Feeling the need to add some culture to their lives that required neither the prefix "pop-" nor the involvement of a frozen yogurt stand, Defamer PartyWatcher Ann and photographer Maggie Serrano took in a showing of Hooker Safari, a concrete-jungle-themed show of works by artist Natalia Fabia at the Cory Helford Gallery in Culver City. There, our fearless social chroniclers encountered all manner of body-paint fetishists and colorful art world types. The report, and an image gallery, follow after the jump.

We don't know exactly how long Matthew Perry spent marching alongside his WGA compatriots at today's Picketing with the Stars jamboree at Universal, but the strain of trudging in circles toting his NICK COUNTER IS NO FRIEND OF MINE sign clearly took a significant physical toll on the actor. Even after he tried to reduce his exertion-induced pallor by gobbling down a handful of agency-supplied churros, a local TV reporter still approached him with an awkward barrage of questions about what it was like to work with Owen Wilson and Vince Vaughn on Wedding Crashers. [Photos: AP]

Your guess is as good as ours as to what might have possessed a rapidly unraveling Barbara Walters to don a batskin raincoat from The Dominatrix Barn and precious else on The View, then reveal her purely nonlesbian impulse to gawk at any unclothed female bodies she might encounter while lingering in the dimly lit corners of her favorite spas and ladies clubs. We're certain there's some logical explanation for all this that can be directly tied to estrogen-therapy-induced dementia, but we think just this once we'll simply choose not to look a gift horse in the mouth. Are we right, fellas?

· Music round-up: KT Tunstall at Avalon; Misfits at the House of Blues; American Music Club at the Echo; Sondre Lerche at the Troubadour.
· At the Central Library, journalist Gregory Rodriguez discusses his book, Mongrels, Bastards, Orphans & Vagabonds: Mexican Immigration and the Future of Race in America, with NPR correspondent Karen Grigsby Bates.
· And just in case that previous event seems a little too highbrow, the New Beverly doubles up with showings of The Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires and The Vampires' Night Orgy, two bloodsucking classics of 1973.

Like a fine, snout-sprayed cognac mist, Paris Hilton's plea on behalf of drunken elephants appears to have evaporated into thin air, as the AP has issued the following kill-order on the story: "AP-KILL ADVISORY Stations: The separate slugged Hilton-Drunk Elephants sent as V3374 at 12:17 p.m. Eastern time has been KILLED. Lori Berk, a publicist for Hilton, says she never made any comments about helping drunken elephants in India. A kill is mandatory. Make certain the item is not aired. No sub will be filed. AP Broadcast News Center - Washington."

Asks a puzzled attendee of the just-commenced Picketing with the Stars Strikestravaganza: "Just got back from Universal. Why does Ray Romano show up at a picket with his bodyguards?" After quickly scanning some early wire photos of the event, we think we have an explanation: while Everybody Loves Raymond co-creator Phil Rosenthal, the bruiser pictured with Romano, certainly looks intimidating enough to provide all the protection the comedian might need at a seemingly friendly rally, he'd still require the services of a security professional should a disgruntled writer fired off the series' first season decide to settle an old score by trying to plunge the sharpened handle of his NO NERDS NO WORDS sign into the actor's back as he granted a TV interview. [Photo: AP]

Dr. Jan Adams, currently standing in the crosshairs of a TMZ firing squad (there's been five more posts since our morning round-up, including accusations of impregnating one patient and leaving a sponge in another), delivered this statement to Entertainment Tonight: "I want to first express my deepest condolences to the West family at a very difficult time. As a medical doctor practicing in this field, I hold sacred the bond of confidentiality that exists between the patient and doctor. Out of respect of the West family, and the absence of verifiable information, any comment without having first discussing that information with the family would be unprofessional." An Oprah spokesperson, meanwhile, told Extra that the talk show host who once featured Adams as a guest "DID NOT RECOMMEND DR. ADAMS TO DONDA WEST." [etonline.com, extratv.com]

If there's one potentially happy side-effect of the strike-hobbled, reality-TV-riddled primetime schedules that will soon be necessitated by the writers strike's shutdown of the script pipeline, it's that Richard Simmons will probably enjoy a much-deserved career resurgence as his personal services become coveted by producers desperate for a hit from the stunt-cameo crackpipe.

