Portions of Walter Isaacson's biography of Steve Jobs have been leaking out with all sorts of interesting tidbits. He preferred Issey Miyake shirts over St. Croix; he thought Mick Jagger was “brain-damaged” when they met; and he believed Bill Gates could benefit from tripping his ass off on acid. The most unexpected thing to come to light thus far though, has got to be a late night call from Bill Clinton asking for Jobs' help with the Monica Lewinsky scandal.

● According to essayist and homeowner John Jeremiah Sullivan, eight or nine people make a pilgrimage to his house each day, which is also the house where the Peytons "live" on One Tree Hill. [GQ] ● Bill Clinton isn't afraid to make fun at himself or the Clinton Foundation in this new Funny or Die video, wherein he is joined by a "celebrity army" in mocking his "actionable climate change initiatives." [THR] ● Rick Ross is hitching a ride home on DJ Khaled's tour bus after suffering two seizures on two flights in one day. Easy riding, Bawse. Ruh! [TMZ]

Bill and Hillary Clinton seem like the kind of couple who listen exclusively to jazz. I picture Bill smiling away as the sax hits a high note and Hillary just sort of dealing with it, her face a blank, expressionless void. But maybe that's just me, and apparently I am wrong. Billary are big Gaga fans. The couple, along with Chelsea, were beaming last night when the Mother Monster took the stage for the former President's belated b-day bash "A Decade of Difference: A Concert Celebrating 10 Years of the William J. Clinton Foundation" in LA, despite some sexy strutting and the F-bomb.

● First Alec, and now youngest and "kookiest" Baldwin, Stephen wants a New York mayoral run. What, again, was wrong with Weiner? [Gothamist] ● According to AllHipHop, Dexter Isaac has confessed to shooting Tupac Shakur outside Quad Studios in 1994, earning $2,500 from music exec Jimmy Henchmen for the hit. Isaac is currently serving a life sentence for another crime, and Henchman is on the lam. Today would have been Tupac's 40th birthday. [AHH] ● Lil B copped, ever so slightly, on his boldly titled new album, adding the parenthetical "(I'm Happy)" to I'm Gay on the official, Marvin Gaye inspired cover art. [RapRadar]

● This is awkward: Bill Clinton has "romantic" and "fascinating" memories of the old Times Square and all it's hookers. [NYT] ● We know that Lindsay Lohan has her sights set on playing a Gotti, but is she actually in with the mob in real life? She has "family connections," claims Page Six, citing the time her father spent in jail with Gambino family boss John Gotti. [Page Six] ● It's reassuring that there are corners of the world that remain Bieber-fever free, like the offices of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who canceled his visit with the teen god, saying simply, "it has not proved feasible." [NYDN]

● Though the rumored Mel Gibson cameo fell through, The Hangover 2 will feature an appearance by Bill Clinton, who requires a blow job joke for every 30 seconds he's on screen. [People] ● Lindsay Lohan was awarded a day pass for good behavior and went home from rehab without a chaperone. No accidents were reported in the area. [TMZ] ● The supposed rivalry between Robert Pattinson and Daniel Radcliffe is more fiction than fact -- fan fiction, more specifically -- but Radcliffe does admit that both men are exceptionally pale. [People]

● Chelsea Handler will host the MTV Video Music Awards, the first woman to do so since Roseanne Barr in 1994. Better luck in your next life, Kathy Griffin. And yes, Joan Rivers, you are too old. [NYT] ● Brittany Murphy's mother Sharon Murphy told police that after her daughter's death she shared a bed with Brittany's late husband Simon Monjack. [TMZ] ● So it's true: Kat Von D confirmed via Twitter that she's dating Jesse James, but then deleted the tweet because, uh, who wants to be dating Jesse James? [PopEater]

According to Page Six, Richard Gere's Bedford Post Inn is on the cusp of falling apart. After losing Chris Tunnah, general manager of the Farmhouse restaurant, last year, they said bye bye to Chris Broburg, who's now pastry chef for The Four Seasons. The latest to jump ship is executive chef Brian Lewis. The Post speculates that Bedford resident Martha Stewart might be a candidate for take over, but the one-woman powerhouse denies any interest. After the jump, Bedford residents and neighbors of the Inn who could also serve as fitting proprietors.

Frankly, I don't know what everyone's ohmygodding about. We've known for well over two weeks that Paula Abdul was leaving this disparate talent show behind her and riding off into that DayQuil-orange sunset. So when she decided to tweet her wildly-beating heart out and tell us about how she enjoyed, "nurturing new talent" and "being drunk on national television" and "serving as Simon Cowell's personal whipping post," none of us were surprised. If anything, we were growing impatient with her overlong adieus and how her dismissal couldn't have been posted on MediaBistro like the usual industry hires and fires.

Of course there was bound to some scandal as our dashing President-Elect assembled his White House dream team. This morning, as Barack Obama named the equally dashing Hillary Clinton as his Secretary of State, her husband (and our 42nd President) was MIA. But in all fairness, his absence was announced nearly an hour in advance of his wife's nomination, and he already vouched for her well before. Whether he was missing because he had gone through this whole dog-and-pony show before, or because he was out shopping for a marked-down recession-friendly Christmas gift remains to be seen.