Update, Thursday, December 29 at 8:37 p.m.: Apparently, Andy Cohen has changed his mind about his New Year’s Eve drinking plans. He told “Page Six” that he and Anderson Cooper won’t be taking shots on CNN’s broadcast this weekend after all. “We aren’t drinking, but we’re going to have a BLAST,” he said. According to Variety, CNN’s chairman and CEO told staffers last month that the year-end consumption of alcohol on air wasn’t a good look for the network.

The ObserverSimulation gamesReview3DS, Nintendo, cert: 3Nintendo's most recent console mascot – the Mii – appeals to the narcissist in everyone, and Tomodachi Life is a socially driven life simulator populated entirely by Miis. Without direct control over events, players exert their divine influence through passively helping, advising and pampering their subjects, helping them to live out their bizarre lives in happiness. Miis can be created locally or exchanged with the global community via QR codes, and the more you import, the stranger the interactions are: expect everything from epic rap battles to marriage and babies, and gamers can share pictures of their shenanigans directly to Facebook, Twitter or Tumblr.

Ask one of the greatest scientists of the 20th century a simple question, and his answer makes me go, "What? What did he just say?" The question was: Where do trees come from? Meaning, when you see a tree, a big, tall, heavy one, and you wonder where did it get its mass, its thick trunk, its branches — the instinctive answer would be from the soil below, plus a little water (and, in some mysterious way, sunshine), right?

Authentically independent in its making and distribution, Rob Hardy's "Trois" is tritely generic as a movie. Repping a notable grassroots effort, Atlanta-based filmmakers refused to accept across-the-board Hollywood rejection slips as a sign to fold their tents and instead self-distributed pic to (thus far) 72 burgs, racking up over $1.4 million. Hardy and Co. have even sealed pic's ancillary life with a deal with Sony for DVD and vid release in November.

Play video content READY TO PARTY Tiffany Haddish pulled out all the stops, and drew a ton of celebrity attention, for her first-ever gala ... creating an extremely fun night jam-packed with big names all under the same roof. The comedian's bash went down at The Beehive in DTLA Friday night, in partnership with her She Ready foundation, an org that helps support foster children. The star power was second to none -- Paris Hilton was in the DJ booth, Snoop Dogg and Mario took to the mic during the shindig, and Jimmy Kimmel won a painting Tiffany made during her first date with her ex, Common!