The Seattle Seahawks have traded backup quarterback Seneca Wallace to the Cleveland Browns for an undisclosed draft choice in 2011. Wallace rejoins Mike Holmgren, the Browns' new general manager, who drafted and developed him with the Seahawks.

An estimated 41.3 million people saw the Academy Awards Sunday night, its best ratings since 2005.

The Oscar-nominated films Up in the Air and Precious are on DVD today.

Reports are coming out of Hollywood that Madonna had a little meltdown at Elton John’s pre-Oscar party over the weekend. According to British paper The Mirror, the party was sponsored by Grey Goose, and Madge got angry when she wasn’t able to get a drink made with her personal vodka preference, Belvedere. A source says that Madonna was "dropping F-bombs like they were going out of fashion" and her manager had to calm her down. The source also says that actress Jane Fonda said hello to Madonna, but she was in such a bad mood that she didn’t even turn around to acknowledge her.

Farrah Fawcett was not featured at this weekend's Oscars during the In Memoriam tribute to stars that have died. A spokesperson for the awards said that they have to choose who is in the slideshow and "it’s an unfortunate reality that we can’t include everybody."

Betty White has confirmed to People that she is appearing on Saturday Night Live in the near future. Details about what part she'll play on the show are yet to be announced. Recently, a Facebook page was created to get Betty White to host Saturday Night Live and more than a half a million people have joined.

ABC Family has purchased the rights to show Alice in Wonderland on their TV channel. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the Walt Disney Pictures film is set to on ABC Family in 2012, though the channel hasn’t yet decided whether to air Alice in 3D or 2D. Alice in Wonderland opened this past weekend, making $116.3 million in the U.S.

Forty-eight percent of viewer indecency complaints filed with the FCC last year were against Fox programs, followed by CBS (18.6 percent), ABC (18.4 percent), and NBC (14.5 percent).

A Utah man finally got his wish after getting arrested for attempting to grab an officer's handgun. The 54-year-old man apparently has always wanted to get arrested and finally found a way to make his wish come true. Police say last week he tried to turn himself in at the jail but an officer told him he had no reason to arrest him. When he tried the second time and went for the cop's weapon, authorities explained he seemed to be intoxicated. He was hit with a handful of charges, including a serious felony of disarming a police officer.

An 80-year-old woman from California has been sentenced to three years in state prison after ransacking then stealing cash from a medical office. The woman reportedly has a criminal record stretching from 1955, with repeated arrests for theft and burglary. She thanked the judge for not placing her in a county jail and also admitted she deserved a longer sentence.

An Oregon man is suing police, claiming he's been harassed for repeatedly giving officers "the finger."  Robert Ekas says that his middle-finger salutes were in protest over police brutality, and an exercise of his right to free speech. Says Robert, "I did it because I have the right to do it. We all have that right, and we all need to test it."

Despite a rash of blizzards and cold on the East Coast and in Britain, this past January was the hottest January on record in terms of overall global temperatures, according to satellite data analyzed by Monash University in Melbourne, Australia.

Most Americans clean their refrigerators just once or twice a year, an industry survey found. Most consumers also do not make proper use of crisper drawers, cheese compartments, and other special sections designed to preserve food, simply sticking things wherever they can fit.

Trivia Answer: Brian Keith Bosworth -- The Boz -- who turns 45 today. Prior to his entry into the NFL supplemental draft, Bosworth had sent letters to various NFL teams stating that, if they drafted him, he wouldn't report to their training camp and he wouldn't play for them. As a joke, the Tacoma Stars of the Major Indoor Soccer League selected him in the 12th round in their 1987 draft, as their general manager said, "Because we didn't receive a letter from him that he wouldn't play for us." Bosworth was drafted by the Seahawks in the 1987 NFL supplemental draft and signed what was both the biggest contract in team history and the biggest rookie contract in NFL history: 10 years for $11 million. After being drafted by the Hawks, Bosworth sued the NFL for the right to wear #44. Bosworth lost the case and was forced to wear #55 in the pros. Before a 1987 Monday Night Football game against the Los Angeles Raiders, Bosworth insulted Los Angeles Raiders running back Bo Jackson and promised in a media event before the game that he would contain the running back. However, Jackson ended up rushing for 221 yards scoring 3 touchdowns. Jackson also made a 91-yard untouched sideline run in which he sprinted the full distance, finally slowing down as he passed through the entrance to the field tunnel to the dressing rooms. Additionally, during this game, he ran over Bosworth (knocking him to the ground), which became one of the most memorable plays in Monday Night Football History. Remembered for his lackluster professional football career, Bosworth was named the 6th worst flop on the Biggest Flops of the Last 25 Years list by ESPN in July 2004 and number three on NFL Network's NFL Top 10 Draft Busts. Most recently, Bosworth made an appearance in the booth during the Monday Night Football broadcast that saw the Seattle Seahawks host the Oakland Raiders on November 6, 2006. During the discussion, he stated he had no regrets about his football career, but wished that he and Bo Jackson had longer careers. He also stated that he thought he and Jackson would have developed a good rivalry, had they both been able to play longer. Bosworth starred in the 1991 action film Stone Cold and has had an on-again, off-again film career starring in several low budget titles such as One Man's Justice that went straight to DVD. In 2005, he had a role as one of the prison-guard football players in the Adam Sandler movie remake The Longest Yard.

The Hurt Locker won best picture at last night’s 82nd annual Academy Awards. Kathryn Bigelow became the first woman to win best director. The film, which tied Avatar for the most Oscar nominations with nine, won six awards all told. It also picked up Oscars for best original screenplay, sound editing, sound mixing and film editing. Sandra Bullock won best actress for her performance as a forceful mother in The Blind Side. Jeff Bridges won the best actor Oscar for his performance as an alcohol-soaked country singer in Crazy Heart. The nominated song from Crazy Heart, The Weary Kind, won best original song. Mo'Nique won the best supporting actress Oscar for her role as Mary Jones, an abusive mother in Precious. Avatar had three Oscars, for art direction, cinematography and its groundbreaking visual effects. Christoph Waltz won the first Oscar of the night, a best supporting actor award for Inglourious Basterds.  Up won best animated feature, yet another victory for the Pixar studios, which has dominated the category since its introduction for the 2002 awards. Pixar has now won three straight animated feature Oscars and five of the nine overall.

The day before she won the Oscar, Sandra Bullock was crowned on Saturday with the dubious title of worst actress of 2009. Bullock, whose drama The Blind Side earned her the best actress Oscar, was given a Razzie Award for worst female performance in All About Steve.  No performer had ever won a Razzie and an Oscar in the same year. Unlike most Razzie honorees, Bullock showed up to collect the award, dragging a cart of DVDs to hand out to members who she accused of never seeing the dud movie. "Thank you for ruining my career with a very bad decision," Bullock told the group, while threatening to read her dialogue from the role "until 4 in the morning." The actress played a socially awkward designer of newspaper crosswords, who falls in love with a cameraman (Bradley Cooper) and stalks him in the movie. Organizers of the Razzies, an annual event that began in 1980 to spoof the glitzy Oscars, also named Bullock and Cooper the worst screen couple of 2009. Hollywood stars are rare sightings at the Razzies, but in 2005, Halle Berry claimed her award for Catwoman, and brought along the Oscar she previously won for her role in Monster's Ball. The Razzies this year also turned their inside Hollywood sarcasm on one of the biggest box office hits of 2009, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen. The critically panned blockbuster was named worst film, and organizers bestowed a second trophy of shame on its director, Michael Bay. Special awards were given for the past decade. The 2000 film Battlefield Earth, based on the writings of Scientology creator L. Ron Hubbard, was named worst picture of the decade. "I especially want to thank the dozens and dozens of people who went to see the movie," said J.D. Shapiro, a brave Battlefield writer who showed up to collect the award. Comedian Eddie Murphy, who has had several box office duds in recent years, and Paris Hilton were named the worst actor and actress of the 2000s, respectively. The so-called "winners" were determined by mailing ballots to 657 voters in the United States and 19 foreign countries.

