• So much for those rumors that Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthony are in the process of splitting up: The couple has paid $2.05 million to purchase their next-door neighbor's five-bedroom house in Brookville, Long Island. [Newsday]
• Private equity exec Allen Thorpe and his wife, artist Meghan Mackay, paid $9 million for a six-bedroom apartment at 235 West 71st Street. [Cityfile]
• Hedge fund manager Ricky Sandler and his wife Mara have paid $19 million for Kitty Carlisle Hart's former penthouse duplex at 1185 Park Avenue. [NYO]
• Dallas Cowboys receiver (and soon-to-be reality TV star) Terrell Owens has cut the price of the five-bedroom home in Moorestown, NJ that he's been trying to sell for more than a year now. It's now listed at $2.96 million. [Luxist, Prudential]

Everyone's experimenting with a new crowd: Katie Holmes hangs with the bad boys; Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie try a new neighborhood and Gene Roddenberry's remains enter a whole other orbit.

Keith Olbermann turns 50 today. Designer Narciso Rodriguez is celebrating his 48th. Actor Alan Cumming is turning 44. Mikhail Baryshnikov is 61. Hedge fund mogul Dan Och turns 48. Model Lily Donaldson is turning 21. Tom Cruise's first wife, actress Mimi Rogers, turns 53. Actor James Cromwell turns 69. Tricky is 41. The rapper Lil Jon is 38. Bridget Fonda is 45. And Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts, who so spectacularly mangled Barack Obama's oath of office a week ago, turns 54 today.

GaySocialites.com: "The Associate Producer told me that Tyra was looking for someone who was a bit more 'queeny' to participate in Gay Town... Since I'm not 'bi,' then I'm not needed."

• Is Jennifer Aniston planning to steal the spotlight away from Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie at the Oscars by showing up to the ceremony with John Mayer and with a ring on her finger? Maybe! [Star]
• Alex Rodriguez either spent last weekend hanging out with Madonna at Jerry and Jessica Seinfeld's East Hampton mansion, or he spent it partying with Bill Clinton and Spike Lee in the Bahamas, depending on what you read. [P6, NYDN]
• Lindsay Lohan's rep says LiLo can't be anorexic since she "ate two full meals" during a recent photo shoot. It's settled! [P6]
• Gwyneth Paltrow's mom says 800 people have already joined her daughter's Tribeca gym, which hasn't even been finished yet. [NYDN]

Even as she was helping ruin John McCain's presidential hopes forever, Sarah Palin was learning an important lesson from Barack Obama: Strike while your fame is still hot.

• Tim Geithner was sworn in as Treasury Secretary last night. William Dudley is expected to take over for Geithner at the New York Fed. [BN, NYT, WSJ]
• Nomura announced a quarterly loss of $3.8 billion yesterday. [DB]
• Barclays says it plans to write down an additional $11 billion for 2008. [NYT]
• Tremont, the hedge fund that invested in Madoff, may shut down soon. [NYP]
• Vikram Pandit has hinted that Citi may abandon plans to buy a new jet. [CS]
• John Paulson is continuing to rake in lots of money. [BN]
• 78,000 people were laid off by public companies yesterday. [NYP]
• Stan O'Neal? He's a lousy tipper, just so you know. [NYP]

Hilary Rowland is an obnoxious name dropper. But she's not all talk: The model turned startup wannabe is reportedly no stranger to the celebrity dating circuit, and is now rumored seeing Entourage's Adrien Grenier.

Ted Haggard became a "complete heterosexual" following a meth-fueled gay-prostitute romp in 2006. But the former Colorado Springs pastor can't quit homosexual scandal, which means HBO's new documentary is suddenly timely.

A lordling of Silicon Valley, whom bloggers trust but don't dare name, surfaced to dismiss the notion that Steve Jobs, the ailing Apple CEO, was at Stanford Hospital for surgery Monday. Should we believe him?

Enough about Obama speechwriter Jon Favreau, 27. Who is his hot young girlfriend, Alejandra Campoverdi, and how did she make her way from a farmworker's family to Maxim magazine to the White House?

We have a Secretary of the Treasury! The Senate voted in Tim Geithner, despite the New York Fed chief's failure to pay $34,000 in taxes. "An honest mistake," says the White House's top flack. Oh?

Here are some of Chris Cillizza's tweets from the White House press briefing, where he represents the Washington Post. What is wrong with him, and why won't he stop?

· We love Martin Vega, the Chicago caster who makes each and every Oscar by hand. Not even his friends believe him! Well, they'll believe you now, Martin. [AP/Yahoo]

Though Seth Rogen's been rapidly shedding weight for his unlikely superhero role in The Green Hornet (a facial mask always sits better on well-defined cheekbones), Hitflix reports that the project may be doomed.

· 826LA's monthly Tiny Vaudeville series comes to the Echoplex, with the musical stylings of Pop Levi, Dave Foley, Al Madrigal, Dave (Gruber) Allen, and James Adomian.

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button grazed history last week with 13 Academy Award nominations. But could it seize Oscar legend by the throat on Feb. 22 with 13 losses? We think so!

A tipster writes: "Okay WTF. This is upstairs at Barnes and Noble Union Square, before the [Neil deGrasse] Tyson reading. It is MOBBED. Who the hell is this dude? What gives????" Good questions!

In the post-Sex and the City era, male friendships moved into the forefront of American culture. Every guy needs his boys, especially men in black collar jobs who spend most of the day discussing minutiae.