Incarcerated titty-flash magnate Joe Francis's daring experiment in interactive jurisprudence, You Be The Judge, has been proven a huge success: the women in the video he recently posted to his website have dropped their lawsuit and apologized to the world's foremost documentarian of Spring Break culture. Said Francis to Gatecrasher, "I'm very pleased with the events today. It's a sign of things to come... I'm sure that there will be another [similar lawsuit] that will follow it." And when it does, You Be The Judge will be there to clear his good name with more damning footage of opportunistic co-eds screaming, "I'll give you all the consent you want if you give me one of the Girls Gone Wild shot glasses! Wooo!" [Gatecrasher]

Accompanied by the usual retinue of paparazzi photographers and local news crews that document her every frappuccino run, conspicuously public lunch date, and spur-of-the-moment shopping trip to the Neglected Baby Gap, embattled onetime popstar Britney Spears reported to the Van Nuys police station under the cover of darkness last night to be booked for her failure to leave a "Sorry, y'all, I'm bad at parking!" note on the car she struck in a Petco parking lot back in August. The routine processing unfolded without incident, according to a police spokesperson whose description of his experience with Spears recalls the vague pride of a pet owner whose Chihuahua successfully evacuated its bowels outside of the house for the first time:

Avowed bisexual Tila Tequila, who rose to fame for being the hub through which every strain of MySpace-proliferated STD has passed at least once, is currently hunting for the man or woman of her dreams on MTV reality show A Shot at Love with Tila Tequila. While we're certain Tila's emotional fulfillment was first and foremost on the minds of the show's producers, doubling the number of contestants also cleverly doubled the chances of capturing an always entertaining bitch-choking, weave-yanking smackdown.

Curbed LA directs us to the official web presence introducing NBC Universal's planned Metro Studio@Lankershim in Universal City, the facility to which the company hopes to relocate its local network news operations, its West Coast news headquarters, and, perhaps most excitingly, Access Hollywood—as you can see from the handsome rendering of the space, the studio's windows will provide an exhilarating, Today Show-style view of NBC employees waving "WE LOVE YOU BILLY BUSH!" signs as the wildly popular host recaps Eva Longoria's latest trip to Robertson Blvd.

Caught in our inbox pitch filter: "Rodriguez and McGowan find love on Planet Terror
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Everything after the final notes of its familiar theme, from the playing out of a highly suspect "perfect game," to the friendly sign-off reminder to "help control the sex-worker population: Have a hooker spayed or neutered today," suggested a new era has dawned at The Price is Right. Gone is Bob Barker's well-calibrated "atmosphere of terror." In its place is new host Drew Carey's atmosphere of congeniality, where every contestant is referred to as "buddy" or "man," and where new cars are given away with a frequency that would make Oprah blush.

· Music round-up: Rilo Kiley at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium; PJ Harvey at the Orpheum; Boris with Damon & Naomi at the Echoplex; Jimmy Eat World at the El Rey.
· The Redcat hosts a presentation of highlights from Portland's Platform International Animation Festival.
· Sarah Silverman, whose controversial opinions on Britney Spears' adorable little mistakes have recently won the comedienne some notoriety, will appear at Largo with a collection of friends.

If you didn't thumb through today's Variety, you missed a chance to share in the trade paper's rousing salute to Two and a Half Men's 100th episode (nothing says, "Fuck you, disapproving TV critics tragically out of touch with America's lowbrow sitcom tastes!" like hitting triple digits), an issue featuring enough congratulatory advertising to fund Charlie Sheen's cheerleader-themed Real Doll hobby well into the next century.

Knowing that CBS's decision to pass on pilot Babylon Fields for a midseason replacement timeslot means that audiences will now never get the chance to experience the network's bold attempt to invigorate the moribund crime procedural genre with the edgy, zombie-fucking action it was sorely lacking, TV Week.com has resurrected some clips from the aborted series, giving us a glimpse of the necrophilia-tinged primetime programming we could all be enjoying instead of the tepid offerings involving vampires or Jimmy Smits that made the schedule instead. Explains TV Week:

