Let's start this lovely morning with something of great, pressing import: a glitter-sprinkled press release brings news that our dear Anderson Cooper, Chelsea's beloved prince, will be interviewing Angelina Jolie in her first U.S. television interview since the birth of the world's sexiest baby. Naturally, Coop had to submit to doing it under the guise of a serious look at African refugees and airing it on World Refugee Day (June 20), but you know he won't let her leave without talking some Shiloh.

Carole Radziwill — the ABC news producer who found the strength to spit out a bestselling memoir after her friends John F. Kennedy Jr. and Carolyne Bessette died in a little-known plane crash and her husband, Anthony Radziwill, died of cancer three weeks later — has a new column in Glamour. For her debut, she sits down with beloved anchor-cum-book-peddler Anderson Cooper and talks about wardrobe choices. It's hardly the stuff of Radziwill's hard news past, but she does manage to get Cooper to reveal how business is conducted around CNN:

As the publicity train for Dispatches From the Edge keeps chugging along — and, yes, we recognize we've become a de facto (if, we hope, at least slightly mocking) part of it — his Time Warner colleagues aren't being left at the station. Time Inc. employees yesterday received a special invitation to trudge up to Columbus Circle in two weeks for a chance to meet the man themselves. It's a health benefit, apparently:

It's times like these we thank God we were born in a country with the First Amendment.

If only Murrow had lived to see the day.

We held off on mentioning this, because we thought maybe we had it recorded on a TiVo somewhere, and we were waiting for the oompa loompas to dig it up. But it turns out we don't and so instead we'll just tell you. On 360° last night, as quite a few of you rushed to inform us, the big AC went back to New Orleans, where, judging by the pictures we were sent, he auditioned for the Village People. Then he went for a ride in a "mancage." Blogger and old pal Reference Tone, who saw the segement, noted that Coopie "seemed very excited about it" and "really likes to say 'mancage.'" Some examples:

So why did HarperCollins give Anderson Cooper $1 million for his not particularly insightful and not particularly well-reviewed memoir? Because last week, the week it was published, at was the bestselling nonfiction hardcover book in the country, moving some 38,000 copies, according to Nielsen BookScan. Even that number, however, doesn't make Dispatches From the Edge the No. 1 overall book for the week. (It was No. 6.) And the anchor's memoir didn't even summit the nonfiction or biography sublists, both of which saw the paperback of Elie Wiesel's Night, recently Oprah-certfied, triumph. But we suspect Anderson is just fine with that: From what we understand, he prefers not to be on top.

Because we were out having drinks all evening last night — and, yes, we know: mah nishtanah, etc.? — we missed Liz Taylor on Larry King Live. It's rare you get to see quite so much old-person doddering in one hour of television, at least if you live anywhere north of West Palm, and, indeed, from what we understand the broadcast didn't disappoint. Some highlights, selected by a devoted reader:

It occurs to us: Perhaps rocket scientists aren't as smart as they're cracked up to be?

The new memoir from our favorite CNN anchor was finally published this week — oh, you thought it was just a coincidence he was interviewed everywhere from Oprah to EW? — and we'd like to direct your attention to the book's acknowledgements. Most are professional in nature — editors, agents, the like — but one doesn't quite fit that mold. On page 212:

Oh how we've missed you, ridiculous and exploitative "Watch Now" teasers. It's so nice to have you back.

So we're watching Anderson on Oprah right now — how could we not? — and, as Jossip promised this morning, we don't think it tells us anything we didn't already know. But that doesn't mean there's not some interest in the retelling of the old stories — and especially in Oprah's weird fixation on, of all the details in Anderson's life, his brother's suicide in 1988. She talks about it with him, she talks about it with his mom, Gloria Vanderbilt, and she even goes so far as to bring him up to the East Side building where he grew up, and from which his brother jumped, which Anderson hasn't visited in something like 15 years. "What was that like for you, going back?" Oprah asks after showing the clip. "Yeah, it wasn't really pleasant," Anderson answers. A few moments later comes a commercial break, with a teaser for Oprah's upcoming trip to Auschwitz with Elie Wiesel. "See the Holocaust through the eyes of the man who lived it," she says in a voiceover. "Tomorrow!"

Our friends at Jossip are on location in Chicago this week, where naturally they're doing things they don't do on Broadway. Among those things: Watching Oprah at 9 a.m., its timeslot in Ms. Winfrey's home market. Today's big interview with Anderson Cooper won't air for another four hours here in New York, but little Jossie generously provides a sneak peak — from which we learn that, apparently, nothing interesting transpires.

Not to mention what he's done to his lungs.

We're a little unclear on how the Time 100 is a sports story. Or, for that matter, why it's still top news two-and-a-half weeks after the issue came out. Guess when you shell out that kind of scratch for the party, you've got to amortize the cost over as much time — and as many TW properties — as possible.

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Um, duh.

Insert your own "his act is pretty much masturbation anyway" joke here.

An ad on CNN.com:

It's funny because Anderson is in the closet, at least professionally. Get it?