The 2009 Razzie "winners"

• Worst picture: "Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen"
• Worst actor: The Jonas Brothers ("Jonas Brothers: The 3-D Concert Experience")
• Worst actress: Sandra Bullock ("All About Steve")
• Worst supporting actor: Billy Ray Cyrus ("Hannah Montana: The Movie")
• Worst supporting actress: Sienna Miller ("G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra")
• Worst screen couple: Sandra Bullock and Bradley Cooper ("All About Steve")
• Worst screenplay: "Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen"
• Worst director: Michael Bay ("Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen")
• Worst remake/rip-off or sequel: "Land of the Lost"

"Alice in Wonderland" held the golden key to box office receipts, smashing multiple records during its first weekend of worldwide, and easily surpassed the opening stand of all-time champ "Avatar" in North America. Director Tim Burton's 3D update of the Lewis Carroll tale sold $210.3 million worth of tickets worldwide. Moviegoers in the United States and Canada contributed $116.3 million, the sixth-biggest opening weekend ever. Disney said the better-than-expected North American bow set new records for a film released in both March and the first quarter, traditionally a quiet period for major films. It is also the best performance by a non-sequel, and established new benchmarks for a 3D and Imax Corp big-screen title. Imax said its screens accounted for less than 2 percent of the total, but 10.5 percent of sales. Moreover, it is Burton's best debut, surpassing the $68.5 million start for his 2001 remake of "Planet of the Apes." Pundits had conservatively forecast an opening weekend above $75 million. The last movie to reach that level was "Avatar," which opened at $77 million in December on its way to world domination. Disney officials declined to predict whether "Alice" would approach the lofty heights of "Avatar," now at $2.6 billion worldwide and counting. The only other new release in North America was the cop drama "Brooklyn's Finest," which opened at No. 2. The ensemble includes Ethan Hawke, Richard Gere, and Wesley Snipes. Martin Scorsese's thriller "Shutter Island," starring Leonardo DiCaprio, fell to No. 3. "Cop Out," the buddy-cop comedy starring Bruce Willis and Tracy Morgan, dropped two to No. 4, "Avatar" rose one place to No. 5.

The Los Angeles Times raised some eyebrows -- and wrinkled some feathers -- when they sold the front page to Disney to promote "Alice in Wonderland."

Mike Sweeney provided the main storyline from Saturday's 7-4 Mariner victory over the San Diego Padres, going 4-for-4 with a home run and a double in his quest to land a job this spring against all odds. Yesterday's game against the Padres was rained out.  Split squad action today as the Mariners take on the Chicago White Sox and Milwaukee.

The Sounders FC traveled to Burnaby, B.C. on Saturday and played a scoreless match against the Vancouver Whitecaps. Thursday, the Sounders are hosting the Portland Timbers in another pre-season match.

Fans attending Friday's Cavaliers game against Detroit set a Guinness Book of World Record for the "largest gathering of people wearing fleece blankets" while wearing custom-designed Snuggies. Over 20,000 fans put on the Snuggies, helping to set the record.

Ticketmaster is selling tickets to a stage show in Phoenix, Arizona featuring Conan O’Brien. There's no word on what type of set or show O’Brien will perform, but tickets go on sale today to see the funnyman on April 30th Phoenix.

It turns out coming in third is not so bad. Researchers at Cornell found that Olympic bronze-medal winners are, on average, happier with their finishes than silver medalists. Silver medalists tend to fixate on the near miss, while bronze winners are thankful to win anything.

There will be a private funeral held today in Utah for Michael Bryan, the son of Marie Osmond. Bryan died in late February of a reported suicide.

The Israeli military called off a raid in Palestine on Wednesday after a soldier posted to Facebook details about the attack - including its time and place. According to the Associated Press, a local radio station got a copy of the soldier’s details, which led Facebook friends to report him to military authorities. The man has since been relieved from combat duty and the Israeli military had no immediate comment.

A woman in Scotland celebrated her 90th birthday by white-water rafting. Her doctor wouldn't let her go skydiving.

Sister Jane Meyer, the 71-year-old principal of Houston’s St. Agnes Academy, made a daredevil deal with her students: If they raised $25,000 for Haitian earthquake relief by Ash Wednesday, she would jump out of a plane. The students blew past their goal, raising more than $88,000 from bake sales, talent shows, and raffles. True to her word, Sister Jane, who has been a Dominican nun for more than 50 years, took a 14,000-foot skydiving leap into the blue. She says, “I always tell our students they have to take good risks and stretch themselves.”

Oops. CNN and Fox News both posted erroneous maps last week when tracking the path of a possible tsunami. CNN confused the Galápagos Islands with Hawaii, and Fox News placed Sydney on the wrong side of Australia.

Patients of a Kentucky psychiatrist, who is in jail on first-degree assault charges, are trying to convince the county jail to let them keep their appointments with the man. The Associated Press reports some patients have asked if they could drop off the psychiatrist’s prescription pad at the jail so he could write their prescriptions. He is still waiting for his verdict after allegedly stabbing a patient with a sword.

Ventura County, Calif., officials have ordered a hardware store to stop offering free coffee and doughnuts. Randy Collins runs the B&B Do It Center. He says health inspectors told him he cannot serve food unless he builds a “prep kitchen” and gets a permit. Says one customer, “They were putting this stuff out there out of the kindness of their hearts, I thought it had to be a joke.”

After eight years, Tonic is coming back with a brand new album. According to Billboard.com, the self-titled effort is set to his stores on May 4th, and frontman Emerson Hart said that the reunion came together when they were at dinner one day and they decided that “they have something to say now.”

Apple's online iTunes store has just sold its 10 billionth recording since its introduction in 2003. Over that time, the record industry’s total revenues have declined from $14.3 billion to $6.3 billion.

