There's a new music super couple in town. Zooey Deschanel, 28, who plays Jim Carrey's love interest in his latest film 'Yes Man', got herself engaged in the holidays to Ben Gibbard, 32, the lead singer for group - Death Cab for Cutie, and who also plays for indie band - Postal Service. Earlier this year, Deschanel, no mean singer herself, also released her first album 'Volume One' with her band, She & Him.

Dick Clark, 79, four years after his stroke, relishing the prospect of another New Year's Eve celebration, is absolutely determined to appear for his 36th year in Times Square .

Clark, who has spent 61-years of his life in front of cameras, in a recent interview via e-mail states, despite not being actively involved in 'Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve with Ryan Seacrest 2009', as far as he is concerned, is 'not really a job', but a labour of love and. Unable to be out on the street, up on a platform, interacting with the crowds, Clark writes: 'Thank goodness my friend Ryan Seacrest is able to handle that end of the activity on the show these days.'

Natasha Bedingfield, Fall Out Boy, Jesse McCartney, Ne-Yo, Pussycat Dolls, Solange and Robin Thicke will perform for ABC-TV's 3 1/2 -hour live extravaganza, while Fergie hosts the Hollywood segments.

Bjork, together with a Reykjavik-based venture capital firm as partner, will be investing in socially and environmentally responsible firms. The Bjork venture fund with Audur Capital has been established for inviting investors in search of new venture creation opportunities and the development of small companies, hoping to help revive the Icelandic economy. Those wishing to invest in the Bjork venture fund should do so before it closes March 2009.