Polls may be closed, but theories persist — crackpot and otherwise — about certain favorites' stability in their respective categories. Kate Winslet might be among those with reason to worry.

Strap in, kids. Entertainment Weekly just put out their list of the 25 greatest active film directors, and here's who isn't on it: Woody Allen, David Lynch, or a single woman. So who is?

Wynonna Judd is lonely—she admitted as much on The Late Late Show last night, and there was no hiding the fact that host Craig Ferguson makes her feel like a natural, Alli-endorsing spokeswoman.

On Twitter, no brush with celebrity can go unremarked. Guess which member of the Twitterati slept with George Clooney and which one held hands at Ryan Seacrest's workplace!

[Partygoers flood the dance floor at the Vienna Opera Ball, a huge annual society event in Austria; image via AP]

Terrible news: possibly McCain-sexing lobbyist Vicki Iseman has dropped her lawsuit against the New York Times. Turns out it's not actionable to report on someone's possibly unethical relationship with a public figure!

Swayze heads to ranch with wife and poodle. [FY]

Everyone knows what a couple of angry parents and Indian social activists think about Slumdog Millionaire's march on the Oscars. But if a five-person, man-on-the street sampling is to be believed, Mumbai wants a victory.

Allen Stanford, the Texas billionaire fingered by the FBI this week for an $8 billion financial scam, tried to go underground. But now he's been caught! In Virginia! The land of lovers—of money:

San Francisco mayor Gavin Newsom, who's running in the 2010 California governor's race, has wasted no time in turning the unwanted revelation of his impending fatherhood to political gain.

Lots of people at Fashion Week are pretty and/or glamorous and, sigh, we'll never be like them. But at least we can look at them. In a gallery, after the jump.

Steroid-peddling actor from The Wrestler arrested for...guess. [HuffPo]

The New York Times Co. just announced that it's suspending its dividend. Its dividend per share will now be zero cents. What does this mean? That it sucks to be a Sulzberger, for one.

When it comes to altering one's appearance, Photoshop has picked up where Denise Richards and Lil' Kim left off. Presenting: the heavily-altered publicity photos for the newest season of Dancing with the Stars.

Rather than put more people on the street, Hewlett-Packard CEO Mark Hurd is cutting salaries by 5 percent or more across the board. It's a paycheck experiment never before tried at a company this large.

Robert De Niro will be Jimmy Fallon's first guest—an unusually intimidating choice to ease first-night jitters, no matter how well their "Are you a pothead Fallon? Could you milk me?"-patter goes in rehearsal.

What leads kids from urban-suburban/indie music settings to get their SDS on and "take over" a cafeteria with a list of demands? Should we mock them, or pity them? Well, we should mock them, yes.

Comedian Sascha Baron Cohen's outrageous gay Austrian character Bruno recently made his own movie, in which he makes fun of the fashion industry. Curious about who got got? Fashion Week Daily has the answers.

One of our tipsters just wrote in with more information on Billy Crudup's blue Watchmen wang—and for as impressed as he was, director Zack Snyder says there's more where that came from.

It sucks to find out you're getting laid off. It sucks a lot worse to find out you're getting laid off because a lawyer yakked about it at high volume on a commuter train.