Trivia Answer: Alan Hale, Jr. who was the Skipper on Gilligarn's Island. The Skipper’s name was Jonas Grumby. Hale was born on this date in 1921 in Los Angeles. His father was character actor Alan Hale, Sr. Jr.'s first important roles were as a member of Gene Autry's recurring cast of players. During the late 1940s and early 1950s, he frequently appeared in Autry movies and on The Gene Autry Show on TV. He also starred in television series. In 1962, Hale appeared on The Andy Griffith Show as a rough, back-woods bachelor who comes to Mayberry to find a bride. In the episode, he refers to Barney Fife more than once as "little buddy." The Skipper on Gilligan's Island from 1964 to 1967 proved to be the most prominent role for Hale, as the show continued to be popular for later generations of viewers due to syndicated re-runs. The popularity of the show typecast its actors, making it difficult for them to successfully pursue diversified acting opportunities. They received no substantial residual payments for their roles, and the difficulty in finding roles often created financial hardship and resentment. However, Hale often said he did not mind being so closely identified with the Skipper. He co-owned a restaurant in the West Hollywood area (Alan Hale's Lobster Barrel) and would often greet customers in his "Skipper" hat. Hale was known for his great love of children. When he was dying of cancer, he learned there was a sick child in the same hospital who loved the Gilligan's Island show. He went to see the boy and said "The Skipper's here, son, everything is going to be all right." The child, having noticed all the weight Hale had lost due to cancer, inquired about it. Hale made up a story on the spot about how there was a new version of the show in the works, and he was going to play Gilligan. Hale died of thyroid cancer January 2nd of 1990 at the age of 68. Hale was the second cast member of Gilligan's Island to die: Jim Backus had died less than a year earlier, and Natalie Schafer followed shortly after Hale's death. Bob Denver died in 2005.

Here's news most Seattle Seahawks fans didn't want to hear in the opening hours of free agency. Wide receiver Nate Burleson has reportedly agreed to a five-year deal with the Detroit Lions. Nate has said since the end of last season that he'd prefer to stay in Seattle, but the Lions apparently convinced him the Field Turf could be greener in Ford Field, thanks largely to a $25 million deal that includes $11 million guaranteed cash.

Tommy Everidge, a first baseman picked up off waivers from the Oakland A's two months ago, smacked a grand slam in the eighth inning yesterday to help the Mariners beat San Diego 9-3 in their annual spring charity game in Peoria. Everidge doesn't have much of a chance of landing a spot on the 25-man roster, but he left his mark on the Mariners' first spring win with his first at-bat with the club. Everidge likely will wind up in Tacoma. As expected, manager Don Wakamatsu went with an entirely second-unit lineup after playing most of his starters in Wednesday's 8-7 Cactus League loss to the Giants. Wak says he'll go with his starters on an every-other-day basis for now. The Ms and Padres play one another through Sunday.

Olympic gold medalists Shaun White, Lindsey Vonn and Seth Wescott are now cereal thrillers. White won the snowboard halfpipe for the second consecutive Olympics and delivered on his Double McTwist 1260. Vonn took gold n the Alpine downhill and a bronze in the Super-G. Wescott won his second consecutive gold medal in snowboard cross. The new Wheaties boxes hit store shelves next month.

The Cleveland Cavaliers are going for a Snuggie-wearing record tonight when they take on the Detroit Pistons. The players won't be wearing them but fans will.

Ten films are nominated for this Sunday's Academy Awards in the Best Picture category. Those films are Avatar, The Blind Side, District 9, An Education, The Hurt Locker, Inglourious Basterds, Precious, A Serious Man, Up, and Up In The Air. The Oscars are on ABC Sunday night.

Earlier this week came word that Warner Brothers was seeking the movie rights for Space Invaders. Now we hear Warner Brothers and Atlas Entertainment have begun development on a film adaptation of Gilligan's Island. The television show ran for three seasons on CBS from 1964 to 1967.

It was just announced that Kelly Clarkson, Suzanne Vega, The Bangles, the Courtyard Hounds -- which is Emily Robison and Martie Maguire of the Dixie Chicks - are joining an already impressive list that includes Sarah McLachlan, Sara Bareilles, Sheryl Crow, Ingrid Michaelson, Ke$ha and many, many more are doing Liltih Fair this year. Seattle and Portland are both on the list of Lilith Fair stops but still no dates.

According to Entertainment Weekly, Sarah Palin and super producer Mark Burnett are shopping a reality series to TV networks. The magazine is reporting that the show would feature Palin and her family and also show a lot of Alaska.

Debbie Rowe, one of Michael Jackson's ex-wives, has won a defamation lawsuit she filed against a woman who made claims about her on Extra. The woman claimed Rowe didn’t care about her children and only wanted Michael's money. Debbie was awarded 27-thousand dollars from the suit.

More than 10,000 children go to the emergency room every year because they're choking on a piece of food.  Of those who die, 17 percent have hot dogs wedged in their throats. Says pediatric emergency doctor Gary Smith, "If you were to take the best engineers in the world and try to design the perfect plug for a child’s airway, it would be a hot dog."

 A 60-year-old man convicted of drunk driving in northern Sweden has appealed to the government for a pardon on the grounds that he is too fat to go to jail.

A man is being held at an Alabama jail after hitting another man on the head with a bottle of Worcestershire sauce. The man was reportedly returning to his hotel room when the suspect hit him on the head with the bottle of sauce and then with a nearby fire extinguisher. The victim is in good condition while the suspect is being held in jail.

A Massachusetts couple spent their first night as newlyweds in two separate jail cells after the bride tried to run over her groom's old flame. Word is the 22-year-old bride saw the woman and her son in a parking lot and quickly tried to run over them. The intended victim later told police she had previously been in an intimate relationship with the groom. Police are unsure if the bottle of champagne that was split between the newlyweds affected the bride's decision.

Then there's the claustrophobic Kentucky deputy lost his job after accidentally locking himself in a jail cell and trying to shoot his way out of it. The incident happened on Monday -- the first day the new million dollar county judicial center was open to the public after more than a year of construction. No one was hurt in the incident and the deputy has agreed to pay for the damage he caused to the cell.

Trivia Answer: Shaquille O'Neal -- Shaq -- who turns 38 tomorrow. He is one of the largest players ever to play in the NBA. He wears a size 23 shoe. O'Neal's primary weakness is his free-throw shooting. His career average is 52.4%. He once missed all 11 free throws in a game against the Seattle SuperSonics on December 8th of 2000, a record. In hope of exploiting O'Neal's poor foul shooting, opponents often commit intentional fouls against him, a tactic known as "Hack-a-Shaq." O'Neal left LSU for the NBA after three years. However, he promised his mother he would eventually return to his studies and complete his bachelor's degree. He fulfilled that promise in 2000, earning his bachelor of arts in general studies. Coach Phil Jackson let him miss a home game so he could attend graduation. In addition to his basketball career, O'Neal has released four rap albums, with his first, Shaq Diesel, going platinum. He has also appeared in numerous films and has starred in his own reality shows, Shaq's Big Challenge and Shaq Vs. O'Neal has also maintained a high level of interest in the workings of law enforscment. Shaq went through the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Reserve Academy and became a reserve officer with the L.A. Port Police. On March 2nd of 2005, O'Neal was given an honorary U.S. Deputy Marshal title and named the spokesman for the Safe Surfin' Foundation. He served an honorary role on the task force of the same name, which tracks down sexual predators who target children on the Internet. Upon his trade to Miami, O'Neal began training to become a Miami Beach reserve officer. In December of 2005, he was sworn in as a reserve officer, electing for a private ceremony so as not to distract from the special moment of the other officers. He assumed a $1 per year salary in this capacity.

