Kansas Governor Kathleen Sebelius will fix the health care, in our country, just like she almost fixed it in Kansas! Until she ran into political opposition!

For his sake. You know, to get her in bed. So says a model (well, from GoDaddy.com) named Simona Fusca, who supposedly went on a very rude date with the Broadway-abandoning actor.

Liev Schreiber "sifting" through the trash near his Noho apartment ... Jeremy Piven walking with girlfriend Ashley Chontos in Soho ... Brad Pitt arriving at JFK to board a flight ... Brooke Shields shopping on Madison Avenue ... Slumdog Millionaire's Freida Pinto walking around Midtown with an H&M shopping bag in hand ... Justin Timberlake walking downtown with an unidentified "female friend" ... Mariska Hargitay and her husband leaving the Nederlander Theatre on West 41st Street ... and Madonna walking in the snow with Jesus Luz.

"Most Americans had likely never heard of RadarOnline before now. But the site almost instantly made a name for itself with the Octo-Mom story."—LAT, today. Come on now. I mean, really.

If you managed to use the snowstorm as an excuse to avoid going into work today, you may have a harder time making the case tomorrow: The mayor says schools will most likely reopen on Tuesday, reports "A.G. Sulzberger," the son of Times publisher Arthur Sulzberger Jr., in his first post for the paper's City Room blog. [NYT]

Remember Republic Windows and Doors? The company that kicked off Depression 2.0 by staging the last successful labor sit-in that will ever happen? Yet more good news: they found a buyer!

[A Brooklyn street is buried in snow as a big storm sweeps through the Northeast this morning; image via AP]

Good morning and happy, miserable Monday everyone. (Snow on the East, rain on the West). While you cower inside, away from the elements, ponder over the weekend box office report and wonder... why?

MoMA, which allegedly stands for "Museum of Modern Art," has fired a guy for wantonly associating the MoMA name with art, of the modern variety.

This isn't the best time for a socialite to be pitching a high-end lifestyle brand. But you can't blame Tory Burch for trying to remake her image to suit the current economic climate. Burch, who is now preparing to introduce her line to British shoppers, "has created the go-to brand for affordable luxury" and is now a "portal to accessible chic," reports the Sunday Times. And she expects her line to continue to grow as hedge-fund wives "downgrade from Hermès and Halston." "We have a lot of designer customers shopping in our stores who think of us as their Gap," Burch explains. As for her high-profile split from ex-husband Chris Burch and the handful of men she's been linked to since then (including Lance Armstrong, Ron Perelman, and Lyor Cohen), don't think for a minute she's been pleased to see her name in the news:

Conan O'Brien's Late Night has ended, but you can still get your hands on a piece of the show. Hundreds of props are now sitting in a Queens warehouse and are on sale, including fake plants, "hockey helmets topped with upside-down baby dolls in stars-and-stripes leotards," and a "life-size cutout of Brian Williams." All items you've been searching for, we're sure. [NYDN]

Bon Appetit and Gourmet are both Conde Nast-owned food magazines with similar reader demographics and ad rates. They're both equally popular among Gawker readers. They're both troubled. Why does Conde need both?

Today we have a guy having problems with a transsexual, a bulimic actress, a smoking actor, an obsessive comedian, and a perfume-hoarding actress.

But you won't. No one ever will. Also in the news are Chris Brown and Rihanna (for the first time ever), Britney Spears, Katie Holmes, Madonna, and Tommy-Tom Brady.

Last year, class resentment in NYC consisted of the poors complaining about the excesses of the rich, while the rich paid no attention. But now the rich are forced to pretend to change. Slight progress!

Through the recession-blackened debris of our once great nation, there blows a consolatory treasure, a reminder, if you will, of what being American is all about: suing people! Thanks to the mass layoffs of lawyers—on February 12th alone, 800 law firm employees were let go—the cost of a lawsuit should drop "for the first time in history," explains Mark Penn, the CEO of the PR firm Burson-Marsteller and the scandal-plagued strategist who worked on Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign. Music to the ears, no doubt, of women who have ever been employed by Simon Hammerstein, or of waitstaff at basically any New York restaurant.

AIG announced this morning that it lost $61 billion during the fourth quarter of 2008, or $465,421 per minute. To put that into perspective, "every six seconds it loses enough to pay full tuition for a year at Harvard." [NYT]

• Kelsey Grammer is once again looking for a buyer for his 8,000-square-foot house in Bridgehampton. Grammer listed the seven-bedroom home last year for $15.9 million before taking it off the market when he didn't get an offer. It's now up for sale for $13.9 million. [Newsday, Sotheby's]
• Mike McNamara, the CEO of Flextronics International, and his wife Deborah, have dropped the price of their apartment at the Plaza. Previously listed for $12.5 million, the three-bedroom abode is now on the market for $10.9 million. [Cityfile, Stribling]
• Private equity exec Howard Romanow and his wife Jamie paid $3.1 million for a fifth-floor apartment at the Brompton on East 85th Street. [Cityfile]

Chris Martin, the husband of Gwyneth Paltrow and lead singer of Coldplay, turns 32 today. Author Tom Wolfe is 79. Lou Reed is turning 67. Restaurateur Jeffrey Chodorow is turning 59. Jon Bon Jovi is 47. Daniel Craig is 41. Hockey player Henrik Lundqvist is 27. Writer John Irving turns 67. Mikhail Gorbachev is 78. Elizabeth Jagger, daughter of Mick Jagger and Jerry Hall, turns 25. Film producer/exec Peter Guber is 67. Cosmetic dentist to the stars Marc Lowenberg is 63. And Reggie Bush, the football player and boyfriend of Kim Kardashian, turns 24 today.

• It seems Rihanna and Chris Brown have reunited: The two have been holed up at Diddy's Star Island mansion since late last week and are now "focusing on a reconciliation." Not surprisingly, fans have been a little bit dismayed by the news. [NYDN, People, Reuters]
• Why didn't Katie Holmes walk the red carpet at the Oscars? She's on an "intense detox diet" that has left her "lethargic," poor thing. [NYDN]
• Sumner Redstone is reportedly dating a former flight attendant who is six decades his junior. [R&M]