Those of you who weren't converts already will gaze at this one image, this first image from the movie (sorta) and you will realize. Also today: TNT does something wholly new and exciting and Ben Affleck's outta the Hamptons.

Yes indeedy, the blonde wisp-angel is performing at this year's Oscars. Also today: turns out The Walking Dead actually does need writers, Ben Affleck might be headed to Tehran, and MTV finally says no to Lauren Conrad.

Well, it's that most wonderful time of the year again. No, not Christmas, the war against which we are fully waging. We mean Oscar season! Some early awards have been given out, so it's time to start the prediction game.

[Actor Ben Affleck, with his wife, actor Jennifer Garner, gets pulled over for a speeding ticket in Santa Monica. Photo via WENN.]

Today at Gawker.TV, John Stamos shares raunchy tales with Chelsea Handler, the Kardashian sisters skirt around questions about their Kredit Kard Kontroversy, rookie reality judges, and Jimmy Kimmel tries to discover if Ben Affleck is a top or a bottom.

Ben Affleck was on Jimmy Kimmel Live last night and explained his complicated relationship/rivalry with fellow actor (and co-Oscar winner) Matt Damon. We've all been wondering: Is Ben Affleck a top or a bottom? Click through for the answer.

Kim, Kourtney, and Khloe pull the plug on their predatory credit card. Lindsay Lohan wants a restraining order against paparazzi. Tom Brady battles male pattern baldness. Brad Pitt's plague of poor fashion choices returns. Tuesday gossip is a lost cause.

He just might be if rumors are to be believed. Also today: News about three of your favorite NBC shows, Ben Affleck mulls his next directing project, and some small bits of casting.

Fall is the best time for movies. All the serious awards-contenders strut their stuff, the thrillers are darker and grittier, and the romances tend to be weepies. Here's a guide to what's coming out from now until the new year.

[Actors Ben Affleck and Jon Hamm gape, helplessly, as hundreds of photographs are taken at last night's premiere of their movie The Town at the Venice Film Festival. Photo via AP.]

Here's a trailer for The Company Men, John "ER" Wells' drama feature about the working men of the rat race and what happens when they get laid off. Very timely! The teaser was intriguing. How does the full-length trailer look?

Here's a trailer for The Town, Ben Affleck's second directorial effort. Like Gone Baby Gone, it's a Boston-set crime drama based on a novel and is about gritty men doing gritty things, grittily. Only this one has more shooting.

To keep up with all the rumors they're starting, Katy and Russell will need one thousand and one nights of non-stop ceremonies. Cops investigate Mel Gibson. Elle MacPherson is sorry she ate an endangered animal. TGIFriday gossip.

Tonight, The Oprah Winfrey Oscar Special graced us with its presence. We knew that it would be full of CELEBRITIEEEEEEES, and we knew that they would interview each other. But we learned some new things, too! Inside, some standout moments.

She hasn't had a good song or a hit movie in years, and now her record label dropped her and the opening of her new movie has been repeatedly pushed back. It's official, J to the Lo. You're done.

Owen Wilson, Woody Allen and Carla Bruni make a movie. Ben Affleck does a movie too—about wife-swapping. Steven Segal is back. Zac Efron is rich. Our last significant digit must be five or greater, because we're rounding up.

James Cameron is using reverse psychology on the Oscars. Ben Affleck and Matt Damon are still movie-making buddies. Christoph Waltz has a new, Nazi role. George Lucas gets a redo. Today's Trade Roundup is a veritable double-McTwist-1260 of entertainment news.

• Marc Jacobs says he's totally over having celebrities at his fashion shows because it's boring, and the only reason Lady Gaga and Madonna turned up to his show last year was because Gaga was performing at the after-party and Madonna, well, she just showed up. "She came backstage, and I was like, 'What do you do with her now?' Because it's not like she was invited." Somewhere, Madonna is burning all of her Marc Jacobs clothing. [P6]
• Rumors have been swirling recently that Ben Affleck fell off the wagon recently and is now drinking again. (He checked himself into rehab back in 2001.) On Monday, a bearded Affleck was spotted "cruising aimlessly" at the Chateau Marmont and "looking worse for wear." Uh oh. [NYDN]
• Tiger Woods mistress No. 1, Rachel Uchitel, has scored herself a job. A day after sitting down with Extra's Mario Lopez for an interview and now the show has hired her as its new nightlife correspondent. Just like hooker-turned-sex columnist Ashley Dupre, Uchitel is proving that you can make a big bunch of terrible decisions in life and come out ahead in the end, provided you have no shame and a burning desire to be famous. [P6]

There's this little indie film festival going on out West right now called Sundancer...? Is it Sundancer? Well, whatever it is, they're showing a lot of movies and thus there's lots of movie news. So let's do a roundup!

Let's start a bunch of rumors about why she got canned. Diva? Pregnant? Meanwhile, A-Rod ignores Madonna, wedding bells for Prince William, and Kate Gosselin's new extensions hurt her scalp. Tuesday gossip is where we belong.