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Zac Posen at the 2009 Fashion Scholarship Dinner in NYC (Getty)

Following this assortment of carefully-selected news items, interested readers can find a refreshing pic of a hot man in underwear after the jump. Yes, we're serious.

• Out designer Zac Posen showed up at the Geoffrey Keene Fashion Scholarship Dinner last night, and tonight he'll also make an appearance on a brand new Ugly Betty. It takes a special man to pull off wearing a beret, but Zac rocks the hell out of it.

• Variety asked ten top industry people to name the best films of 2008, and out producer/director Paris Barclay chose that other Brad Pitt movie.

• Milk keeps racking up the awards and noms. Today it received a Directors Guild Award nomination for out Gus Van Sant. This bodes very well for Gus's chances when the Oscar nominations are announced on January 22nd.

• Above you can see Kathy Griffin being interviewed by Jimmy Kimmel about the New Year's Eve "incident" with Anderson Cooper. She insists she didn't know her mic was on when she had some ... colorful ... comments for a few hecklers.

• Out rock legend Bob Mould is teaming up with author Michael Azzerad to write Bob's autobiography. In addition to leading the influential alt bands Husker Du and Sugar, Bob also spent time as a scriptwriter for World Championship Wrestling. Seriously.

• Gawker has a clip from yesterday's Oprah Winfrey Show in which the daytime diva looks fairly stunned when a minister tells a guest that being gay is "a gift from God".

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