I’m a day late on this one, but I have to do a post on Elle’s Women in Hollywood Style event, because some of the looks are pretty awesome and plus I have things to say about them. First off, Katie Holmes is clearly one of those obnoxious freaks of nature who just gets more beautiful the older she gets. If this is what Scientology’s all about, sign me up for some Xenu.

Second, I feel like it’s some sort of crime to think Kat Dennings isn’t really that pretty. But I don’t think she’s really that pretty.

But I do think Katie Cassidy’s gorgeous and I always love what she wears, even if she is David Cassidy’s daughter. Let’s not hold that against her. I don’t get the feeling he had very much to do with her upbringing.

Why doesn’t Willa Holland get more roles? I love her. Did you see her in Garden Party? Genius, genius.

Oh, look, they found a black person to come. Congrats, Zoe Saldana.

Never mind, Amber Rose was there, too. Do you think the other women were like “What the fuck is she doing here?” They probably weren’t, because she hypnotized everyone with her nipples.

More in the gallery. They’re labeled, just like you like ‘em.

If he hadn’t been arrested and if he wasn’t facing two decades in the slammer and a million bucks in fines, this would have been an ingenious plan.  Adam Jasinski, the 2008 Big Brother winner was arrested Saturday in North Reading, Massachusetts after trying to sell 2,000 oxycodone pills to a government witness.

Jasinski had a brilliant plan.  He took his $500,000 in Big Brother winnings and invested; he bought a shit-load of drugs to resell at a profit.  Brills!  Well, brills until the DEA got involved.

Sounds like Adam didn’t uh … expect the unexpected.

Linds and Donatella Versace cuddled at the Whitney Museum gala last night in New York City.  Donatella is a walking, talking representation of a more mature Lindsay.  All LL needs to do is stare into the unmoving face of Donatella to see her own fate as it will occur in about three years.  Neutral dress?  Check.  Scarecrow hair?  Check.  Paralyzed facial muscles?  Check.  Long-standing love of coke?  Check.  Huge career in fashion?  Eh, maybe not.

More pics in the gallery of these two intertwined train wrecks.

“I think when the stars are aligned, the time is right, and all five of us have our heads on straight and know the direction we’re going as a band, it’ll eventually happen. If not, I know we’ll be best friends forever.”

Chris Kirkpatrick, aka “The One With No Career Since 2002″, talking about the potential of an *NSYNC reunion.

My Neopets are chirping out of control at the mere thought of it.

Where The Wild Things Are was the top movie of the weekend.  I know this because the Internet tells me so, but I also know this because I took my kids to see Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs (stupid!) yesterday and there was a huge overflow of pre-teen brat-monsters that filed in at the last minute because Where The Wild Things Are was sold out.  Incidentally, — and if you are Facebook friends with me, you already know this — tickets for two adults, two kids, two small popcorns and a bag of M&Ms was 60 bucks.  Sixty.  Dollars.

Anyway, it was surprising that WTWTA pulled in $32.4M and the other big, premiere movie, Jamie Foxx’s Law Abiding Citizen only posted sales of $21.2M.

Here’s the weekend stats, and you’ll notice that Drew Barrymore’s Whip It has already careened off the top ten list.  Crash!

Sherrif’s deputies dropped by the Heene house on Saturday and carried away several boxes and a computer– by hand, not in a balloon.

You all know the story by now: Falcon Heene’s brother, Three Wolves One Moon Heene, supposedly told his parents that Falcon had climbed inside a bag of giant floating jiffy pop. His parents called the cops, which led to a three hour chase involving lots of police, several news helicopters, and the national guard. When the balloon came down,  everyone expected to find a little boy waiting inside like a crappy temporary tattoo in a box of crackerjacks. But there was nothing, because Falcon had been hiding in the attic over his garage the entire time.

Maybe it was the way the kid stood there looking shocked and bored rather than guilty after he was “recovered”. Maybe it was the fact that the hole he was hiding in looked impossible for a 6 year old to climb into unassisted. Maybe it was the overt, forced emotion on the part of the parents, or the dad’s haircut that just screams “Don’t believe a single fucking word I say,” but, I’m not surprised that charges have been filed.

Sheriff Jim Alderden – who won’t say who would be charged – told reporters: “We were looking at Class 3 misdemeanor, which hardly seems serious enough given the circumstances. We are talking to the district attorney, federal officials to see if perhaps there aren’t additional federal charges that are appropriate in this circumstance.”

Asked if it was hoax, Alderden said, “We have made progress and you guys can read between the lines about what we found.”

The recommended charges would include conspiracy, contributing to the delinquency of a minor, and false reporting to authorities.

And it turns out the cops weren’t just being gullible– smart people who are good with math worked it out and confirmed that the device would have been capable of supporting the kid’s weight.

I promise I’ll get back to covering the nail biting events in the Anna Nicoke Smith drug use debate in a moment, but this is important.

If you’re reading this, it means you live in a place that has internet access, which means you’ve also seen the above poster.

The now ubiquitous image was “created” (read: re-colored in Photoshop) by artist Shepard Fairey during the 2008 campaign, and quickly spawned countless parodies. My favorite is this Amy Winehouse inspired one.

However, the image, which has made Fairey a lot of money,  is based on a photograph owned by the Associated Press– a photograph that Fairey didn’t have permission to use. The artist and the Ap (sounds like the title of a left wing children’s book) have been tangling in court for a year over “fair use” issues.

This is important to you because you could get into a lot of trouble if you scribble on a picture of a famous person, post it on the internet, and then that picture becomes really popular. (Sasha could get sued for her Zack Efron Avocado.)

But now the powers that be say that Fairey’s case has “fallen apart” because he lied, or in the artist’s words “was confused about,” exactly which AP photo he based his work on.

Fairey himself admitted that he didn’t use The Associated Press photo of Obama seated next to actor George Clooney he originally said his work was based on — which he claimed would have been covered under “fair use,” the legal claim that copyrighted work can be used without having to pay for it.

Instead he used … a solo picture of the future president… underlined with the caption “HOPE.” Fairey said that he tried to cover up his error by submitting false images and deleting others.

The distinction is critical because fair use can sometimes be determined by how much of an original image or work was altered in the creation of a new work.  Fair use cases also may consider the market value of the copyrighted material and the intended use of the newly created work.

So, both photos were taken at the same event, by the same photographer. The difference is that one of them was zoomed in on Obama, and the other was not.

So, if  Fairey had used the wider-angle picture of Obama sitting next to Clooney, the artist would have a “fair use” leg to stand on?

We use a lot of photos and videos on this site, and I’m personally terrified of my broke ass getting sued by some giant corporation because I didn’t credit something properly. Please don’t tell me that the “crop” command is the difference between freedom of expression and copyright infringement.