• The cover of Vanity Fair's February issue will likely turn plenty of heads: It features a barechested Tiger Woods pumping iron. The photo by Annie Leibovitz was taken before the Woods sex scandal unfolded, however. [VF]
• Is New York Post editor Col Allan retiring? That's the rumor, although Allan says it's just "wishful thinking" on the part of the Daily News. [NYM, Politico]
• Cable spats: Fox and Time Warner reached a deal in their dispute on Friday. But Cablevision customers are still without the Food Network and HGTV.
• Dick Clark has clearly seen better days, but ABC's NYE telecast was No. 1 on Thursday night. NBC's Carson Daly-hosted program came in No. 2. [Variety]
• Disgraced ex-Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich will be one of the "stars" on the next season of Celebrity Apprentice, you'll be thrilled to hear. [UPI]
• Ten years after he presided over the merger of Time Warner and AOL, Jerry Levin now says it was all a big mistake and he's really, really sorry. [THR]
• Good news! The ad market for newspapers, magazines is looking up. [WSJ]
• Arianna Huffington and Glamour's Cindi Leive plan to sleep a lot in '10. [HP]
• Avatar was once again No. 1 at the box office this weekend. The film has now grossed more than $1 billion around the world since it was released. [THR]

Sharper Image chairman and former CEO Jerry Levin resigned today, just short of two months after the company declared bankruptcy. Not satisfied with just how far he's helped run the icon of '80s yuppie excess into the ground, Levin reports that he and some investor buddies will buy some or all of the company's assets. If you're lucky enough to be one of Levin's friends, you can probably count on a massage chair or three this holiday season.

"This was not a story about Jerry and Barb Levin," says Architectural Digest Editor Paige Rense on the March story that features the home of the newly and somewhat acrimoniously separated couple. "It is a story about a beautiful home that was decorated by Barbara Levin, who is a former interior designer. I would have done the story no matter who she was married to." [Ed. note*cough* bullshit *cough*]
Magazine editor's bête noire: news trumps story in the works [NYT]

Jerry Levin and Bob Pittman are included in Business Week's 2002 list of "Worst Managers." Exiled TW veterans everywhere are gleefully snickering into their charity gala Cristal.
Media execs head list of worst managers [Yahoo via IWantMedia]

I hadn't realized Tina Brown — former editor of the New Yorker and Talk — had started her New York...