Jon Stewart's plot to "Restore Sanity" included a call for the death of the lefty vs. righty shoutfest on cable news. Some in the media felt he blamed the media too much. He didn't. He just blamed the wrong half.

Confidential to Arianna Huffington and Tina Brown: get better ghostwriters.

Jodie Foster told MORE magazine that Gibson's still a good friend. (They met filming 1994's "Maverick".) "When you love a friend, you don't abandon them when they're struggling." Also when you're starring in "The Beaver" with them. [Popeater]

The magazine industry's self-advertising effort continues, cringe-inducingly. "You read magazines," the ad assures you. "Magazines are the ideal complement" to "instant media" like this here blog, it adds. Why not say you're better than us, magazines? Ambition is contagious! [Copyranter]

Trust, the latest movie from Friends star David Schwimmer, is like the dramatic equivalent of watching a "To Catch a Predator" segment on Dateline, but with Clive Owen instead of Chris Hansen. This thing sure looks like a turkey.

College presidents should be distant, stodgy figures who sit high atop an ivory tower, raising money. Instead, according to an alarming new (true?) Washington Post trend story, they all want to be college kids' "friends." It's already gone too far.

Lost is (ugh) over. So is Gossip Girl. American Idol comes to an end this week. And Glee wraps up next week. There is now nothing to watch! What the hell are we supposed with all this free time?

The cameo is one of television's oldest tricks to drum-up interest for a show. But not all cameos are created equal. Inside, a list of the kinds of cameos, why they exist, and just how effective they are.

Martha Stewart's (former) friend Mariana Pasternak has just released her backstabby tell-all book The Best of Friends: Martha and Me. We have culled some of its bitchy allegations for your reading pleasure! Today: Martha drives dangerously, is insane about animals.

Kathy Griffin just played an over-the-top lesbian activist on Law & Order. It was so overblown, that it made us think that the portrayal of lesbians has been regressing recently. Inside, the historical arc of on-air girl-on-girl smooching.

Meredith Bryan observes in the NYO today that—hello!—niceness is back! On the internet, and in New York in general. Goodbye to cynicism! This interesting and somewhat true phenomenon will destroy us all, if we let it.

Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, except when it sucks. Take this habit the US seems to have of straight-up jacking television material from other countries…without even changing plot lines or character names.

We like Zach Galifianakis so much we won't ruin this post by complaining that anyone who first discovered him by watching "The Hangover" doesn't deserve to call themselves a Galifianakis fan. Whoops! Anyway, he is starring in a new film.

"You see African-Americans dealing with Hispanics on obtaining narcotics and weapons. We're seeing Hispanic gang members involved with the Eastern European criminal figures," said Robert W. Clark, acting special agent in charge of the criminal division of the Los Angeles field office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. "Where they see opportunities to collaborate, they do."

Ever wonder what would Friends look like if the laugh track were taken away. Well now we know— and the result is a splendid mix of awkward and weird.

On Monday, we apologized to New Republic publisher Marty Peretz, for asserting, without evidence, that he likes Joe Lieberman, the famous asshole. We now rescind that apology.

Last week some patriotic Azle, TX residents caught heat from the liberal media for their "HISPANICS KEEP OUT" sign. On their private property! So intrepid Guanabee journalist Cindy Casares went and interviewed the nacho-loving(!) sign-poster. Cross-cultural lovefest ahead!

Billionaire convicted sex offender Jeffery Epstein is now a free man. He did his 12 months for hiring underage prostitutes, and left jail this morning. So who visited Epstein in jail? His alleged "sex slave," an "extreme fighter," and more!

Felix Dennis is publishing's wild man! How is the former Maxim publisher and admitted (then hastily retracted!) murderer keeping himself busy these days?