How do you get your feature directorial debut baptized by one of the industry's Godfathers? Be Drew Barrymore. Steven Spielberg came to support actress/director/God-daughter Barrymore's "Whip It" at the film's Tuesday premiere at Grauman's Chinese. (Pictured with film's star Ellen Page at left, courtesy of Getty Images) The film started slowly this weekend with $4.9 million.

Audrina Patridge looked ready to step in to the pit crew for NASCAR star Jeff Gordon’s blue “Pepsi” car during a party pit stop in Hollywood on Wednesday night. The 24 year old starlet saddled up next to the NASCAR champ’s “#24 Chevrolet” sporting his team colors perfectly. (Picture below courtesy of Alex Wyman/Wireimage ).

Unless you work in a bank or the courthouse, chances are you're reading this at work on Columbus Day Monday. Many of the town’s boldfacers still treated it like a three-day weekend and hit the town for a full slate of events.

Justin Timberlake capped a week of golf centered fundraising for Shriner’s Hospital for Children with a blowout benefit concert “with friends” at the Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas on Saturday night. His amigos Alicia Keys, Snoop Dogg, Ciara and Taylor Swift all performed surprise sets at the three-hour Timberlake-apalooza.

In a sea of Renee Zellweger, Katie Holmes, Julianne Moore, Julie Andrews and other leading ladies at Elle magazine’s 16th annual “Women in Hollywood” tribute last Monday, the few lucky men in the room tend to stand out.

Despite a tidal wave of famous U2 fans backstage at the Rose Bowl on Sunday night -- stars like Barbara Streisand, Ben Stiller, Pierce Brosnan, Irish confederates like Colin Farrell, and even suits like Tom Freston and Joel Silver -- it seemed none of the stars took Monday night off to recover.