1. Last night Jon Stewart stopped by The Colbert Report to sign paperwork that legally makes him the head of Stephen Colbert’s super PAC — a move that will allow the late night host to pursue his “possible candidacy for the president of the United States of South Carolina.” [via Huffington Post]

2. Surprise: There’s another film project about Abraham Lincoln in the works! This one, which will be produced by Ridley Scott, is a documentary based on Bill O’Reilly‘s recent book Killing Lincoln: The Shocking Assassination That Changed America Forever — source material that, as The Playlist points out, is “so factually inept, the National Parks Service has banned it from being sold at the Ford’s Theater.”

3. Kenneth Branagh will direct Kate Winslet in The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, a juicy-sounding period drama about a magazine reporter’s relationship with the residents of a Nazi-occupied island off the coast of Normandy. [via Vulture]

4. The Flaming Lips’ next album, which we already knew would feature collaborations with the Plastic Ono Band and Bon Iver, will apparently also include contributions from Nick Cave, Ke$ha, Lykke Li, and Erykah Badu. The LP is set to be released this coming April. [via NME]

5. The Daily reports that, thanks to a multimillion-dollar deal to be the spokeswoman for a pharmaceutical company, Paula Deen is about to reveal to the world that she has Type 2 diabetes. Does this mean no more deep-fried Twinkies for breakfast, y’all?

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1. Old Ideas, the lovely Leonard Cohen’s first studio album in seven years, isn’t due out until January, but you can already stream one of the tracks called “Show Me The Place” here.

2. Julie Delpy has signed on to direct The Right Profile, a biopic about Clash frontman Joe Strummer that will focus on his later years, which were spent largely outside of the spotlight. [via CinemaBlend]

3. Stephen King, Haruki Murakami, James Frey, and Chris Adrian are among the authors on the shortlist for the 19th annual Bad Sex in Fiction Award, which is organized by the Literary Review. The lucky winner will be announced at a ceremony on December 6. [via Telegraph]

4. According to a new study in the UK, more successful male artists have more sexual partners than less successful artists. Oddly, the researchers’ findings did not hold true for female artists. [via Guardian]

5. While discussing last weekend’s pepper spray incident at UC Davis with Bill O’Reilly, Fox News host Megyn Kelly felt the need to point out that it is “a food product, essentially.” Meanwhile O’Reilly says, “I don’t think we have the right to Monday-morning quarterback the police, particularly at a place like UC Davis, which is a fairly liberal campus.” [via Gawker]

Bonus Buzz: Zoidberg Reimagined

1. “After leaving the governor’s office I told my wife about this event, which occurred over a decade ago. I understand and deserve the feelings of anger and disappointment among my friends and family. There are no excuses and I take full responsibility for the hurt I have caused. I have apologized to Maria, my children and my family. I am truly sorry.” – The real reason behind Arnold Schwarzenegger and Maria Shriver’s recent split — the fact that he father a child with a longtime staffer — has finally come out.

2. As part of its “Find the Future” Centennial celebration, the New York Public Library has launched a free iPad app that allows users to search, scroll, and zoom around on select items in its vast research collection, beginning with the NYPL’s vast holdings on the 1939-1940 World’s Fair. [via Book Bench]

3. In case you missed the Factor last night, watch the best parts of Jon Stewart and Bill O’Reilly’s face off over whether or not Common should have been invited to a poetry reading at the White House here.

4. Jack White is reportedly in talks to re-record the music for a film adaptation of The Kinks’ 1975 concept album, Schoolboys In Disgrace. Says Bobcat Goldthwait, who’s working on the project with Ray Davies: “It’s the genesis story of a supervillain set to music. It’s the story of the world’s most charming criminal and a realistic high school musical for all the kids who hate sugary, sweet, unrealistic high school musicals.” [via NME]

5. In case you’re not planning to head to GaGaville to preview new songs from Lady Gaga’s Born This Way, “Marry The Night,” the first to debut there, is streaming right here.

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Just when we were about to surrender to supercut fatigue, the geniuses at Wonkette had to lure us in with this inspired edit of Bill O’Reilly’s pre-Super Bowl interview with President Obama. (Yes, folks, although you may have been too busy gulping beer and snarfing hot wings, this did indeed happen.) O’Reilly is known for undermining his more liberal guests, and while he didn’t go so far as to cut Obama’s mic, he did repeatedly interrupt the president. And by repeatedly, we mean 48 times. Watch the video after the jump.

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Etch A Sketch art is fleeting. And when we were kids, our parents weren’t going to waste film documenting our masterpieces — which usually resembled uneven stairs. Now, as Internet-equipped adults we can view much better Etch a Sketch art that will live forever thanks to the magic of Flickr. We’ve gathered ten of our pop culture portraits after the jump, in no particular order. Make sure to add any we missed in the comments section.

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Today at Flavorpill, we remembered a decade of Bill O’Reilly’s hip-hop feuds. We flipped for these rare in utero images of animals and we feared this mighty duck penis. We couldn’t believe that Amy Winehouse was arrested for assault while attending a kiddie-filled performance of Cinderella. We liked this seasonal parody of Lonely Island’s “On A Boat.” We made some rather strong eggnog. We wondered who the target demographic is for Michael Jackson’s doctor’s upcoming reality TV show. We thought that Playboy should actually consider this fictional rebranding. We downloaded Sondre Lerche’s Animal Collective cover. And finally, we drooled while watching Gizmodo play with the Google Nexus.

Happy holidays, guys. We’ll be posting a few things tomorrow, but going radio silent on Friday. If you find yourselves bored in the meantime, head over to our indie band stereotypes post and pick a fight with someone in the comments. It’s not exactly in the spirit of the season, but it is oddly cathartic.

Only Bill O’Reilly could look completely non-nonplussed about meeting his honorary Muppet counterpart, Spill O’Reilly. And then accuse the puppet of resembling Congressman Barney Frank. And then tell the puppet that he needs a new tie and jacket. Sherrie Westin, Executive VP of Sesame Workshop was obviously trying to smooth things over after Oscar the Grouch trashed Pox News by playing up the historical angle, but we’re not sure it worked.

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Please excuse our mixed dystopic metaphors, but Edward Champion reports that bookish types are debating whether or not bookstores should be able to request that visiting authors keep their curse words and dirty talk to a minimum.  It all started when a Massachusetts store asked Jennifer Weiner, who is currently touring to promote her new novel, Best Friends Forever, to kindly avoid the word “cock” at a signing. Weiner complied, so score one for puritanical New England-ers. Read More »