A New York hotel security chief and fire safety director was arrested this week for giving himself days off by setting fire to the hotels he was supposed to oversee.

The Summer of Death (Michael Jackson, John Hughes, Farah Fawcett) has triggered uncontrolled 1980s cultural recycling: ABC is developing an hour-long dramedy based on St. Elmo's Fire. Topher Grace is attached. Nostalgia will be the death of us all. [Reuters]