Oliver Stone's drive to get his Bush biopic W in front of audiences before Election Day acquired new momentum on Thursday — if you can believe it. And we guess we have no choice but to wait and see if the director and Lionsgate, which yesterday picked up the film's North American distribution rights, can place their prismatic presidential quasi-drama on screens by their proposed Oct. 17 release date. Oct. 17! Stone hasn't even cast Dick Cheney yet — for a film that starts shooting Monday. Not a problem, insists the filmmaker, who's still spinning on the big picture:

BoingBoing wants to know what the hell is up with Dick Cheney's sunglasses in this official White House photo, which shows the Vice President grinning as a terrifying hellscape reflects itself in his aviators. We have the exclusive answer after the jump, in the form of the trailer for the awesomest movie ever, a documentary about the Bush Administration by John Carpenter.

• Amy Winehouse will be airlifted away from her crack and into rehab, possibly in Israel or South Africa. A doctor told the Sun the singer's skin damage is common among crack addicts. [Sun]

Thank fucking Christ for the Second Circuit. Those motherfuckers on the U.S. Court of Appeals ruled yesterday that the FCC's ability to fine stations and networks for broadcasting obscenities was a bunch of bullshit. In a 2-1 decision (and fuck you for dissenting, Judge Pierre N. Leval, you cocksmoker), the Court ruled that when even dickstabbers like President Bush and Vice President Cheney can swear like asspacking sailors on shore leave, curse words generally do not contain the kind of sexual context which the FCC used as a rationale for their retarded fucking fines. While FCC chairman Kevin Martin pissed and moaned like a nubile Wyoming farmboy being passed around for cigarettes, we believe that the opinion, which can be found here, is tit-suckingly sagacious and eminently, taint-munchingly prudent. Nice fucking work, fellas.

• Dick Cheney welcomes his—totally illegitimate—grandson into the world! [ free williamsburg]

Best Times correction ever?

• Who did the Newsday circ fraud hurt most? The City of Philadelphia, of course, which lost $310k on its Tribune Co. stock. Now it'll never be able to afford that nice place in Cobble Hill, and it might even be forced to move to — oh, wait. [Newsday]
• With fortuitous timing, the GQ teaches of all sorts of interesting things about Dick Cheney, including that a personality test once told him he should become a funeral director. [WWD]
• Carl Icahn to escalate TW fight. Again. [NYT]
• The secret life of Dr. Myra Vanderhood, unmasked. [NYT]

Never one to let an opportunity for publicity go unexploited, Animal's inimitable Bucky Turco distributed a press release moments ago announcing plans to plaster this poster around the city. "With the Vice President running around shooting people in the face, what other way to be prepared then this Dick Cheney poster/shooting target," the release says. Plus, "The poster also doubles as an awareness campaign to support bill: S.304/H.R. 1688, the Sportsmanship in Hunting Act of 2005, to help crack down on the unfair and cruel practice of canned hunting."

Cheney Hospitalized Briefly With Shortness of Breath [CNN]