• Brad Pitt said it was uncool for ex Jennifer Aniston to say his wife Angelina Jolie is uncool. Or, as he puts it, he was "totally thrown." [Sun-Times ]
• Who wouldn't want to be on John Mayer's 1960s-style variety show?? Other than Brad Pitt? [Daily Star]
• Justin Timberlake is buying a condo in TriBeCa. Jessica Biel is moving in and Robert De Niro's son brokered the sale. [Post]
• Ari Emanuel screamed at poor, helpless kids playing soccer in Los Angeles, and Barack Obama still hasn't apologized. What terrible things will his chief-of-staff's family do next? [P6]
• Lindsay Lohan and Samantha Ronson marrying? That was so yesterday. Now they're fighting because Lindsay wants to have an open relationship and sleep with guys, and their flack is denying the whole marriage thing.
• Thank you, Barack Obama, for convincing Alan Cumming to grace us with his citizenship. [P6]
• Former HBO president Chris Albrecht is trying to work things out with the girlfriend he choked at a boxing match. Page Six headline? "Rocky Love." [P6]
• Manolo Blahnik, the man, is not familiar with this "Sex And The City." [P6]

Now, however, with Chris Albrecht well into his tenure as IMG boss — and with a $250 million mandate to develop content with talent including Tiger Woods and Gisele Bundchen— the pressure is on for Forstmann to do something a little more constructive than star-fuck his way around the roster.

Conveniently, Semel seems to need a project, and IMG is as good as any. Forstmann reportedly wants $3 billion, though — an "aggressive price" by most accounts; he picked IMG up for $750 million in 2004 and may fetch a little more than twice that if Semel can sort out a deal with Dubai International Capital, a government-owned holding company that also, last November, bought 3 percent of Sony for $1.5 billion. We're all for the deal, frankly — anything that gets Semel back on the scene (though his support for Israel might be a problem in a country to which Israelis can't even travel), particularly if it results in IMG client Elizabeth Hasselbeck trenchantly interviewing Gisele atop a man-made ski slope in some desert shopping megalith. Good luck, Terry!

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• Dubai International Capital and ex-Yahoo chief let fly at IMG [Times Online via PaidContent]

Back in 1991, Albrecht had an "altercation" with a subordinate he was dating at the time. Bewkes signed off on a half million dollar settlement and got the gal to leave the company and keep her mouth shut. (If it had only been a decade or two earlier—then these broads would had kept their mouths shut in the first place, and they probably wouldn't have gotten the beatings. Damn feminists.) Was this a proper use of corporate monies?

"I think it's a blatant abuse of shareholder funds," said Susan Shultz, a corporate governance executive with the Board Institute in Phoenix. "It impugns the integrity of a company and tarnishes the brand. There ought to be transparency in these cases. It seems very inappropriate that one, the money was spent, and two, that it was not disclosed."

• Time Warner makes a ton of money.
  
• Who in Hollywood hasn't smacked around a yappy employee that they're also fucking at one time or another?
  
• Bewkes did the right thing by firing Albrecht as soon as the incident was made public and it became apparent that it wasn't going to blow over.
  
• Seriously, we're talking a lot of money here. Who gives a shit about some secret settlement? You ask me, the chick was lucky she mouthed off to a valuable HBO employee! We would so take a couple of cracks to the face for half a mil.

  Nutshell: If you're pulling in enough cash, you are not expendable. At least until you administer the second beating. Here endeth the lesson. Good luck with the new job, Jeff!

  Exec faces fallout from HBO payout [LAT]

HB-OK [NYP]