Kind of like a Harry Potter book, right? Michael Lohan's now Jon Gosselin's contracts expert. Nothing but squares at the Daily News. Robert Pattinson hates his life. Carrie Prejean: monumentally stupider than previously imagined. Here's your Saturday Morning Gossip Roundup: So, wait, when did Michael ...

Nikki Finke OWNS the Oprah Winfrey story. She broke the news that Winfrey would leave the show three weeks ago. And she got the transcript of Oprah's announcement up on her site bright and early this morning. By stealing it. Finke posted embedded video of a small portion of Winfrey's remarks at 9:45 ...

Breaking: The Hipster Grifter is free. Oh boy.

In a story that can only be described as made-up-but-not, police have busted a gang in Peru who targeted fat people on "lonely roads," killed them, extracted their fat and sold it, possibly to make anti-wrinkle treatments. The extracted, liquidized fat sold for $15,000 a liter, report the BBC, and it ...

Twitter today announced it will prompt users to post by asking "What's happening?" rather than the old "What are you doing?" We asked a prominent linguist if this means anything. Turns out it does: Twitterers are no longer such loners. In short, Twitter's new slogan reflects the microblogging service's ...

Since the last terrifying report 15 years ago, movie theater popcorn has not become healthy.

AP spokesman Paul Colford just sent over this statement on the company's layoffs: The 90 news department staffers being notified this week, along with earlier reductions in other departments, a voluntary retirement program last summer, a continuing hiring freeze and attrition, bring The Associated Press ...

In case you didn't hear, developers are turning '80s and '90s Chelsea superclub Limelight into a shopping mall during the worst economic downturn in recent history. There will be brownies and a sneaker gallery! It's even worse than we imagined. Retail developer Jack Menashe masterminded the whole transformation. ...

We've been updating our AP Layoffs List for three days with tips about layoffs in AP bureaus around the world. Here, we've organized and mapped them for you. View the national and global media carnage, below. ( Note: All info is based on tips and is not verified by the AP. In some cases it's impossible ...

Here, the latest masterwork (suggested by you) from pancake painter-to-the-stars Dan Lacey: a horrific apocalyptic tableau of talking heads and politicians doing who knows what. He expounds on his vision, below. Lacey's description, from Ebay: The sixth painting in the Gawker series, which is an elaboration ...