After hungrily leaning forward in his sweaty seat to probe Justin with those standard women's magazine questions ("Are you engaged?!" and "Is anyone pregnant?!"), Timberlake does his best to affect charm by avoiding the issues at hand and turning to his well-worn, though never well-received, stand-up act. He's "engaged" in the conversation! Get it? Yeah, unfortunately, we got it. But it's Jay's repeated allusion to meeting the prematurely sexy and underage Biel playing volleyball (insert wink and elbow nudge here) that has us picturing things we never want to ever, ever again. You see, Jay "would still be in jail" had he acted on whatever Dirty Old Man desires he assures both Timberlake and America he most definitely, cross-his-chick-loving-heart, felt at the time. We get it Jay, and no, we still don't want any part of it.

• THE TONIGHT SHOW WITH JAY LENO [NBC]

After gleefully noticing Liv's decision to leave that recent caked-on makeup and tranny-ish new look behind her, we couldn't help but grow worried as she told the tale of when Papa Tyler taught her about how one goes about flossing their teeth. Steven's method, you see, was to force little Liv to (cringe) "smell" the tape post-floss. Naturally, Liv found the scent "disgusting," and has been quite the star flosser ever since. But considering the life her metallic Speedo-loving father was leading at the time, we hope she never comes to the realization we've currently come to: Liv's gorgeous smile is the result of one whacked out bender Steven spent in the bathroom smelling dental plaque.

• THE TONIGHT SHOW WITH JAY LENO [NBC]

As you may recall, Leno made an ass out of the ass that he already is by forcing Ryan Phillippe to demonstrate his "gayest face" during Ryan's March appearance, leading to apology after ineffective apology. But at the Abbey tonight, Leno will join Katherine Heigl's gay boyfriend T.R. Knight and a whole host of same-sex couplets as they wed and rally in support of the Gays' Best Year Ever. Our minds are already being blown just imagining what on Earth Leno will wear. Will he pull a Rudy and attend in full-out Monroe drag? Pull a different kind of Rudy and don fishnets and a silk codpiece? Or will he stand firm and make absolutely sure his flyover state fans don't confuse him for one of those people and show up in his Eagle-friendly manly motorcycle ensemble of denim button-down, denim jeans and well-worn cowboy boots? More importantly, will Sexiest Vegetarian Kevin be his date? Yes, our mind has officially been blown.

• JAY LENO SAYS 'I DO' IN SUPPORT OF GAY MARRIAGE [E! Online]

In today's installment: Jessica Alba and Cash Warren, Kiefer Sutherland, Jay Leno, Goldie Hawn (with Oliver Hudson), Adam Brody, Cheryl Hines, Ali Landry, Davy Jones (singing karaoke, no less!), Casey Affleck, Traci Lords, Marlee Matlin, Dog The Bounty Hunter, Chris O'Donnell, Adam Carolla, Romany Malco, Scott Caan, Dee Snider, Ms. Jay, Robert Culp and more!

SUNDAY, APRIL 20
· Saw Jay Leno getting out of his ride at the Comedy & Magic Club in Hermosa Beach before his weekly appearance there every Sunday evening. Practically side-swiped the driver next to me while gawking at Jay's car. Didn't get the make and model but I can confirm that it looked very silver, very fast and very expensive.

FRIDAY, APRIL 25
· Spotted Marlee Matlin and her Dancing With the Stars partner (?) at the valet at Forever 21. Can't figure why they were there together as I heard they were voted off the show earlier in the week. Don't ask how I know that. Anyway, she is tiny and he..... not so tall. She drove them away in a huge gas quaffing SUV.
· Yesterday saw John Ennis (Mr. Show and Walk Hard) at the Nature Mart in Los Feliz.
· Saw Perry from Make Me A Supermodel at Vons at Sunset/Virgil @ 7pm. Tall, thin, wearing a wifebeater and looking FINE. With some dressed down chick, not sure if it was his gf. She manned the cart of course, Perry was too busy struttin'.
· I saw Dog the Bounty Hunter (and wife) 4am Friday at LAX. Dog was wearing an American Flag windbreaker.

