In an effort to get the celebs into their seats (1) they've closed the bars, which generally are free flowing before and during the show and (2) security people are yelling, "take your seats." The lobby, which is usually filled with celebs right before the start, is a ghost town -- they've really ushered everyone inside. There's a guy on the stage thanking everyone for helping out with the production. He just called out director Taylor Hackford and told him to sit down. He then asked if Hackford's Oscar-winning wife Helen Mirren was here, adding to Hackford, "She's not the queen tonight." In the midst of telling nominees how to wrap up their three-minute speeches, he then told everyone, "Ladies and gentlemen, the great Tony Bennett," who got tremendous applause. Time for the show!

More (or less) baby news.

The cover of OK! announces across a photograph of a smiling Jennifer Aniston, "At last... A baby for Jen!"

The magazine even quotes a "friend" of Aniston saying, "Jen has been thinking of adopting for a while," adding that "after seeing Sheryl [Crow] and her son Wyatt together, Jen didn't know why she was still waiting."

In fact, according to an OK! source, "The [adoption] process has 100 percent started." Ideally, she would "love a boy," further reports the magazine.

"K-Fed's gonna be a dad again," screamed a headline across the venerable gossipeuse Cindy Adams' column.

And the mother of his supposed fifth spawn is none other than Shar Jackson, the baby mama of his first two tots. According to Adams, who was tipped off by Star magazine, Federline's on-and-off "romance with Shar Jackson seems to have produced yet another baby between them.

She's into her seventh week." This is shocking news to all, including Federline and Jackson.

Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen, veterans of such thrillers as "The Adventures of Mary-Kate & Ashley: The Case of the Sea World Adventure" and the equally suspenseful, "The Adventures of Mary-Kate & Ashley: The Case of the Fun House" may "become the first ever twin Bond girls in the next 007 movie," according to British newspaper The Sun.

TMZ.com is calling into question whether or not Eddie Griffin’s widely-reported crash of Daniel Sadek's Ferrari Enzo last night (at a promotional event for Sadek's new film, "Redline") could’ve been a hoax.

And “Redline's” film publicist, Wendy Zocks, came to Access Hollywood to display her dismay with TMZ’s suggestion.

“This was an accident ….. We couldn’t even talk to Daniel or Eddie for 30 minutes afterwards because they were so shaken up,” Zocks tells GossipCop.

Sometimes, comedians find humor in things... We’re just sayin’!

Plus, what actor would put themselves at this kind of risk for injury?

Trust GossipCop, Daniel Sadek's not laughing over the loss of a rare $1.5 million car.

Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes are having a boy, reported TMZ.com.

Yep, the Web site said they were "seen at Hollywood's Petit Tresor - an exclusive shop popular with celebrity parents - and asked to look at themes for a boy's nursery."

And incredibly enough, TMZ had a source right there who "overheard Tom and Katie saying, 'We want to be prepared for a baby boy.'" Can you believe it? Wow! Plus, TMZ found out that the "estimated cost of the eggshell blue-themed baby nursery is $45,000" and that it "includes a custom-made blue and white antique crib, blue bedding and blue walls with floating clouds."

You can only imagine the big smile that came across GossipCop's face -- when he found out TMZ was dead wrong.

By Michael Lewittes

7:33 - Peter O'Toole is by the bar, but not drinking. I asked him about the pillows he stole under his sweater from the Vanity Fair party on Thursday. He said, "I didn't think anyone noticed."

Sacha Baron Cohen, Isla Fisher and Cohen's parents clicked glasses at the bar and the family said, "L'Chayim" (to a happy and healthy life). Cohen's father said it was a weird category for him to be nominated in.

6:45 - He smiled and laughed. Eddie and Tracey are holding hands.

6:44 - Eddie's on his cell by the bar with Tracey Edmonds and Harvey Weinstein.

5:51 - And the Oscars goes to? Wasn't Nicole supposed to say, "And the winner is..."

5:26 - The nominees -- 177 of them -- just practiced standing up. It's going to be part of the opening. They're all going to be asked to stand.

5:11 - Steven Spielberg is in a deep conversation with Djimon Honsou as the director's wife Kate Capshaw, is in the ladies room.

Meanwhile, Sacha Baron Cohen has parked himself with his fiancee at the end of the second floor by the bar. They've been surrounded by people, including Kirsten Dunst for the past 20 minutes. Now, with drink in hand, he rushed down the stairs to take his seat, which is precisely what I need to do.

4:46 - She was just convinced by an escort her to take her seat. She's visibly nervous, practically having a hard time breathing.

At the closed bar, Jennifer Lopez was just handed a glass of champagne.

Imagine a conversation between Jennifer Aniston and Courteney Cox in which Aniston told her friend "about her fears that she’d never have a child of her own," as reported exclusively by Life & Style magazine.

And imagine hearing Aniston talk about how she "was depressed and feeling sorry for herself," also recounted by a Life & Style source. Then imagine, Cox telling Aniston, "Snap out of it! If you want a baby that badly, adopt. It worked for your ex-husband’s girlfriend!’"

Finally, imagine Aniston "reasoning with herself that if Angelina Jolie could pull it off, why couldn’t she?”

T.R. Knight, who plays Dr. George O'Malley on "Grey's Anatomy," is not hanging up his scrubs.

Despite the wildfire on the Web, sparked by an MSNBC.com post, claiming he's quitting the hit drama, Knight is going nowhere.

According to the MSNBC.com story, after Isaiah Washington's homophobic comment on the set -- and later denial -- Knight became "'so upset about the situation and so disgusted by how it was all handled,' that he's planning to leave the show, says a source."

Despite the National Enquirer's report a couple of months ago that "Christie Brinkley is ready to offer her cheating husband a staggering $25 million -- to go away!" GossipCop has learned that the tabloid's story is "bull---t," according to a source close to the case.

Contrary to the National Enquirer reiterating, Brinkley's "ready to pony up $25 million to get Peter out of her life once and for all!" GossipCop was further told that Cook, who had an affair with his teenaged former assistant, Diana Bianchi, wasn't going to get "anything close to" that totally fabricated figure.

Yesterday, Brinkley and Peter Cook, who have a prenuptial agreement, faced off in a Long Island, New York court for five hours wrangling over several issues involving their children, eight-year-old Sailor and 11-year-old Jack.