Cityfile: New York's Most Notable and Influential

• Laura Bush either received $1.5 million for her memoir or $3.5-5 million, depending on who you believe. Either way, it's a lot less than Hillary Clinton's $8 million advance for Living History. [NYP, WSJ]
• Chris Matthews is not running for Senate, according to his brother. [P'ticker]
• A new buyer has emerged for TV Guide. The movie studio Lionsgate is picking up the cable network and website for $255 million. [AP]
• Senior Village Voice staffers are taking 10-15 percent pay cuts. [DW]
• Another reason kids can't find Iraq on a map: Foreign-related news coverage by the three major networks fell to a record low during 2008. [IPS]
• Those ads on the front-page of the Times run $75K on weekdays. [NYP]
• Ogilvy & Mather is cutting 10 percent of its staff today. [AdAge]
• CBS's Lara Logan gave birth to a son. [FBDC]

♦  Jennifer Aniston is finally speaking out about her breakup with Brad Pitt. In the December issue of Vogue, she says what Angelina Jolie did was "really uncool," and that she had no idea that Brad had cheated on her until she read about it afterwards. [MSNBC, NYP]
♦  The security guard who roughed-up Brad Pitt at the premiere of his own movie on Monday night says he was only trying to protect Brad by helping him get away from a pack of aggressive photographers. [ET, NYP]
♦  Madonna is supposedly considering a career as a movie director so she can "rival" her ex, Guy Ritchie, at least according to her nutty brother Christopher Ciccone. She should have more time to pursue a directing career if she chooses to: Officials in Malawi have said she can "forget" about adopting another baby as long as she plans to bring it into a "broken home." [The Sun, MSNBC]
♦  Billy Ray Cyrus says he is trying to get Malia and Sasha Obama to appear in an episode of Hannah Montana. [NYDN]More

♦  Former Lehman CFO Erin Callan has gone into contract on an apartment at 40 East 66th Street, one month after cashing out at 15 CPW. The Credit Suisse exec is reportedly paying between $7.5 and $8 million for the three-bedroom condo. [NYP]
♦  Tommy Hilfiger has found a new apartment to rent. (His Plaza apartment remains on the market for $50 million.) The fashion mogul is reportedly paying $50,000 a month for a five-bedroom spread at 807 Park Avenue, inside the converted townhouse that was owned by Diddy until 2004. [NYP]
♦  A week ago, we reported Bella Sapir had closed on a new penthouse at 250 East 53rd Street for $8.895 million. Now the Post reports she's already trying to flip the place for a profit. She's relisted the 4,500-square-foot spread for $13.5 million with Corcoran's Angela Rapoport. [NYP, Corcoran]  More

♦  Howard Stern and Beth Ostrosky are getting married tonight. Mark Consuelos, the husband of Kelly Ripa, is presiding over the ceremony. So if you have no plans and you'd like to see this bizarre menagerie of people for yourself, please show up at Le Cirque on East 58th Street.  [P6]
♦  Despite rumors, Elisabeth Hasselbeck says she has no plans to leave the View for Fox News. [E!, People]
♦  Madonna and Alex Rodriguez may have had dinner together, although both of their reps deny it. [P6]
♦  Mark Ronson and Amy Winehouse are working together on a new song. Hopefully it'll turn out better than their last attempt at a collaboration, which "ended in tears." [Mirror]More

• Barack Obama, who had a secret sit-down with Roger Ailes three months ago, will appear on The O'Reilly Factor on Thursday night. [WaPo, The Caucus]
• WSJ, the glossy luxury mag brought to you by the Wall Street Journal, was unveiled to the press this morning. [BusinessWeek]
• New York Sun interns have to wear suits to the office. And no jeans on weekends, please! [Gawker]
• The Observer chats with Ben Goldhirsh, the guy behind the do-good mag called GOOD. [NYO]
• Lara Logan talks about her time in Iraq but not so much about her messy personal life. [Men's Vogue]
• Is Time Out New York having financial issues? [Gawker]

• Billionaire mogul Bruce Wasserstein is leaving his youthful, second wife Claude for an even more youthful "Asian beauty," whom he has been introducing to friends as his girlfriend. According to the Daily News, this practice of old, white men stepping out with younger Asian chicks might just be a trend! [Rush & Molloy]
• Lenny Kravitz isn't happy he got dragged into the A-Rod/C-Rod mess, and now blames his ex-manager Guy Oseary for the debacle. [Page Six] 
• The list of women who say they've slept with Alex Rodriguez is growing. A Boston stripper named Candace Houlihan claims she broke the curse for the Red Sox by distracting A-Rod before an important game in 2004, and "fitness model" Alicia Marie says she and Alex spent time in her apartment, although they were just "close friends." [NYDN]

• Raffaello Follieri will miss the monster 30th birthday bash he planned for himself in Capri this weekend, which he'd hoped would reunite him with Anne Hathaway. Instead, he'll probably spend the big day in jail unless, that is, he magically comes up with $21 million in bail money in the next 24 hours. [NYDN]
• CBS correspondent Lara Logan had a wild time during her stint in Baghdad. She allegedly had a one-night stand with a CNN correspondent and seduced a married civilian contractor. CBS is now moving her to Washington where she might (or might not) get into more trouble. [NYP]
• Peter Cook threw a birthday party for his daughter Sailor yesterday. The party was held a week early because her birthday falls on the same day that his divorce trial with Christie Brinkley begins. [NYDN] 
• Naomi Campbell pissed off Nelson Mandela by wearing a hat with his charity's logo on it when she was being arrested back in April. Now her invitation to appear onstage with Mandela at his birthday concert has been yanked. [NYDN] 
• Madonna and Guy Ritchie left the kiddies at home for a romantic getaway in Milan last week, but they slept in separate rooms, which can't be a good sign. [The Sun]