Joel just heard that all it takes to be called an "independent film" is to not be financed by a major Hollywood studio. So, here's one of the many films by Joel that now count towards a possible Spirit Award.

It always happens. The day after your book is published you meet someone who says, "Oh, I wish I'd known you were writing that biography. I could've told you about ...." Fill in the blanks here with some hair-raising incident you did not have in your book, despite years of research and hundreds of interviews. Never fails.

From his bombastic OKCupid profile to his creepy love letters to a 19-year-old girl, Wikileaks founder Julian Assange has some strange romantic proclivities. Strangest of all is his apparent obsession with littering the world with offspring. He's fathered at least four children with mistresses, and he boasts about it.

The 34-year-old Marylander whose Craigslist flirtation drew a resignation from a U.S. Congressman has advice for ex-Rep. Christopher Lee's wife: "Go get tested." We talked to Lee's would-be lover by phone this morning and rehashed the last 24 hours.

Rep. Christopher Lee is a married Republican congressman serving the 26th District of New York. But when he trolls Craigslist's "Women Seeking Men" forum, he's Christopher Lee, "divorced" "lobbyist" and "fit fun classy guy." One object of his flirtation told us her story.

LA's Grill 'Em All won Food Network's food truck show, then did a 5-day tour of New York, documenting for a YouTube series. Here's Gawker TV's 24-hour exclusive sneak of tomorrow's finale. Starring Pabst!

Fox News science columnist Gene Koprowski has a long history of standing up against this "global warming" foolishness. Today, he's seeking sources to to explain the "ridiculousness" of the idea of global warming causing snow. Can you imagine?

Rodale, publisher of Men's Health and employer of serial plagiarist David Zinczenko, explains why ripping writers' bylines off their work, and slapping Zinczenko's on, is OK: "The byline doesn't take credit for the work, but serves as an overarching tag."

Last year, we caught Men's Health editor Dave Zinczenko reusing covers. Turns out that's not the only way Zinczenko recycles content: He's been ripping other writers' bylines off old Men's Health articles and passing them off as his own.

James Reynolds spent nearly four years as a copy editor at Rolling Stone publisher Wenner Media. Now he's suing the company for failing to pay him overtime for his crappy work, which required no "creativity or imagination."

You wouldn't know it from watching her on television, but Jersey Shore star Jenni "JWOWW" Farley has the soul of an artist. How do we know? We found a website full of her college artwork.

After we published photos of his old house—and he gave Oprah a tour—Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg moved out, relocating to a new security camera-studded home a few blocks away. Now his neighbors are gossiping—and they've sent us pictures.

We've learned the identity of the sadsack American reporter who had his girlfriend stolen from under his nose by leaking lothario Julian Assange during a visit to Sweden last year: Vanity Fair contributor and Family of Secrets author Russ Baker.

Julian Assange, the founder of the world's most notorious secret-sharing operation, has some embarrassing documents in his own past. We've obtained a series of emails detailing his stalkery courtship of a teenager in his pre-Wikileaks days.

Gregg Birnbaum was the well-liked political editor of the New York Post, a 17-year veteran of the paper. Until yesterday, when he left abruptly. The reason, we hear: he got sick of NYP chief Col Allan's obnoxious behavior.

William McGowan's new book, Gray Lady Down, is a right-wing work of media criticism directed against New York Times. The New York Times Book Review will not be reviewing it. But why not? Ah, there is a juicy controversy there!

Before disliked Charlie St. Cloud author Ben Sherwood became the new head of ABC News, he was executive producer of Good Morning America. Resentment of Sherwood still lingers from those days: people are forwarding us his email fuckups from 2004.

Irving Kristol, father to Fox News talking head Bill Kristol, was the intellectual architect of neoconservatism, a fierce anti-communist, and staunch Republican. So why did FBI counterintelligence agents investigate his contacts with a suspected Soviet agent in the 1980s?

Looks like Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has moved out of his Palo Alto rental. A tipster emailed us the listing for the 26-year-old billionaire's former digs—$7,850 a month for a "gorgeous" four-bedroom with "charm and functionality."

In 2003, Monserrate Luna boarded a flight in NYC headed to San Juan, Puerto Rico. When she bit into her chicken meal, she says, there was a lizard in it. She sued. We got a copy of her insanity-inducing deposition.