David Duchovny getting into a Town Car on the Upper East Side ... James Gandolfini walking into Barneys on Madison Avenue with his son ... Catherine Zeta-Jones leaving her apartment building ... Glenn Close walking her dogs ... Ashlee Simpson showing up at a hair salon in the meatpacking district ... Sharon Osbourne leaving the Peninsula Hotel with her dog in her arms ... Hugh Jackman jogging in the Village ... Leighton Meester filming scenes for Gossip Girl in Brooklyn ... Tori Spelling and Dean Mcdermott leaving an office building in Midtown ... Vanessa Williams on the set of Ugly Betty ... Pete Wentz walking near Union Square ... Stephanie March filming scenes for Law & Order: SVU ... and Beyoncé hanging out with her sister Solange at The Eldridge.

CBS is waiting to come to a decision about whether or not to air a graphic ad for gay dating site Mancrunch. After allowing Tim Tebow's spot dissing abortion how can they say no?

Hackers hacked the websites of at least 10 Democrats Congressmen last night. Hilarious hackers who are most likely in middle school.

Police now believe that Jeff Locker, a distraught motivational speaker beset by debt, drove to East Harlem last July, bought condoms at a bodega, then asked a man named Kenneth Minor to kill him, for his ATM card. Minor obliged.

Crashing your car into a body of water might look cool in a movie, but it's no laughing matter. If you ever find yourself in a car rapidly filling with icy water, you'll know what to do.

Barack Obama's first State of the Union was not a particularly soaring or pretty speech. But it was really the model every future president should look to when composing their own.

You'd think there would be a strong undercurrent of frustration and resentment among Wall Streeters right now. The public is trying to blame on us for everything! Politicians are threatening to tax our bonuses! If bankers do happen to be really, really angry about how they've turned into enemy No. 1 in recent months, don't expect them to take the matter to the streets.

You know what we are not supposed to mess with? Texas. There is to be no messing in or around Texas. None. So wait. Why then was American Idol blustering through Dallas, shaming people horribly last night?

JD Salinger, the reclusive author of The Catcher in the Rye, is dead at 91. He follows author/historian Howard Zinn, who died yesterday, and author Louis Auchincloss, who died on Tuesday. [NYT]

This monkey looks extremely human while puffing away. Can't say we blame him one bit.

Is nothing in this world sacred anymore?! General Larry Platt (if that's his real name) claimed he wrote "Pants on the Ground" on American Idol. Turns out he wrote NOTHING. He just stole the song and slightly changed the lyrics.

Morning Joe co-anchor and serial verbal abuse victim on her drink of choice, to Daily Intel.

Kabul residents say US soldiers murdered an imam who was sitting peacefully in his car with his three children. "After they shot him, they didn't stop, they just kept driving," said one witness. The US military confirms the killing. [WP]

This little girl is a krumping like a professional and destined to battle dance Jersey Shore tykes into oblivion. Aside from the safety concerns with the lollipop, gotta give props to her skills.

Well, well, well. How does Rupert Murdoch feel about his precious newspaper war now? (Just fine). Rupert was so hot to build a New York edition of the WSJ to crush the rival New York Times once and for all, but apparently there is one small issue: he needs to borrow the NYT's printing press to make this whole thing work.

She drops thousand of dollars on Hermès bags trying to stay famous. We wonder if this actor gives his married mistress gifts, or if this rocker got a present for his new-found sobriety? Gossip right from the gift horse's mouth.

If you really want to screw something up, send two people to do the job.

• Katie Lee, the cookbook author and ex-wife of Billy Joel, is reportedly putting the 4,000-square-foot townhouse at 23 Perry Street that she and Joel once shared—and which she bought from Joel for $3 million after their split last year—on the market. The four-bedroom manse is set to be listed with Dolly Lenz for $12.9 million. [NYP, photos]
• Hedge fund mogul Bill Ackman has closed on the sale of his three-bedroom co-op at the Majestic on Central Park West. The 3,000-square-foot apartment, which Ackman first listed for $10 million last April and which went into contract in November, sold for $7.1 million to Douglas Libby and Marianne Johnson. [Cityfile]
• Seven months after she put her loft at 101 Wooster Street on the market for $3.99 million, Whoopi Goldberg has closed on the sale of the two-bedroom pad. The 3,600-square-foot apartment, which went into contract in October, sold for $2.985 million to Ben Lerer and his wife Emily. Lerer is the founder of Thrillist.com and the son of Ken Lerer, the new media investor and co-founder and chairman of the Huffington Post. [NYO]

[Maggie Gyllenhaal leaves a "medical building" in Los Angeles yesterday; image via INF]