Jay Leno has been saying his 10pm show will be hot, because going to bed early is suddenly hot, among the kids. Someone finally checked, and of course Leno is totally wrong.

You didn't think Eliot Spitzer's year could get much worse, did you? Well, it just did. The former governor has admitted that his family also had money invested with Bernie Madoff. [NPR]

<i>National Enquirer</i> publisher AMI is cutting staff (12 now, more tomorrow) as it races to avoid bankruptcy.

This clip of Tom Cruise on David Letterman later tonight, in which he laughs about his fear of psychiatry and his insane, megalomaniacal tendencies, is one piece in a set: Scientology Prince asserts normalcy.

In trouble with the law? First, get a lawyer. Second, delete your Facebook page. Shana Madoff Swanson, couture-loving niece of accused Ponzi schemer Bernie Madoff, has followed that script.

· Whose job is it to stick up that Double Showcase Winner overlay? They've been waiting for this moment for decades, and they did not let us down!

Shana Madoff, whose uncle Bernie Madoff stands accused of defrauding investors of $50 billion, is the wife of Eric Swanson, a former top lawyer at the Securities and Exchange Commission. A goy, but well-placed!

Yahoo had set plans for a holiday party in L.A. right after Wednesday's mass layoffs — and it invited the victims. But just in case any were armed, Jerry Yang's guards set up metal detectors.

· Mercury Rev at the El Rey, Amanda Palmer & Danger Ensemble at the Henry Fonda, War Tapes at Spaceland, and Grammy-winning a cappella all-male "orchestra of voices" Chanticleer sing Christmas music at Disney Hall.

NBC will leave no stunt unplayed in its attempt to own Super Bowl Sunday, with Jessica Alba and Cloris Leachman now confirmed to appear alongside Jack Black in that night's special hour-long Office episode.

Though his sons may have grown up desensitized to monkeys and breasts, Playboy founder Hugh Hefner can still appreciate a good celebrity rack at the advanced age of 82.

Steve Jobs is a famed perfectionist. The way word leaked out he wouldn't keynote at Macworld was anything but controlled, raising concerns that his health had taken an unexpected turn.

A rumor that Twentieth Century Fox Television—producers of some of your most beloved stories, including 24, My Name is Earl, and Family Guy—would be switching over to an all-AFTRA format got this official response:

Having pissed off Oprah, the book industry, and us, former Gawker intern James Frey's working on a book, his own "theoretical third book of the Bible," that will now piss off Christians.

With everyone fired at NBC besides Jay Leno, Ben Silverman, and a particularly bodacious NBC page named Honey, it's now time to examine Silverman's track record. There's just one thing: it used to be good!

We'll admit it, we love weight-loss shows, whether it's celebrities getting fit or Shaq abusing chubby kids or ordinary people eating lots of Subway and going through truly annoying challenges. Tonight, another cycle ends.

The new issue of Vogue features cover girl Anne Hathaway at the height of her powers: a likely Oscar nominee, newly single, two films on the way, and shopping for discount knickers.

The Dark Knight may yet receive its January re-release, but it hardly seems to matter with the Oscar-season fan-offensive presently — and unofficially — being mounted in the blockbuster's name.

By now, we've seen lots of fly-on-the-wall, non-MTV-sanctioned psychodrama between the Real World Brooklyn kids, who had to do much of their filming in Manhattan due to Brooklyn bars not wanting them around.

Since a scary-skinny Steve Jobs showed up last summer to launch a new iPhone, rumors about the Apple CEO's health have circulated. Now, the cancellation of his annual Macworld speech has spooked Wall Street.