A Swiss court granted Roman Polanski bail at a reported $4.5m. He will be out later this week, if authorities decide not to appeal. Let's take a look at who will be happy about this and who will be sad!

Baboon gangs terrorize Cape Town; World Cup threatened by furry felons.

Today's retro jam is the second single of of The Smiths' 1983 self-titled album.

So much for that report in the Daily News yesterday that fallen publicist/socialite Ali Wise has signed on to appear in Tinsley Mortimer's upcoming reality show, Empire State. A publicist for Wise—yes, even publicists have their own publicists from time to time—says that Wise has not (yet?) agreed to appear on the CW show.

Stuyvesant High School junior Mohammed Hassan was arrested last week for setting fires at school. Sounds like the case is all wrapped up, eh? Wrong. Now there are more fires. And taunting notes! And hieroglyphics! A fiery criminal thrill ride!

The intro to this music video is so on point, with such a great sense for comedic timing, that by the time the actual music video starts you'll be laughing too hard to pay attention.

Oh, seriously? "In a little-noticed interview Friday, Mr. Dobbs told Spanish-language network Telemundo he now supports a plan to legalize millions of undocumented workers, a stance he long lambasted as an unfair 'amnesty.'"

When people see two buildings of varying heights, the thought is usually, "Hey, look at those two buildings." When this guy sees them, he thinks, "I wonder if I can be batshit crazy by jumping from one to the other."

In perhaps the greatest American legal decision since "A Book Named 'John Cleland's Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure' v. Attorney General of Massachusetts," a Pittsburgh court awarded a man $50,000 for flicking off a cop.

A book proposal by this title has been doing the rounds at publishing houses and agents. It needs to see the light of day. Why? Because it's romantic historical fiction featuring a love affair with Vince Vaughn through the ages.

This baby tiger wants to roar, but what comes out is more of a 'meow.'

Between our high-flying Julia Child, a celeb couple that invites the mistress over for the main meal, and a Twilight star lying about being a Native America, we're serving up a whole bunch of turkeys this morning. Gooble, gooble.

While recapping last nights Dancing With the Stars finale, the sound abruptly cut out and cut to a shot of the back of Miss Piggy's lifeless head. A flustered Tom Bergeron cut to commercial. This clip has not been edited.

Thanksgiving is a day for being with family, giving thanks, and—ohmygod, you burned the freaking turkey, didn't you. DIDN'T YOU! Please step away from the canned cranberry sauce and let Anthony Bourdain be your Thanksgiving guide.

Jude Law walking downtown with his personal assistant ... Tobey Maguire leaving the Four Seasons Hotel via the back door... Katharine McPhee hailing a cab ... Shia LaBeouf and Michael Douglas eating lunch on the set of Wall Street 2 ... Famke Janssen walking in the West Village ... Katie Holmes carrying Suri on the set of The Romantics on Long Island ... Adam Lambert leaving his hotel in Midtown and later arriving at MTV studios in Times Square ... Amber Rose arriving at a Cinema Society after-party at the Gramercy Park Hotel ... Catherine Zeta-Jones walking in Midtown ... and Robin Williams leaving the Trump International Hotel.

That bottle of Snapple sitting next to your cab driver in the front seat? It's not Snapple. [AMNY]

November 25, 1947 The Hollywood Ten Are Blacklisted.

NY1 news anchors: Cursed? Portly (former) political anchor Dominic Carter ruined his own career by beating his wife and trying to squirm out of it by name-dropping. Now, another anchor's dad is critically injured in a crack pipe fire.

A Italian-American group is calling on MTV to scrap what is expected to be the most entertaining TV show in a long time, Jersey Shore, the show about the Garden State's "hottest, tannest, craziest Guidos." MTV, however, is holding its ground, thankfully. [Previously]

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