Former IMF head Dominique Strauss-Kahn probably had one of the worst 2011s in media, with the story of his alleged illegal indiscretions subsequently fizzling out after a dramatic arrest in New York. Now the tale may be showing up on the big screen, as reports surface that director Abel Ferrara is considering Gerard Depardieu for the role.

Michele Bachmann has taken from Sarah Palin an honor we hoped would be retired when Palin’s stylist won a reality show of her own, but apparently is still an issue of interest: the coveted Most Requested Hairdo of the Election Cycle. The New York Daily News reports today that stylists have been receiving more and more requests for Bachmann’s soft auburn ‘do. Having been amped up recently, as her election gains speed, the look “is safe, but not soccer mom. It’s sexy,” said one stylist.

Remember that “Ivy League” educated commuter who unloaded an f-bomb tirade on a Metro-North commuter rail line conductor? Well, she’s pretty upset with the internet for, you know, making her look bad. The New York Daily News reports Hermon Raju has hired a PR firm for some “crisis management,” and in her letter to the pros, she says “the public only knows the two minutes of my dispute that were shown on the video that went viral,” saying there’s plenty more to the story. “I can honestly say I feel raped by the internet.”

The New York Daily News reports an Alabama congressman, Mo Brooks, is in hot water after an interview he gave to an Alabama television station where he suggested undocumented immigrants “have no right to be here,” and vowed to “do anything short of shooting them.” Brooks, a Republican, argued that undocumented immigrants “(clog) up our emergency rooms and (make) our education system more expensive.” He went on to explain what he’d do about it: “As your congressman on the House floor, I’ll do anything short of shooting them,” he recounted. “Anything that is lawful, it needs to be done because illegal aliens need to quit taking jobs from American citizens.”

The guy clearly felt he was on a roll. Not only did he get to have some quality time with his wife despite his being held as an inmate in a Mexican jail, but the suitcase that his wife brought along to the conjugal visit? He totally fit inside! Bonus! Turns out, though, Juan Ramirez Tijerina‘s luck was only going to last so long, and that didn’t include successfully escaping the prison in Chetumal, in the Mexican state of Quintana Roo. A wise prison officer unzipped the bag, and, as they say in Mexico, the jig was up.

Rep. Anthony Weiner: serial sexter, compulsive liar, DMV delinquent? The New York Daily News photographed the likely-soon-to-be-ex-Congressman’s Nissan Pathfinder and discovered that his registration sticker was expired, and further investigation with the Department of Motor Vehicles found that the license plate he had been using belonged on an old Honda– and the Nissan’s license plates are nowhere to be found.

In the immediately aftermath of Rep. Anthony Weiner’s surreal news conference in New York Monday, thoughts drifted to New York’s legendary tabloids, and how the story would play out on Tuesday’s front pages of the New York Post and the New York Daily News. We’ve seen the covers, and both papers wisely moved past “weiner” jokes, but only one produced wood worthy of induction into the Hall of Fame. The Post played it oddly safe with NAKED TRUTH. Meh. But the Daily News found a classic New York way of boiling down the content of Weiner’s epic news conference–at least in the minds of New Yorkers: YEAH, I’M A SCHMUCK.

A voice to add to the chorus calling on Rep. Anthony Weiner to take cyber security–and the alleged hacking a Congressman’s Twitter account–seriously? Anthony Weiner. The archives of the New York Daily News serve up a bland policy statement Weiner made in 2009 that suddenly seems newsworthy: “”Cyber attacks–both foreign and domestic–are real and demand immediate action,” Weiner said almost exactly two years ago. This would seem to conflict with the Rep. Weiner who met reporters Tuesday, who described what he says was the “hacking” of his Twitter account as a “distraction” and a “prank.”

You know how it goes. You get stuck babysitting your little cousin, and the kid starts to bug you, and you’ve got a million zillion things you’d rather be doing, right? Autumn Braden was so there on Sunday as she got increasingly bored taking care of her two-year-old cousin. And that’s how the two year old girl ended up on eBay in a post labeled “Kid for Sale.” Starting bid? $1,000. As the New York Daily News reports:

The New York Daily News, among many, is not exactly impressed with the pseudo-candidacy of real estate person Donald Trump, and today made it abundantly clear with a cover calling the mogul a “birther” and “racist” and an accompanying story entitled “Mickey Mouse Donald.” On tonight’s Factor, Bill O’Reilly took publisher Mort Zuckerman to task over the racist allegations, which Zuckerman argued were legitimate stemming from Trump’s birther obsession.

In the wake of the Osama bin Laden killing, there has been some ugly debate over credit for vanquishing the terrorist leader, which has, in turn, revived some bitter Bush-era battles. On Thursday night’s The Ed Show, host Ed Schultz ran down a list of reasons not to credit the Bush administration for bin Laden’s [...]

The Donald’s not even running yet, but he’s already losing support at home in New York.