Despite David Letterman's best efforts to the contrary, Paris Hilton is fully committed to looking ahead since a recent incarceration threw everything into perspective for the multihyphenated heiress: There are B-movies to shoot, Folies Bergères-themed fragrances to promote, and, of course, the matter of her ongoing charity campaigns, including her oft-mentioned sojourn to Rwanda, where she hopes to spend some celebrity capital in order to raise awareness about whatever it is that's going on over there. Newsweek reports:

CSI's Jorja Fox has announced that she's leaving the show, hoping to pursue roles that involve dramatic challenges more demanding than holding a blacklight over a semen-splattered corpse week after week . Thankfully, her departure from the series seems more amicable than that of recent Prison Break escapee Sarah Wayne Callies, so maybe she'll be able to avoid having her severed head wind up in a box on her farewell episode. [EW.com]

· Ray director Taylor Hackford convinces "very busy" wife Helen Mirren and semi-retired actor Joe Pesci to star in Love Ranch, the heartwarming tale of the man who established Nevada's first legal brothel, his madam spouse, and the boxer gunned down by a bodyguard for his suspected sexual involvement with the aforementioned Mustang Ranch proprietress. [Variety]
· Justice League director George Miller is auditioning virtually every young actor in Hollywood (Adam Brody! Minka Kelly! Mary Elizabeth Winstead!) during a "marathon casting session" running through today, hoping that the cattle call will help him fill coveted parts like Superman, Batman, the Flash and Wonder Woman with talent cheap enough to stay together for several movies. [THR]
· Led Zeppelin is finally making their music available online, with the band's entire catalogue hitting the internets on November 13. Also: the "Black Dog" ringtone you've been wanting since you were sixteen will soon be made available. [Variety]
· CBS wins Sunday night after the Patriots-Cowboys game runs long, though ABC's Desperate Housewives and Brothers & Sisters both put up better numbers than last week. [THR]
· Overseas moviegoers continue to delight in Pixar's animated story of a talented rat who saved a fading French bistro by flouting Paris's overly restrictive restaurant cleanliness laws. [Variety]

If you're anything like us, you won't be making any decisions about which Democratic presidential candidate to support until they've run The View's political gauntlet, where they're forced to face a punishing inquisition at the hands of America's most influential panel of couchbound pundits.

We almost lost her to Chicago. Now Jennifer Aniston is threatening us with a move to New York: "I can actually visualize it again, for some reason. I don't know, I'm just tired of Los Angeles. In New York, you're not just in that same car, looking at that same dashboard, driving down the same street...If you can get away from the paparazzi and they don't know where you are, you can actually walk, walk, walk." We got $5 in the office pool saying she's not going anywhere. [UsWeekly]

We dispatched Defamer videographer Molly McAleer to the 2007 High Times Stony Awards (congratulations to Stoner of the Year Seth Rogen!), where she enticed munchies-afflicted celebrities strolling down the green carpet with homemade snickerdoodles and an inviting smile. It was a potent combination, that got Tommy Chong to open up about the "unauthorized" Cheech n' Chong biography he's writing, and Lindsay Lohan's main Mean Girls homegay, Daniel Franzese, to employ an arm-breaking metaphor in discussing her recent cokepanted troubles.

Catching a strong whiff of the fetid stench of fear wafting off everyone currently drawing a paycheck in the entertainment industry, today's LAT offers up two pieces on the looming™ writers strike that seems increasingly inevitable every time the WGA and the Alliance of Motion Picture & Television Producers break from their negotiating sessions to issue dueling press releases decrying the other side's commitment to destroying Hollywood with their unchecked greed. In his column on a possible strike's impact on the TV landscape, Scott Collins travels back to 1988 in his Labor Strife Wayback Machine to see if there are any lessons to be learned from the network schedules resulting from that year's crippling work stoppage:

Now that we've all tried the reality TV play-along-at-home game sensation, Guess the Token Project Runway Straight Male, we thought we'd up the difficulty level with an add-on module: Now Guess Which One Allegedly Claimed He Was Voted Off for Being an HIV-Positive Bio-hazard? Gatecrasher reports:

Even though Keith Richards makes all the headlines for doing things like snorting his dad, it turns out that Ron Wood may have been the Rolling Stones' most accomplished drug addict. We're just happy that Wood is finally receiving the recognition he so richly deserves. [Rush & Molloy]

Let the weekend box office numbers be your much-needed rays of sunshine on this gloomy Monday morning: