LOS ANGELES, CA - JANUARY 14: Singer Jennifer Lopez arrives at the premiere of Fox's 'American Idol Xlll' at UCLA's Royce Hall on January 14, 2014 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Kevin Winter/Getty Images)

I wonder if her date will wear a matching orange vest?

Americans love family-oriented TV shows, from Donna Reed and Leave It To Beaver to The Brady Bunch, The Cosby Show and Modern Family. As American families have changed, so have the families on TV: We're seeing more families of color, single moms, and gay dads. But a new pilot — produced by Jennifer Lopez and just…

Welcome back to Midweek Madness, in which yours truly bravely ventures to the newsstand and spends actual American currency buying In Touch, Us, Ok!, Life & Style, and Star. This week, Robert Pattinson is running in slow-mo through the fields behind Reese Witherspoon's ranch house, sobbing as he goes; Jennifer…

Jennifer Lopez wears a variety of swimsuits in the new issue of Vogue. Surprise! Jennifer Lopez looks good in a swimsuit! [Vogue.com]

It's only been four months since Jennifer Lopez and husband Marc Anthony split, but she's already busy looking to fill up her dance card. For those of you who were wishing she would forge a blessed union with Bradley Cooper, fuggedaboutit! Instead, Jenny from the Block is going back to her roots: dating dancers.

Superstar Jennifer Lopez
got a little emotional during a concert last night at the Mohegan Sun casino. It all started when she sang "If You Had My Love." During the number, she—perhaps unwisely—had dancers on stage dressed to look like her and her former flames, including P. Diddy, Ben Affleck, and Marc Anthony.…

The J. Lo sex tape has sparked a bidding war. Back in 1997, Jennifer Lopez and husband Ojani Noa made a little video on their honeymoon. According to this report, the footage features "some spankin' and some booty." However. There is no real sex in the clip. So the bidding has begun kind of low. But Red Light…

• In an interview, Oprah Winfrey remembered her father telling her he'd rather see her dead than carrying an illegitimate child at 14. "I know that I'm pregnant, so I'm thinking I'm just going to have to kill myself," she said.

• Krazy Kaiser Karl, on Kate Middleton and Prince William: "For the royals, apparently the royal blood is not in demand any longer." But no matter, because Middleton is "beautiful and elegant," and "chic in a way the position needs." [WWD]

• Want free jeans? Don't mind handing a corporation access to your personal data and real-time location? Gap will give away 10,000 pairs of jeans to Facebook fans who "check in" to its stores on an as-yet-unannounced date tomorrow. [Fashionista]

• American Apparel is struggling along. But in addition to its other problems, it is facing a "cash crunch." Dov Charney is reluctant to sell to more outside investors, however, because he wants to hold onto his 53% majority stake. [NYPost]

• Here's Russian model Natasha Poly, rocking brown hair and bright eyeshadow on the November cover of Vogue Paris. [@VogueParisLive]
• Victoria Beckham Tweeted a super-close-up picture of her husband looking hunky and wearing a pair of her new sunglasses. [@victoriabeckham]

• Michelle Obama wore Donna Karan to the $10,000-a-head fundraiser Karan threw her. PETA protested the event, because Karan uses fur, and PETA will do anything for a headline. "She is gorgeous and smart," said guest Diane von Furstenberg. [WWD]

• The September issue cover choices are in: Harper's Bazaar chose Jennifer Aniston, Elle nabbed Julia Roberts, and, as predicted, Vogue went with Halle Berry. (Anyone wanna take odds on a "What Gabriel did was very uncool" cover line?)

Couture week, that four-day period when editors descend on Paris to venerate the fiction that enough people still buy $80,000 dresses to justify the expense and bother and fabulousness of the proceedings, is over. How'd everyone do?

The Back-Up Plan had an unimpressive opening. The numbers on her paycheck are diminishing, as are her record sales. Is the world over Jennifer Lopez, and if so, why?

Amid the trailers for movies desperately trying to appeal to men during the Super Bowl last night was an anomaly: a spot for Jennifer Lopez's The Back-Up Plan. Luckily, they made it dude-friendly! You know what that means.

[Los Angeles, January 31. Image via Getty.]