"It's not that funny; it's just not racist either." [Mother Jones]

J. Edgar Hoover's FBI investigated late movie-lobby chief Jack Valenti for homosexuality, the Washington Post reports. Interesting. But what about evidence ernest PBS liberal Bill Moyers requested similar probes?

Jesus, working at Politico.com sounds basically like joining the brutal, conniving gang of "Others" on ABC island thriller Lost, judging from an internal memo that just surfaced. Click for highlights.

An SEC official called Houston financier Allen Stanford's $8 billion scheme a "fraud of shocking magnitude that has spread its tentacles throughout the world." Last August, Stanford spread his tentacles around House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.

Conan O'Brien's story seems more bitter each time he's asked about learning Jay Leno would precede his Tonight Show on NBC.

You've always suspected that the very wealthy are often the most obnoxious. Well, now there's research to back it up. A study by psychologists at UC Berkeley found that students from higher socio-economic levels were far more likely to be rude in certain social situations compared to their less-privileged peers, who typically made more of an effort to be friendly with strangers. Bloomberg columnist Matthew Lynn suggests this also may explain why CEOs and moguls tend to be "an unpleasant bunch," as he puts it:

David Karp, the 22-year-old CEO of blogging startup Tumblr, has decided he doesn't want to be in the business of censorship after all. Now everyone's free to make fun of his friend Julia Allison.

Hello America, how are ya? Like the train in Arlo's song, Top Chef is bound for the city of New Orleans — and starting tonight, we have just two episodes left to live-blog about it.

· You may have thought you knew what a hack director Joel Schumacher is. But until you've heard his grave (and maybe fabricated) casting miscalculations from Eric Nies, you only know half the story.

· Glockenspiel master (among other instruments) Andrew Bird plays the Orpheum. It's sold out, but that shouldn't stop you.

Finally, a Lost mystery that's tough but solvable: can you identify all the miniature marzipan characters that the Ace of Cakes team made to celebrate the serial's 100th episode?

So far, it's been a jubilant final march for Late Night, and we can expect more fan-friendly shenanigans (Carrie Fisher and the Masturbating Bear running away together) tonight and the rest of the week.

Trimmed-down Seth Rogen finally lands Playboy cover. [Page Six]

God bless E! for filling the void that TMZ so negligently abdicated: explaining just how spectacular Rihanna's beating has been for album sales.

Watchmen screenwriter David Hayter was asked by Hollywood Outbreak for his thoughts on Fox's litigious adventures in the Land of the Forgotten Rights Claim.

[A boy takes a cellphone picture of First Daughters Sasha and Malia Obama sitting in the East Room of the White House as their mother Michelle speaks about Black History Month; image via Getty]

Daughter getting Heath Ledger's Oscar — when she's 18. [THR]

Attorney General Eric Holder just raised our hopes for his tenure: at a speech to his Justice Department, he called the United States "a nation of cowards." Holy shit!

Though Liev Schreiber has a perfectly acceptable set of pecs, partner Naomi Watts confessed to Ellen DeGeneres today that Schreiber would throw his rack away for the chance to possess man-boobs. For breast-feeding.

What did the media overshare today? Jennifer 8. Lee thought about high school reunions instead of Snapple, Today's Ann Curry toured refugee camps, and Fast Company's Ellen McGirt got down with a lot of leather.