Last night kicked off Access Hollywood's four-part interview series with Barack Obama, wife Michelle, and daughters Malia and Sasha. Not only was it more evidence that Obama is now a big contributor to the celebrity news cycle, but it was a rare opportunity where the presidential hopeful allowed his daughters to be hit on by the press. Maria Menounos was with the family in Butte, Montana, where they were celebrating July 4th and Malia’s 10th birthday.

And it will be the absolute last time anyone gets access to his kids.

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• Inappropriately aroused? Just try imagining Mary-Kate Olsen naked. Wearing nothing but jewelry. On a cold day.

• Madonna purchases a dick-in-a-box while her neutered husband looks on sheepishly.

• We're sorry, Maria Menounos, did our pin get in the way of your ass? Do us a favor and lose five pounds IMMEDIATELY or get out of our building, like now! Get out!

• Hills hanger-on Audrina Patridge defends her asshat of a boyfriend Justin Bobby, explaining he "had a hard time" with kissing her on camera. Fortunately, he had less of a hard time ditching her completely, leaving her stranded at Brody Jenner's party and taking off with some other chick straddling his Harley.

• The Daily Mail has trouble discerning whether a tear-stricken Sharon Osbourne is crying over her talentless daughter or her pneumonia-stricken pooch.

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• The new CW attacks MySpace with ads. Oh ye advertisers of way too much faith. [TV Week]

• Was the People, National Enquirer, Us Weekly catfight not enough to getchya all riled up? Well, we promise, this one will leave you pretty sticky. [Star]

• The only reason to give Paris Hilton money to come on your show is if she promises cry because somebody called her a fart in a mitten. [Scoop]

• Doesn't the Internet have any thing more sexy and exciting to offer? Like "rock star seeing socialite" or "Long Island wannabe seeking dirty old rich guy?" [VV]

• Not satisfied with the complete and utter takeover of Hollywood, Harvey Weinstein ventures into television, attempting to bring culture and class back to a completely whored out medium. Good fuckin' luck dude. Does he know the Carter family has their own reality series? [NYP]

• Vogue's Anna Wintour is claiming responsibility for the death of Variety spin off V Life. When the "trade" publication put Gwyneth Paltrow on its cover at the same time she popped up on Vogue, the edtrix made more than one angry phone call over the actress' saturation. So when the title announced February would be it's last issue, Wintour's ego celebrated. [Radar]

• Tony Danza's daytime chat fest has been signed for the 2006-07 season, but WABC is dropping his obnoxious tone for another: Rachel Ray. [NYP]

• Teen People killed its story of Olsen twin look-a-like white supremecists Lamb and Lynx Gaede after a "junior employee" signed a deal not to use the words "Nazi," supremacist" and "hate" in the copy. [NYP]

• Katie Couric isn't the only one worried about rising babes in network news. Jill Rappaport is reportedly exiting, to be replaced by Matt Lauer's ex-squeeze and video game vixen Maria Menounos. [Page Six]

• In shocking news, magazine editors will be spending their Thanksgivings .. eating .. with family! [WWD]

• Jann Wenner's gift to his staffers: A chance to see U2 for $369. Too bad Jann is friends with the band and could just have easily scored free tix if he actually meant well this holiday. [R&M]

• Nick Denton threatens to shutter a blog — and the blogosphere cries. [Blog Herald]

• Judith Miller will be able to buy friends with her $3 million severance package, but she needn't spend a penny to get some loving from the Observer. [NYO]

• When Ann Curry isn't bringing you toned down versions of the rest of the world, she's pissing off her neighbors. Meanwhile, ex-Entertainment Tonight host Maria Menounos is headed to the Today show to make it "more hip."

• Lachlan Murdoch is getting a giddy-up on his own plans for a media empire, having registered the new Australian company Illyria just three days after announcing he was leaving the News Corp. empire.

• The Washington Post named in-housers Roxanne Roberts and Amy Argetsinger as its new Reliable Source scribes, which should finally put to rest any rumors of Wonkette's Ana Marie Cox taking over Richard Leiby's byline.

• We're not the only ones concerned over Brandon Holley's coming editorship at Jane — the Wall Street Journal has its quibbles too. As in, for instance, should the mag be renamed Brandon? Probably not, as we don't need today's teens struggling with gender identity any more than they already do.

• It's not just Jason Binn launching new luxury lifestyle publications. And, he's hoping, we're the only ones who care.

• MSNBC's Joe Scarborough has a choice to make, and it's between renewing his contract with Rick Kaplan or submitting a bid to run for a Senate seat.

• FishbowlDC blogger Garrett Graff is joining the staff of Washingtonian magazine as an editor-at-large. Not that we're totally ignorant to the bloggers-joining-magazines craze or anything.