● Did you hear Lamar Odom and Khloe Kardashian aren’t really married? Oh wait, yeah they are. [TMZ, People]
● Speaking of the wedded couple, OK! isn’t too happy with them after having to fork over an additional $50,000 (on top of their $250,000 for exclusive wedding photos) in order to buy back the paparazzi shots of the couple. [NYPost]
● It only took one day for the "Free Roman Polanski" backlash to happen; although filmmakers like Woody Allen, David Lynch, and Martin Scorsese are for his release, French director Luc Besson and the Polish Prime Minister think that the man who made Chinatown isn’t above the law. [Timesonline]

Whatever Works reunites director-writer Woody Allen with Larry David. The legendary funnymen had previously worked together on Radio Days and New York Stories. Most actors would be ecstatic to be offered the lead in a Woody Allen movie, but David had a much different take. “I thought Woody had become unhinged,” he says. “I wondered who put this crackpot idea in his head. And of course as with anything I’ve ever been offered, I didn’t feel up to the task. Feeling up to the task is not my thing.” David eventually took on the part of Boris Yellnikoff, a man who is so disenchanted with his marriage, luxurious lifestyle, and the human race that he tries to commit suicide. Saved by a canopy outside his uptown Manhattan apartment, Boris gets divorced, moves downtown, and meets a much younger woman, Melodie (Evan Rachel Wood). The two ultimately learn a tremendous amount about love and life from one another.

Did you have to dig deep to play the role of a middle-aged Jewish man?
That aspect was really unusual. I tried to find as many Jews as I could and befriend them and talk to them and see what made them tick. I went back to Brooklyn and walked the streets and interviewed people, "What's it like being a Jew? How do you behave?"

Woody Allen, Larry David, Patricia Clarkson, and Evan Rachel Wood sat in the ballroom of the Regency today in Manhattan to answer questions about their new movie Whatever Works. The questions were typical press conference fluff until Jefferey Wells of Hollywood Elsewhere stood up and tried to use the misanthropic nature of the film to get the panel to comment on two recent tragic shootings. He was of course referring to the murder of abortion doctor George Tiller and yesterday's frightening attack at the Holocaust Museum in Washington DC. When his preface ended with a question to the effect of, "Can you comment on the murders?" the stars and the rest of the reporters sat there in a kind of stunned silence at the shift in tone. Then Woody Allen showed us just why he's a comedy legend, with a perfectly timed and perfectly delivered answer.

● Bret Easton Ellis, author of Less Than Zero and American Psycho, says that Benicio Del Toro will be playing "him" in the movie version of his fact/fiction hybrid novel Lunar Park. An odd choice, seeing that Ellis is a fair-haired boy from the Valley. [Cinematical]
● A judge has agreed that Woody Allen doesn’t need to prove his assertion that American Apparel ads are indeed “sleazy.” [NYP]
● Julia Roberts sure likes to say "fuck." In a tribute to friend and former co-star Tom Hanks, America’s sweetheart dropped the f-bomb several times. [Us Weekly]

● Tweeners have been calling Lil Jon nonstop cause his new cell number happens to be Miley Cyrus’s old one. He became suspicious when he got texts congratulating him on the Teen Vogue cover. [MSNBC]
● It didn’t take long for Agyness Deyn to pick up a new rock boy; after Albert Hammond Jr., she’s moved on to Phantom Planet’s lead singer Alex Greenwald. [London Paper]
● Woody Allen feels harassed by American Apparel after they countered his lawsuit by saying the director wasn’t worth his $10 million claim. [Fox]

Sometime very, very soon (later today?), all this Slumdog Millionaire excitement will finally abate. But let's wring the last few trickles of hype out of the Little Movie That Could, while we can. In light of all that talk of post-Oscar floppery, it looks like Freida Pinto (who may or may not be dating her former co-star) has found a way to beat the bad karma that an Oscar win seems to foretell for all its champs. She's going to follow in Scarlett Johansson's footsteps as Woody Allen's new muse.

We realize that this is our second Scarlett Johansson-related post of the day, but that’s true love—something you wouldn’t understand.

One can imagine Woody Allen’s young bride Soon-Yi Previn on the back of Vice magazine, her no-fuss Asian blandness hawking American Apparel knee-highs and a turtlenecks, but not Woody himself. However, AA has erected billboards featuring Allen dressed as a Hassidic Jew from a scene in Annie Hall. But Woody’s always been more of a hepcat than a hipster, so he’s decided to file a $10 million suit in a U.S. District court in Manhattan against Dov Charney and his AA army. Allen claims they never contacted him about using his image and finds them “especially egregious and damaging.” We still don’t get what Woody Allen dressed as a Hassidic Jew has to do with selling skinny jeans, but that’s probably the point.