The Seattle Mariners are off and running -- which is exactly what manager Don Wakamatsu was hoping to see as his team opened Cactus League play yesterday with an 8-7 loss in 10 innings to the San Francisco Giants at Peoria Stadium. The outcome of the game wasn't nearly as critical as what Wakamatsu says is the right tone being set, both in terms of patience at the plate with his team drawing nine walks and some nice base running. That's the kind of team the Mariners are trying to be this year. There's not a lot of power in the lineup, so it'll be critical for players to get on base and run well once they get there. The Ms hooked up with the San Diego Padres today for the first of four. The Ms broke out the bats and came up with a 9-3 win.

Captain Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger retired yesterday after landing Flight 1167 from Fort Lauderdale, Florida, to Charlotte Douglas International Airport in North Carolina.

Today is Hug a GI Day.

Car website Edmunds.com is offering $1 million to anyone who, under controlled conditions, can "re-create unintended acceleration in a Toyota and then solve that problem and prove the whole thing."

If you're looking for some one-of-a-kind music memorabilia, there is an auction going on you should pay attention to. It's called the Gotta Have Rock & Roll auction and boasts items up for bid like Michael Jackson's onstage outfits, Bob Dylan's handwritten lyrics, various handwritten items and signed memorabilia from The Beatles, Bono's rosary, plenty of autographed guitars, and much more. See everything going under the gavel at GottaHaveRockAndRoll.com. The auction runs through the 10th.

The Smithsonian is saying no thanks to an offer of a donation of the suit O.J. Simpson wore when he was acquitted in 1995 of murdering his ex-wife and her friend. Simpson and his lawyers were trying to donate the suit to the National Museum of American History. The museum rejected it yesterday as inappropriate for their collection.

A new iPhone application will allow users to read text messages when both the message and the sender's number can be erased. The application is called TigerText and is being marketed as a way cheaters can still communicate with people other than their significant others without getting caught. The name is a reference to golfer Tiger Woods. If we would just use our powers for good.

Just because you got your start on American Idol doesn't mean that you have to enjoy every season. Former contestant Chris Daughtry wrote on his Twitter account that he was catching up on the hit TV show but that he's "not floored" by it.

Typos are earning Google $497 million a year, according to Harvard University researchers. About 68 million people a day mistype the names of highly trafficked websites, landing on bogus sites (called "typosquatters") to which Google supplies ads, thereby hauling in a fortune.

The children of Berlin can play as loudly as they like, thanks to a new city law. Residents living near playgrounds and other kid-friendly areas have long complained that local children make too much noise; the grumpy adults have even forced some day-care centers to close. But the city government last week declared that making noise is "an essential part of a child's development" and placed it in the same category of "tolerable" din as church bells and street-cleaning vehicles. Berlin's children must still observe "quiet times" at night and all day Sunday.

A Florida man taking a National Rifle Association gun-safety class at his local church was accidentally shot in the foot by his instructor. Robert Frauman was training for his concealed-weapon certification when instructor Michael Phillips accidentally discharged his firearm. Hospital staff report the bullet passed through Frauman's foot without hitting a bone. A spokeswoman for the Summit Church said the victim was recovering, but noted, "We won’t be having anything like that in our church in the future."

In St. Petersburg, Florida, police received a report of a suspicious paper bag near the door of a building which houses courtrooms and several government offices. The bomb squad discovered the bag contained a croissant.

A man hired to drive Naomi Campbell told police she assaulted him from the back seat of a luxury SUV. According to the Associated Press, Naomi Campbell will not be charged. Police issued a harassment report, which doesn't come with any penalties, saying because no one witnessed the assault, there was a lack of evidence.

A Russian chimpanzee was recently sent to rehab by zookeepers to treat the smoking and beer-drinking habits he picked up while performing for a circus act. Reuters reports the chimp became aggressive and would pester zoo attendants for booze. He's been flown to a treatment center to cure his addiction and will be back at the zoo once he is rehabbed.

Will Ferrell, Jim Carrey, Dan Aykroyd, Chevy Chase, Dana Carvey, and more all star in a new clip from FunnyOrDie.com about the Consumer Financial Protection Agency. Each actor stars as a different former president: 

Trivia Answer: Paula Ragusa -- better known by her stage name Paula Prentiss -- who turns 72 today. For one season (1967-1968), she starred with her husband, Richard Benjamin, in the CBS sitcom He & She. Although not a big ratings success, the stylish series was considered ahead of its time in humor and sophistication. It is viewed as a landmark sitcom and a thematic precursor to the crop of MTM-style sitcoms to emerge a couple of seasons later. Paula and her husband have two adult children, Ross and Prentiss, and live in the Hollywood Hills.

The death toll from Saturday's 8.8-magnitude earthquake in Chile reached 795 yesterday, the president's office said. Officials say the tally likely will increase in coming days as search-and-rescue crews dig into collapsed buildings and discover more bodies. While that work continued, officials also dealt with another pressing problem: looting and lawlessness in the city of Concepcion and other areas of central and southern Chile. Authorities said they were enforcing a curfew from 6 last night until noon today, local time.

Seattle Mariners manager Don Wakamatsu penciled in his starting lineup for today's Cactus League opener against the San Francisco Giants and it looks a lot like what can be expected for the regular season. Well, minus a certain ace pitcher at least, as Doug Fister was on the mound instead of Felix Hernandez when the Mariners opened play at 12:05 at Peoria Stadium in Arizona. The Giants are trotted out Tim Lincecum -- with the two-time National League Cy Young winner from the University of Washington -- to throw the first two innings. For the Ms, center fielder Franklin Gutierrez was not scheduled to play as he's recovering from a sore shoulder, while young Adam Moore got the start at catcher while Rob Johnson continues his cautious return from hip surgeries. Otherwise, the Mariners are jumping right into things with some early clues from Wakamatsu, who has Milton Bradley batting third and Ken Griffey Jr. in the clean-up spot.

Here's the full lineup:

1. Ichiro Suzuki RF
2. Chone Figgins 2B
3. Milton Bradley LF
4. Ken Griffey Jr. DH
5. José López 3B
6. Casey Kotchman 1B
7. Eric Byrnes CF
8. Adam Moore C
9. Jack Wilson SS

Wakamatsu has also named the pitching starters for the rest of the week, with Jason Vargas going tomorrow, Luke French on Friday, Ian Snell on Saturday, and Ryan Rowland-Smith on Sunday.

Assuming it's played -- a potential labor issue begs the question -- the Sounders FC's home opener against the Philadelphia Union March 25th is sold out. The May 8th match against MLS Cup runner-up Los Angeles Galaxy is also sold out. The Sounders also say fewer than 1,000 tickets remain for all other home MLS matches. There are also limited season tickets still available. The preseason continues Saturday when the Sounders head north to play the Vancouver Whitecaps Saturday afternoon at 4 in Burnaby, B.C. Training resumes Wednesday at Starfire Sports Complex in Tukwila. The only Sounders home match during the preseason is at 6 on Thursday, March 11th, versus the rival Portland Timbers.

