Steven Spielberg

This week, holiday shoppers have turned into post-holiday exchangers. And while Main Street shops for sweaters in the right size, Wall Street has a few items to cross off of its "to do" list before New Year's Eve, too.

"To leave hundreds of millions of dollars vulnerable does not seem like a wise choice," says one matrimonial lawyer. Still, many of the rich and famous keep heading down the aisle without a prenup. It's a choice some eventually live to regret.

Vanity Fair today releases its inaugural list of Hollywood's Top 40 Moneymakers of 2009. Topping the list is Michael Bay, director and producer of the blockbuster Transformers series, who pulled in $125 million, beating mogul Steven Spielberg.

In 1990's Crazy People, one of the better films about the ad industry, a trailer for a fictitious horror film promises that the flick "Won't just scare you . . . It will f%*k you up for life." Of all the movie's outrageous mock ads, this is the most realistic. Filmmaking techniques have changed a...