Entertainment Report

• TBS is shelling out a $650,000 per episode for the exclusive cable rerun rights to Everybody Loves Raymond. Experts were quick to point out that $650,000 is what you'd have to pay someone with taste to sit through an...

Being Ruben Studdard

If you've been wondering where Ruben Studdard disappeared to while Clay Aiken and Carrie Underwood get all the American Idol attention, don't be worried that he's permanently positioned himself in front of a drive-thru window at a Wendy's somewhere. The...

Economics at the TSA

Twenty gallons of Starbucks coffee: $1,180. A single Chicago to Iowa phone call: $527. Nine-months salary for the CEO of a barely existent "event logistics" company: $5.4 million. The Regis Philbin-sized ulcer you'll develop reading today's Washington Post story on...

The Time Cover We'd Like to See

"We believe that the Supreme Court has limited press freedom in ways that will have a chilling effect on our work and that may damage the free flow of information that is so necessary in a democratic society." But...

Neighborhood No More

We're not sure what they were smoking at the time, but some bright exec at ABC thought it would be a brilliant idea to take seven minority families (black, gay, Asian, Hispanic -- one family is even pagan) and...

Interception! Putin Recovers!

The Russian President has possession New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft's Super Bowl bling. Whether the ring was a gift or Vladimir Putin ganked the 124-diamond ring from Kraft using some of his old KGB tactics (Putin was once...

Daily Dirt: Bennifer Goes Down the Aisle

• All those Bennifer 2.0 wedding rumors can stop now, since Jennifer Garner broke Ben Affleck's marital virginity with a trip down the aisle on Wednesday in the Caribbean. [E!] • Could Ellen DeGeneres be the next Ted Koppel? ABC...

Morning Roundup

• Time Inc. will turn over reporter Matthew Cooper's notes regarding the leak of an undercover CIA operative's name. A federal court judge threatened to jail Cooper and Judith Miller of the New York Times for contempt if they didn't...

Hubbard Helps Hubbies

This week's InTouch offer up some sage marriage advice for TomKat (or HolmesCru, if you prefer) from an appropriate source: the Scientology marriage manual. "There should be some parity of intellect and sanity between a husband and wife," the tab...

Game Over

If you're one of those people that thinks Los Angeles is crude and uncultured, well, it turns out you're right. Next week the LA Philharmonic will invite a pair of video gamers onstage at the Hollywood Bowl to conduct the...