Jay Leno settled comfortably back behind his desk on The Tonight Show Monday night recapturing his old audience but leaving most critics underwhelmed. Early audience ratings showed that 6.6 million viewers tuned in Monday to watch Leno quip that it was "good to be home" in the late-night seat he left in May last year, only to unexpectedly regain it after the failure of his prime-time TV talk show. The Tonight Show audience easily beat David Letterman's Late Show and was more than a million viewers higher than the stalwart fan base, on average, that made Leno the king of late-night TV for 15 years. But it paled in comparison to the 17.7 million who watched the opening episode of his ill-fated The Jay Leno Show at 10 in September and the 9.2 million who watched Conan O'Brien on his first outing as host of  The Tonight Show in June. Leno on Monday made only a handful of jokes at his own, and the network's, expense. For instance, he told guest and American Olympic skiing champion Lindsey Vonn, "When it comes to going downhill, nobody's faster. OK, except NBC." Showbusiness newspaper The Hollywood Reporter said Leno looked "comfortable and comforting, enthusiastic but not too much so, apparently ready to just get back to the job of making middle-of-the-road laughs." USA Today's Robert Bianco found the comic opening monologue "tired, lame and unfunny," while MTV said the rest of the show was "inoffensive if not entirely revolutionary," noting that Leno's familiar desk was back, albeit in a new model.

An Army sergeant yesterday sued the makers of Oscar-nominated film The Hurt Locker five days before the Academy Awards, claiming the central character in the film is based on him. Master Sergeant Jeffrey S. Sarver believes screenwriter Mark Boal based "virtually all of the situations" in the film on events involving him and claims he coined the phrase "the hurt locker," according to a statement from the lawyer who is representing Sarver. A news conference is planned for today at which time more details are expected on what Sarver's lawyers said was a "multimillion dollar suit." The film's distributor, Summit Entertainment, issued its own statement yesterday reiterating the movie's claim that it is a "fictional account" about soldiers in the battlefield. Summit said, "We have no doubt that Master Sergeant Sarver served his country with honor and commitment risking his life for a greater good, but we distributed the film based on a fictional screenplay written by Mark Boal." Boal was a journalist in Iraq embedded with a squad that dismantled bombs, and he wrote a story about them for Playboy magazine. He developed his story into a screenplay about the soldiers and focused on one in particular, Will James. From that screenplay came the movie. Sarver claims Boal was embedded with Sarver's unit and that he is James. Sarver says James' nickname in the movie, "Blaster One," was Sarver's "call signal" while in Iraq. The movie has wowed critics and earned nine nominations for Oscars, and it is widely considered the frontrunner for best film when the awards are given out Sunday.

Barbara Walters, says she is quitting her Oscars television special because these days film stars are everywhere and celebrities have become famous for "doing nothing." Since her first Oscars special in 1981, Walters said it has become more difficult to find new questions for a star "when they have already done 20 programs," and people become famous after appearing in just one or two movies or on reality TV and don't have much to talk about. The 80-year-old TV journalist and talk show host, who years ago was criticized for pioneering celebrity stories alongside harder news, is hosting her final Oscars special after 29 years. Sunday's edition of "The Barbara Walters Special" features interviews with Oscar nominees Sandra Bullock and Mo'Nique, as well as a roundup of the 93 interviews she conducted for the program over three decades. Highlights include a 1987 interview with Bette Davis two years before the screen heroine's death; Oprah Winfrey telling Walters she felt she was born for greatness, and last year's show when Hugh Jackman gave her a lap dance. Said Barbara, "After you have done a lap dance with Hugh Jackman it is time to leave."

The LA Times is reporting that Warner Bros. is negotiating to acquire feature film rights to Space Invaders. There's an Academy Award just waiting to happen.

Jessica Simpson's interview with Oprah airs today, and apparently, the singer didn’t enjoy being asked about John Mayer's comments in his Playboy interview, including when he called her "sexual napalm."  Simpson looked distressed while answering and told Oprah, "I don't want people to know how I am in bed."  Check your time and stations for local listings to see Jessica's whole interview.

Growing Pains actor Andrew Koenig will be remembered by his family and friends in a private memorial service taking place soon in California. According to EOnline.com, people invited to the service are being asked to keep the details private. The 41-year-old actor was found dead last Thursday of an apparent suicide.

Just in time for St. Patrick's Day coming up the 17th, The Script are going to be all over the TV. The Irish rockers are performing their hit single "Breakeven"  on Monday the 15th on Live! with Regis & Kelly, Tuesday the 16th on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, and on Wednesday the 17th on The Today Show.

Lifehouse's brand new album, Smoke & Mirrors, hit shelves yesterday, and the band had a very good first day. The effort was number one at iTunes, and the group went on Twitter to thank their fans for this honor. Chris Daughtry also tweeted that he already picked up the album and it is "killer music."

Trivia Answer: Jackie Joyner-Kersee who turns 48 today. She was named Jacqueline after Jackie Kennedy. She attended college at UCLA, where she starred in both track & field and in women's basketball from 1980-1985. She was honored on February 21st of 1998 as one of the 15 greatest players in UCLA women's basketball. In April of 2001, Joyner-Kersee was voted the "Top Woman Collegiate Athlete of the Past 25 Years." The vote was conducted among the 976 NCAA member schools. Joyner-Kersee competed in the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles and won the silver medal in the heptathlon. In 1986, Joyner-Kersee became the first woman to score over 7,000 points in a heptathlon event during the 1986 Goodwill Games. In the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, Korea, she earned gold medals in both the heptathlon and the long jump. At the 1988 Games in Seoul, she set the still-standing heptathlon world record of 7,291 points. Five days later, Joyner won her second gold medal, leaping to an Olympic record of 24 feet 3.25 inches in the long jump. She was the red hot favorite to retain both her World titles earned four years earlier in Rome. However her challenge was dramatically halted when, having won the long jump easily with a 24 feet .25 inch jump no one would beat, she slipped on the take off board and careened head first into the pit, luckily avoiding serious injury. She did, however, strain a hamstring, which led to her having to pull out of the heptathlon during the 200 m at the end of the first day. In the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain, Joyner-Kersee earned her 2nd Olympic gold medal in the heptathlon. She also won the bronze medal in the long jump. At the Olympic Trials, Joyner-Kersee sustained an injury to her right hamstring. When the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia began, Joyner-Kersee was not fully recovered by the time the heptathlon started. After running the first event, the 100 m hurdles, the pain was unbearable and she withdrew. She was able to recover well enough to compete in the long jump and qualify for the final, but was in sixth place in the final with one jump remaining. Her final jump of 22 feet 11.5 inces was long enough for her to win the bronze medal. The Atlanta Olympics would be the last Olympics of Joyner-Kersee's long competitive career. Returning to track, Joyner-Kersee won the heptathlon again at the 1998 Goodwill Games, scoring 6,502 points. Jackie's brother is the Olympic champion triple jumper Al Joyner, who was married to another Olympic track champion, the late Florence Griffith-Joyner. Jackie married her track coach, Bob Kersee, in 1986.