SATURDAY, APRIL 26
· I had dinner at El Compadre tonight, where I waited for our table next to Ms. Jay from ANTM. Then, I went with some friends to the Sly & the Family Stone concert at the House of Blues. We found a good spot near the stage, and I turned around to see Daryl Hannah. She was with a younger couple, and really beautiful - laid back - in person. She was sporting a Marvin Gaye T-shirt and a belt made out of the pop-tops from soda cans...
· First, on Continental #65 from Newark to LAX on Saturday, Cheryl Hines was in first class. Very hot and very tiny in person, also very polite and low-key. She even walked to the parking garage with the car service driver from baggage claim.
· Was hanging out at my favorite Saturday night spot, Britannia Pub in Santa Monica, for karaoke (technically, Starraoke™) when we got word that none other than our childhood hero, Davy Jones, was at a table in the back. (Attention youngsters, I'm talking about the singer from The Monkees, not the character from Pirates of the Caribbean.) A quick trip to the ladies' room confirmed it, so one of my friends signed up for "Daydream Believer" in his honor. No more than a bar of music went by when Davy came bounding up from the back room, grabbed my friend and the mike and proceeded to perform the whole song with her, with the whole bar singing along (when they weren't snapping pics with their cameraphones). Mark it down as one of my favorite LA moments so far.

SUNDAY, APRIL 27
· Then, Sunday afternoon at the Hollywood Farmer's Market, bumped into Casey Affleck quickly making his way out of the crowd of hipsters. A couple hours later, saw Jonathan Togo (CSI Miami) at the WeHo Whole Foods, also moving through the store very quickly.
· While attending the Indian Film festival at the Arclight, I sat about three seats away from Nancy Kwan, who only looked about ten years older then she did in The World of Suzy Wong. On the way home I saw Robert Culp (I Spy) buying bananas. He's ambulatory and buying produce on his own at 10pm on a Sunday, which is pretty good for pushing 80.

MONDAY, APRIL 28
· Last night after the She & Him show (awesome!) at the Vista — Adam Brody having Amstel Lights at the Good Luck Bar, with a mystery blond that kinda looked like Arielle Kebbel, but I don't think it was her and shouldn't start rumors... or did I just do that?

TUESDAY, APRIL 29
· I spotted Chris O'Donnell by a Delta baggagae carousel at LAX. Navy blazer/jeans. Very preppy. Flew in from Atlanta. Such potential that one...
· Today was the highlight of my week, no make that my month. Saw Kiefer on Ventura Blvd/Balboa coming out of CHILI MY SOUL. He was clearly in great mood. He posed for pics with a couple of heavy set gals...one even got him to say damm it in to her cell phone. The Kiefer looked awesome, very skinny! Tennis shoes, jeans and blue t-shirt. He left with a pretty brunette who was dressed in of all things blue scrubs. DAMM IT my cell was in the car!
· I went to the Fox Hills Mall in Culver City yesterday for lunch and was blocked from using the newly reopened escalator by JC Penny by a PA with a serious God complex. The escalator was only for actors who were shooting on location. Well, it turns out the actors were Steve Agee (from The Sarah Silverman Program) and Adam Carolla. Carolla was sporting a huge fake Amish beard, Agee looked exactly the same as he does on Sarah Silverman.

THURSDAY, MAY 1
· Was having dinner at Mi Piace in Pasadena on Thursday evening when the crowd parted and I beheld Jerry Springer. How's that for a weird one? He sat with his back to the window on Colorado and ate alone quite peacefully. No chairs were thrown.

FRIDAY, MAY 2
· Near-fatal Goldie Hawn sighting. Driving up to my cousin's place in Pacific Palisades, saw a large group of seeming-hippies communing in the middle of the street. One of them appeared to be holding a baby up in the air, sort of bizarrely baptismal. Get closer, baby-holder is Goldie, hot son Oliver Hudson is next to her, and I think the baby in question is Oliver's. As I drive by, Goldie gives me a big smile and waves hello.

