With all eyes on Jay Leno, he sat down with Oprah Winfrey Thursday for his first interview since the blowup over NBC's late-night lineup. While he admits having some regrets, Leno's deepest scars seem to stretch back to 2004 when NBC first announced Conan O'Brien would be taking over the show in 2009, Popeater.com reports.

"It broke my heart. It really did. I was devastated," Leno said. "This was the job that I had always wanted and this was the only job that ever mattered in show business, to me.... It was just like, why?"

Later in the interview, Leno refused to take blame for taking away Conan's dream. "This is an affiliate decision. Affiliates felt that the ratings were low. This was the first time in the 60-year history of 'The Tonight Show' that 'The Tonight Show' would have lost money. And that's what it comes down to. It's really just a matter of dollars and cents."

Earlier this month, O'Brien walked away from the late-night institution when NBC executives announced that they wanted Leno to once again follow the local news and move O'Brien's "Tonight Show" to 12:05 a.m. Leno returns to "The Tonight Show" March 1.

According to Leno, NBC came to him and talked about the ratings, saying Conan and Leno were both down. NBC executives then assured him that he was a "valuable asset" and they were "75 percent sure" Conan would go for the revised plan, which would have had Leno doing a 30-minute show at 11:30 p.m.

The rest is history.

Oscar-nominated actress Anne Hathaway is getting a good-natured ribbing from Harvard's Hasty Pudding Theatricals student drama troupe.

The group's Woman of the Year is being honored Thursday with a parade down Massachusetts Avenue near the university followed by a roast where she will receive her pudding pot from Harvard men in drag, the Associated Press reports.

Hathaway was nominated for an Academy Award for best actress in 2009 for her role in "Rachel Getting Married."

She has also been in "The Princess Diaries," "Get Smart" and "The Devil Wears Prada."

She joins a distinguished list of past recipients that includes Katharine Hepburn, Lauren Bacall and Meryl Streep.

Hasty Pudding Man of the Year, Justin Timberlake, will be honored Feb. 5.

No more Mr. Nice Guy for Neil Patrick Harris.

The "How I Met Your Mother" star turned fill-in "American Idol" judge vowed to be even nastier than Simon Cowell before the show even started. Asked what he hoped to accomplish in the judge's chair, he responded, "My goal is to shatter the dreams of thousands. If I make two to three thousand people cry, I have done my job."

Maybe he was joking a little bit with that. But there were plenty of tears on the show from failed contestants. More than 11,000 people showed up at the Dallas auditions with some 31 receiving passes to Hollywood. There were still plenty of opportunities to say "no" for all the judges.

While Day 2 Dallas judge Joe Jonas was very quiet and almost invisible, Harris looked mighty comfortable sitting in the chair. He made a point of taking stands on each of the performers -- good and bad. Following Katy Perry's on-air judge tussle the previous night, Harris even seemed ready to rumble with Cowell when the master bad guy talked over him.

"Do I get to say something?" Harris asked with a glare at Cowell. "Jeez-louise, you invite a guest judge on ..."

Jennifer Lopez will play a self-help expert on an episode of the CBS comedy "How I Met Your Mother" in March.

The actress-singer portrays Anita Appleby, a no-nonsense author who tries to "train" men into better behavior in relationships. Her target is Neil Patrick Harris' playboy-bachelor character, Barney: Appleby makes it her mission to break him.

Carter Bays, the show's co-creator, joked Wednesday about Lopez's appearance: "We're looking forward to a week of revealing outfits and sexy dance moves the likes of which this show hasn't seen since Regis Philbin guest-starred."

The exact date of Lopez's episode hasn't been set. The Monday-night comedy recently reached a milestone with its 100th episode.

"Heroes" TV actor Adrian Pasdar has been arrested for allegedly driving drunk and veering across lanes on a West Los Angeles freeway.

A California Highway Patrol report says Pasdar was pulled over shortly before 3 a.m. Wednesday after officers saw his Ford F-150 truck doing 94 mph and straddling two lanes on Interstate 405.

The 44-year-old actor was booked for investigation of driving under the influence of alcohol. The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department says he was taken to county jail and released at about 8:30 a.m. on $15,000 bail.

Pasdar plays Nathan Petrelli on NBC's "Heroes." He's married to Dixie Chicks singer Natalie Maines.

A message left for his agent wasn't immediately returned.

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