Having recently energized weary strikers on the Paramount beat and at Friday's the Fox rally with her adorably galvanizing presence and unmatched slogan-authorizing abilities, the Incredible Picketing Baby was spotted just a little while ago at the still-in-progress, celebrity-studded event at Universal, where her presence is undoubtedly overshadowing that of the higher-billed TV stars trying to flag down photographers who might capture for posterity the special moment when they hand a still-steaming Dominos Pizza to a hungry-looking scribe. Should the WGA spokesbaby's popularity continue to explode, she may soon require the services of a publicist to handle a flood of demands for her presence at picket lines desperately in need of a morale boost.

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· The Writers' Guild of Great Britain says they're in solidarity with the WGA, and is planning to stage an awards ceremony on Sunday to remind the world that scribes are to be cherished and celebrated, not placed in front of studio gates for SUV target practice. [Variety]
· This year's Oscar contenders display a "bleak, even nihilistic worldview," a largely coincidental development as all were put into production long before Hollywood's collective spirits were darkened by the ongoing labor Armageddon. Should the strike drag on into February, look for replacement host Ryan Seacrest to provide an appropriately somber tone to the proceedings. [THR]
· The Pinkett-Smith family is getting together to make the drama The Human Contract, a film Jada is directing and writing and Will is executive producing. No role is specified for precocious son Jaden, though he may eventually be awarded an associate producer credit for secretly punching up the script during trips to the set with mom and dad. [ Variety]

With a male-to-female ratio nearly as favorable as that of the average nuclear submarine crew, there is perhaps no better place for single women to prowl for companionship than their local WGA picket line: "Ladies! Meet Available Striking Writers We're there all this week from 6am-3pm. Come on by! Grab a sign and walk back and forth across the street with us. Stay for 5 minutes or for as long as you like. If you see someone interesting, just strike (hah hah) up a conversation. We need new people to talk to. But if you don't click with anyone, you can just duck out. No pressure. Remember, we'll be working again at some point." [Craigslist]

We're not entirely sure when the AP started running ridiculous-sounding quotes taken from Celebrity Hearsay Wire Service WENN, but we'll just have to assume all the fact-checking legwork has been done on this particular tale of celebutard altruism in the widely ignored realm of animal substance abuse. In Tokyo, where she was judging a local beauty pageant, Paris Hilton allegedly made the following statement in response to a story about wild Indian pachyderms having gone on a rice-beer-fueled rampage:

[Note: an update follows after the jump.] As it turns out, those call-rollers who were told that they'd be sacrificing their overtime pay to help their companies weather the writers strike were the lucky ones, as THR confirms that Innovative Artists has laid off about 10 of its assistants, a move the agency's head says is necessary for the firm's survival while the flow of executive-nourishing commission checks slows to a trickle:

We now have a name and a face to attach to the surgeon who performed the tummy tuck and breast reduction that would lead to Donda West's death: It was Beverly Hills cosmetic surgeon Dr. Jan Adams, whose website says, "My work has never simply been about giving someone a new look. It's about providing an individual with a new path to self-discovery and self-esteem." Apparently it's also about getting as much TV coverage as possible, as he's made "countless appearances" on "Oprah and Entertainment Tonight, CNN, E!, NBC, ABC and the Discovery Networks," in addition to being one of the four panelists on The Other Half, aka Dick Clark's The View with Prostates. TMZ has been all over this guy today, turning up a long list of DUIs, malpractice suits, claims of botched boob jobs and that he lied about his credentials, and license suspension proceedings. They also report that Donda's surgery lasted 8 hours, or twice as long as usual for her procedure.

On this ninth day of the strike that has reduced Hollywood to a one-story town, take a bite of that days-old, CAA-supplied churro and scroll through this morning's round-up:

With seemingly so little to be thankful for this upcoming Turkey Devouring Day, at least we have the happy news that Dick Clark will be rejoining the 2008 New Year's Rockin' Eve festivities, where he'll again be accompanied by a virtually strikeproof Ryan Seacrest. There, at the precise stroke of midnight (perhaps an unfortunate choice of wording given the circumstances), Seacrest will finally deliver the noisemaker-blowing go-ahead to his delighted mentor, resulting in the faintest kazoo-squeak signal for "Auld Lang Syne" to begin.

A large, television-obsessed corner of the interwebs will go dark tomorrow in a 17-site-strong "blog strike" (including Televisionary, Glowy Box, and Give Me My Remote) to show their support of the WGA's writers, an act of TV fandom refreshingly free of the mass-mailing of foodstuffs that's lately become such a protest cliché. [TV Week.com]