"This is unusual and upsetting," Conan O'Brien said to his audience on Monday night. "But we got some news during the show."

In the scramble to cover yesterday's horrible and shocking news that Robin Williams was dead, apparently by his own hand — and in the absence of any hard information other than the fact that he died from asphyxiation and his family has asked that we respect their privacy — ABC decided that the best way to cover the…

THANK YOU, GODDESS, FOR THIS GIFT. PR geniuses Courtney Stodden and Doug Hutchison are back in the news after announcing they're un-canceling their tragic divorce and are re-engaged to be re-married. LONG LIVE DOURTNEY.

At Splitsider this week, Meredith Haggerty expertly explored what happens to the social media accounts of television shows that go off the air. "Sad things," she concludes. Well, while the accounts of actual people who join social media platforms to promote said shows aren't always quite as sad, they are pretty…

Like that part on a baby's head where if you drop them they die, there is a dangerously soft spot in my heart for Sarah Michelle Gellar because, like many of us, I consumed four seasons worth of Buffy The Vampire Slayer at an impressionable braces-wearing age. And also: Cruel Intentions! Nothing wrong with that.

Contrary to yesterday's rumors, Robert Pattinson is not on a train, on a boat, on a plane, in a moat, or partying in London. He is, in fact, crouching behind some bushes in Reese Witherspoon's Ojai, California ranch (literal, not metaphor) until this whole "world knowing your girlfriend cheated on you" thing blows…

In this promo for the Academy Awards, you'll see decidedly non-Oscar-worthy performances by Josh Duhamel, Megan Fox, Vinnie Jones, William Fichtner, Oscar-winner Robin Williams and, of course, Billy Crystal, who gets all Princess Bride with it, because that is such a hot, current reference. Ugh, Christ, this is not…

LONDON, ENGLAND - NOVEMBER 20: L-R Robin Williams, Sofia Vergara and Elijah Wood attend the European premiere of Happy Feet Two at The Empire Leicester Square on November 20, 2011 in London, United Kingdom. (Photo by Dave Hogan/Getty Images)

• Victoria Beckham is "fattening herself up" so that she can get pregnant.

• Lindsay Lohan and Leonardo DiCaprio were seen deep in conversation at Hollywood hot spot Trousdale on Tuesday night.

• Chances are you've never been to a christening like this: Today Nicole Kidman and Hugh Jackman became the godparents of Rupert Murdoch's two youngest daughters, who are six and eight, at a baptism ceremony held next to the River Jordan.

• Last week, Us Weekly declined to publish a photograph picturing Jesse James doing a "Heil Hitler" gesture. But this week, guess who's running the picture?

• The L.A. Coroner's office released a preliminary report today declaring that Brittany Murphy's death was accidental. She died of a combination of pneumonia, anemia, and "multiple drug intoxication."

Television will never be the same after Oprah goes off the air in 2011. If we had a "Favorite Things" list about O, in the top spot would be the way the talk-show host introduces celebrity guests. Mashup at left.

• Nicole Richie has been complaining that she doesn't feel well for days, and now she's been hospitalized at Cedars-Sinai for pneumonia. Her rep says she's "doing well."

• Robert Pattinson took Kristen Stewart to a "secret" dinner with his parents. So secret that this Britloid knows about it!

• Michael and Dina Lohan will work together on getting Lindsay Lohan off of pills. Says Michael Lohan. [Radar Online]

• Avril Lavigne and Deryck Whibley: Headed for divorce? According to sources:

• Jessica Biel is "the most dangerous celebrity to search in cyberspace," according to security software firm McAfee.