Last night in New York City at the Armani One Night Only event, famous folks gathered and wore a lot of black. A whole lot of black.

In this edition of Tweet Beat, Twitter hits back at Bret Easton Ellis, Cory Booker suffers through his food stamp diet, Bette Midler is dressed to the nines and Dan Savage gets a marriage license!

In this edition of Tweet Beat, Ellen Barkin won't be bothering with boring exercise, Scott Walker has zero self awareness, RuPaul has some thoughts on real women and Dolly Parton is a flirt for life.

The red carpet for Roseanne's Comedy Central Roast wasn't red at all, but the textured, cheap, crappy brown carpet popularized in the late '70s/early '80s. With a front door entrance, hanging coats and twood paneling and wallpaper, the entire step-and-repeat was styled after the infamous living room from Roseanne.…

Actress Ellen Barkin got into a bit of a tangle with the NYPD on New Year's Eve. She was walking in her Manhattan neighborhood with her boyfriend, Sam Levinson, when she says the cops were arresting people who weren't doing anything illegal. She saw one girl who she says was getting randomly arrested and tried to…

In this week's compilation of pop culture crap, the quest to find Kelly Ripa a new cohost continues, Michele Bachmann invades your morning and late night talk shows, and Martha Stewart has a topical new recipe for flavoring your turkey this year: pepper spray.

• In the middle of a NY heatwave, onetime PETA spokeswoman Naomi Campbell spent the day outside modeling fur coats. She hobnobbed with Ellen Barkin and Mickey Rourke between shots. [P6]
• Underneath her wig, however, Campbell appeared nearly bald. [Daily Mail]

• Justin Timberlake's mom Lynn Harless calls Jessica Biel "one of us." She says:

The Unicef Ball, at the Beverly Wilshire, was a Big Deal. Cindy Crawford went all Barbie, Alyssa Milano went festive, and Joan Collins...well, you're just going to have to see her footwear for yourselves.

Tom Ford's directorial debut A Single Man has been anticipated as a Stylish Event, and last night's screening - at the Museum of Modern Art - was too: a Madonna-Padma-Julianne-studded style extravaganza with just enough train-wreck to keep things interesting.

• Miley Cyrus will indeed be in Sex And The City 2:

[New York, June 28. Image via Flynet]

• Alan Cumming thinks that our new President, Barack Obama, has a large, ahem, unit:

• Kim Kardashian on Jessica Simpson's body: "Call me crazy, but when I saw the picture, I was like, 'Oh my God, Jessica looks hot!'" Kim continues:

[New York, October 14. Image via Splash.]

News from my alma mater! They're naming a building after the late gossip columnist Claudia Cohen, who a dropout has no business mocking for majoring in Communications. Anyway some students are pissed. "I, as an academic, am accustomed to seeing buildings with names like Newton, Copernicus, Darwin," says a chemistry…

Okay let's cut to the chase: Last night. Metropolitan Museum of Art Costume Institute Gala. Theme was "Superheroes." Everyone and their brother was there. I've broken the photos down into Good, Bad, and Ugly for your viewing pleasure. The Good — including Victoria Beckham, Christina Ricci, Diane Kruger, Iman, Mischa…

[New York, April 3. Image via Splash.]

• Hilary Swank in the January issue of W magazine: "I just took my most important [pills], which are my Oz Garcia Longevity Pak. I shoved them in my mouth right before I met you, which I actually shouldn't do, because I choked on my vitamins once before." [W]
  
• Has Vogue's Anna Wintour really had her lips injected and her…