The good news: tourists poured a truckload of cash into Broadway over Thanksgiving weekend. The sad news: the shows that did best were tired gems like Wicked and The Lion King and shows based on movies. Original musicals are doomed.

Someone in France stumbled across an apparent new version of Facebook with a simplified interface. It looks like the social network is still fixing the information overload introduced by its disastrous redesign.

Time was, vicious YouTube beatings didn't start until high school. But police just arrested two San Francisco-area middle-school girls, 12 and 14, after finding video of them beating a classmate they lured to an open field. They face felony charges.

Is Lachlan Murdoch gearing up for an Oedipal struggle with the media-titan father who cut him out of the family business and exiled him to Australia? And if not, then why on earth is he buying the Hollywood Reporter?

I can't even begin with this one. Some blog is pretty sure Adam Lambert got peed on by a transvestite at The Box. Ergo, TRANNYPEEGATE.

Whoops! Last night, everyone was pretty sure Tiger Woods' "Operation: Lovetap" accident was followed by his wife smashing his car's back window to save him. Looks now like she was doing it to bludgeon him. Scorned lovers, coming up. FORE!

Jailhouse tweets: harrowing, educational, and a bad idea if you're dodging the terms of your sentence. In the midst of his prison term for a fatal DUI, Roger Avary blew the whistle on his own short-lived accidental freedom via Twitter.

Big retailers are opening today (maybe to mitigate Black Friday tramplings). Does this mean that next year they'll open yesterday? Is this gray Thursday? Anyway, people are tired of being broke so they're buying stuff.

Some people. Just because Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi reportedly fawned over a teenage lingerie model his wife wants a divorce, $300,000 a month and tens of millions up front.

After a hilarious speech, President Obama pardoned the first turkey of his administration, continuing this delightful tradition that should probably be ended, immediately.

[Michael Imperioli and Rocky Horror Picture Show alum Susan Sarandon react to sweet transvestite Prince Charles' overshare at The Lovely Bones premiere in London last night. Image via Getty]

A book proposal by this title has been doing the rounds at publishing houses and agents. It needs to see the light of day. Why? Because it's romantic historical fiction featuring a love affair with Vince Vaughn through the ages.

[Secretary of State Hillary Clinton—alongside Indian ambassador to the U.S. Meera Shankar—beams at the arrival of Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh at the White House today. Step inside to see Joe Biden's reaction. Image via Getty]

[The whitest boy alive, Zac Efron, gets a posing lesson from Gabourey Sidibe after a screening of his movie, Me and Orson Welles, in New York last night. Image via Getty]

Libyan leader Muammar Gadaffi's kids are a hoot: Saif is a painter who keeps pet tigers, while Hannibal enjoys sports cars and turning fire extinguishers into weapons. And, according to sources, they're paying the U.S. a visit on daddy's dime.

Last week we were telling Adam Lambert to gay it up because no one cares he's a 'mo. Now his über-gay performance at the American Music Awards cost him a spot on Good Morning America. We're sorry, Adam.

[Diane Sawyer had to go and ask about Rihanna's abusive ex during the singer's performance on Good Morning America today, and this was all the response she got. Image via Getty]

[Sarah Palin autographed an Iraqi dinar with the image of Saddam Hussein on it for a military sergeant during her book signing in Fort Bragg, North Carolina, today. Image via Getty]

Nancy Cartwright is the voice of Bart Simpson. She is also a famous Scientologist. She is also selling her son's bedroom furniture for $500. Need some shelves?

[Natalie Portman cops an inappropriate feel on co-star Tobey Maguire last night at the New York premiere of their new movie Brothers. Image via Getty]