Barry Blitt's cover art for next week's New Yorker — entitled "One on One" — may be an obvious gag, but as the New York Times' Michael Roston points out, "a grand slam is an obvious way to win a ballgame."

Normally it takes at least three of something to make a trend, but given that the trend in question is the mock-lynching of an American president, waiting around for a third instance seems unnecessary.

Clint Eastwood was his usual candid self when speaking with Extra TV about his now-infamous "empty chair" speech at the Republican National Convention.

"I figure if somebody's dumb enough to ask me to go to a political convention and say something, they're gonna have to take what they get," Clint Eastwood told Jerry Penacoli in an interview for Extra.

Speaking out for the first time since he did that weird chair thing at the Republican National Convention last week, Clint Eastwood, the former one-term mayor of Carmel, California, told his hometown paper the Carmel Pine Cone he had no idea what he was going to say right up to the moment he took to the stage — and beyond.