Radar magazine died a particularly gruesome death in its third iteration: bought by AMI, its website was gutted and replaced by a terrible Zombie Radar. Now, print mag subscribers received one last insult via postcard:

Defamer's Week in Review: We gave, WALL-E healed, Robert Pattinson chopped, and Zac Efron's fruity balls saved Christmas. Reminisce with us after the jump, and have a great weekend!

It's that time of year, when a young website's thoughts turn to listicles! Please come on an incredible journey with us as we recount the most insane, star-on-star fights Hollywood had to offer in 2008:

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For some reason, after hearing a funny Joy Luck Club reference on Saved by the Bell: The College Years this morning, we're in a really introspective place. Or that's the boxed wine rotting our brains.

Even Christmas was a disappointment this year. Can we move on to 2009 already? This week, it was the holi-daze!

Eric Roth, the writer behind current Brad Pitt vehicle The Curious Case of Benjamin Button as well as Forrest Gump, is suing the investment manager who put his money into Bernie Madoff's Ponzi scheme. He joins a long list of people who say they lost millions in the alleged fraud.

DREW BARRYMORE and JASON SEGEL probably are dating. I was at a Karaoke last night and they were there, I'm pretty sure they've got something going on. I took some pictures and videos of Jason Segel singing with my phone but they did not come out very clear! [Tease! Hollywood PrivacyWatch is written by and for Defamer readers; send your sightings to tips@defamer.com.]

The first reaction of those who dwell in California's cradle of technology to the recession was blithe indifference — Wall Street's problem, not theirs. How swiftly they learned otherwise. A tipster sends in photographic evidence.

We knew Fox News gossip and mortal Tom Cruise enemy Roger Friedman was upset last week when MGM denied him an advance look at Valkyrie. Today, he exacted his mouthbreathing, error-packed and all-around vicious revenge.

It's amusing to watch retailers squirm and cry about disappointing holiday sales. What part of "we don't have money" don't they understand? That's what happens when you balance an economy on consumerism and debt!

The holiday season gives an ever-scrutinized media elite the one true liberation: That feeling no one's really watching! The madness descends in this clip from Fox and Friends:

When Courtney Love accused Kim Kardashian's brother of a hate crime, we anticipated the latter would continue the blog war with a rebuttal—we just didn't expect how cagey the response would ultimately be.

Of all handler subgenus, perhaps none is taxed more thanklessly than flackus mendacitus, or the garden variety publicist.

LeatherCreations, a Chicago-area furniture store, took out a quarter-page ad in Thursday's Chicago Tribune: "We sell more seats than the Governor!" Does this spell a lucrative post-politics career in endorsements for Illinois's allegedly crooked governor?

12/24 — Just went to see the 1:15 Gran Torino showing at Arclight today... TOM MORELLO (Rage Against The Machine guitarist extraordinaire) was at the theatre, standing in line with what looked to be his mom and his grandma (awwwww...) I think they went to see Slumdog Millionaire. [Hollywood PrivacyWatch is written by and for Defamer readers; send your sightings to tips@defamer.com.]

Anything homemade or stolen, as predicted? Anything howlingly inappropriate? Did people totally cheap out this year and use the economy as an excuse?

In public, executives at Tesla Motors, Silicon Valley's highest-profile green-technology startup, are saying there's nothing wrong with their all-electric cars. In private, though, CEO Elon Musk has chastised employees to make vehicles that work.

The holidays turn our thoughts to love and family. But the "m4m" section of Craigslist, usually a venue for anonymous hookups, is a strange place to begin one's soulmate quest. That didn't stop one reporter!