Just last month, IAC chief Barry Diller was chiding his fellow moguls for laying workers off in a recession and spending indiscriminately. So how does he explain getting rid of 23/6, his humor site?

· Adam Sandler, Seth Rogen, Jonah Hill, Aniz Anzari and Patton Oswalt are at the Orpheum shooting another scene for Funny People. Good news: They need audience extras! Bad news: You have to pay them.

It begins: The spring of American Idol. We're not above it, we're just not going to categorize it. Like Chipotle or Sam Rockwell, we love and hate AI, so we'll see how it goes.

At least Schrenker has shown some spunk and swagger in trying to escape financial fraud — unlike, say, Bernie Madoff, the $50 billion Ponzi schemer whose idea of flirting with danger seems to be mailing $200 mittens.

There are few people in this world brave enough to rebuff an insistent, role-seeking Oprah Winfrey, but Doubt director John Patrick Shanley is one of them. He had his certainty!

Fox's new midseason entry Lie to Me may have Tim Roth toplining, but its thunder has been stolen by the similar premise of breakout hit The Mentalist. Now, Lie actors are dubbing Mentalist "a scam."

One would think that Twitter's 140-character limit would put a cap on oversharing. But one would be wrong. Hints of a 30 Rock star's bowel movements, plans for drinking in public, delicious hair, and more:

The horrendous Dec. 4 news cycle better known as Pop Culture Doomsday was one Ellen prank shy of an honorary celebrity mom: Alison Sweeney, the Biggest Loser host who finally came around late Monday.

[A Maria Bonita Extra dress is modeled at a fashion show in Rio de Janeiro yesterday. Where are the model's legs? Image via AP]

Arrested Development movie plot: "Valkyrie meets Hotel for Dogs." [THR]

If you thought Microsoft's Seinfeld ads were bad, then you really don't want to see this new four-minute Microsoft "Songsmith" pseudoinfomercial. Because it is a descent into child karaoke hell, is why. Very bad.

Days after nature's wrath laid waste to Whitney Port's two-piece — on camera, natch — the City star expressed regret for the tragedy's rippling cultural impact. The NSFW wreckage follows the jump.

[The celebrity was spotted in California; image via INF]

SCOOP: Ben Smith has published a long work of college journalism by our new leader Barack Obama! Click through for highlights of this elitist Ivy League anti-war tract, starring Barack quoting Peter Tosh:

The eternally marriage-minded Ellen DeGeneres booked the man who performed her own wedding as a guest today. Who is this allegedly famous, bestselling author? Basically, he's Rick Warren for people who do yoga.

The Google Jet really is a party plane. Founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin travel the world on a Boeing 767 they bought and tricked out. But who flies it for them? A wild bunch.

Few real estate brokers did better during the boom times than Paula Del Nunzio, the Brown Harris Stevens mega-agent who unloaded eight-figure townhouses to the likes of hedge funders Phil Falcone, Jim Chanos, and John Paulson and our fave Tblisi-born cabdriver-turned-real estate baron, Tamir Sapir. With New York's real estate market headed off a cliff, it's unlikely that Del Nunzio's record-setting deal—the sale of the Harkness Mansion to financier J. Christopher Flowers in 2006 for $53 million—will be surpassed any time soon. But is Flowers, who reportedly enjoys plays chess against himself, really happier than the rest of us because he gets to set up his chess board in a small corner of a magnificent 22,000-square-foot limestone mansion overlooking Central Park?

Oscars announce 9 foreign language finalists. Van Damme: snubbed! [THR]

A new site lets you make your own OBEY-style Obama poster ripoffs. Do it now while it's still cool! [Obamicon.me via Folio]

Went to the Polo Lounge this past Friday for lunch with a friend, fancy I know, but it was on his work account. Anyway...