● The end of the world won’t be coming in 2012; it’s happening September 2011, when Oprah goes off the air. [WSJ]
● Mariah Carey’s demand to be surrounded by 20 white kittens and 100 white doves for the Westfield Christmas Lighting ceremony was denied, although she will be chauffeured in a Rolls Royce and escorted by 80 security guards. [DailyMail]
● Pamela Anderson finally had "the talk" with her kids. No, not the sex talk, the "your father and I made a sex tape" talk, telling her sons that: “Mommy and Daddy were massively in love, we videotaped everything and you’re probably going hear about [it] at school.” [RadarOnline]

● David Bowie sought the help of a witch after suffering from crippling paranoia and depression from his cocaine use; Bowie was convinced that witches were after his sperm to create a child to sacrifice to the devil. [ContactMusic]
● Despite being a vegetarian, Alexa Chung has a thing for collecting taxidermy animals, having picked up an alligator’s head in New Orleans. [3am]
● Microsoft has pulled their sponsorship of the upcoming Family Guy variety special after seeing a preview, which includes jokes about the deaf and incest; MS decided the program did not fit with the Windows brand. [Variety]

● Is Lindsay Lohan picking over Sienna Miller’s sloppy seconds? Lindsay was evidently late to her court appearance last week because she was making out with Balthazar Getty at a club till the wee hours of the morning. [Dose]
● Blue Bloods, the vampire TV vehicle Mary-Kate Olsen was to star in for the CW, was not picked up because it was too similar to Gossip Girl. Er, OK. [Limelife]
● K2 Productions, which directs the Miss California USA pageant, is suing Carrie Prejean to get their breast implants back -- or at least the $5,200 they paid for them. [E!]

● Leonardo DiCaprio is preparing to get all Christian Bale for his new film Inception. The actor is set to start a crash diet so he can appear emaciated for a pivotal scene in the film. [Radar]
● After a four-year hiatus, the VH1 Divas Concert is back on with everybody’s favorite incoherent diva Paula Abdul as host. [JustJared]
● Those rumors that Gwyneth Paltrow is the Yoko of Coldplay are back on now that the actress is allegedly trying to get husband Chris Martin to leave the band and go solo. [BettyConfidential]

●Mischa Barton’s hospital breakdown has thrown a slight wrench into her new CW show ‘Beautiful Life.’ The producers plan on introducing a similar character while Barton is indisposed. [EW]
●Angelina Jolie was robbed! Recently a thief stole a number of outfits meant for Jolie during press events from the home of her stylist’s Jennifer Rade. [Celebrity-Gossip]
●Will Rihanna get the last laugh over Chris Brown? Rumor has it Ri Ri is getting very close to former Chris Brown friend Pharrell. [Mirror]

● A week after making their debut in the world, Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew Broderick are showing off new additions Marion Loretta Elwell Broderick and Tabitha Hodge Broderick. [FadedYouth]
● Robert Downey Jr. is not only a hero on screen but in real life as well after saving an extra on Iron Man II from getting crushed by a robot. [BreakingNews]
● Rabid fans of Leonardo DiCaprio stole his shoes as a memento after he declined a photo with them. [I’mNotObsessed]

Ever since it was announced that Martin Scorsese's next movie Shutter Island would take place at "an institution for the criminally insane" during the 1950s, I've been salivating at the thought of Marty returning to the creepiness he pulled off so well in movies like Cape Fear, Bringing Out the Dead, and even Taxi Driver. Now the movie finally has a trailer, and we get our first glimpse of the gallery of loonies that Scorsese and his team cooked up for us. Everyone in this trailer seems to be hiding something (except for the flawless Mark Ruffalo), and based on just a black and white picture, Emily Mortimer looks like she'll be creepier than the guy in the black cloak who watches me sleep every night. But the biggest crazy of all the crazies seems to be none other than the film's star and Scorsese joy-boy Leonardo DiCaprio. After the jump, some highlights of Leo's bonkers performance.

● The Paris Hilton hotel is open for business again as the socialite has dumped boyfriend Doug Reinhardt; too bad he wasn’t made aware of that fact before it went to press. [E!]
● David Letterman is in hot water after making "cruel and unusual" jokes about Sarah Palin’s daughter Bristol, cracking that she was “knocked up” by Yankees player Alex Rodriguez during a game. [FoxNews]
● Megan Fox is said to be picking up where Sarah Michelle Gellar left off in the role of Buffy for the upcoming Joss Whedon-less Buffy the Vampire Slayer film adaptation. [IGN]

I made a rather big mistake: I underestimated the effort by Noah Tepperberg and Jason Strauss, Strategic Group, and "special friends" on behalf of Avenue, the newest, hottest place around. From afar, Avenue seemed like a smart move. A built-out space 100 feet from Richie Akiva and Scott Sartiano's super hot 1Oak would give Noah and Jason an opportunity to service their A-crowd, which was bored with Marquee after six years of undeniable success. Richie, Scott, Ronnie Madra, and Jeffrey Jah have already done the heavy lifting and turned a block once dominated by Harleys and those who worship them at the always-rowdy Red Rock West into a high-rent district. I felt that without much effort, Avenue could do pretty well. Word on the street a few months ago indicated that it would be a quick fixer-upper -- a band aid to service for the Tao Vegas/Marquee crowd until they could do something right again. But word on the street should often be washed into the gutter, as Avenue is a monumental effort and success.

● Want to live like Jack Nicholson? Well, for the summer, you can rent his summer place in the Hamptons for a mere $400,000. [Newsday]
● The Kills singer Alison Mosshart would like everyone to know she didn’t get into a bar brawl with new Dead Weather bandmate Jack White. [NME]
● Morgan Freeman proves he’s a badass in the latest Vogue by doing an editorial with "it" model Lara Stone down in the Big Easy, shot by the great Bruce Weber. [Models]