SATURDAY, MAY 3
· Saturday night I saw Romany Malco (Weeds / Baby Mama) with a cute lady friend playing cards at Stir Crazy coffee shop on Melrose.
· In front of Larchmont Wine & Cheese, I spotted a squat Scott Caan — first spotted because he was wearing that hat — was sitting with his dog and a group of dudes that looked as you would expect a bunch of dudes eating with Scott Caan to look. as it goes with these kinds of things, he was shorter than expected.


Later on in the afternoon, was driving down melrose when I see a family crossing the street, complete with an olderish blonde with oversized breasts. My first thought was, "her husband must be a real d-bag." I scan the rest of the family until I see Dee Snider. I immediately feel bad for assuming he would be a d-bag [Ed. Note - Why? I think you hit the nail on the head.] and continue driving, hoping he hadn't heard my inner monologue.

· While trying to see Iron Man at Century City, I see Titan from American Gladiators, who stands about 7 feet tall (plastic coif included) and 3 feet wide.
· During another interminable wait for food at the Griddle Cafe, i see Jim Parsons from the CBS show Big Bang Theory. He had to wait for a table, just like the rest of us civilians, unlike...
Jessica Alba, who walks right in and sits at a booth. Didn't see her body but her face definitely looks fuller. Still looked good. Cash Warren walked in a little later and was appropriately unassuming.

SUNDAY, MAY 4
· Dorito Girl Ali Landry at the Alcove on Hillhurst for a late lunch. With her cute Mexican director husband and adorable baby girl. She's amazingly gorgeous in person, throwing Doritos into washers or whatever it was she did in those commercials did not do her justice.
· Traci Lords at the Santa Monica Farmer's Market this morning, with a friend and adorable baby. Looked very happy and healthy. I had to suppress the urge to say hello and tell her how awesome I think she is.

WEDNESDAY, MAY 7
· Walked by Adam Goldberg on Little Santa Monica on Wednesday around lunch time. He was by himself waiting to cross the street. I always thought he was maybe cute but didn't get confirmation until I was standing
right next to him. He was looking cuddle worthy in a black hoody, dark jeans and cool espadrille type Vans.
· I saw Clea Duvall and Zach Quinto at Brently Heilbron's show at Tangier tonight.

THURSDAY, MAY 8
· Spotted a couple celebs in Beverly Hills on Thursday afternoon. Kathy Hilton and not surprisingly
very happy looking Stan Lee were strolling past Jack 'n Jill's. Don't worry, they were not together.

While Fox's Roger Friedman is wildly optimistic about Falllon's upcoming arrival behind Conan's desk, his enthusiasm strikes us as a bit too gushy. As he puts it, "He's the perfect successor to Conan and should have just as big an audience when he takes the reins. Fallon is one of those great underrated performers." True, Fallon was at one time a favorite of ours, partly because he was the cutest cast member at the time, and partly because of his dead-on Barry Gibb impression. But as Tracey Morgan and other cast members infamously said, most of Jimmy's laughs were the result of messing up his lines almost every Saturday night. Understandably, Fox notes that Fallon is "said to be thrilled and ready, if not a little scared." In any case, an official announcement from NBC is reportedly scheduled for May 11th or 12th, when NBC unveils its 2008 schedule to advertisers in New York.

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• JIMMY FALLON CINCHES CONAN'S JOB [Fox News]

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We will leave the decision up to you, the educated Defamer reader, to decide whether or not Page's brevity in conversation and pleasure in killing cows means she wants to hug another woman with her legs in friendship. Us, we're more disappointed in her too-cool-for-school attitude and reluctance play along when Jay lobbed a few "So! What kind of tourist-y things do you do here in LA!" jokes at her (mostly involving dinosaurs, tar pits, and dinosaurs in tar pits). Not to mention yet another wisecrack about how Kev was voted Sexiest Vegetarian a thousand years ago. No Tonight Show guest, no matter how above it all, can be forgiven for allowing Jay to speak or think on his own for that long.

• THE TONIGHT SHOW WITH JAY LENO [NBC]

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"In talking about Ryan's first role, I realize that what I said came out wrong. I certainly didn't mean any malice. I agree it was a dumb thing to say, and I apologize."

