Disney has finally completed its excruciatingly long quest to sell Miramax. Price: $660 million. Buyers: an investment group headed by Ron Tutor, a California construction mogul. Non-buyers: the Weinsteins, Ron Burkle, Rob Lowe. Watch Pulp Fiction in their honor. [LAT]

A wealthy scion of an American dynasty is using his media knowledge and Hollywood connections to lobby power players to insert subtle liberal messages into movies and TV shows by manipulating their storylines. This is not propaganda, apparently.

Wake up, slumbering moviegoers! As you chew your buttery popcorn and enjoy Hollywood's latest "entertainment," The Kids Are All Right, your innocent children are being mentally imprisoned by gays. Sniffing coke and having gay sex, for kids? Andrea Peyser reports!

In your inspirational Thursday media column: Miramax may be nearing a sale, a motorcycle writer canned for writing honestly about motorcycle things, Science vs. Pepsi controversy resolved, Tina Gaudoin rejoins the WSJ, and NPR name change alert!

Hollywood talent agent Ed Limato—who represented stars such as Steve Martin, Mel Gibson, Robert Downey Jr., and Denzel Washington during a 44 year career—died in his home today. He was 73 years old.

Avatar… biggest movie EVER. That 3D stuff sure was impressive! And now the franchise is moving into a new genre, with the fall 2010 release of Hustler's This Ain't Avatar XXX, a sexxxy adaptation of the James Cameron hit. [Slashfilm]

Traditionally, U.S. states have fallen over each other to offer tax incentives to filmmakers who come and make glamorous "movies" in boring, non-glamorous states. Now, states aren't so sure. Does abundant cannibalism make you want to visit Michigan?

Did Keanu Reeves Really buy all of the special FX guys on The Matrix motorcycles and drive some rando 60 miles in his Porsche after her car broke down? Reddit has assembled stories of Keanu being extremely nice. [The Frisky]

A Picasa user has compiled a gallery of the same newspaper being used on set for everything from Married with Children and Desperate Housewives, to Dallas and No Country for Old Men. [via Boing Boing]

The New York Post report today that the Justice Department has been calling "a handful of the country's biggest media and technology companies," to get their views on Apple. A prospect that cannot fill Steve Jobs with confidence.

Novelist James Fogle, author of Drugstore Cowboy, which later became a movie starring Matt Dillon, was arrested this week for robbing a pharmacy near Seattle. He surrendered to police with two trash cans full of drugs in his hands.

Oh, turns out those new $20 movie tickets were "a mistake." Come back! Please!

With the release of the appropriately monstro-schlocky Shrek Forever After on IMAX, movie tickets (in Manhattan, at least) are passing the "symbolically important" $20 price point. Yea, you know what else is symbolically important? Netflix. [WSJ]

Dana "Queen Latifah" Owens plunked down $1.4 million for a Hollywood Hills home in December. The other name on the deed? Fitness guru and author Jeanette Jenkins, who has long been rumored to be her partner.

Adedamola Olatunji lived in a small apartment on the South Side of Chicago. Where he pretended to be Ben Stiller, David Duchovny, Paul Haggis, Paul Schrader and Noah Baumbach and used their credit cards for iTunes and online dating.

Russell Crowe is set to capture America's heart all over again when Robin Hood hits theaters in two weeks. But let us not forget: Russell Crowe is crazy. Some exclusive excerpts from a new book remind us just how crazy.

It's like the last decade-and-a-half didn't happen! After a fierce back-and-forth between people with lots of money, The Brothers Weinstein—financed by Billionaire Ron Burkle—have bought back the storied Miramax name and catalog.

Once-proud studio Miramax died in January, and Disney is selling off its carcass for pennies on the dollar. But look who might snap it up: The Weinstein brothers, who built the place, and their billionaire pal Ron Burkle!

Still upset over Dan Brown's suggestion that Jesus was boning Mary, Pope Benedict decided to exact revenge on the liberal heathens of southern California by appointing a new Archbishop of LA — Jose Gomez, an ultra-orthodox Opus Dei bishop. [Telegraph]

In your touchy Tuesday media column: Shep Smith gets cunt-pranked, Miramax and MGM's death gets explained, David Shuster gets suspended, Liz Claman gets profiled (libtard), and Hearst gets three new editors.