1.  Gap founder Don Fisher wanted to give San Francisco a $100 million museum in the Presidio, but the people said no. [via SF Chronicle]
2. “Radiohead manager Brian Message has launched a new digital label, Polyphonic, which will allow artists to keep their copyright. [via NME]
3. An anti-smoking protester crashed the opening of Antony Gormley’s Plinth living art project in London’s Trafalgar Square. (video) [via BBC]
4. Sarah Jessica Parker’s production company has optioned Amy Sohn’s upcoming novel Prospect Park West in conjunction with HBO for a half-hour series. [via NYP]
5. Chris Brown and Amber Rose (Kanye West’s on-again-off-again ex) hooked up at Diddy’s infamous White Party; Brown arrived with another date. [via NYDN]

It’s almost as easy to fawn over Sarah Jessica Parker’s Dior Couture confection as it is to eviscerate Miley Cyrus for the wacky pageant dress that she undoubtedly donned in spite of her stylist’s best intentions. Every February, the same celebrities wearing the same designers receive the same accolades from the same publications.  We’ve read People gush about Nicole Kidman’s consistently blah beige dresses since we were old enough to follow the Oscars. The formula for wowing the tabloid fashion tribunal is simple: tulle, strapless, beige or red (actresses who make this color decision can expect to find themselves in identical two page spreads of “daring divas” or something equally inane in US Weekly, OK! and Life & Style).

We can’t be the only ones so bored that we wish Roberto Cavalli would finally go to prison for those tax fraud charges. But, every year, lost in a sea of Jennifers, Nicoles and Naomis, there are a handful dresses that make the mind-numbing parade of Harry Winston drop earrings and beaded bodices almost worth it.  We’d like to pay tribute to those dresses here, even if said wearers do land on People‘s worst-dressed list.

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Books: Britain’s future Poet Laureate thinks the job should be abolished.
Dance/Opera: The New Yorker insinuates that some ballerinas are sluts.
Design: Christoph Niemann Legos all things N.Y. — even the Gowanus Canal.
Film: One extra large victory for Mo’Nique.
Music: What’s behind the commercial force that is Franz Ferdinand? No, really.
Television: Do we care about Sarah Jessica Parker’s ancestral history? How about Susan Sarandon’s? Well NBC certainly hopes so.
Theatre: Jude Law as Hamlet makes us giggle.
Visual Arts: In defense of Shepard Fairey’s use of “appropriated imagery.”
Web: Celebrate Black History Month with free indie movies from Hulu YouTube!

There is no better way to spend the final moments of your Halloween work day than looking at the pictures we’ve rounded up of SARAH JESSICA PARKER, JOHN TRAVOLTA, CLORIS LEACHMAN, LEIGHTON MEISTER, WOODY ALLEN, KANYE WEST, LEONARDO DICAPRIO, MADONNA, TOM CRUISE. MICHAEL JACKSON and MARY-KATE OLSEN after the jump. Unless your boss is letting you leave early.

Let us know which celebrity you think looks the most haunted in the comments.

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