Will Ferrell pulled Tom Brokaw onstage at Radio City during the final night of his Funny or Die tour to involve him in an Anchorman bit. [P6]

Obama declines to tell Us Weekly whether he wears boxers or briefs. [Us]

If you can't afford a New York apartment with a real exposed brick wall, here are ways to build a fake one. [NYT]

Josh Hartnett had to fly coach back from the Oscars. [P6]

Sports drinks companies are targeting some products specifically to women. [NYT]

Facebook released screen shots for a planned site redesign. [Radar]

The Christie's dinner party following an advance screening of "The Other Boleyn Girl" earlier this week featured mini guillotine table centerpieces. [Style.com]

Jessica Alba was teased in elementary school due to early development. [P6]

Marc Anthony's former wife, Daynara Torres, is writing a book on their marriage. Anthony left her for new mom Jennifer Lopez. [P6]

Pamela Anderson seeks to annul her four-month-old marriage to Rick Salomon, citing fraud. [Us]

A photo of the boy Anne Frank called her "one true love" in her diary will go on display at the Anne Frank House in Amsterdam thanks to the boy's childhood friend, now 81, who escaped to England. [NYT]

Chief Clinton strategist Mark Penn is doing big, ugly renovations on his Washington, D.C., home, and the neighbors are pissed. [P6]

Lindsay Lohan's little sister, Ali, is inspired by her sister's career. [People]

The New York Times documents the rise of competing FroYo chains in the city. It does not explain why the Upper East Side Pinkberry's line stretches out the door even when it's sleeting. [NYT]

The 1,400-person audience during New York Philharmonic's performance in North Korea Tuesday gave a five-minute standing ovation. [WSJ]

Diablo Cody may get a tattoo of Ellen Page's face to commemorate her Oscar win for best original screenplay. [P6]

On Monday, Feb. 25, Lorraine Bracco—who around here is still better known as the shrieky wife in GoodFellas than for her role as the shrink with a smoky voice on The Sopranos—threw a launch party for her new line of wines at the Hard Rock Café on Broadway and 43^rd Street. No matter how you slice it, a TV actor launching an eponymous line of booze at a Times Square theme restaurant on a Monday night in February is a tad depressing. Fugeddaboutit! The event was well-attended and star-studded—even Mayor Bloomberg showed up to support the 53-year-old actress and her vino.

“I have a lot of energy and didn’t want to just walk around in my apartment in circles,” Ms. Bracco told the Daily Transom of why she decided to put her name on a collection of wines, which range from Amarone Classico to Pinot Grigio. (Because she’s charitable, the actress autographed a few bottles and gave them to United Way, St. Judes and the New York Food Bank.) “You have enough actresses selling perfume and hair products and crèmes and lotions,” Ms. Bracco, who currently stars on Lipstick Jungle, said. “Wine’s a lot more fun!”

She was wearing a bright red dress and walking back and forth on a crimson carpet set up in the basement of the experience eatery. Reporters and photographers were grouped on the other side of a series of velvet ropes. Hard Rock diners filed past in apparent confusion.

After a New York reporter, who was essentially sitting on our shoulders, was finished asking her if she had ever gone to bed with another woman—“Birthing my children was a little bit of a lesbian experience,” she responded with a befuddled look—Ms. Bracco told us that sometimes she drinks too much wine and “gets carried away.” But, she added, “we’re only here once. And also, red wine is really good for you.”

Fellow Sopranos star Steve Schirripa also stopped by. “Lorraine is a lot of fun, she always shows up at everybody’s events. Her wine is like her—it really pops out and it’s great,” he droned, as if reading off a teleprompter mounted behind our head. “It’s all good, man.” (Mr. Schirripa did admit that Ms. Bracco’s “performance is much better than her wine.”) Then came View co-host Joy Behar, who, when asked by a publicist to pose for a picture with Ms. Bracco, snapped: “Ugh, fine. Get her over here.”

“Lorraine is full-bodied; she’s classy; she’s multi-colored,” Curb Your Enthusiasm’s Susie Essman said. “Lorraine has a lot of facets to her—dark, light, funny, serious, and all good wines should be really complicated like Lorraine.” Asked how a sommelier would describe her, Ms. Essman said she “would be a wine with a very short fuse” (which, we inferred, must be expensive to produce).

“I happen to be a very huge red wine drinker,” Ms. Essman added. “I drink a glass of wine every day. And I think it’s really, really healthy. And there’s something about red wine that feels good when I drink it. Like when I drink vah-kah, it doesn’t feel good. But when I drink red wine, it feels like it’s going into my bloodstream.”

Just spotted at the Colette boutique in Paris: party gal/model Cory Kennedy, who “love[s] Paris for its fashion.” [T]

Donald Rumsfeld was spotted admiring the lovely flowers at Café des Artistes, where Mayor Bloomberg, dining nearby, didn’t say hello. [P6]

The New York Philharmonic was able to perform in North Korea; the concert included the George Gershwin tune “American in Paris.” [NYT]

It’s official: Veronica Hearst lost her ocean-front, 52-room Villa Venezia. [P6]

Of completing her last day at Interview, Ingrid Sischy, who stayed at the offices late into Friday night, said: “It feels really good. This is a decision that we very much believe in.” [WWD]

According to Diddy, Ivana Trump is allowed to copy him and request that all of her wedding guests wear white because “she’s family.” [Gatecrasher]

