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The always fashionable Michelle Obama had many important events to attend leading up to inauguration -- and ET brings you all the first lady style details.ET sat down with Bridget Foley the Executive Editor of Women's Wear Daily to talk inaugural fashion. "Today, however, we saw a little bit of a break from what the Obamas have done in the past on the big days," Bridget said about the Obama girls' inaugural wardrobe. "The girls were sort of color coordinated with their mother, sort of a family portrait feeling -- but today each girl was very much her own gal."

As AJ's own Amanda Ameer blogged last week, Patti LuPone - in her next-to-last Broadway performance in one of the crowning roles of her career, as Mama Rose in Gypsy - stopped in the middle of her big 11 o'clock number and blew her stack at an audience member taking pictures. Now there's live audio on YouTube....

ET has the details...Beyonce sang Barack and Michelle Obama through their first inaugural dance as many of Hollywood's biggest stars celebrated the president and country's big day at the Neighborhood Inaugural Ball. "Everybody, we have nine more balls to go to," Barack announced to the crowd. "But, Michelle and I both want to say thanks. Thanks for this honor, thanks for this privilege, and remember what we said during this campaign: 'Yes we can. Yes we will.' As long as all of us are working together." At the top of the ball, the Obamas slow danced to a rendition of Etta James' "At Last" as sung by Beyonce. Sting, Stevie Wonder and Jay-Z also performed. Other celebs to celebrate with the president included Leonardo DiCaprio, Faith Hill and Shakira.

For the creators and executive producers of "Big Love," raids in Texas last year confirmed that polygamy is alive and thriving in several pockets of the American West.

International News: Japanese distrib earns $817.5 million -- Toho, Japan's biggest distributor, earned $817.5 million at the local box office in 2008. Its third year of record growth reflects the strength of local pics as well as the success of its strategy of teaming with major TV networks to produce and release pics.

Hey, did something big and important happen today? It sure did -- these new comedy releases hit store shelves!Chris Rock: Kill the Messenger (Read the review)Katt Williams Presents: Katthouse ComedyPhoto...

Filled with colorful criminals, biting social satire and a brilliant score, The Threepenny Opera opens International City Theatre's 2009 Season at the Long Beach Performing Arts Center. Jules Aaron directs Michael Feingold's translation of the trailblazing musical by Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill that became one of the most influential plays of the 20th Century. Darryl Archibald is musical director and Kay Cole choreographs the five-week run February 20 through March 22; low-priced previews begin February 17.First performed in 1928, Brecht and Weill's The Threepenny Opera was a revolutionary musical theater masterpiece that mocked the bourgeois political movement of pre-Hitler Germany. Brecht's brittle, sardonic tale of beggars, thieves and prostitutes, adapted from the 1728 play The Beggar's Opera by John Gay, was a fierce social and political critique, and Weill's innovative score that fused American jazz with German cabaret captured the ironic tone of the lyrics. Part acid social

The New York Times Co., which has been struggling with declining advertising sales and is facing deadlines to repay hundreds of millions in debt, is getting a $250 million infusion from Mexican telecommunications billionaire Carlos Slim. That would make Slim, one of the world's richest men, one of the newspaper publisher's biggest shareholders.

BAZ Luhrmann's Australia has defied being panned by critics overseas to become the third biggest Australian film of all time.

Michelle Obama wears gold sheath by U.S. designer Isabel Toledo for inaguration.