Yay, it’s that time of year again … the Conde Nast Fashion Rocks event in NYC!

This event always brings out some amazing and original looks, and I always look forward to looking through the photos.

To be honest, I’ve been through all the pics, and there are really no huge losers, IMHO. Nobody looks just godawful, but maybe you guys will disagree with me. I think my favorite look is Hilary Swank’s look here. I think it’s just perfect.

More pics below, including Beyonce, Hayden Panettiere, Miley Cyrus, Leona Lewis, Tyra Banks, Charlize Theron, Leighton Meester, Mary J. Blige, Elizabeth Banks, Lydia Hearst and more!!!

Did you guys know that nearly 2 out of every 3 people in the world caught at least some of the televised Beijing Olympics?

Additionally, 94% of the Chinese population tuned in at some point.

I knew Evil Beet should have offered to sponsor the Olympics this year. I had a feeling they were going to be big, but my boss was like, “No, no, that’s a waste of money. No one’ll watch it. We’re saving up to sponsor Lindsay Lohan’s next birthday.” I never should have listened.

Shame on the photo service for even releasing this picture.

it’s frightening!

Anna is a beautiful, talented girl and I adore her, but I seriously almost choked on my strawberry Mini Wheats (yummy!) when I saw this. I had to share. Just goes to show that no matter how rich or famous you are, no matter how young you were when you won your first Oscar, no matter how many hairstylists or make-up artists you have, you can still take a really, really, really bad photo.

At the press conference for her new film, True Blood. See, Anna? You got a plug for your new film in. So it was totally worth it.

Heh.

Apparently the Republicans have gotten into the habit of blaring Heart’s “Barracuda” — which I rock on in Guitar Hero, btw — in reference to Sarah Palin. This is a problem for the girls of Heart, who basically hate everything Sarah Palin stands for.

They emailed the McCain/Palin campaign on Thursday afternoon, asking that they no longer use their song, but then it was played again on Thursday night.

“The Republican campaign did not ask for permission to use the song, nor would they have been granted that permission,” said their initial email to the campaign. When it was still played, Nancy Wilson called Entertainment Weekly to vent. “I think it’s completely unfair to be so misrepresented. I feel completely fucked over,” she said. She and her sister Ann then emailed this statement to EW.com: “Sarah Palin’s views and values in NO WAY represent us as American women. We ask that our song ‘Barracuda’ no longer be used to promote her image. The song ‘Barracuda’ was written in the late ’70s as a scathing rant against the soulless, corporate nature of the music business, particularly for women. (The ‘barracuda’ represented the business.) While Heart did not and would not authorize the use of their song at the RNC, there’s irony in Republican strategists’ choice to make use of it there.”

Ouch.

According to Variety, Columbia Pictures is looking to do another installment of the Ghostbusters franchise.

The scripts is already in the process of being written, and they’re hoping to bring back all the original Ghostbusters: Harold Ramis, Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd and Ernie Hudson.

But, as Variety points out, the reason the third installment didn’t get made in the early ’90s was that the original cast members were demanding too much money for the flick to be profitable for the studio, and that’s likely to be a problem this time around as well.

Still, though.

Ghostbusters was an integral part of my childhood, and part of me thinks it would be really cool to see a follow-up — especially after so much time has passed. Ghostbusters in the 21st century could be so, so awesome. But then a part of me would be really pissed if they fucked it up.

Sort of related: Did you guys hear they’re remaking Short Circuit? My Lord how I loved that film. If someone can just do *batteries not included again, I could die happy.

“I just got off the phone with Lynne. I can tell you that she hasn’t sent her any gifts, but that she does support Sarah and, of course, can empathize with their situation,” says Curt Handling, Spears’ publicist at the Thomas Nelson publishing company.

This is contrary to news reports that circulated yesterday that Jamie-Lynn and Co. had sent a bunch of baby shit from Petit Tresor to Bristol Palin.

How would any of the Spears clan have time to send anything to Bristol Palin? They’re all much too busy airing their dirty laundry publicly these days.

But a laudable move by the PR folks over at Petit Tresor, indeed.

At the London premiere of The Duchess.

The series premiere brought in 4.9M viewers — over twice what GG’s season premiere did on Monday.

But can they hang on to the lead through next week?

Will you be tuning in to watch the second episode of 90210???