[GQ editor-in-chief Jim Nelson cozies up to January Jones, Jennifer Carpenter, and Sarah Silverman right before the comedian makes an indecent proposal at the GQ 'Men Of The Year' party in Hollywood last night. Image via Getty]

The Cinema Society and Details magazine hosted a screening of The Hangover last night at the Tribeca Grand, which was followed by an afterparty at the Soho Grand. Details editor Dan Peres, Cinema Society's Andrew Saffir, and Bradley Cooper and Justin Bartha, who both appear in the film, welcomed Rachel Roy, Amy Sacco (left), Nicole Miller, Will Arnett, Zach Braff, Gerard Butler, Molly Sims, Chris Meloni, Caroline Rhea, Alan Cumming, Shoshanna Lonstein Gruss, Albert Hammond Jr., Jill Hennessy, Jesse Eisenberg, Hilary Rhoda, Dan Abrams, Danny Masterson, Byrdie Bell, Kelly Bensimon, Rob and Marisol Thomas, Caroline Winberg, and Doutzen Kroes, Alexandra Richards, and Paula Abdul. [PMC, WWD, Wireimage, VF]

20/20 co-anchor John Stossel turns 62 today, which means that mustache of his has been planted on his face for close to four decades now. Comedian and recently-axed CNN host D.L. Hughley is turning 46. New York Philharmonic director Lorin Maazel is 79. Adolfo Carrion, Barack Obama's new director of the White House Office of Urban Affairs, is 48. Composer Stephen Schwartz is turning 61. Film director/producer Rob Reiner is 62. Disgraced Wall Streeter Ivan Boesky is 72. Gabriel García Márquez is 82. Shaquille O'Neal is turning 37. Tom Arnold is 50. And a hospitalized Ed McMahon turns 86 today. Weekend birthdays below!

♦ Amy Poehler and husband Will Arnett became parents for the first time on Saturday when Amy gave birth to a son, Archie. [Us]
♦ Madonna is in "meltdown mode," and asked her assistant to gather all the items she received from Guy Ritchie so she can "bury them." Guy, meanwhile, has reportedly said the couple's marriage began to disintegrate when she started planning their sex life around her workout schedule. [MSNBC, Daily Mail]
♦ Jennifer Hudson is offering a $100,000 reward for the return of her nephew, who went missing on Friday when her mother and brother were fatally shot. [People, Access Hollywood]
♦ Lindsay Lohan doesn't want people thinking she's a lesbian just because she's dating a girl. [NYDN]

Jim Nelson is the tight-suited, skinny-tied editor-in-chief of GQ.

Slate's Ron Rosenbaum takes the words right out of our collective mouth with his reaction today to the rollover trick GQ's editor Jim Nelson performed for Team Clinton last week: "Any editor with a backbone would say, 'Thank you, your crude effort to kill this story will be included in the story. Goodbye.' Instead, the editor killed the story. Profiles in courage!" [Slate]

The Clinton campaign is circling the wagons, according to Politico's Ben Smith. He reports that aides for the junior senator went head-to-head with GQ this summer over the magazine's plan to print a less than favorable portrait of the Clinton's camp. Threats were (allegedly!) made to pull President Clinton from the cover of the magazine's (allegedly!) best-selling December issue unless editor (and Jake Gyllenhall devotee) Jim Nelson dropped the piece. Like other top magazine editors, Nelson folded to the power um, "couple." No word yet on which particular skeletons were in jeopardy, but David Remnick better watch his step if he knows what's good for him.

It's true, as today's Page Six points out, that GQ editor Jim Nelson shouldn't have made remarks about "Asian whores" in his editor's letter. There are a very few types of whores these days who are acceptable as punchlines. The kinds of whores you are still totally allowed to make fun of include:

Sometimes we're shocked by our own naivet . Earlier, we innocently asked for tales of most egregious abuse of advertiser payola in media, using auto mags' practice of swapping parts for good reviews as example. We made light of car parts as acceptable trades for New York media payola, assuming the coin of this realm would be more along the lines of accessories, gift bags, dinner vouchers, or the occasional watch. Turns out the real dosh is entire cars (not just Lincolns), handed out as gratis loans to the upper editorial echelons at men's mags like, oh, we don't know, GQ:

Always a clutch player, the Observer comes through today with some winning coverage of the demise of Condé Nast's Cargo. While we don't learn too much more than what we already knew (denials that it had anything to do with Men's Vogue; Condé cockteased secured a loan for EIC Ariel Foxman to buy an apartment just last spring), there's some telling quotage from Foxman just hours after he was thrown out of his home.

Jim Nelson has been promoted to the position of Editor-in-Chief at GQ, and he promises he won't turn it into Maxim. "I'm super-psyched," he tells the Daily News. (I don't think GQ has to worry about anyone who uses the phrase "super-psyched" turning anything into Maxim.)
GQ names new Editor in Chief [NY Daily News]