Rachel Uchitel, the New York-based club promoter who is believed to have had an affair with Tiger Woods, was supposed to give a press conference today along with her publicity-seeking attorney Gloria Allred. But she abruptly canceled it this morning. Is she waiting for a news outlet to cut her a big check? Or is she keeping quiet because—as TMZ suggests—Woods may make it worth her while to stay silent? That's all up in the air at the moment. But if you're wondering what would lead a woman down the path of tabloid infamy, this may shed a little light on the underlying psychology.

There is something hypnotic about watching the world in time-lapse. Things we normally aren't patient enough to experience become immediately accessible when captured with a slow frame rate. Here is a wide spectrum, one for each hour of the day.

Think you've ever had a really uncomfortable flight? Just be thankful you've never been forced to sit next to this guy. [NYP]

[The network trotted out big guns Rob Thomas, Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Zach Levi, Jane Krakowski, Michael Buble, and another selection from Aretha Franklin's curious hat collection for the Rockefeller Center Christmas tree lighting ceremony last night. Image via Getty]

Watch out, boy, she'll chew you up! Are these mustachio'ed men awesome or awesomely bad? We're leaning toward the latter.

A rainbow parabolas over the fertile Napa valley. A dream is asphyxiated amongst the vines. Top Chef is nearing its end. I'm Joshua David Stein. I'll take you there. Ain't nobody cryin'. Except the loser.

I, for one, welcome our new equine overlords with welcoming arms. And maybe a sign. "Welcome Horse Overlords," it will say. And maybe they will spare me from a life of painful and neverending hard labor.

Since Glee and High School Musical have made singing in groups socially acceptable once again. Here, we have a co-ed a cappella group performing The Lonely Island's SNL hit. We miss T-Pain.

Fashion designer (and now "soulful" filmmaker) Tom Ford has worn the same signature uniform for years now, a custom-made black suit accompanied by a white dress shirt that's almost always unbuttoned halfway down his chest. Occasionally, he'll wear the tea-colored sunglasses he's long been fond of; and you'll never, ever find him baring his teeth in photographs. But that isn't the meticulous designer's only quirk: He always tips his head to the left "to highlight his best side." [NYT]

Harold "Hal" Turner, pitiful racist guy with an internet radio show, is living out a fantasy by being put on trial by the Feds for advocating the murder of judges. Which is less hardcore when you consider he's a snitch.

These two birds channel Chris Kattan and Will Ferrell as they dance to the song ubiquitous with A Night at the Roxbury, "What is Love?"

NYT editor Bill Keller endorses the Oscar campaign for Morgan Freeman's Nelson Mandela Invictus performance.

Amy Poehler and Will Arnett walking in Soho with their son Archie ... Jude Law getting in a car outside his apartment in the Village ... Jessica Simpson walking in Midtown ... Hugh Jackman carrying daughter Ava home from school ... Catherine Zeta-Jones leaving her apartment building with her dog ... Christy Turlington taking daughter Grace home from school ... Cate Blanchett pushing her son in a stroller ... Meg Ryan walking in the Village ... Taylor Momsen filming scenes for Gossip Girl ... Naomi Watts walking into Whole Foods with son Alexander ... Adam Brody and Dianna Agron taking a coffee break on the set of their new movie on Long Island ... Lo Bosworth leaving her hotel ... and Matthew Broderick walking son James to school.

The Muppets have always been a beacon for clean, good humor. That's usually after they've had their morning coffee. Because they were certainly not for kids on The Today Show this morning.

In the most shockingly easy item ever, this star has been diddling club hostesses and waitresses. Who could it be? Also, the return of Coke Mom and another old gem about keeping it in the family. Blind items are fun!

It's a done deal: NBC has a new corporate overlord. So how did it go down?

Cold weather in December means Oscar season is heating up! Let's get you in the mood for the best movies have to offer by showing you Siskel & Ebert being passive-aggressive jerks to each other.

Wall Street is feeling flush, clearly. Yesterday afternoon, a "resurgent" Bank of America announced that it plans to repay the $45 billion in government aid it received during the darkest days of the financial crisis last fall. And while you might expect that Goldman Sachs to be on the defensive given all the negative press that's come its way in recent weeks, it's behaving in quite the opposite fashion according to the Wall Street Journal, which reports the bank has been meeting with its investors recently to convince them why its employees are totally entitled to record bonuses this year. And then there's Deutsche Bank:

On December 3rd, 1964 NBC aired a yule-tide classic, and a sort of break-through in the world of stop motion animation.