The ruckus started on March 19, when Leno urged Stop-Loss star Phillippe to pretend "that camera is your gay lover" in order for the actor to give it "his gayest look." For his part, Phillippe declined (and almost walked off stage). The following week saw the anti-Leno website My Gayest Look hit the scene, as well as a statement from GLAAD.

Now that the appropriate amends have been made, we urge everyone to get back to the important business of not caring what Jay Leno says or does.

• Jay Leno Apologizes for Remarks to Ryan Phillippe

Apparently, two weren't speaking to the third until literally seconds before they took the stage. Conan didn't name names, and Leno, failing to realize that identifying the Angel serving diva bitchitude would ingratiate him with angry Gays, didn't press him on the matter. After taking in Conan's story, we invite you to revisit the reunion, and decide for yourselves which was the odd-Angel-out. Our bet's on brunettes vs. blonde.

• The Tonight Show

• Our Raison D'être [My Gayest Look For Jay Leno]

In 1993, when he was 17, Phillippe was cast in a groundbreaking role on the long-running soap, playing the first openly gay teenager on network TV—a subject way ahead-of-its-time, and that most agree was handled responsibly. Leno then proceeds to mine the comedic gold inherent in this mock-worthy topic, starting with his best, "Gee, your parents must have been thrilled" material before segueing into a tight bit in which he suggests "that camera is your gay lover...can you give me your gayest look?" Phillippe threatens to leave twice, more seriously the second time, after Leno goes on to bring up a David LaChapelle-directed Armani ad in which Ryan is—get this guys—naked! In a fashion ad! Directed by a swishy photographer-type! How fruity is that? Phillippe ends up staying, clinging all the while to a vision of Leno flying off of a cliff in one of his ZZ Top gangster cars. We truly wish he hadn't.

• The Tonight Show [NBC]

Senior executives at ABC and Fox said that their networks had discreetly gotten the message to Mr. Leno that they were waiting eagerly for the time when they would be able to make official overtures. [...]

Sony Pictures Television has made an approach through intermediaries to let Mr. Leno and his representatives know that as soon as he is allowed to discuss his next move, the studio will make him a rich offer for a syndicated late-night show that would make him the highest-paid host in late-night television, put his name on a new theater on the Sony lot and give him a financial interest in Sony music artists who appear on his show. [...]

NBC executives, including the chief executive of NBC Universal, Jeff Zucker, have reaffirmed their commitment to Mr. O'Brien. And if they did change their minds, they would owe Mr. O'Brien a penalty payment: an estimated $45 million.

Industry watchers suspect Leno will gravitate to whichever offer makes NBC seem like the biggest losers in this botched arrangement. Certainly, Sony's pledge to gift Leno with his very own theater, a yearly contract in the low trillions, plus a direct stake in Justin Timberlake and Beyoncés album sales would be an extremely attractive arrangement for the freakishly bechinned vintage-auto-enthusiast. But don't count out the networks, and particularly the anonymous third-party candidate who sent Jay a mint '52 Jaguar, along with a handwritten note affixed to the windshield reading, "Jay: Enjoy the ride. And remember: We can always shuffle old-man Letterman into the Craig Ferguson slot, and slip you into the one-one-three-oh, big guy! Love, L.M."

• Suitors Are Set to Say to Leno, Long Live King [NY Times]

Martin saves his more sardonic barbs for Letterman's scab-encrusted nemesis—after the jump!

Martin then goes on to admit he also pulled in some lucrative scab-dollars pitching jokes to Letterman's chief competitor. However imprudent the confession, it does go a long way towards explaining why striketime Tonight Show sketches suddenly became far more nuanced, pitting the Square Dancing Cheneys in a bitter love triangle with a beautiful Neiman Marcus sales associate with artistic aspirations.

• Late Show with David Letterman [CBS]

"He's looser," said the producer of another late-night-show, who asked not to be identified because he doesn't work for NBC. "It seems like more of that stand-up personality that people always liked in him is coming out.

