Anderson Cooper continues to let it be known, in every possible medium and format, that he is willing to entertain America's brave, well-toned troops in troubled hotspots should his services as a tough-but-emotionally-nurturing (and sometimes giggling) CNN anchor be required. You'll recall Cooper's message of support in Outside magazine's May issue: "I don't understand why more artists don't go and entertain the troops... I saw this documentary on Marlene Dietrich, and during World War II she was going out, right to the front lines. I think she was having sex with a lot of the troops, too." Cooper must have gotten to thinking about Dietrich's personal sacrifices, because a Rush & Molloy tipster just spotted him "looking patriotic in a USO tee on an early flight from New Orleans to JFK last week." Your salute to the troops, like those before it, will surely not go unnoticed, Anderson. [Daily News]

The Sopranos, edited for PAX Christian Television. And, yes, I do think Mad TV is classic!

Movie studios like me, that's why they release their new trailers on the weekends. Here's the brand spanking new one for Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. And, unlike the first one, it looks really good!

Yesterday, Kanye West got all screechy and babyish about a luke warm Entertainment Weekly review. Today, he has blogger's remorse. He says on his website, "Unfortunately for certain media outlets, you will never be able 2 'Michael Jackson' me. That means 2 make it seem like everything I do is so weird or out of place... they always try 2 make it seem like everything is about my ego! That joke is getting old."

You see, they're not all bad. Once we all learn to be friends with our aquatic cousins we can harvest their colossal strength for the greater good of humanity.

Tricia Walsh-Smith, the psycho-eyed spurned ex-wife who made this video and this video about her sexually unpleasing Broadway mogul ex is said to be joining the cast of crows for season two of Bravo's Real Housewives of New York City.

So there was that guy killed by a shark last week. But that was only the beginning! Because it's almost summer. And there are sharks with lots of teeth everywhere-and they're gonna eat ya! "Two deaths in the waters off California and Mexico last week and a spate of shark-inflicted injuries to surfers off Florida's Atlantic coast have left beachgoers seeking an explanation for a sudden surge in the number of strikes. In the first four months of this year, there were four fatal shark attacks worldwide, compared with one in the whole of 2007, according to the International Shark Attack File at the Florida Museum of Natural History in Gainesville."

Vladimir Nabokov's son, Dmitri, caused a big ol' sensation when he decided to publish his father's unfinished final novel, The Original of Laura, rather than burn the manuscript, like his dad had asked him to on his deathbed. But Dmitri now says that Nabokov's dying wish was mostly just a lot of huffing and puffing from a sick old man.

Ouch, Hillary! Hollywood nice guy and Oscar collector Tom Hanks just released a video endorsing Senator Barack Obama for President.

So here's the new high definition trailer for The Dark Knight. There were a couple of crappy bootleg versions on YouTube for a few hours last week until Warner Bros. pitched a fit. Video after the jump.

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I love Phil Hartman. But I also love Dave Foley. If only there was some way I could see them both at the same time. Oh yeah! NewsRadio! My favorite clip is after the jump. What's yours?

It seems like only yesterday that I got my first unsolicited piece of shit email from some piece of shit selling some piece of shit. But spam is actually 30 freakin' years-old today! "The first recognisable e-mail marketing message was sent on 3 May, 1978 to 400 people on behalf of DEC-a now-defunct computer-maker. The message was sent via Arpanet-the internet's forerunner-and won its sender much criticism from recipients. Thirty years on, spam has grown into an underground industry that sends out billions of messages every day."

Well, I certainly think so. But since this month marks the ten-year anniversary of the sitcom's final episode, you just knew some cranky-ass little critic boy would have to take the opportunity to be all, "Meh. You suck!" So here's Newsweek's Marc Peyser. "As someone who doesn't dip into its bottomless rerun pool much, I was surprised when I sat down with the show again by how poorly 'Seinfeld' holds up. What once seemed smart-they just did a storyline on John Cheever's diaries!-feels like shtik. The pacing-no show had ever packed in so many scenes, some of them lasting a few seconds-now seems formulaic and forced. You can almost hear the guys sitting in the writers' room throwing out ideas: Wouldn't it be funny if [...] Jerry dated a deaf girl?" Yeah, and I can also almost hear a bunch of lazy editors sitting around a conference table saying, "Hey wouldn't it be funny if, instead of celebrating the anniversary, we do a smack-down? Yeah!"

Here is the only pro-Barack Obama (or pro-anyone, really) YouTube video that I've been able to sit through in its entirety. But, then again, I'll sit through pretty much anything involving Star Wars. Because Star Wars is the greatest thing ever. Period.

Aww, our adorable li'l sister site Jezebel is almost a year old and is being celebrated with its very own Times feature. Yay! "Like a digital-age upgrade of Sassy, the 1990s-era indie-feminist teenage magazine, Jezebel appeals to a young, urban demographic, with a roster of editors whose strong voices inspire loyal followings. Ms. [Tracie 'Slut Machine'] Egan shares details of her intimate life that are not safe for work. Maureen Tkacik, the site's features editor, who is known as Moe, gravitates toward politics and speaks out against what she calls the 'idiocracy.' Dodai Stewart, the senior editor, pokes fun at magazines and catalogs; in a feature called LOLVogue, she writes satirical captions for fashion spreads." And then come the commenters...

Communism. It sounds like it's all fun and games, until you see what the Soviet definition of "fun" is. Witness the freako attractions at children's playgrounds across the former USSR!

"I never want to be an expert in the field of blogs. That would be way too pathetic," says Buzz Bissinger, bug-eyed ranting madman and nemesis of Deadspin and all of its sickening brethren. Interesting take Mr. Bissinger, thank you for sharing that explanation with us. [Fanhouse]

Getting stuck in an elevator could be the new path to media stardom. It did wonders for the guy from BusinessWeek who got trapped in one for 41 hours and ended up losing his job and his mental health. But he did get in the New Yorker! Now the parodies have begun, and this one, from Max Silvestri of 23/6, is actually pretty hilarious. Be warned, though: it makes light of the serious issue of elevator survival skills. Clip below.

Fox News will always have its revenge! Back in March, news of a bedbug infestation in Fox's newsroom surfaced, and the huge PR firm Fleishman-Hillard took advantage of it to promote one of their pest control clients—offering a free de-lousing to any Fox guests. You just knew that Fox wouldn't let that insult slide. Today, the fair and balanced station got its on-air vengeance against the PR firm [PRNewser], with a little of Fox's trademark gratuitous humiliation: