Local news delivers again with this excruciatingly awkward confrontation between a hospital flack and a San Francisco ABC News reporter. In three minutes, PR guy Mark Salvin attempts to fend off reporter Dan Noyes' questions with repeated gentle touches

The Senate Armed Services Committee has voted to repeal "don't ask, don't tell."

[Things got heated on MacDougal Street in the West Village today as Al Pacino (far right) filmed a movie outside Caffe Dante. Image via Jens Schott Knudsen's Flickr]

Michael Bay has a winning formula: Boobs + explosions = $$$. A while back he made a hilarious, action-packed ad for Victoria's Secret. Now he's hired one of the ad's stars to replace Megan Fox in Transformers 3.

Today we looked at rapper M.I.A.'s big old hissy fit. This got lots of you commenters talking about how she is annoying. One commenter doesn't appreciate her political appropriation.

VillageVines.com will shave 30 percent off fancy restaurant meals without a tacky coupon—the discount is discretely applied to your bill. But, oh, the hoops you'll have to jump through. It's the online discount club model taken too far.

BP has halted the "top kill"; too much drilling fuel is leaking from the well.

The diminutive Diff'rent Strokes actor was rushed to the hospital yesterday afternoon and taken to a surgical ICU. Some reports are suggesting that he took a fall and suffered a head injury. Which is never good.

Finally, a scientist in the news media that we can trust! Bill Nye (the Science Guy, for us 90s kids) stopped by CNN's John King, USA to demonstrate the "top kill" strategy that's supposed to save us all.

[When Paris Hilton shows up at Fleet Week, the jokes just write themselves. Image via Getty]

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MTV's list of possible contests for challenge shows has run dangerously low. The competition in this video is particularly random, involving exercise and puzzle skills, natural enemies to teens holed up in a party house.

So that people would start talking about their new show, The Doctors, medical professionals Travis Stork and Drew Ordon extolled the medical benefits of urine by drinking it and wiping it on their faces earlier this week. On television. Really.

Queen of comfort cuisine Paula Deen stopped by The Tonight Show to make a cake with Jay Leno. However, it looks like baking was put on the back burner for most of the segment.

Conan's writers will get an hour-long special on TBS, Adios SoapNet, get ready for some Project Runway spin-offs, and what LA's Nokia Theater looked like just after the American Idol finale wrapped.

Sure, Iron Man 2 and other big-ticket adventures have already opened, but we here at Gawker are traditionalists. For us, summer begins on Memorial Day. So put on those white shoes (finally!) and let's look at this season's popcorn flicks.

Think you're a dedicated American Idol fan? Not as much as this woman. As the camera rolls, she appears to have a mental breakdown while watching yesterday's American Idol finale.

"So impressed with 5W PR!!! It's refreshing to meet business people who exceed your expectations."—Julia Allison. Wow. The Protofameball and the World's Worst Flack, together at last. I guess our work here is done?

Daniel Craig just picked up a $1.9 million TriBeCa penthouse. The National Enquirer also just suggested he's gay. Could the two be connected?

TONIGHT: Bid adieu to Mark Benford and the crew from Flash Foward, but say hello to the new season of So You Think You Can Dance and the new NBC sitcom 100 Questions. Plus, the Real Housewives of NYC.