New York gay activist Allen Roskoff, who co-authored the nation’s first gay rights bill in the 1970s, says recent comments by Donald Trump to the Des Moines Register about gay marriage have left Roskoff pondering a boycott of Trump’s businesses.

“He’s crossed the Rubicon,” Roskoff tells the New York Daily News. “It’s unconscionable that he could exist in New York City.”

Fresh off an epic day of nearly nonstop interviews, Charlie Sheen again gets ten minutes of airtime on NBC’s TODAY, in which he’s asked by Jeff Rossen to, essentially, explain his behavior in all those interviews. “He’s saying warlock, he’s saying he has tiger’s blood, but when you watch yourself saying that, what do you say to yourself?” Sheen’s response? “Did they expect it to be a normal interview?”

C’mon, Facebook, do us all a solid and tell Christine O’Donnell to take the invitation from ABC and become a contestant on Dancing With The Stars. Just look at the brilliant photo illustration from today’s New York Daily News and tell me you don’t want this as much as we do. What’s even more tempting, the Daily News reports, is O’Donnell’s own assurance–posted to her Facebook page–that’s she’s a lousy dancer:

It’s a fine line between highlighting a story, and enjoying it. At least, that’s how New York Daily News TV Editor Richard Huff sees it after watching WCBS-TV’s coverage of this week’s ice storm. The station, CBS’ owned-and-operated flagship, set up a camera near an icy patch of sidewalk and watched (and recorded) as person after person slipped on the ice and fell. “Is it fair –or even human–to stand nearby, let folks walk into a video trap, and then put them on the air?”

Father Alberto Cutié– Miami’s most popular formerly Catholic priest– is heading back to his TV roots, this time in English. Fox television is giving Father Albert, a life advice talk show, a shot, nearly two years since Cutie controversially left the priesthood (and, subsequently, his talk show host status on Telemundo) to start a family.

Earlier tonight, now-former Countdown host Keith Olbermann sent his first tweet since his departure from MSNBC’s airwaves Friday. The subject? To announce that he would be sending his first post-Countdown tweet at 8pm Eastern time. The strange announcement is probably a humorous tweak at the speculation that ensued following an innocuous update to his Twitter profile on Saturday.

Find out what Olbermann had to say in his (technically second) post-Countdown tweet after the jump.

Since joining Twitter early last year, now-former Countdown host Keith Olbermann has become one of the platform’s most loquacious users, tweeting more frequently than a meth-tweaked canary. All of that came to an abrupt end in the hour before his Friday announcement that he, and his show, were leaving MSNBC.

Saturday night, though, Olbermann-watchers saw the first sign of post-Countdown life from his Twitter feed: an update to his profile which read “WATCHTHISSPACE MLB.com Baseball Nerd blog returns 2/14.”

From the Northeast to the Northwest, the country is cleaning up and dealing with snow today. Florida is the lone exception, as it remains snow-free. Concerns over nasty commutes and dangerous roads have people worried, and newspaper editorials this morning captured the fear, anger, and good will that Americans are experiencing in the face of the [...]

The new-look CBS Early Show has one week under its belt, and the show’s executive producer David Friedman likes what he sees. “I’m extremely happy,” Friedman tells the New York Daily News‘ Richard Huff.

Friedman say his new morning team of Chris Wragge, Erica Hill, Marysol Castro and Jeff Glor have changed the energy of CBS’s last-placed wakeup show:

Was it just a mis-typed tweet? On Sarah Palin’s Alaska Sunday, Sarah Palin mentioned the dustup over her use of the made-up word “refudiate,” telling husband Todd she’d merely made a typo while sending a Twitter message on her Blackberry.

But the New York Daily News calls foul, noting that prior to that tweet, Palin had used the word in an appearance on the Fox News show Hannity:

If you’re the 19-year-old kid who unknowing helped select the location for the Muslim community center near Ground Zero, life is probably a bit awkward right now, what with the wall-to-wall attention your job performance has drawn. Life is probably a tad more awkward, however, for the reporter breaking the kid’s story. On the one hand, you’ve got a national controversy. On the other hand, we’re talking about a kid here. Props, then, go to NY Daily News writer Michael Daly for his handling of the awkward revelation.

Steven Slater, the Jet Blue flight attendant who lived out the dreams of every worker frustrated with their job (and probably most people frustrated with the state of flying in this country) with his dramatic, expletive-laden exit “not only from the plane but, one imagines, also from his airline career,” has landed on the cover of all the major New York City papers.

The New York Daily News is reporting that Rush Limbaugh, who is getting married for the fourth time today, has enlisted the music services of Sir Elton John for the festivities, and John agreed. Has no one told Limbaugh about Elton John’s, um, that he’s, you know?

Today in local newsmen: New York newsman Vince DeMentri was relieved of his duties at WPIX Channel 11 yesterday in relation to an incident days before where DeMentri slapped a chauffeur in a fight over a parking space. DeMentri’s lawyer has called the accusation a sham (despite the chauffeur sporting a bloody lip) and plans to sue the station.