That might not seem to account for 25 jokes a night, but Mr. Ludwin and others associated with the show say Mr. Leno's three decades of work as a stand-up comic has been the biggest factor in those monologues.

These associates say that Mr. Leno is pulling jokes from the deep pool of material he has used in his stand-up act, dropping in more generic — or just silly — jokes into his monologues. "Doctors in China have confirmed the existence of a man who was born with three eyes," went one. "Three eyes! Today LensCrafters said they can make him glasses in about an hour and a half."

But he has also, the associates said, used his skills as a mechanic — Mr. Leno's chief non-show-business passion is working on cars and motorcycles — to retool old jokes. One longtime writer said that Mr. Leno was taking lines he used about earlier politicians and refashioning them to involve contemporary figures.

Though Leno's obviously been quite successful with this mechanic's technique over the past month, even the most indiscriminating of his aging Middle American viewers might begin to rebel if he becomes careless about how recycles his old, go-to political material, such as by scandalously suggesting that Republican frontrunner John McCain (or, perhaps even more sensationally, Hillary Clinton) has been diddling an intern with a cigar, no matter how loud human-laugh-track Kevin Eubanks roars his approval.

• Leno's Art of Late-Show Maintenance [NY Times]

The Real Estate Stalker has conveniently posted pictures of the $10,750,000 "gated compound" so we can all sigh over the six bedrooms, 1,500-bottle wine room, spa and paneled library that could have been ours, ours, dammit, if only we'd gone to Harvard! There are also six fireplaces in the newly built home, where we can only guess the Red Bearded One will be burning Leno's old cue cards and laughing the righteous laugh of the victorious. And somewhere in a garage deep in the heart of Burbank, one man will sit, in the dark, plotting his revenge...

·Once again indulging the female facial hair fetish she previously explored via her memorable Frida unibrow, Salma Hayek will play the bearded lady in Paul Weitz's Cirque du Freak. [Variety]
· How is the writers strike affecting Canadians starved for imported American TV content? Click through and find out! [THR]
· Christian Bale is "in negotiations" to join Michael Mann's movie Public Enemy as the FBI agent hot on the trail of Johnny Depp's legendarily beschlonged mobster John Dillinger. [Variety]

Always one to look on the bright side, Leno revealed a pleasant consequence of The Tonight Show's current guest-draught: being freed up from having to watch the kind of paycheck-passion projects mentioned above—a point Kimmly quickly rebutted by reminding Jay that they'll both soon be pretending to care about how the lives of contestants strapped to The Moment of Truth's lie detector were ruined by their forced candor about wanting to pork their attractive in-laws.

• The Tonight Show [NBC.com]

For one night, Jay Leno and Jimmy Kimmel will solve the problem of booking guests during the writers' strike by appearing on each other's show. [...]

"There are only a few people in the world that know how tough this job is," Leno said Sunday. "Jimmy is one of them. It will be fun to discuss who's a good guest, who's a difficult guest and everything else that comes with sitting behind these desks."

Joked Kimmel: "If Jay and I can come together and guest on each other's shows, then surely there is hope for peace in the Middle East."

The one-night swap will provide band-aid relief at best for the two embattled programs, though may offer interesting scientific insights into whether or not pairing late night's two weakest interviewers could result in the formation of a massive entertainment vacuum that sucks all manner of desks, mugs, and audience members into the ground. Meanwhile there is still no word whether ABC and NBC's exchange program would extend to their other post-primetime properties, plopping a bewildered Martin Bashir on Conan's couch while Nightline devotes an hour to investigating the latest beard trends in the tall, pink and pasty.

• Leno, Kimmel to appear on each other's show [CNN]

Now that Leno's had his wrist lightly slapped, we can expect that this evening's monologue will substitute verboten scripted material with even more of the mind-numbing, time-killing banter he used to get through his first writerless show ("Hey, Non-Union Audience Member, Tell Me About Your Christmas In Painstaking Detail!") should prove a popular recurring bit), some of which we've helpfully presented in montage form in the above video.

