Playboy Mansion

The mind reels. Kendra Wilkinson, the former Playboy poser married to an ex-Eagle, agreed to trade places with Kate Gosselin and care for a brood of eight kids? That's right, according to ABC. Those are the two moms pulling the season-debut switcheroo on Celebrity Wife Swap at 8 p.m. Feb. 26. The Philly-born Gosselin, a single mom, would sure seem to be getting the better of the deal, since Wilkinson has just one 3-year-old boy, and a husband around the house as well - former Philadelphia Eagles receiver Hank Baskett.

WEDDING WELL Women of the world, raise your hankies high. On July 1, the world's most eligible playboy, Hugh Hefner, ties the knot with his centerfold bride-to-be, Kimberly Conrad. "Romantic dog that I am," says Hef, "the wedding will be at the wishing well where I proposed to her" - on the lush grounds at the Playboy Mansion in Los Angeles. According to Hefner, only a small group of family and friends will be invited to the early afternoon ceremony. But come evening the 63-year-old groom and his 26-year-old bride will host 200 to 400 guests at a lavish dinner-dance reception in a tent on grounds of his estate.

In studio estimates through Sunday, The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2 kept its slim lead over the rest of the pack, says Box Office Mojo. TTSBDP2 is first, with a $17.4 million weekend gross and $254.6 mil total take so far. Close behind is the latest Bond thing, Skyfall , with $17 mil and $246 mil so far. The rest of the top 10: (3) Lincoln , $13.5 mil and $83.7 mil; (4) Rise of the Guardians , $13.5 mil and $48.9 mil; (5) Life of Pi , $12 mil and $48.3 mil; (6)

Let's go right out on a limb: If you've got one wary eye on the millennium clock and an uneasy feeling that the Web is more barrier than conduit, if you're concerned by how cheap human life has become but are put off by the rigid prescriptions of a rotting church, you need U2's Pop. Even if you haven't been inside a record store in years. Especially if you thought pop music no longer had anything relevant to say about the human condition. Because beneath layers of campy synthesizers, distorted guitars and other deliberately dense sonic detritus is buried a damn-near brilliant treatise on faith in a rootless age. Pop's 12 songs struggle with doctrine, measure moral decay, celebrate individuality, and ponder the proper etiquette for the coming apocalypse.

ALTHOUGH IT will have an adverse affect on our ability to fill this space, Tattle is calling for a moratorium on dumb-ass lawsuits. The latest: Jennifer Whitney, professional bikini model and two-time Hooters Regional Bikini Champion (that's regional champion), is suing Playboy Enterprises in L.A. Superior Court, because she says she was falsely portrayed as a "lesbian porn star. " Whitney claims that she was videotaped naked at an "artistic body painting promotion" at the Playboy Mansion and unwittingly wound up on the cover of a videotape called "Playboy Mansion Parties, Hottest Moments.

The bride cried through the ceremony. The bridegroom mopped his brow. But Playboy founder Hugh Hefner, 63, who preached that marriage kills romance, finally broke his vows and wed 26-year-old Playmate of the Year Kimberley Conrad Saturday in front of a wishing well. Watched over by 150 guests, including comedian Bill Cosby, actors Cornel Wilde and Tony Curtis and two Hefner ex-girl friends - Barbi Benton and Shannon Tweed - the man who called himself the "playboy of the western world" walked out on bachelorhood for the second time in his life.

When you think of Justin Bieber fans, you picture cute, cotton-candy-fed, prepubescent girls and boys filled with joy. It turns out they're vicious, pop-crazed piranhas, rabid French-poodle-size maniacs. So, not true! Beliebers went berserk when the Canadian teen was denied the best-new-artist Grammy by some chick named Esperanza Spalding . Justin, 16, said he was upset. "I worked really hard these past few years, and you know, I'm not going to lie - I was disappointed," he told MTV News.

TALK ABOUT a Baskett catch. Eagles wide receiver Hank Baskett has proposed to "Girl Next Door" Kendra Wilkinson, her "ex," Hugh Hefner, told Usmagazine.com. Kendra said yes. Mazel tov. "Kendra Wilkinson has met someone who she would like to spend the rest of her life with," Hef said in a statement. "He popped the question last Saturday. I have given her my blessing and will be giving her away at a very special wedding ceremony at the Playboy Mansion this coming June.

You may not immediately place the names of Karen McCullah Lutz and Kirsten Smith, but the screenwriters are the Shakespeares of American movie comedy. They achieved this status in part by updating the Bard in 10 Things I Hate About You (a sprightly rethink of Taming of the Shrew) and She's the Man (Twelfth Night). In between they wrote an original, Legally Blonde, an effervescent social satire tweaking mean girls and social-climbing boys, exalting tiny dogs and underdogs. It is with great regret I report that The House Bunny is their Cymbeline.

The breakup of Howard Stern's 21-year marriage led his arch-nemesis, Kathie Lee Gifford, to send him a sympathetic note. Guess what happened next. "I was laughing as I read it," Stern told his nationally syndicated radio audience on Wednesday. "It's a really, really nice note, very religious, references to the Lord. It's like I'm her . . . test in life. " On Thursday, Stern read the letter on the air. "I was very sorry to hear the news that you and your wife have separated," it read.