Scott Brown will be seated immediately upon certification. Al Franken had to wait a week.

Memphis punk Jay Reatard's death caused by "cocaine toxicity," and "alcohol was a contributing factor."

Though it'd already snatched the international title, today Avatar's *real* victory was secured: James Cameron's remake of The Air Up There passed Titanic to become the highest-grossing movie in US history, with $601.1 million earned and no signs of slowing.

• CBS News laid off more than 150 staffers this week. Will Katie Couric be forced to take a pay cut when her contract expires next year? Some say yes; CBS News chief Sean McManus is denying the report. [NYP, Politico]
• Avatar has dominated the box office for seven straight weeks now (and has officially bested Titanic), but that may change this weekend or next. [LAT]
• Janice Kaplan is out as editor-in-chief of Parade magazine. [NYT]
• Nikki Finke says it will take "minutes" for Comcast to dump NBC CEO Jeff Zucker after its acquisition of NBC is approved by regulators. (Meantime, maybe he could explain why the Today show is propping up Scientology?)
• An estimated 12 million people tuned in to Lost last night. [Forbes]
• Time Warner reported fourth-quarter revenues and profits were up. [AP]
• Fox and ESPN will challenge NBC for the 2014 and 2016 Olympics. [BN]
• Does Vanity Fair editor Graydon Carter hate non-white women? [DF]

James O'Keefe? He may have something of a race problem. Specifically, a problem with hanging out with open racists. This is a photo of O'Keefe manning the (racist) literature table at a conference featuring white supremacists he attended in 2006.

Today at Gawker.TV, Channing Tatum explains how he burned his penis, Gordon Ramsay fights with his contestants, Marky Mark's ab workout, Bruce Jenner has a laugh at Fox News' fact-checking, and Jon Stewart re-imagines a Jewish Scooby Doo.

Congratulations to Lazarou for being the first person to answer today's Freeze Frame. Click through for the answer.

The Way We Live Now: recalibrating our responsibilities. In tough times, we can't be expected to support certain causes as effusively as we once did. Such causes include, but are not limited to: Colleges, mortgage payments, and the poors.

This must be seen to be believed, this latest inept volley from would-be California Senator Carly Fiorina. It is her attack ad against fellow Silicon Valley Republican person Tom Campbell, apparently assembled by the production team from Saturday Night Live.

The very hard partying NYU economics professor Nouriel Roubini painted such a bleak picture of our economy he was dubbed Dr. Doom. Now his outlook has changed so he says he wants a new nickame. We're here to help.

[The actor filming his new movie "Hereafter" in London; image via Bauer-Griffin]

Dutch artist Theo Jansen's wooden sculpture, powered only by wind, is visually one of the coolest things to come out of Scandinavian design in years, and is so flimsily related to the mega-brand it's advertising it is laughable.

Teen Mom will never end, and who are we to complain? The moms got together to explain what their lives have been like after the cameras stopped rolling, and Dr. Drew was there to berate them offer sound advice

Butt implants are big in Florida, lip augmentation is popular in LA, "permanent makeup" is all the rage in the Southwest, and nose jobs are big business in the Northeast, according to data compiled by the cosmetic surgery website RealSelf.com. [NYDN, MSNBC]

Frances Buss, Pioneer of Early Television, Dies at 92 [NYT]

NBC's new new show will follow around celebrities as they discover their true family history. Sarah Jessica Parker, Matthew Broderick, Spike Lee, Brooke Shields, Emmit Smith, and Susan Sarandon will each star in their own episode. The trailer, inside.

One way of communicating to everyone that you're "in the know" is to refer to people not by their bylines, but by their IRL nicknames. Everyone will know you're a poser if you don't call A.O. Scott (pictured) "Tony."

Newly single Bush brain Karl Rove was overheard yesterday telling his Fox makeup artist that he was going on his first post-divorce date—with someone who used to work under him at the White House. Who? Well, we don't know.

You can now add a British actor to the roster of celebrities reported during visions brought on by hallucinogenic drug cocktails. That, or you're about to see footage of Sir Michael Caine giving Meg Ryan an orgasm with his eyes.

Have you ever been in such a heated argument you just had to throw something? Like your own person? Against a solid wall?