This week's mega holiday box office receipts are predictably mega. For the four-day weekend (July 2-July 5th) the newest vamp flick did big business while M. Night Shyamalan bested the bad reviews and didn't embarrass himself.

No one believed this woman when she claimed her cat sits on her head while she brushes her teeth. Here is the proof.

We support this mathemagical campaign to name 10 to the 27th power a "Hella."

He keeps getting work because of his escorts, not his talent. This actor ensures his teenage costars get laid, and another actor is so stoned he's nodding off in interviews. Plus, a whole host of blind items solved!

Something tells me that Elmo didn't teach her how to count. Parents, there's a huge difference between Avenue Q and Sesame Street. Just saying.

Sunday was the 4th of July. Everyone was either off work yesterday, or at work doing nothing. Today, therefore, is one of the slowest news days of the entire year. Luckily for our city's beleaguered journalists: it's hot!

Seriously, he's so excited that he got what he wanted, getting in the his only cardio for the next month, or he's about to pee his pants. Maybe all three.

Jessica Simpson has a new boyfriend. Geri Haliwell has a bad boyfriend. Christiano Ronaldo has a mysterious baby-mama. Kate Hudson's boyfriend has a date with Goldie Hawn. George Clooney has a court date. Tuesday's gossip is all about meeting people.

[Blake Lively films "Gossip Girls: A Show About Girls and Boys Who Don't Necessarily Gossip" in Paris, The France; image via Splash]

So, how did Gawker.TV fare in social networks this week? We're up to 2093 Facebook Fans (up 3.8%), 4281 Twitter Followers (up 1%) and 1497 Tumblr Followers (up 1%.)

The sheriff in Nye County, Nevada decided that the county's district attorney was misusing public funds. So he had him arrested. But the DA declined to press charges against himself, and had the sheriff's deputy arrested. That's just the beginning.

Can you guess what movie this image comes from? Check back for the answer at 4pm today.

Australian 80's band Men At Work have been ordered by a court to pay royalties for ripping off a flute riff from a children's campfire song for their hit song "Down Under." The band said it was an "unconscious" lifting.

Libraries are moving into shopping malls in an effort to get Americans to read books.

[Tibetan monks prepare to serve sweetened rice at the 75th birthday party for the Dalai Lama in Dharmsala, India, today. He has been living in Dharmsala since 1959, when he fled Tibet after a failed uprising against China. AP]

In a study released today in the Annals of Internal Medicine, doctors found that men who take pills for erectile dysfunction (Viagra, Cialis) showed triple the rate of STDs than men who don't. This newfound prowess leads to riskier sex.

Who: Faded gossip empress Cindy Adams has been grinding out her column for the Post since 1981, although she hasn't published anything resembling real gossip in approximately as long.

Let's face it, hockey is only worth watching for the fights. And one man, Bob Probert, made fighting on the ice an art form. He died yesterday in Ontario at 45. He ranks fifth all-time in NHL penalty minutes.

[That's Janus and Prometheus, two of Saturn's moons, passing through the planet's rings. The pic was taken by the Cassini orbiter, which is currently just illing near Saturn. Via Bad Astronomy.]

Queen Elizabeth of England is coming to New York City! And good thing, too, because she seems to have been really bored in Canada, where she just spent eight days. At least, according to these photographs.