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Playboy's former fashion director Joseph DeAcetis filed a $4 million lawsuit claiming he was fired from the magazine "because of his sexual orientation and age," the Post reports. According to the lawsuit, DeAcetis's boss, editorial director Christopher Napolitano, "referred to plaintiff and other homosexuals as 'girls' and laughed at [him] because of his enjoyment of baseball because it was not a girl sport." Napolitano was also, the lawsuit charges, upset about DeAcetis's appearance on WPIX's morning show (see video of one here), saying DeAcetis's "grey hair was visible" and that he "looked old." DeAcetis claims his work was praised by executives (including daughter of Hef Christine Hefner), but that his "duties [were] being slowly stripped away and handed over to his 27-year-old straight male assistant and a 38-year-old straight female fashion editor." Playboy tells the Post it "takes these allegations very seriously" and has been looking into the matter.

Jasper Johns, a South Carolina native currently residing in Connecticut, first came to New York City in 1949 when he (briefly) attended Parsons School of Design. In 1954 he painted his first flag picture, and by 1958 he had his first one-man exhibition at the Leo Castelli Gallery. Today, The Met's director Philippe de Montebello states fact as the artist's new exhibit at the museum opens, saying "Without question, Jasper Johns is one of the greatest artists of our era."

Did you see the snow this morning? Light snow, drizzle and fog were in the mix at Central Park for several hours this morning. More intriguing, between nine and ten this morning the Weather Service reported "unknown precipitation" as falling on Belvedere Castle. Very mysterious! Not enough snow fell in the city to actually be measured but places to the north and west reported up to three inches of snowfall. Aside from the momentary snow...