The Vancouver Winter Olympics proved a ratings triumph for beleaguered NBC, but popular comedian Jerry Seinfeld's new show stumbled with critics as the network returned to regular programming. NBC said yesterday that 190 million Americans watched the Vancouver Olympics on its stations and cable outlets over 17 days, making them the second-most-watched Winter games since Lillehammer in 1994. The network, which has been bottom of the four big TV broadcasters for several years, said NBC's Vancouver coverage drew 9 percent more viewers than the combined efforts of rivals ABC, CBS and Fox during more than two weeks of competition. The prime time average nightly audience for the Olympics was 24.4 million compared to an average 22.3 million over the 17 days for ABC, CBS and Fox. The action in Vancouver also twice toppled Fox ratings king American Idol, marking the first defeats of Idol in six years by any TV program. Despite strong viewership, NBC has said it will lose about $250 million on its coverage after paying a record sum for the U.S. broadcasting rights to the Olympics. As the Vancouver games ended on Sunday, NBC launched one of its most-anticipated new shows, a comedy game panel called The Marriage Ref from Jerry Seinfeld. The program, which has stars weigh-in on the lighthearted arguments of couples, drew a strong 14.5 million viewers but some scathing reviews. One critic called it an "ugly, unfunny, patronizing mess." Time magazine said it was "the most God-awful mishmash." Other reviewers were kinder and intrigued about seeing pop star Madonna, actress Tina Fey and Desperate Housewives star Eva Longoria-Parker in upcoming episodes. Other new shows being launched this week by NBC include family drama series Parenthood and Who Do You Think You Are? in which Sarah Jessica Parker, Spike Lee, Lisa Kudrow and other celebrities trace their family roots.

That massive earthquake that struck Chile on Saturday may have shifted the Earth's axis and created shorter days, scientists at NASA say. The change is negligible, but permanent: Each day should be 1.26 microseconds shorter, according to preliminary calculations. A microsecond is one-millionth of a second. A large quake shifts massive amounts of rock and alters the distribution of mass on the planet. When that distribution changes, it changes the rate at which the planet rotates. The comparison is made to an ice skater who go into a twirl and goes faster pulling in tighter.  The rotation rate determines the length of a day.

Alex Rodriguez has been contacted by federal investigators regarding a Canadian doctor accused of selling an unapproved drug. Rodriguez said yesterday he was "aware" of the investigation and plans on cooperating with government officials who are looking into Dr. Anthony Galea. Rodriguez said a date for an interview has not been set. A-Rod said, "I can't really get into that. I have to speak to those guys first. I've just got to wait for instructions." Galea is facing four charges in his country related to the drug known as Actovegin, which is extracted from calf's blood and used for healing. His assistant also has been charged in the U.S. for having HGH and another drug while crossing the border in September. A-Rod said the probe won't have an effect on him because "this is about someone else." He declined comment when asked if he has even been treated by Galea.

Been looking for a (legitimate) excuse to get out of work for the first two days of the NCAA tournament? How about a vasectomy? No, seriously.  Some urologists are taking advantage of the season, advertising that the beginning of March Madness is the best time to have the procedure done, according to the American Medical News. Some urologists are even offering free delivery pizza coupons and sports magazines as 'survival kits' given to patients after the procedure. The Oregon Urology Institute started marketing vasectomies around the tournament in 2008. The institute's administrator at the time wanted to let men know that the pleasure of laying on the couch and enjoying two days of hoops overshadowed the "perceived" pain from the procedure.

According to TMZ.com, Doctor Conrad Murray may have tried to hide the amount of Propofol he injected in Michael Jackson the day the King of Pop died. Murray told police he only administered 2.5 milliliters of the drug, but an empty 100 milliliter vial was found in a hidden cabinet at the scene of the crime. LAPD is investigating further into the actual amount of Propofol in Jackson’s system.

American Idol's back tonight. The top 10 gals were to perform in the two-hour episode, however, a press release from Fox this afternoon says the guys are performing tonight. That's because contestant Crystal Bowersox is suffering from an undisclosed medical issue that is preventing her from performing. The press release stated that the women, including Crystal, will be back to perform live tomorrow night.

Tom “T-Bone” Wolk, who for almost 30 years played bass with Daryl Hall and John Oates, died Saturday of an apparent heart attack. According to Billboard.com, Wolk, who also recorded with Billy Joel and Elvis Costello, was even supposed to perform on the one-year anniversary show of NBC’s Late Night with Jimmy Fallon last night. In a statement, Hall said he was “shocked” to hear about Wolk’s death, calling T-Bone his “musical brother” and saying “losing him is like losing my right hand.” Oates meanwhile called Wolk’s music sensibility “peerless” adding, “Any instrument that he touched resonated with a sensitivity and skill level that I have never experienced while playing with any other musician.” Wolk was 58 years old.

Carlos Santana is working on a covers album with some famous friends. According to Billboard.com, the as-yet-untitled collection will boast a version of Jimi Hendrix’s “Little Wing” with Joe Cocker, a cover of the Rolling Stones’ “Can’t You Hear Me Knocking” with Scott Weiland, a rendition of Cream’s “Sunshine of Your Love” with Rob Thomas, a version of The Beatles’ “While My Guitar Gently Weeps” with India.Arie and Yo-Yo Ma, plus covers of Deep Purple’s “Smoke on the Water” and Creedence Clearwater Revival’s “Fortunate Son.” No word yet on when the record will hit shelves but Santana is expected to tour in America and Europe this spring and summer.

On Friday in New York City, The Script is filming The Script Unplugged.

U2’s Larry Mullen, Jr. is lending his voice to a pair of characters on The Cleveland Show this season. According to the BBC, Mullen asked the show's producers if he could take part in the Family Guy spin-off and they happily agreed. Larry is voicing a mobster and a bad Elvis impersonator on upcoming episodes.

Cleveland, by the way, was recently named the country's "most miserable city" by Forbes.com.  The Forbes rankings were based on a city's unemployment rate, taxes, weather, pollution, and other criteria.

A California man has launched a campaign to rename Mount Diablo, insisting that the current name honors the devil. Arthur Mijares said that "to me and millions of other followers of the Christian faith, the devil is derogatory and offensive," and so the mountain should be renamed Mount Reagan. Contra Costa officials voted against a name change last week, but Mijares said God has told him to press on. "I said, 'Lord they’re going to think I'm a loon.'"

A pay telephone line in France lets Catholics confess their sins for 45-cents a minutes. Catholic leaders in the country aren't happy with it.

Gatorade has officially dropped Tiger Woods as a sponsor. It simply became too difficult to quench that guy's thirst.

For sale on eBay: a British nuclear bunker dating back to the Cold War era. The underground bunker was constructed in 1959 to monitor nuclear fallout. Check it out while it's still available at http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=330408714804. 

