Welcome back, fellow Top Chef live-bloggers! In the three weeks since we last gathered, a holiday season has come and gone, and a shiny new year has dawned.

Jimmy Wales, the scandal-prone cofounder of Wikipedia, thinks Barack Obama's first priority should be creating government websites anyone can edit. Translation: A bailout for makers of wikis.

Just before Anne Hathaway received Mary Hart's advice to shut up and bleach, the actress was on the Palm Springs red carpet with stern words for onetime paramour Barack Obama.

Because you've been good, we thought we'd throw your way a skin-heavy gallery of comedy giants Steve Martin and Martin Short in the St. Barts surf. Take that, Kim Zolciak! No, but seriously—enjoy.

· Guns n' Bombs at the Echo, IKOMA at Spaceland, Banyan at The Mint.

Hooray! Brad Grey will be at Paramount at least as long as his immediate predecessors, with a reported new contract extending his leadership through 2014.

In October, before Google's cost-cutting campaign began in earnest, the company had more than 10,000 contractors, founder Sergey Brin said. In a mid-December SEC filing, it reported only 4,300 temporary workers.

As Sayid on Lost, Naveen Andrews usually leaves nutty paranormal theories behind when he heads for the mainland. During a custody case in Los Angeles today, though, he had to deal with a whopper.

Patrick Swayze's struggle with cancer made us uncharacteristically sad today, as we realized that watching Road House might someday be a bittersweet experience. If Swayze can keep a brave face, then we can, too.

Watch Oprah's expression as a minister tells her, "Being gay is a gift from God."

Mickey Rourke isn't waiting until Oscar night—and the promise of shiny gold hardware he can drunkenly threaten to sodomize Sean Penn with at the Governor's Ball—to start capitalizing on his newfound Hollywood clout.

Has anything the celebrity family of Jett Travolta said about the teenager been the unvarnished truth? If so, we missed it. Even the publicity photos of Jett they sent out after his death are Photoshopped.

It's a fun new game and you can play along at home! Just place our president-elect's name in a list of names of shady characters. Then get rich on the teevee!

Miramax may be starving for an Oscar repeat for 2008, but apparently not enough to mix their meats at the Oscar-season blurb buffet.

Two robbers ripped off Snatch and stole millions in diamonds by disguising themselves as Hasidic Jews. New folk heroes? The next Somali pirates? No, way too derivative, dudes. Recreate Usual Suspects and we'll talk.

Though Jeremy Piven's ungraceful, sushi-related exit from Speed-the-Plow has at least secured him future savings on his Matsuhisa tab, he may part with that extra cash if the play's backers have their (angry) say.

A day after clearing his name in Shreveport and clearing his throat in New York, Josh Brolin wants to clear the air about where he stands with "asshole" former co-star Russell Crowe.

We're starting a new, daily media column for all the media news items we can't get to individually. It may also feature pithy remarks and totally exclusive scoops. Read it today, and forevermore:

Richard Seaver, a lifelong publisher and editor, died yesterday at the age of 82. He helped bring Samuel Beckett and lots and lots of kinky sex writing into the world.

According to EW's Michael Ausiello, Tori Spelling has finally signed to reprise her role on multiple episodes of 90210, at least one of which will be directed by Jason Priestly. Yes, it's still 2009. Reserve your ticket to Tron now! [EW]