On the set of her new film, Brittany Murphy demands “diagonally cut peanut butter and jelly sandwiches with the crusts removed” every hour. [P6]

After a Houston waitress served a man his cup of coffee, he tipped her with a horse. [NYT]

Jennifer Lopez has been released from the hospital, twins in tow. [Us]

Actress Lucy Liu has been painting in preparation for her art opening in Munich on May 8. [WWD]

Denise Rich had dinner in St. Moritz the other night with her ex-husband Marc Rich; they sat at a table next to Ivana Trump and her fiancé, Rossano Rubicondi. [P6]

The Oscar party Madonna threw at her manager’s Westside Hills home was overflowing with major celebs like Tom Cruise, Katie Holmes, Owen Wilson, Ellen DeGeneres, Demi Moore and Cameron Diaz. [P6]

Paris Hilton is going to shoot a new reality show in which she pretends to search for a new best friend. [Us]

At a party in Paris on Sunday, Karl Lagerfeld said: “I live in my own little world, sketching and drawing. I’m told what to do every day.” [WWD]

Things really have gotten out of control over at TMZ.com. They’ve just posted a live streaming link at the departures curb at LAX. “Can we spot Best Actress winner Marion Cotillard before she jets back to France? Watch and find out.” Though it looks like the most exciting thing their cam will catch is a frustrated skycap flipping the bird to a bad tipper, something tells us that a sad chunk of people will actually follow the gossip blog’s advice and remain glued to the mundane comings and goings at the international hub. Oh…wait…is that Owen Wilson getting out of a white stretch Escalade? Gotta run!

“People get bored and wait too long,” explains Mr. Lindbergh of the spread’s concept. “Because the bad behavior fashion crowd, you know?” Perhaps surprisingly to some, Mr. Jacobs appears an extremely good sport in the video, gladly making fun of his own notoriously-tardy fashion shows. “This is a good way to kind of end it,” the fashion designer says. “Just have it documented as a spoof and be on to the next. I’m really amused by it. And fashion is such a circus, and shows are such a circus. I think for anybody who doesn’t know this—it’s insane what we all go through. So it makes good pictures.”

Plenty of leading ladies relied on the expert advice of their stylists to “play it safe” on the red carpet at last night’s Oscars. (During a brief interview, Jennifer Garner, who looked insanely chic in a black Oscar de la Renta ruffled gown, mentioned her beauty-bestie Rachel Zoe several times.) Sarah Larson, on the other hand, looked to blast-from-the-past actor George Clooney, her boyfriend of seven months, to ensure her ensemble was sufficiently wowable.

“I curled her hair,” Mr. Clooney deadpanned to Us of how he helped Ms. Larson prep for the big night. Contrary to comedian Kathy Griffin’s recent claims that only D-list celebs show up super early to red carpet events, the Best Actor nominee, who graces the cover of the current issue of Time, showed up two hours early, allowing the couple enough time to chat with every news outlet stationed along the publicity gauntlet set up outside L.A.’s Kodak Theater. Mr. Clooney, it seems, isn’t just a master coiffeur, he also bragged of being Ms. Larson’s “seamster.” (The brunette beauty wore a beaded, silver-and-pink Valentino gown to the awards show.) “The ironing of the beads works very well,” he added to the whisper weekly of his work on the frock. “I sewed all the beads back on myself.” Despite the apparent ease with which he completed Ms. Larson’s look, his plan for the rest of the evening, he said, was to “drink.”

Tilda Swinton, the 47-year old actress who picked up a Best Supporting Actress Oscar last night for her turn as a corporate lawyer in Michael Clayton, celebrated her win last night with the younger of her two lovers, the Daily Mail reports today. While 29-year-old artist Sandro Kopp looked on adoringly as Ms. Swinton got up to deliver her acceptance speech, 68-year-old John Byrne, the father of her ten-year-old twins, Xavier and Honor, was at the home the couple shares in Nairn, Scotland. Of her two-pronged love life, the ginger thespian with haunting green eyes said: “[Mr. Byrne and I] ostensibly live in the same house, but I travel the world with another delightful painter.”

All about actress Charlize Theron, who has “her feet firmly planted on the ground.” [T]

At Oscar parties, celebs like Sean Penn and Rocco DiSpirito showed up with new, attractive girlfriends. [P6]

On the red carpet this year, a lot of leading ladies played it safe. [NYT]

John Mayer left a star-studded party in L.A. because, as he put it, “people keep coming up to me and touching me and telling me I’m so cute.” [Rush&Malloy]

Academy Awards host Jon Stewart makes a funny about pregnant Angelina Jolie. [Us]

Bono, his wife Ali, their kids and model Helena Christensen tried to enjoy a quiet dinner at Serafina, but the paparazzi had other plans. [P6]

At a Beverly Hills book party for Celebutantes, guests included Tamara Mellon, Christian Slater, Dennis Hopper, Anjelica Huston and others. [WWD]

Omarosa Manigault-Stallworth, of The Apprentice fame, is “looking for love in all the Hollywood places.” [Gatecrasher]

Here is the late Baird Jones’ Web site, showcasing some of his celebrity art, like David Bowie’s Child in Belrin.

Chelsea Clinton for president? [NYM]

Christina Ricci is everywhere—from the cover of yesterday’s Page Six Magazine to the inside of today’s New York. [NYM]

Also: famous people steal photos from Getty! (Whereas we have to pay.) Wait a minute ... can we get in trouble for posting this shot with its Getty 'watermark'?