• The Return of Late Night [Defamer]

· In a move sure to broaden the film's appeal among urban audiences but which probably won't be met with approval by hard-core fanboys, Tyler Perry has joined the cast of JJ Abrams' Star Trek, in which he'll play the sassy, fat-suited grandmother figure who runs Starfleet Academy. [THR]
· THR declares the record-setting 2007 The Year Of The Thrilling Threequel, noting that four of last year's 10 top-grossing films were no-brainer third installments of established blockbuster franchises. [THR]
· Meanwhile, the grosses for "specialty" films were down 4% in 2007, which couldn't rely on the public's insatiable appetite for pirates and superheroes to spur them to box office heights. [Variety]

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You may know that Chuck Norris-approved Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee will be appearing (oopsies! No one told him that Leno's show still isn't Guild-sanctioned like Letterman's), but we've just learned via press release the identity of the act whom a publicist is proud to announce will be Tonight's first musical strike-defier: "Chingy will be Jay Leno's first musical guest as he returns to late night television tonight 1/2/08 at 11:30 pm on NBC. Don't miss him performing new music from his album Hate It Or Love It, in stores now!" Tune in to NBC tonight to see what other surprise guests might turn up to demonstrate their solidarity with the cause of getting paid!

• Letterman vs. Leno, with a twist [CNN.com]

"The Writers Guild has reached a binding independent agreement today with Worldwide Pants that will allow Late Night with David Letterman and The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson to return to the air with their full writing staffs.

This is a comprehensive agreement that addresses the issues important to writers, particularly New Media. Worldwide Pants has accepted the very same proposals that the Guild was prepared to present to the media conglomerates when they walked out of negotiations on December 7.

Today's agreement dramatically illustrates that the Writers Guild wants to put people back to work, and that when a company comes to the table prepared to negotiate seriously a fair and reasonable deal can be reached quickly.

It's time for NBC-Universal to step up to the plate and negotiate a company-wide deal that will put Jay Leno, who has supported our cause from the beginning, back on the air with his writers."

While it's definitely a step in the right direction, it's worth noting that this "dramatic illustration" took two weeks and several "terse" statements before being hammered out. Should The Tonight Show fail to reach its own agreement, it will be interesting to see how the two longtime late night foes make out in their unfairly matched showdown, with Letterman backed by a trusty writing staff and an all-new arsenal of rejected-holiday-toy-packaging and buoyancy-test-materials, and Leno left to his own, improvisational devices for a monologue's worth of nightly material. This could be a window of opportunity for Stupid Staffer Tricks-conceptualizing Last Call host Carson Daly to inch into the lead in the NBC late night hosting stakes.

• Writers Guild Reaches Agreement With Worldwide Pants [wga.org]

(At least until the idling staff rereads the threateningly vague layoff memo from the network saying, "If your services are needed, we'll contact you.") Meanwhile, TMZ reports that Jimmy Kimmel has been "quietly" paying low-level workers adversely affected by the strike, leaving picket-line-crossing Last Call host Carson Daly, who returns to the air tonight without his writers (but with some great material from his non-union inbox), as the late shift's only potential punching bag.

• Leno to pay 'Tonight' staff after all [Variety]
• Kimmel to Little People — I Got Your Back [TMZ]

"Conan O'Brien will take over 'The Tonight Show' in 2009," NBC Universal President and CEO Jeff Zucker said Monday in New York at an event arranged by Syracuse University's S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications.

Zucker said he'd like Leno to remain with the company and that "we are in those conversations now."

"I'm hopeful that Jay will be with us," the executive told the question-and-answer session.

Continuing in a more somber tone, Zucker added, "Of course, sometimes these conversations don't lead anywhere, and a loved one makes the choice to leave the family. We'd really hate to see that happen. And it would be sadder still if, on the way home from the conversation in which we decided to go our separate ways, the brakes on one of those unreliable old jalopies Jay is so fond of mysteriously give out, and the car winds up in a ditch off of Mullholland Drive, tragically cutting short his search for a new family."

