With cable TV rerunning our favorite movies at a vicious rate, it is hard to determine whether or not one should give up two hours to the cable gods. Finally, we have a handy formula to help us decide.

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Health Care reform is on either the two- or the five-yard line. So get excited!

• An estimated 25 million people tuned into last night's broadcast of the Grammy Awards on CBS, earning it its highest ratings in six years. [AP]
• Disney is looking to sell off the Miramax name and its library of 700 movies, and seven to 10 parties have reportedly expressed interest. [NYT, NYP]
• Nate Berkus's new TV show will hit WNBC beginning this fall. [THR, NYP]
• Kelly Cutrone's reality show, Kell on Earth, debuts on Bravo tonight. [LAT]
• Candy Crowley is the new anchor of CNN's State of the Union. [NYT]
• Amazon.com is backing down in its fight over e-book prices. [Reuters]
• Avatar was No. 1 at the box office for a seventh weekend in a row. The movie has now grossed more than $2 billion around the world. [NYT]

Were the first four minutes of Lost just not enough? Well, ABC is now airing an ad with all new teaser scenes. They may say that the time for questions is over, but our heads keep filling up with more!

The Way We Live Now: Like a smooth criminal. Well, "smooth" is not quite the right word. Desperate? Yes. And occasionally inept. There are no banks left to rob. There's no bull market left to milk!

Last year The Simpsons managed to jump even farther over the shark by holding a contest to create a new Simpsons character. Well that character—Ricardo Bomba—debuted last night. And what the writers did with him was actually funny!

President Obama is on a roll lately. He gave a sassy State of the Union and then he embarrassed House Republicans on TV and now he is agreeing with us that Space is Not Worth it.

Parkour is really cool — when done right. Otherwise, it's just really funny.

Tomorrow is Gay Christmas Eve, with Oscar nominations announced in the ayem, setting hearts aflutter and sending visions of sugarplum fairy Hugh Jackman dancing through heads. We have a good idea of who will be nominated, but who should be?

Here are some helpful looks at how the Right Wing Message Machine works: The Washington Post explains how Ed Meese and Michelle Malkin coordinate their messages, and Glenn Thrush tracks a talking point as it goes from blogger to congressman.

For some reason sitcoms still believe we need to be told when to laugh. To prove that the laugh track is completely useless and outdated, we took a funny show without one, put one in, and the results were surprising.

Padma Lakshmi hasn't revealed who the father of her baby is. It is elderly billionaire Teddy Forstmann? Venture capitalist Adam Dell? Or perhaps there's a third possibility?

In your musk-scented Monday media column: A use found for print media, the Harper's editor firing saga continues, small stakes mean big arguments in journalism academia, and Howell Raines returns.

At the end of last night's Cleveland Show, Cleveland gave a run-down of lessons learned during the episode. The jist? Drugs are bad (except for legal ones) and a list of all thirteen states that have legalized the green stuff.

If Steve Jobs keeps this up, he may yet set off the biggest corporate flamefest in Silicon Valley: Googlers past and present are pushing back against the Apple CEO's trashing of their corporate motto.

On Fox's Good Day New York, style expert Katrina Szish talked about last night's risque Grammy fashions. She goes into detail about Rihanna's outfit as the s Doppleganger creen changes to a woman that looks like Rihanna, but is definitely not. Oops!

Vanity Fair is out today with the cover for its annual Hollywood issue full of young, female acting talent for the "next decade." Let's crystal-ball gaze: in ten years which will be opening pictures and which will be pitching Proactiv?

fashion publicist and Bravo reality star, responding to the question "What do you think about Harvard?" to the Harvard Crimson.

Fox Reality Channel—the network who will give just about anyone their own reality show— debuted their newest venture this saturday: Seducing Cindy. So, what kind of men did the network pick as possible love-matches?