Two pieces of incredible breaking news! Alaska Snow Empress Sarah Palin will tape a segment for The Colbert Report, and also she revealed the top-secret location of his upcoming "Persian Gulf" trip, on the Twitter!

Erich "Mancow" Muller pushed back against our reporting on the fake-ness of his waterboarding hoax on his radio show today. He invited the Marine who poured water on his face—who told us today that he "knows nothing about waterboarding"—to testify as to the realness of the charade.

Cinematically-named and pornily-inclined 18-year-old Beau Breedlove, who had a fling with the mayor of Portland, is back in the news, thank god! He would like a reporter to stop stalking him, please:

Though she's been depicted strangling newspapers and stealing their content, Arianna Huffington was just warmly praised by the Washington Post's publisher. There are several reasons for this, starting with her comment about "very weird porn."

Wild-maned music producer Phil Spector has been given the maximum sentence of nineteen years to life for the 2003 murder of actress Lana Clarkson. Spector will be 88 years old before he's eligible for parole. He also paid $17,000 for funeral expenses, as per his sentencing. [CNN, image: Getty]

Prince Harry touched down in New York City today. He paid a visit to ground zero and met with several family members of 9/11 victims before stopping off at a fire station across the street. Then it was off to plant a magnolia tree at the British Memorial Garden and a quick car ride to the VA hospital to visit injured veterans. It was part celebrity visit (crowds appeared at each stop; women screamed "I love you!"); part campaigning politician (he bowed his head at ground zero and kissed a few babies); and part James Bond (dressed in a natty blue suit and blue striped shirt, a contingent of British agents trailed behind him every step of the way). After the jump, a few photos from the first official U.S. visit of His Royal Highness Prince Henry Charles Albert David of Wales.

We know you all love Richard's daily blind items, but do they leave you wondering what exactly is fact or fiction? Actual scandals or publicist planted nonsense? Well now you can weigh in...

The more we get the feeling that Arthur Kade, Philly's Zoolanderesque parody of himself, is actually a performance artist exploring the nature of assholery, the more we want to believe that he is real. As real as the "When Harry Met Sally" dialogue he practiced for "an astounding 12 hours."

[Chloe Sevigny in Soho today; image via Bauer-Griffin]

Page Six gossip Paula Froelich's first novel is concerned with a certain set of New York ladies in crisis, Mercury in Retrograde (she may be among them, as a "composite"). So surely other "composites" were in attendance at her book party last night.

Someone placed a personal ad in the Warren (Penn.) Times-Observer calling for Barack Obama's assassination. But to understand the ad you have to know history and stuff, so no one at the paper really got it. It's kind of like The Da Vinci Code.

In your flammin' Friday media column: Lola Ogunnaike's out of a job, the LAT's web editor's into a job, a WSJ writer brings da ruckus, and the secret newspaper meeting was not a secret we swear so don't ask any more about it or else:

When we mentioned yesterday that Pfizer had put two of its planes up for sale, we were reminded of that moment in late 2008 when every company in America seemed determined to dump their flying palaces in response to the downturn. That had us wondering about the fate of some of the jets that had been placed on the market in the waning days of 2008. Did Citigroup's Vikram Pandit manage to dupe someone into taking a couple of planes and a helicopter off his hands? What about that New York Times Co. jet? Sadly, very few of them have found a new home (or hanger) yet. But some of them are cheaper than ever! And since the thought of these jets sitting forlornly at Teterboro pains us all, we've rounded up a bunch of corporate planes that remain on the market. Print out the used-plane ad above, hand it around the office, and spread the word: A little word-of-mouth marketing goes a long way!

Padma Lakshmi—the zombified host of Top Chef and former paramour of Salman Rushdie—may have moved to Chelsea a lil' bit back, but she still owned a place in the East Village. But now she's given it up to a personal trust, for $0.

The surrender of AOL was a humiliating enough denouement for Time Warner, the old-line media conglomerate once imagined invincible. But there's talk it could get worse. What if Time Warner ceased to exist as an independent concern?

George W. Bush was in Michigan last night, speaking to an economic group. This was his very first non-Canadian post-presidential speech and so of course almost no one cared or covered it. Not that there was news! Besides his new "ladies in red blazers" fetish!

Don't you just hate it when you're walking down the street and someone's umbrella pokes you in the eye? "JooYoun Paek has devised a brilliantly simple solution to this issue. With the pull of a cord attached to the handle, her Polite Umbrella shrinks and morphs its shape to reduce occupied space, and help users maneuver around others and protect themselves from wind." [PSFK]

Former eBay CEO and political neophyte Meg Whitman needs all the help she can get to win the Republican primary in the California governor's race. Surely an endorsement from losing GOP presidential candidate John McCain will give her a leg up on rival Republicans.

• It's not just TLC that is happy about the Jon & Kate nonsense. Putting them on the cover of Us six times in a row has been a "windfall" for Janice Min. [NYP]
• Get ready to pay for People.com: Time Warner chief Jeff Bewkes says the company may begin charging for access to online magazine content. [AP]
• With book sales plunging and attendance down at BookExpo America, the mood in the publishing industry is kinda gloomy at the moment. [NYT]
• Keith Olbermann is in hot water again. The waterboarding video on his show last week was staged, it turns out, and MSNBC was made aware of that fact before the show, but they went ahead with it anyway. [Gawker]