By Douglas Holtz-Eakin
The young drop coverage to avoid higher premiums
Jenny McCarthy may have made a home in the Chicago suburbs, but the 40-year-old mom of a 10-year-old son hasn't lost her goofy, party girl-persona.
There's no media entity more pleased to be called an empire than Nerdist, the online factory of earnest pop culture enthusiasm.
Jenny McCarthy says she's looking to Hugh Hefner's old "Playboy After Dark" as an inspiration for her new talk show.

Yes, Ryan Seacrest has a New Year's resolution for 2013: improve his dancing skills.
Yes, Ryan Seacrest has a New Year's resolution for 2013: improve his skill at dancing.
Yes, Ryan Seacrest has a New Year's resolution for 2013: improve his skill at dancing.
ABC is turning its first New Year's Eve without Dick Clark in four decades partly into a celebration of the showbiz impresario's life.

Justin Bieber may be Canadian, but he was the all-American boy at Sunday night's American Music Awards.
Justin Bieber may be Canadian, but he was the all-American boy at Sunday night's American Music Awards.
America proved its Bieber Fever was strong: The teen singer dominated the American Music Awards on Sunday night.
Justin Bieber and Nicki Minaj performed together _ and separately _ at the American Music Awards. They both were also double winners.

We help celebrate Jim Carrey's birthday with a reminder of his best films.
It's raining music artists _ and just raining _ outside the American Music Awards.

Instability, even unrest. Major changes at the top. Uncertainty for the future.

This week more shame was heaped upon the discredited British researcher whose work gave rise to the childhood-vaccines-cause-autism movement, as a prominent medical journal published a report that the man had faked his data. But will it make a difference?
"There was a problem with studios how to write for me," McCarthy said. "It's a complex kind of character I am because I'm built like a bunny but I talk like a dude."
McCarthy decided to move back to Chicago last May after realizing her son's life in Los Angeles wouldn't be the same as her childhood, she said.