Trivia Answer: Desi Arnaz who was born on this date is 1917. His band was the Desi Arnaz Orchestra. Of course, he was Ricky Ricardo on the I Love Lucy program with his wife Lucille Ball. He turned to show business to support himself in 1939. It was on October 15th of 1951 that Arnaz produced and starred in the premiere of I Love Lucy, in which he played a fictitious version of himself, Cuban orchestra leader Enrique "Ricky" Ricardo. His co-star was his real-life wife, Lucille Ball, who played Ricky's wife, Lucy. Television executives had been pursuing Ball to adapt her very popular radio series My Favorite Husband for television. Ball insisted on Arnaz playing her on-air spouse so the two would be able to spend more time together. The original premise was for the couple to portray Lucy and Larry Lopez, a successful show business couple whose glamorous careers interfered with their efforts to maintain a normal marriage. Market research indicated, however, that this scenario would not be popular, so Arnaz changed it to make Ricky a struggling young orchestra leader and Lucy an ordinary housewife who had show business fantasies but no talent. Desi would often appear at, and later own, the Tropicana Club which, under his ownership, he renamed Club Babalu. Initially, the idea of having Ball and the distinctly Latino Arnaz portray a married couple encountered resistance as they were told that Desi's Cuban accent and Latin style would not be agreeable to American viewers. The couple overcame these objections, however, by touring together in a live vaudeville act. Much of the material from their vaudeville act was used in the original I Love Lucy pilot, including Lucy's memorable seal routine. With Ball, Arnaz founded Desilu Productions. At the time, most television programs were broadcast live, and as the largest market was in New York, the rest of the country received only kinescope images -- recordings made off of television monitors.  Karl Freund, Arnaz's cameraman, developed the multiple-camera setup production style using adjacent sets that became the standard for all subsequent situation comedies to this day. The use of film enabled every station around the country to broadcast high-quality images of the show. Arnaz was told that it would be impossible to allow an audience onto a sound stage, but he worked with Freund to design a set that would accommodate an audience, allow filming, and also adhere to fire and safety codes. Network executives considered the use of film an unnecessary extravagance. Arnaz convinced them to allow Desilu to cover all additional costs associated with the filming process, under the stipulation that Desilu owned and controlled all rights to the film. Arnaz's unprecedented arrangement is widely considered to be one of the shrewdest deals in television history. As a result of his foresight, Desilu reaped the profits from all reruns of the series. Arnaz also pushed the network to allow them to show Lucille Ball while she was pregnant. According to Arnaz, the CBS network told him, "You cannot show a pregnant woman on television". Arnaz consulted a priest, a rabbi, and a minister, all of whom told him that there would be nothing wrong with showing a pregnant Lucy or with using the word pregnant. The network finally relented and let Arnaz and Ball weave the pregnancy into the story line, but remained adamant about eschewing use of pregnant, so Arnaz substituted expecting, pronouncing it 'spectin' in his Cuban accent. Oddly, the official titles of two of the series' episodes employed the word pregnant: "Lucy Is Enceinte," employing the French word for pregnant, and "Pregnant Women Are Unpredictable," although the episode titles never appeared on the show itself. Arnaz's marriage with Ball began to collapse under the strain of his growing problems with alcohol, drugs, and womanizing. Ball divorced him in 1960. When Ball returned to weekly television, she and Arnaz worked out an agreement regarding Desilu, wherein she bought him out. Arnaz was diagnosed with lung cancer in early 1986. He died several months later on December 2nd of that year. Two days earlier, on what would have been his and Lucille's 46th wedding anniversary (November 30th), she telephoned him. They shared a few words, mostly "I love you's." She said "All right, honey. I'll talk to you later." She was, in fact, the last person to ever speak with Desi Arnaz. His remaining speech that he wrote prior to his death quoted to Lucille Ball, "'I Love Lucy' was never just a title." His death came just five days before Lucille Ball received the Kennedy Center Honors.

An incredible weekend as one of the biggest earthquakes of the centrury -- the 5th strongest in the last 100 years at 8.8 magnitude -- hit Chile mere weeks after the quake in Haiti. The death toll in Chile has passed 700. Efforts to determine the full scope of destruction were undermined by an endless string of terrifying aftershocks that continued to turn buildings into rubble. Officials said 500,000 houses were destroyed or badly damaged, and "a growing number" of people were listed as missing. Rescuers worked carefully for fear of aftershocks. Ninety jolts of magnitude 5 or greater shuddered across the region in the first 24 hours after the quake, including one nearly as large as the earthquake that devastated Haiti on January 12th. The surge of water raced across the Pacific, setting off alarm sirens and evacuations from Hawaii to Japan, but it did little damage. We even had Tsunami Advisories posted for the Washington and Oregon coasts.

Meanwhile, a winter storm battered the western coast of Europe yesterday, its high winds downing trees and power lines and leaving as many as 55 people dead. Hardest hit was France, where at least 45 people were killed. The extra-tropical cyclone whipped the country's coastal regions and moved inland, sometimes taking heavy flooding with it.

With the flick of Sidney Crosby's wrist, Canada found Olympic redemption. From the pall of a luger's death, from a series of embarrassing glitches, from a first half so disappointing that Canadian Olympic officials prematurely conceded the medals race, from the men's hockey team losing to the upstart Americans in a preliminary game. All that was forgotten yesterday. Canada is the Olympic champion in men's hockey, and the whole nation can finally celebrate its Winter Olympics. The national honor is served. Canada survived one of the greatest games in Olympic history to beat the Americans 3-2 in overtime. Crosby -- The Next One, hockey heir to Canada's own Great One, Wayne Gretzky -- won it when he whipped a shot past U.S. goalie Ryan Miller 7:40 into overtime after the U.S. had tied it with 24.4 seconds left in regulation. To win, Canada withstood a remarkable and determined effort from a U.S. team that wasn't supposed to medal in Vancouver, much less roll through the tournament unbeaten before losing in the first overtime gold-medal game since NHL players joined the Olympics in 1998.

The gold-medal hockey game was the final event in an Olympics that began with the death of a luger ended yesterday with an exuberant celebration of Canada -- reflecting a determined comeback by the host country's organizers and athletes. A festive crowd of 60,000 jammed into BC Place Stadium for the closing ceremony, many of them Canadians abuzz over the overtime victory by their men's hockey team to give the host nation a Winter Olympics record of 14 gold medals. Right from the start, there was a spirit of redemption as the producers made up for an opening-ceremony glitch in which one leg of the Olympic cauldron failed to rise from the stadium floor. Yesterday, the leg rose smoothly and former speedskating medalist Catriona LeMay Doan -- who missed out on the opening-night flame lighting because of the glitch -- got to perform that duty this time. The gaiety contrasted sharply with the moment of silence at the opening ceremony February 12th for the 21-year-old luger killed in that horrific training-run crash on the sliding track in Whistler just hours before that ceremony. Said Kevan Gosper, an IOC member from Australia who was in the stadium crowd last night, "These games started out with a nightmare and ended up with a golden dream." Canadian officials ensured there would be some poignancy at the closing ceremony, selecting figure skater Joannie Rochette as their flagbearer. Her mother died of a heart attack hours after arriving in Vancouver last weekend, but Rochette chose to carry on and won a bronze medal, inspiring her teammates and fans around the world. There were plenty of reasons for Canada and the United States to celebrate after 17 days of competition. The U.S. won 37 medals overall -- the most ever for any nation in a Winter Olympics. Canada, after a slow start, set a Winter Games record with 14 golds and sparked public enthusiasm in Vancouver that veterans of multiple Olympics described as unsurpassed.

