Charlie Rose goes up against his most intriguing guest ever: Charlie Rose. Ending in deadlock, the doubles' debate displays the true nature of Charlie's soul: the dark distillation of his characteristic mildness.

Chicago writer hates Manhattan for the same reasons New Yorkers hate Manhattan. Chicago: Always second.

[Seconds after this look from Anna Wintour, the camera's lens shattered and a million bits of glass littered the floor of Per Se, where Ms. Wintour attended an event for the movie Nine. Image via INF]

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

Today at Gawker.TV, Barbara spews hate at Spizter's gal Ashley Dupre, Martha shows her more charitable side, Kathie Lee bores Andy Cohen to death, a drunken ambulance ride, and we spend some holiday time with Oprah and the Obamas.

These two girls play "Toccata and Fugue in D Minor" so well it makes Tom Hanks' rendition of "Heart and Soul" in Big look like child's play.

The Way We Live Now: Well-coiffed. Hey, Citigroup's resurrecting itself and Exxon is balling again even though all your investments are clearly "bubbles," but the point is: Here, have a free haircut. All better now?

• The New York Times and Wall Street Journal are feuding once again. [DF]
• Thanks to a $200 million investment in new printers, Mort Zuckerman's Daily News can now print any page of the paper in color! Exciting! [Crain's]
• Does the fact Glenn Beck is a highly paid pitchman for a gold company explain why he promotes it on Fox News show every night? Probably! [NYT]
• MSNBC is changing up its daytime lineup a bit, just so you're aware. [NYT]
• Despite the recession (and $12 tickets), film attendance was up in '09. [LAT]
• The New York Film Critics Circle announced its yearly picks today. [AP]
• Congress is devoting (wasting?) $30 mil. to battle music/movie piracy. [THR]
• Disney's The Princess and the Frog dominated the weekend box office [THR]
• CNBC has poached the WSJ's Nikhil Deogun as its new managing editor. [NYT]
• Sarah Palin's book tour is over. "Now what?" Good question! [LAT]

Billionaire money manager Jeffrey Epstein paid his debt to society for soliciting happy endings from underage girls, and those girls had a setback in their lawsuit against him today. The can't see his penis for a second time.

Like your men served up fast-food style? ABC capitalizes on our nation's "need it now" attitude with this promotional teaser for what may be the worst reality dating show ever— coming to your living rooms as soon as January!

Facebook's privacy pullback isn't just outrageous; it's a landmark turning point for the social network. Facebook has blundered before, but the latest changes are far more calculated. The company has, in short, turned evil.

If that commercial of a guy guzzling liquid fat wasn't up your alley, maybe this video of a woman munching on lipstick (to illustrate the point that "women consume seven pounds of fatty lipstick in their lifetimes") is more your style? It seems there's a nasty PSA for everyone today! [HuffPo]

Is it working? Excellent. We just wanted to let you know that the first ever Gawker Luxury Gift Guide is now live, just in time for you to procrastinate for another 15 minutes this afternoon. Check it out!

Using almost every part of this Jeep, these kids use it to make techno almost palatable. It took two weeks of preparation and seven hours of filming before they got the perfect take. Worth every second.

We have always maintained that Joe Lieberman is petty, sanctimonious, childish, vindictive, thin-skinned, and monstrously self-impressed. But The New Republic's Jon Chait today explains that he is also stupid.

Last month's auction of Bernie and Ruth Madoff's personal property was pretty successful, raising close to a million bucks for the victims of the giant Ponzi scheme. Now there's a fraudster who is looking to make a buck by promoting auctions full of fake Madoff merchandise. A gallery that planned to auction off art work this weekend in Connecticut that it claimed once belonged to the couple—including one that featured phony paintings by Chagall and Picasso—was shut down after the state's attorney general vowed to take legal action. [ConnPost via AMM]

Ever had the urge to slap someone across the face with an inanimate object? Guys, girls, and even Moms line up one-by-one to be slapped across the face with a pizza in this video. Oddly satisfying!

Obama is collaborating with Tiger Woods' Muslim followers to screw America, for the homosexual movement. The only way to stop the outrage: Outrageous right wing wingnuttery. Today's contestants: Kevin McCullough and Charles Lane.

For all of the millions of words written about Radiohead, soulful is usually not one of them. This homeless man, named "Homeless Mustard," does an acoustic cover with such intensity and passion, it's hard to not get shivers.

It was only last week that Alex Rodriguez gave Kate Hudson a "$39,000 white-gold ring set with pink sapphires and diamonds" as a way of thanking her "for her support during the World Series." But maybe it was a parting gift? Hollywood Life is reporting this afternoon that Rodriguez and Hudson have split up. [HollywoodLife.com]