More awful details about Chris Brown's alleged attack on Rihanna: Rihanna reportedly told police her boyfriend and fellow R&B star threatened her life, then choked her to unconsciousness.

· Like seriously. Can't STAND the stuff. Sits up at night thinking about ways to eliminate the need for it altogether. That kind of thing. Dig?

Will Smith may be the biggest star in Hollywood, but which actors showed up at the very bottom (out of 1411 names!) in Forbes's new Star Currency survey?

After finally turning down the volume on Alan Rosenberg's bluesy twang, SAG leadership plans to return next week to relatively quiet — and hopefully swift — negotiations with the major studios.

· The exquisite Cat Power takes the stage at the Avalon. Will it be one of those mental breakdown quickies? Or a 3 1/2 hour set that exhausts her repertoire? Either way, go.

As Pro-Choicers, we prefer the government keep out of a woman's business, yet we firmly support the media getting up in there. In these trying times, anyone having a child (let alone 8) deserves scrutiny.

[A White House military staffer carries a portrait of President Obama at Andrews Air Force base; image via AP]

Journalists pretend to hate PR people, but they secretly think about them all the time. Anita Bruzzese, Todd Bishop, Ina Fried and others revealed their obsession with flackery on Twitter, reporters' oversharing medium of choice.

Were the crazy, stabby, glock-toting Eastside muggers nabbed? [EastsiderLA]

The Age of the Easily Expensed Job-Perk (Assistant: "You want me to submit a receipt that says, 'Lunch with hooker Ratner?'" Agent: "Yeah, that's fine. Throw 'er in there with the rest...") are long over.

Case presented against Chris Brown, further investigation pending. [E!]

Note: We're redacting the prosecution's list of the two video files and three images they allegedly found on Bruns' computer because of their highly graphic descriptions of sex acts involving girls they describe in two instances as "under the age of 10," and in two others as "under the age of five."

Gawker has obtained the criminal complaint and arrest warrant filed by federal prosecutors against Fox News producer Aaron Bruns, including the affidavit of the detective who investigated him. Here's how they say it went down.

Continuing budget woes required the hosts of the BAFTA Awards to cut their little-known backstage daycare room for this year's ceremony. And as presumed, Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie's fellow hotel guests suffered the most.

Look, Dr. Oz: Only Oprah is allowed to refer to her weight gain, and when she does, you're supposed to say, "What weight gain? Why, you look fit and healthy—not like that Viola Davis!"

• As you learned three weeks ago, Michelle Obama will appear on the March cover of Vogue. As for the magenta dress she wore for the Annie Leibovitz-lensed cover, it was designed by Jason Wu. [WaPo, WWD]
• A preview of the shows and parties planned for Fashion Week. [Style, NYM]
• Didn't get tix for the festivities next week? Try Craigslist. [NYM]
• It's still unclear what's going on with Olivier Theyskens and Nina Ricci. [WWD]
• Carine Roitfeld is designing a "youth-focused" edition of French Vogue. [FWD]
• Mandy Moore is shuttering her fashion line so she can focus on music. [WWD]
• Sales of wedding dresses and engagement rings are down. [WSJ]
• Georgina Chapman graces Harper's Bazaar's new issue alongside cheetahs and snakes, but not with other vicious animals like, say, her husband. [FWD]

How much did it cost to put a lingering dispute over the creation of Facebook to rest? $65 million, according to the lawyers who hammered out the — oops — confidential settlement with rival ConnectU.

[Read more at Gawker Stalker and submit your own to stalker@gawker.com] Feb. 10 @1:10 pm Didn't look THAT fat. Looked like she was struggling to walk in her 6 inch heels.

This is the year of new ideas for saving newspapers! Unfortunately, the main solutions seem to be plagued the one thing that led most people into journalism in the first place: lack of math skills.

In our critical treatise of last October, "Coldplay's 'SNL' Freak-Out: Easy-Listening Performance Art, Awful, Or Both?" we remarked upon not just Chris Martin's spastic stage presence, but on the ungodly music itself: