According to Access Hollywood, Mariska Hargitay has been hospitalized with a collapsed lung. A Defamer tipster who works on the set of Hargitay's Law & Order: SVU says there's more to the story.

The gaywashing continues! Today brings news of Grey's Anatomy's umpteenth gay-related downsizing. Watch out, actors: Gay in real life? Marginalized. Gay on the show? Fired. Listened to an Indigo Girls song once? Decapitated on-screen, surely!

After two years already spent fading away, George W. Bush is back! This Thursday he'll take over the networks for a goodbye speech.

A new kingpin of gay content has just come out to Wall Street: Here Media, which rules queer pay-TV, film, magazines, books, and websites. But has anyone stopped to ask if we need it?

1/11 — I saw the incredibly talented NEIL PATRICK HARRIS with his cutie-patootie partner DAVID BURTKA at Katsu-Ya in Studio City last night dining at the sushi bar. They make a handsome couple and I fought every urge to fawn over his amazing year, since he came out so gracefully, rode a unicorn in that crappy Harold and Kumar sequel, and cracked me up with his performance in Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog. [And... skipped the Golden Globes, evidently? A curse for seven years! Hollywood PrivacyWatch is written by and for Defamer readers; send your sightings to tips@defamer.com.]

The networks have emerged from hibernation, and there is an absurdly large amount of new television tonight and the rest of this month. We hope you weren't planning on getting off the EKTORP anytime soon.

It's semiofficial! Roland Burris, hero, will be the new junior senator from Illinois.

Aaron Eckhart: Hey, maybe Two-Face had a twin! Anyone? [MTV]

Bizzy Bone, of Bone-Thugs-n-Harmony, was choked, beaten, and robbed for his jewelry in LA. By an anti-gang outreach worker. [LAT]

Great news! Damon Weaver got press credentials for the inauguration! Yes!

[Dawn breaks over the Capitol Building yesterday, while staff rehearses for Barack Obama's inauguration ceremony below; image via Getty]

Awards gadfly Tom O'Neil wasted little time exploiting Tina Fey's indictment of his site's anonymous, comedienne-slagging commenters at last night Golden Globes, nearly tripping over his clown shoes backstage to grovel for forgiveness.

The world financiapocalypse has unsurprisingly screwed the world's fine art market. Christie's just announced layoffs. Art's next (last) hope: February's auction of Yves Saint Laurent's incre-deeb collection. It all comes down to this:

Barack Obama will be sworn in with Lincoln's bible, and then he'll eat Lincoln's lunch. Seriously, the Inaugural Menu is all stuff Lincoln might've eaten. Spare us.

• Gisele is engaged. [People]
• Fur is back. Jean Paul Gaultier, Karl Lagerfeld and Giorgio Armani are among the designers leading the rebellion. [Ind.]
• Despite the recession (and a gazillion lawsuits), American Apparel is one of the few retailers seeing record profits. [WWD]
• Sass & Bide has dropped out of New York Fashion Week. [Fashionista]
• With marketing budgets on the decline, more designers are looking for a boost from Hollywood's awards season. [WSJ]
• Menswear designer Ferruccio Pozzoni is departing Valentino. [Reuters]
• As expected, vacancies are up on Madison Avenue. [Crain's]
• The worst of the worst from the Stephen Sprouse party last week. [Pipeline]
• Rumor has it Elite is cutting both models and bookers. [NYM]
• Blake Lively refuses to wear anything but a size zero. The solution? The Gossip Girl costume department cuts the tags out of larger samples. [FWD]

Are you sad having been left out of all the awards excitement? Now you know how Kate Winslet once felt. Don't worry, we have something for you. Accept your honor after the jump.

The media live deeply ordinary lives. Okay, deeply ordinary lives in which their bosses buy them caviar. The Twitterati report in with a feast for the senses:

The New York Times Co. is striking back (in letter form) against Michael Hirschorn's excellent Atlantic essay on the paper's gloomy immediate future. Below, a factual look at the NYT Co.'s financial future:

It looks like Bernie Madoff isn't out of the woods just yet. Federal prosecutors said late this afternoon that they plan to appeal the ruling allowing Bernie to remain free on bail and asked for a stay until an appeal could be considered. The judge consented and said his order would be stayed until 1pm on Wednesday. The letter from the prosecution is after the jump. [Bloomberg]

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