The tool for posting short text updates can be useful for businesses — just not Twitter itself. Cofounder Biz Stone suggests the company may find a way to charge business customers for "premium services." A great idea. If only it had tried it a year ago, before the market crisis made such a move look desperate, rather than a bold experiment. (Photo by Getty Images)

Duly Noted: To us, the simple three-note structure of the famous NBC chimes leaves little room for interpretation, but then, we lack the cunning intellect of NBC head Ben Silverman. According to Variety, the network is asking musical acts like T.I., the B-52s, and the Flaming Lips to record their own twist on the theme for ads that will air between NBC's shows. Is it too much to hope for that Silverman will submit his own, Ryan-Seacrest-approved version? "Hey, dwindling Knight Rider audience! Ding DING ding!" [Variety]

A former local TV host and longtime social fixture, Licht is married to ad man Jerry Della Femina.

One of the best pitchers in baseball, powerhouse left-hander Santana was signed by the Mets to a $137.5 million, six-year deal in 2008 in order to help Mets fans forget the team's pitiful late season collapse in 2007.

Girardi is the man who was tapped by George Steinbrenner to replace Joe Torre as the manager of the Yankees in 2007.

The longtime business partner of Marc Jacobs, it's Duffy who keeps the business afloat as Jacobs dies his hair various colors, cavorts with young men, and—yes—designs clothes.

Congresswoman Clarke represents New York's eleventh district, which includes Brooklyn neighborhoods like Brownsville, Crown Heights, Flatbush, Park Slope, Prospect Heights, and Kensington.

Previously Newsweek's editor-in-chief, Jon Meacham is an executive editor and vice president at Random House. His books include American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House, American Gospel, and Franklin and Winston: An Intimate Portrait of An Epic Friendship.

One of the world's most famous models, Gisele is as well known for her Victoria's Secret ads as she is for her dalliances with any number of boldface names.

With his popular parodies of music videos and TV commercials, Samberg has become a bright spot on Saturday Night Live.

The high-profile former creative director of Gucci is now the creator of Tom Ford fragrances as well as a stratospherically expensive eponymous menswear line.

A young social fixture, Olivia Palermo grew up in Connecticut and attended the New School, but quickly finagled her way on to the society "It" list. Her aggressive attempts to scale the social ladder landed her on the cover of New York Magazine in May 2007 after Palermo was at the center of vapid socialite controversy in March 2007. In 2008, she briefly became a reality TV staple thanks to her role alongside Whitney Port in MTV's The City "working" in the publicity department at Elle. She launched oliviapalermo.com in 2011 and has a long-gestating reality show that will follow the creation of her fashion line in the works. [Image via Getty]

A fixture at events around town, Genevieve Jones is one of the few young African-American women on the social scene and one of the more controversial, too. Once described by Vogue as the "Girl of the Moment," Jones's "It" girl status dissipated in late 2006 after a series of articles revealed she'd been lying about her age and family roots. She's since founded her own line of jewelry.

A former model and flight attendant, Grace Hightower is the second wife of Robert De Niro and the mother of De Niro's son, Elliot, and daughter, Helen.