Project Runway recently announced its Season 9 competitors, and here's a familiar face: Anya Ayoung-Chee realized she had "designer potential" when she "had the opportunity to consult on my wardrobe for the Miss Universe pageant in 2008," as Miss Trinidad-and-Tobago. The same Miss Trinidad-and-Tobago who would go on…

Half-Supreme Court Justice Harriet Miers, whose brilliant legal mind was simply too supple to be confined to the nation's highest court, has gone onto a stellar career trying to influence Congress on behalf of foreign agents—including the ones that probably protected Osama bin Laden for a decade.

After coming out while in office in 2004, former New Jersey governor Jim McGreevey joined the seminary and tried to be an Episcopal priest. Now it turns out the denomination doesn't want him and, shockingly enough, the decision has nothing to do with his shacking up with another man.

Four years after selling YouTube to Google for $1.65 billion, Chad Hurley is leaving his video-sharing website behind. What he really wants to do, you see, is join the fashion industry. How... refined.

Richard Heene, the man who plotted the Balloon Boy hoax last year, is doing his best Billy Mays impersonation to sell the Bear Scratch, a wall-mounted back scratcher, on the internet. His career trajectory is the same as his balloon.

Days after her highly-rated turn hosting SNL, Facebook campaigns have already started to get Betty White to host the Emmys and Oscars. First of all, the internet petition strategy only works once. Second: She's 88. Let her catch her breath!

Because all the slots for MTV's Teen Mom were taken, Levi Johnston's babymama Bristol Palin will act for the first time on ABC Family's pubescents and placentas drama The Secret Life of the American Teenager. Not type casting at all.

Whatever happened to Chris Hughes, the Facebook cofounder who joined Barack Obama's fledgling campaign in 2007 and powered it to victory using social networking? He's joined a D.C. PR firm. How crushingly disappointing!

Brandon Holley, the last editor that Jane magazine would ever see (so sad! Still feel that hole in our hearts), did get a job it turns out! She has been secretly (well to us, not to her) working at Yahoo as "executive producer, Yahoo Lifestyles." This means that she is, for one of her duties, the astrology editor,…

When we last checked in with downtown doyenne Brooke Geahan, the founder of the defunct Accompanied Library was still pouting about her Library being booted from its home at the National Arts Club. The Accompanied Library, despite reports that hiphop mogul Damon Dash was throwing his weight behind it, was presumed…

Siberia, the Hell's Kitchen bar that was a home away from home for legions of disgruntled alcoholic journalists, closed in May. Its owner, Tracy Westmoreland, has been promising ever since that the bar will reopen. Now he's saying it louder!

Nine months ago, Jason Neroni, the chef who got his start at the now-closed 71 Clinton, was booted from the kitchen of Porchetta under a storm of allegations of thievery. After a brief stop at the 76th Precinct House (he denies he was arrested), he landed at Jason Swami's Cantina on the Lower East Side. Now we hear…

Even though Tara Reid's once-promising acting career has stalled of late (sadly, her critically embraced turn as a brainy anthropologist in Alone in the Dark was so long ago that she's starting to slide off every low-budget casting director's short list for busty-genius roles), her savvy decision to fully exploit…

How the mighty have fallen! Ben Curtis, once nationally famous for being really enthusiastic whenever someone was getting a Dell, is now a waiter at Tex-Mex standby Tortilla Flats. "There were times when I made boatloads of money as an actor, but here I can be myself." Also, he "dressed up as the Dell Dude for the…

Have you been wondering what Carrie Brownstein is up to now that Sleater Kinney has disbanded? We had forgotten to! Anyway, it turns out that she randomly but wonderfully has a sketch comedy website with Fred Armisen now. The one about a feminist bookstore deciding what can and cannot go on the bulletin board is…

Endeavor's Ari Emanuel, so publicly appalled by the media's digging up of 16-year-old dirt on buddy Chris Albrecht after his much-publicized Vegas domestic violence arrest, played matchmaker in the meeting that led to Albrecht's new gig at IMG. Also, Albrecht's received the Sarah Jessica Parker Seal of "I'd Work…

So we were wrong about two things when we relayed the rumor that James Frey had sold his next book to Harper's Jonathan Burnham yesterday. We were wrong about the amount the book had sold for, which still hasn't been confirmed, but is now rumored to be in excess of one million. Which, actually, makes sense if Harper…

According to a review in THR, Gone Baby Gone is "going to be remembered as one of the best crime movies of this decade." Yup, the Gone Baby Gone directed by Ben Affleck. [THR/Reuters]