In this portion of the 1974 ABC after school special, Free To Be... You And Me, former pro football player, actor, and macramé aficionado, Rosey Grier, lets the world know it's okay to cry if you sing about it simultaneously.

It won't be long before women regularly live to the ripe old age of 120, say medical researchers. (Men can look forward to dying around the same age they always have.) If the idea appeals to you, you may want to turn off your TV, though. [Times UK, LAT]

Google wants everyone talking about its unique defiance of China's authoritarian rulers. But Silicon Valley gossips increasingly see that spin as a cover-up for the real story: A humiliating security breach exposed cloud computing's dangers and imperils Google's growth.

• Is NBC close to resolving the mammoth mess it has on its hands? TMZ reports the network has reached a deal with Conan O'Brien (in which he'll leave NBC with some amount of money, and Leno, in turn, will take over The Tonight Show). Others, however, say the negotiations continue and NBC chief Jeff Zucker's been playing hardball with O'Brien. So who knows. Fortunately, Conan has lots of exciting options to consider when he finally walks out the door.
• Related: NBC announced its new, post-Leno primetime lineup today. [NYT]
• George Clooney will host a live telethon on Jan. 22 to benefit earthquake victims in Haiti. ABC, NBC, MTV, HBO and CNN will all broadcast it. [EW]
• Why isn't Fox News covering the tragedy in Haiti? Because rehashing faux controversies involving President Obama always comes first, duh. [MM]
• Avatar could top Titanic and become the top-grossing movie in history this weekend. In related news, it seems the Avatar backlash is in full swing.
• Robert Pattinson won't be Tobey Maguire's replacement in Spider-Man. [E!]
• American Idol creator Simon Fuller is starting up a new company. [LAT]
• Editor & Publisher is back in business under new ownership. [E&P]
• Is the ratings dry spell at MTV almost over? MTV execs hope so! [LAT]
• The cleanest and dirtiest cafeterias in the media industry. [DF]

Every day we come across so many great things on the internet. Here's our favorite links, news stories, and webjunk that we came across today.

Hearty congratulations are in order, America: we as a nation have plateaued at a healthy 33% adult obesity rate. The fight on fat is won, pretty much! How are we as a nation celebrating?

Either my poetry attack against Seed.com, AOL's search engine based story assignment generator, failed or it knew the submission was poison and purged it from it's horrible body. Either way, I got a rejection letter today.

The eight worst neighbors you can possibly have living in a New York City apartment building, according to a totally unscientific survey: "amateur gourmets; hoarders; nasty drunks; the Brady Bunch; trust fund babies; smokers and tokers; musicians, or, worse, aspiring musicians; and insecure rescue dogs." Or a reality TV "star" who drinks, smokes, has eight kids, four girlfriends, and sometimes ransacks his own apartment for the publicity value. [Brick Underground]

Democrats in disarray as 14th Republican Congressman announces retirement.

When Maury Povich finally exhausted the "Who's the Daddy" and "I Slept With Your Brother" themed shows, they needed something fresh and exciting. Putting the Maury staff in a haunted room to look for ghosts? Sure, why not.

Congratulations to LVP for being the first person to answer today's Freeze Frame. Click through for the answer.

Today at Gawker.TV, poker strategies for Conan O'Brien, mascot for the Mets suggestively thrusts at JuJu Chang, David After Dentist gets his revenge, Howard Stern's rant about Jay Leno and American Idol's "Pants on the Ground."

Would you like a job as an executive at Rupert Murdoch's News Corp? It looks like there's one minor hoop you have to jump through: donating thousands to Fox's PAC.

If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, then mass-market imitation must really stroke one's ego. Just ask renegade street artist Banksy, whose iconic 'Balloon Girl' work has been knocked-off and slapped on a hoodie by junk-clothier Forever 21. [TheFrisky]

Tonight FX debuts its new animated spy series, Archer. The show comes from the creators of Sealab 2021, and has been described as "James Bond meets Arrested Development." It airs at 10pm and we've got a preview right here.

The Way We Live Now: Being mean. On purpose! The good thing about being mean is that is is fun to make others feel your pain. Homeless shantytown? Bulldoze it! Rich bankers? Tax em! Church money? Steal it! Whee.

New York's skinniest house — a 9 1/2 foot-wide townhouse on Bedford Street — has just sold for $2.1 million. Former residents include Edna St. Vincent Millay and anthropologist Margaret Mead. It was built in 1873, filling an alleyway. [AP]

A judge in Rockland County sentenced former NY1 anchor Dominic Carter to a month behind bars today for beating up his wife in 2008. Carter wasn't too happy with the decision. But at least he didn't leave the courtroom empty-handed: The judge gave him a green sticker that reads "Attitude Makes the Difference" and an article about Matt Damon before he was escorted off to jail. [NYDN]

Gawker Intern-for-a-Day Jill Zarin is out getting us lunch right now, but when she gets back, we're going to have her dispensing advice. Leave a question in the comments and Jill will respond.

According to Nikki Finke, bald TV prick Jeff Zucker is so furious at Conan O'Brien's insolence that he's threatening to "ice" him and enforce the noncompete provisions of his contract, which would keep him off the air until 2013.