Over Coffee ...this morning I'm looking over a winter wonderland. Just enough snow to make everything look beautiful and promises of a 40-degree Friday to melt it all away.

Good thing soccer superstar David Beckham makes all that money. He bought each Spice Girl a diamond bracelet to celebrate the start of their tour. His wife, Posh, said: "My husband, when he married me, married all the Spice Girls, and he has to look after us all."

Writers and producers are still talking in L.A., which is a good sign.

Kevin Spacey will co-host next week's Nobel Peace Prize concert because Tommy Lee Jones was forced to withdraw for undisclosed personal reasons. Spacey will join Uma Thurman in hosting the Dec. 11 concert held in honor of this year's Nobel peace laureates, former Vice President Al Gore and representatives from the U.N.'s climate change panel. Jones and Gore,  you'll recall, were college roommates.

Here's one way to stay sober through the holidays. Kiefer Sutherland went to jail Wednesday. He was sentenced to 48 days for racking up a second drunken-driving arrest in three years and began serving it immediately.

Mel Gibson already has a house in Costa Rica. Now he's looking to set up a film production company there. He met this week with the ministers of commerce, tourism and economy.

Variety reports that Angelina Jolie is set to star as real-life intelligence operative Kathi Lynn Austin in  a Bourne Identity-like action thriller about arms trafficking and terrorism.

Amanda Peet and rapper Xzibit will be fellow FBI agents to David Duchovny's Mulder and Gillian Anderson's Scully in The X-Files movie.

Eva Mendes, the latest to star in a PETA "Rather Go Naked Than Wear Fur" ad, unveils it (the ad, not the body) today in New York City at Rockefeller Plaza.

Jay-Z and Beyonce celebrated his birthday perfectly in Paris.

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