• NBC exec: Leno will leave 'Tonight' on schedule [CNN.com]

But balancing the Peacock's excitement about its big move is its growing apprehension about the inevitably problematic transfer of The Tonight Show from Burbank to the Universal lot's soon-to-be refurbished Studio One, as a smooth handoff from Jay Leno to Conan O'Brien seems increasingly unlikely; at this point, they'll probably consider the transition a success if their snipers can take out Leno before he has has a chance to detonate the farewell explosives he's rigged beneath his desk to take his final live audience with him into his early retirement.

• MetroStudio&Lankershim [metrostudiolankershim.com via Curbed LA]
• Leno keeping NBC up at night [LAT]

• The Tonight Show: Fred Thompson running for President [YouTube]
• One-Sheet Wonder: The Fred Thompson Filmography [YouTube]

Sources said Stage One, once home to the "Jack Benny Show," may next become the home of "The Tonight Show" starring Jay Leno, and after 2009, Conan O'Brien, although a studio spokesman insists that is still being evaluated. Construction is expected to start by early next year and take at least one and a half years to complete. A studio spokesman said completion depends on getting the necessary permits.

O'Brien was in Los Angeles, Burbank and Universal City on Wednesday, according to sources, discussing the plans with top NBC U brass. The complex is said to include a public area, a spacious state of the art theater, dressing rooms and a four story office complex that would be perfect for the "Tonight Show" staff, currently cramped into aging space at NBC in Burbank.

Conan, of course is waiting at the door. This could seal the deal for O'Brien to agree to host the franchise late night talk show from the West Coast. "No final decisions have been made," said a NBC U spokeswoman in a statement issued to Hollywood Today. "A stage at Universal Studios is one option under consideration, but we are still very much in an evaluation stage."

It might still be too early for the officials to comment on their exact plans for the space, but it seemed like a sign that things are moving forward when the spokeswoman let it slip that NBC executives were already mulling the feng-shui implications of placing O'Brien's new desk on the exact spot where they will assassinate Jay Leno in 2009, thereby eliminating the possibility that the outgoing host will decide he's got a few more years in him and set up shop at a competing network.

• Longoria, Desperate Housewives Evicted! New home for Tonight Show without Leno? [Hollywood Today]

In today's episode: Lindsay Lohan, Amaury Nolasco, Paris Hilton, Dave Navarro, and Jason Statham; Ryan Gosling; Seth Rogen; James Gandolfini; Ben Henrikson and Grace Zabriskie; Ron Howard and Paul Simon; Elijah Wood; Larry King; Wanda Sykes; Gwen Stefani and Gavin Rossdale; Adam Brody; Eric Dane and Gary Cole; Robert Gant; Adrian Grenier; Benjamin Bratt; Andy Dick; Brian Posehn; Dick Van Patten; Gilbert Gottfried; Paul Stanley; David Faustino; Santino Rice and Frederic von Anhalt. In Vancouver: Rick Schroeder.

· Soooo I know its a bit late, but hey, better late then never when it comes to Malibu 4th of July sightings. My grandparents live next door to what I later found out was the Polaroid beach house. 3 pm...walk out to see a line of photogs on the beach stumbling to get photos of none other than Miss L. Blowhan... Lindsay Lohan was smoking away and doing a great job of being seen drinking water...As the day continued, lots of people showed up on that balcony, that was a stones throw from our BBQ. Maybe it was some sort of deal with Polaroid to have them be seen up there, even the dude from Prison Break was up there..(Amaury Nolasco) Thanks IMDB!!!!! I felt bad staring the whole time like a girl from Iowa who had never seen the beach or celebutards, but I was really just wishing I was there amongst the pretty people and cocaine, not my Grandparents and all their old Jewish friends... Paris Hilton, Dave Navarro, and some celeb spawns were there as well... And the one I had to hold myself back from groping and drunkenly molesting on the beach, Mr. Jason Statham ( YUMMY YUMMY ) of Transporter fame....to say the least if was interesting. I love the summer renters in Malibu...getting better and trashier every year...

· 7-07-07 Definitely my lucky day. Saw Ryan Gosling at Cliff's Edge in Silverlake around 9:30ish.