1. Hollywood producer (and Elizabeth Hurley ex) Steve Bing provided the Boeing 737 jet for Bill Clinton’s North Korea mission to release Current TV journalists Laura Ling and Euna Lee. [via The Daily Beast]
2. While the details are still hazy, Ridley Scott and Leonardo DiCaprio will collaborate on a film adaption of Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World. [via The Hollywood Reporter]
3. Rupert Murdoch plans to charge you for all of the online content associated with the newspapers and television stations he owns. [insert Dr. Evil laugh here] [via CNET]
4. Bob Dylan (who converted from Judaism to Christianity in the late ’70s) is working on a Christmas album. [via NME]
5. The Piven Monologues, a show that explores the public controversy over Jeremy Piven’s sushi-fueled departure from Speed-the-Plow, will play Joe’s Pub in September. [via Playbill]