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· Amidst the expected, ugly fight for incredibly scarce Oscar tickets, a philosopher is born: "Any system that produces a wide range of unhappy people is probably pretty fair. If everyone is equally unhappy, then maybe we're doing it right," said the Academy's executive administrator. [Variety]
NBC's ratings for the Winter Olympics are deemed "so-so," especially when compared to the demographic-attracting monsters Lost, American Idol, CSI, and Desperate Housewives. And in case you were wondering, the semi-secret Friday night Arrested Development finale finished up the series' Fox run with a ratings "whimper." [THR]
NBC's Kevin Reilly has been "drinking the Kool-Aid" (not the Guayana Suicide Punch flavor, yet), lusting at the downloading prospects of new, serialized Dick Wolf Hollywood crime drama Power. Will hard-boiled cops and harder-boiled fake tits play on a three-inch screen? Reilly's betting on it. [Variety]
Feel free to ignore any story that leads with the words "Skeet Ulrich has been tapped to star," because it only goes downhill from there. (I.e., Mark Feuerstein's next career move is mentioned.) [THR]
And the award for Filthiest-Sounding Title for a Series of Articles goes to Variety, for "Nurturing the Niche." [Variety, Variety]