Washington Blade managing editor Kevin Naff once hilariously claimed that being an out homo never hurt his career, and that, therefore, being publicly gay could never hurt Anderson Cooper's career. Yeah, well, we hope gayness never topples Naff's job at a gay paper with a circulation of 33K. Anyway! Naff's now up in arms because gay stuff has been repeatedly deleted from the Coop's Wikipedia entry. The debate still rages in a Wiki discussion thread. Meanwhile, we encourage you to head on over to Andy's wiki and do some updating of your own. Remember, be bold!

Get your TiVos good and ready for this Sunday. Former Renee Zellweger consort Kenny Chesney sits down on "60 Minutes" and talks about all those nasty rumors that he might, you know, like sticking his junk in dudes.

Looks like we made it — backstage, that is. Gawker camera-club president Nikola Tamindzic slinked lithely past the velvet ropes and into the hearts of Americans. Americans who were waiting for pix of Anderson Cooper getting yelled at, to be precise. But wait, there's more! Eva Amurri and Susan Sarandon on booby patrol! Ellen Barkin looking more like a cat that just woke up than ever! Phillip Bloch! CHARLIE ROSE! Stop sitting there quivering with joy and just click. And if you're craving even more, Nikola's extended gallery is right here.

• But Fox smear ads compare the CNN anchor to Paris Hilton, which is just unfair. [Page Six]
  

• Scooter Libby would call Judy Miller at all hours just to tell her that Valerie Plame worked for the CIA. [WaPo]
  

• "Time Inc. has selected Stockholm's Bonnier Group as the winner of the auction for the right to buy 18 of Time Inc.'s magazines. There was no immediate word on the price that Bonnier will pay, but the terms are in place and a deal should close within a month." That's what AdAge said, but then they pulled it. So who knows? [AdAge]
  

• Remeber The Politico, that Allbritton politics website thing that hired away pretty much every decent political print reporter? It's live. [The Politico]
  

This is never gonna happen for a couple million reasons, but isn't it pretty to think so? Tom Shales speculates as to Diane Sawyer's future:

Well, that lady with the Anderson Cooper tattoo might as well ink the 360 logo on there as well: despite rumors that A.C. was going to fly the CNN, ah, coop in favor of CBS's Early Show, he's decided instead to sign a new multiyear contract with his old bosses. What enticed him to stay? Well, according to Broadcasting & Cable, which broke the news today:

Trump this, Rosie that. We needed a calm, reasonable, mature perspective on the whole Miss USA kerfluffle, so we turned to our favorite gravitas-dispenser, A.C. We weren't disappointed.

Is Ben Stiller's new gray hairdo a bid for gravitas, a natural result of the human aging process, or an attempt to emulate the hotttness of our most favorite newsanchor? The lady portion of Best Week Ever seems to think it's an improvement over whatever his hair looked like before; our Jew-hotness circuits are way overloaded for today, so we can't be sure. Anyway, just putting it out there.

• Wall Street Journal Managing Editor Paul Steiger set to retire at the end of next year. [NYP]
  

Breaking!!! Important!!! Remember this photo of A.C. with the Equinox trainer who our crack (headed) research skills had led us to think was named Marco/Marko? Perhaps those were not such hot tips after all. Manhattan Offender leads us to a clue to this begelled specimen's true identity in 'Andersen's' fake Dlisted profile — a comment from the 'D' in Dlist himself, Daniel Nardicio. "really folks- he's not gay- ask his boyfriend Cesar."

When Robin Williams is a guest on any program, hilarity is sure to ensue! Okay, that statement hasn't been true since some point in the late seventies when the entire country was suffering through an epic Quaalude binge. But his recent appearance with Anderson Cooper at least provides Anderson with a few chuckles. We're not sure what's so funny, but maybe Anderson knows something that we don't.

• The Coop, set to music. [DotComedy]
  

Tanya Paulin, who has Reeg and Kelly on the other ankle, shows off the Anderson Cooper tribute that's permanently embossed in her flesh. We have to get on the ritual scarification tip if we want to one-up her, we guess. Good thing we're already numb with pure existential joy just from looking at this picture.

A reader sends us saddening news: someone out there is even more dangerously obsessed with AC than we are. She's an enterprising Quebecoise named Robin, and she even has a blog devoted to the man she calls "Anderfox." So there probably wasn't a dry panty within miles of Degrassiland last night when the pumpkin she carved, which features an apparently limbless (but still like sooo hot!) Cooper, made it onto 360.

At the beginning of the week, we asked you to identify the "friend" seen walking with CNN anchor Anderson Cooper and received some answers.

Earlier in the week, we asked our dear readers to identify the "friend" photographed with Anderson Cooper in Sunday's New York Post and boy, did you all come through. Well, one reader did, anyway.

Just what is it about CNN anchor Anderson Cooper? Is it the steely gaze? The mysterious CIA connection? The penchant for hot young Latinos? No, Anderson Cooper cannot be contained merely by a rote taxonomy of his many virtues, but nevertheless, we've never met a man you couldn't properly encapsulate in a good, solid pie chart. Plus, it ties in quite neatly to the whole "360 degrees" concept, don't you agree? After the jump, Intern Mary plows through just this past year's worth of Anderson Cooper media mentions, classifying each attempt to distill and articulate the fundamental Cooperian appeal.