Jay Leno returns to The Tonight Show tonight, and so does his desk -- a sign that struggling network NBC wants its flagship late-night TV program to return to normal after Conan O'Brien's tenure as its host. More than a month after Conan left the The Tonight Show in a bitter breakup with NBC, and three weeks after Leno signed off from the network's ill-fated The Jay Leno Show at 10 o'clock, Leno slips back into his old seat as The Tonight Show host. The question is: Will viewers, who crowned him the king of late-night TV for 15 years in that coveted role, rejoin him? In what is expected to be largely the same tried and tested formula of celebrity chat, monologue, odd headlines and musical interludes, Leno's opening week is packed with a stellar line-up including Winter Olympics champions Lindsey Vonn and Shaun White, flamboyant American Idol runner-up Adam Lambert, footballer Brett Favre and politician Sarah Palin. Perhaps more important, or symbolic, is that he is bringing back the office desk he ditched for more casual arm chairs in a much-talked about change of style on The Jay Leno Show. Apart from advertisements during Winter Olympics coverage, promotion for Leno's return has been low key. In his only major interview since The Jay Leno Show was yanked off the air, Leno told Oprah Winfrey that he would have his work cut out to recapture his audience. He said, "I think there's a lot of damage control that needs to be done. The only way you can fix these things is to try and do good shows, not be bitter, not be angry or upset or whatever." Tonight, his first show back features Jamie Foxx and Olympic gold-medalist Linsey Vonn as guests, and country star Brad Paisley performs.

Martin Scorsese's suspense thriller "Shutter Island" led the North American box office for a second consecutive weekend, while all-time champ "Avatar" passed the $700 million mark. A pair of newcomers, the comedy "Cop Out" and horror remake "The Crazies," outperformed expectations to join "Shutter Island" on the podium. "Shutter Island" sold $22.2 million worth of tickets during the three days beginning Friday, taking its 10-day haul to $75.1 million. "Cop Out," with Bruce Willis and Tracy Morgan as a pair of New York City cops, opened at No. 2 with $18.6 million. The conspiracy thriller, "The Crazies," an update of a 1973 George Romero picture, followed with $16.5 million. "Avatar" slipped one place to No. 4 with $14 million, taking the total for James Cameron's sci-fi spectacular to $706.9 million. It has now surpassed Cameron's previous record-holder "Titanic" by more than $100 million, thanks to higher ticket prices. It's vying for nine Oscars next Sunday, tied at the front of the Oscar field with "The Hurt Locker," which is already out on DVD.

A Bollywood filmmaker in New Delhi is offering horror movie fans ten-thousand dollars if they can watch his latest thriller, Phoonk 2, all the way through the closing credits, by themselves in a movie theater. The director told Reuters, "Anyone who says the movie cannot scare him is going to be put in a theater by himself." They'll be wired to a heart monitoring machine as well as a camera to make sure their eyes open during the whole movie. If they succeed, they’ll come out of the theater ten-thousand dollars richer.

Marie Osmond's 18-year-old son Michael Blosil has died. Osmond said in a statement through her publicist that her family is devastated by the "tragic loss." Entertainment Tonight reported on its website that Blosil jumped to his death Friday night from a downtown Los Angeles apartment building.

Actor Randy Quaid and his wife are crying foul over their arrests last year on a charge they failed to pay a California hotel bill, which they claim was the result of a series of mishaps and unfortunate events. Quaid's wife, Evi, who oversees the family accounting, said yesterday the arrest on a charge of defrauding an innkeeper led to them being mistreated by police and wrongly called criminals in the media after, in fact, the bill had already been paid. Until now, the Quaids have remained publicly silent about the incident expecting the case to be dismissed, but they will be back in a California courtroom today - well, they’re supposed to back -- for a hearing at which they hope to set the record straight. A spokesman for the hotel, the San Ysidro Ranch in Santa Barbara County, said their view is that the roughly $10,000 bill was paid and the matter resolved -- end of story. Evi says the couple had enjoyed a long relationship with the company that owns the San Ysidro Ranch, Rosewood Hotels & Resorts, and that they had always been billed directly to their credit cards and those invoices were paid without question. In June last year, they spent one week at the hotel, left as they typically do, and never heard about a bill until law enforcement officers came to their Texas ranch in September. When told of an arrest warrant for them, the Quaids sent a cashier's check to the hotel for roughly one-half the amount and asked for a signed statement in return saying their credit card would not be charged for a like amount. The statement never came back, but the cops did, first hauling Evi into a jail and then Randy. The Quaids paid the remainder and figured the matter was closed, but it wasn't. Various news outlets ran headlines about how they didn't pay the bill. When their first arraignment was canceled because the district attorney suddenly fell ill, they were arrested again for failure to appear in court, landing Evi in a solitary cell in a Texas men's prison around Christmas Eve. Still, she said she's not bitter. She just wants the case closed and the record set straight.

Congrats to Darlyne Markus of Nampa, Idaho. Darlyne has set the record for the longest serving paper girl. The 80-year-old has been tossing papers for 51 years.

Mentioned last week that iTunes had crossed the 10 billion downloads mark last Wednesday. Well, more details are now available, Apple announced that its online music store crossed mark when 71-year-old Louie Sulcer of Woodstock, Georgia, bought "Guess Things Happen That Way" by Johnny Cash. iTunes celebrated the milestone by giving Sulcer a 10-thousand dollar iTunes gift card. iTunes launched back in 2003 and became the top overall music retailer in the U.S. in 2008.

Carly Simon has ended nearly 40 years of speculation by finally naming the man who inspired her hit "You're So Vain." The song, which catapulted the singer to fame in 1972, was rumored to be about one of her ex-boyfriends, which include Hollywood legend Warren Beatty and rocker Sir Mick Jagger, but she has persistently refused to name the man behind the track. But Simon has now revealed who was so vain by giving fans a cryptic clue in an acoustic version of the song, which features on her upcoming album "Never Been Gone." She tells Uncut magazine, "You know what, I'm just going to tell you this. The answer is on the new version of 'You're So Vain,' on my new record 'Never Been Gone.' There's a little whisper and it's the answer to the puzzle." Her target was record label boss David Geffen. The singer whispers Geffen's name backwards in the track, according to Britain's The Sun newspaper. Geffen ran Simon's Elektra record label at the time of the song's release and instead of being about a failed relationship, the lyrics are now thought to hint at the singer's lingering resentment after Geffen allegedly put more effort into promoting rival star Joni Mitchell.

Trivia Answer: Alan Thicke who turns 63 today. He was Jason Seaver on Growing Pains. Thicke hosted a Canadian game show in Montreal called First Impressions in the late 1970s and the prime time celebrity game show Animal Crack-Ups in the late 1980s. In 1997, he hosted a television version of the board game Pictionary. Norman Lear hired Thicke to produce and head the writing staff of Fernwood 2-Night, a tongue-in-cheek talk show based on characters from Lear's earlier show, Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman. Thicke was also the host of his own popular talk show in Canada during the early 1980s, called the The Alan Thicke Show. Based on the success of that talk show, Thicke was signed to do an American late night talk show Thicke of the Night. Thicke also had a successful career as a TV theme song composer. He often collaborated with his then-wife Gloria Loring on these projects, which included the themes to the popular sitcoms Diff'rent Strokes and The Facts of Life. He also wrote a number of TV game show themes, including The Wizard of Odds (for which he also sang the vocal introduction), The Joker's Wild, Celebrity Sweepstakes, The Diamond Head Game, Blank Check, Stumpers!, Whew! and the original theme to Wheel of Fortune.