AP - The Academy Awards are doubling the number of best-picture nominees from five to 10.

AP - "Seinfeld" star Jason Alexander told a crowd in Jerusalem Wednesday that the search for an Israeli-Palestinian solution and the "show about nothing" that launched him to fame have one thing in common — neither seemed destined to succeed.

AP - "The View" co-host Elisabeth Hasselbeck says a claim that she plagiarized parts of her best-selling diet book is "without merit."

E! Online - This was certainly not what these aspiring actresses expected when they dropped by for an audition.

E! Online - Selena Gomez is taking on a new role: matchmaker!

E! Online - Remember how, when the Jonas Brothers' movie underperformed a few months back, everyone was shouting about it being the end of the sibling squad's career.

AP - "Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen" introduces some 40 new mechanized characters of all shapes, sizes and even sexes — but it's a pair of jive-talking 'bots that critics are singling out as more than just harmless comic relief.

AP - The Academy Awards are doubling the number of best-picture nominees from five to 10.

AP - Former Vice President Dick Cheney has signed a book deal with a conservative imprint of Simon & Schuster and said he hopes readers of all ideologies will be interested in his story. The memoir by Cheney, widely considered the most powerful vice president in history, is expected to be published in Spring 2011, a few months after President George W. Bush's book comes out.

Fashion Wire Daily - Leave it to Miuccia Prada to come up with some properly new fashion in a Milan men's fashion season where the overriding impression is of designers tweaking their own previous body of work.

AP - Phil Spector is hoping to get a few comforts of home in his new prison cell, and a television, iPod and computer access are at the top of his list.

AP - While Jon and Kate Gosselin begin to sort out the pieces of their broken marriage, "Jon & Kate Plus 8" is merely taking a break.