1. Remember the nude sketch that Tony Bennett did of Lady Gaga for Vanity Fair per Annie Leibovitz’s suggestion? Well, it’s now up for auction on eBay, with the proceeds going to Gaga’s Born This Way Foundation and Bennett’s Exploring The Arts. [via NME]
2. “I have heard that Lady Gaga is keen to play Amy in a film. I don’t know what her English accent is like but it’s not just an English accent she would have to perfect – it’s an English-Cockney-Jewish accent so she better start practicing now. But she would be great.” — Amy Winehouse’s father Mitch, as quoted by The Mirror. Meanwhile The Daily Mail is reporting that he says that there will never be a film. Which UK tabloid do we trust?!
3. Jenny Slate and Dean Fleischer-Camp were on Rock Center last night discussing their talented son, Marcel the Shell, with host Brian Williams. Watch the adorable interview (which takes place in their adorable Brooklyn apartment) here.
4. Evidently, James Franco is now writing movie reviews for The Paris Review. He also narrates the new documentary Eames: The Architect and the Painter, which comes out on DVD today.
5. You know that you need to watch SNL cast member Taran Killam re-create Robyn’s “Call Your Girlfriend” video. Why doesn’t he get to do stuff like this on the show? [via Vulture]
Tonight marks 30 Rock’s 100th episode(!), and to celebrate this fact NBC is releasing three animated webisodes based on the show. Click through to check out the first in the series, which features Alec Baldwin’s Jack Donaghy as an executive with secret super powers that he must use to time travel in a battle with his old friend Brian Williams over some frozen yogurt. As he explains, “If I don’t have frozen yogurt, how am I supposed to spend my Friday afternoon listening to Vince Lombardi speeches and eating frozen yogurt?” Seriously.
As part of the generation that gets its news from the Internet, we have to admit that we don’t spend much time watching it on TV. But recently, a TV news anchor has attained such indisputable awesomeness that we can no longer ignore him. Ladies and gentlemen, we present to you our newest favorite person on television: Brian Williams. Let us count the ways after the jump.
Our friends at Comedy Central worked the red carpet at the New York Comedy Festival‘s Stand-Up For Heroes event, eschewing traditional celebrity reporting to play a game of “Would You Rather?” with Dan Rather, taunt Brian Williams about his newscaster rivalry with Jon Stewart, and temporarily fluster comedian Lisa Lampanelli, otherwise known as the Queen of Mean.
If you live in New York and want to check out some festival offerings, Tracy Morgan plays Carnegie Hall tonight, and Bill Maher closes out the festival on Sunday at Lincoln Center; you can also catch Andy Sandberg that same evening at Town Hall.
1. Fox’s Sarah Connor Chronicles has been officially canceled. Ditto for CBS’s Without a Trace and ABC’s The Unusuals. On a positive note, Chuck lives. [via ABC]
2. “Robert Draper’s GQ piece on Donald Rumsfeld being called out by former colleagues, they’re running covers of his White House morning defense briefings. You have to see these.” Yes, you do. [via Gawker]
3. Indie music lovin’ news anchor Brian Williams debuts the unfortunately-named BriTunes, a music interview series on his NBC site with a piece on Deer Tick. [via Spinner]
4. What happens when a “never-nude” dates a sister of the traveling pants? Copious PDA. [via NYP]
5. Lens is the New York Times‘ new photojournalism blog that lets you feel cultured and aware without having to deal with all those exhausting words. [via NYT]
