Scriptland: The LAT gave freelancer (and former guest Fishbowler) Jay Fernandez a weekly column to review screenplays.

While Nikki Finke thinks this "might be the single worst idea in the history of the Los Angeles Times' Calendar section," we disagree. There is a place for reviewing screenplays, if only for the glimpse it gives into the convoluted process that is film making. We happen to find the road from idea to film fascinating -- and we miss the minutiae-detailed reports about this that Entertainment Weekly used to give us years ago.

That said, we don't get this column. The first section of it deals with Charlie Kaufman's new script and the writer's angst over writing about another writer's written word. Isn't that the point of a review column? We really wanted to like this column -- hopefully, Fernandez will figure out his voice and his point and fulfill our wish. It needs a rewrite.

Not Enough Minorities On TV ... Just on Network Boards: African-Americans were a wee bit ticked that the NAACP hadn't made a peep about the upcoming Survivor segregation season. turns out NAACP president Bruce Gordon is also a CBS Corp. board member. He finally did come out with the toothless admonition that the game show's new format is "a bad idea."

Yeah, so is conflict of interest.

Playmate Mantis? Why do men keep dying around Anna Nicole Smith? The old guy, Howard Marshall II, that made sense, that was part of the plan. But Marshall's 67-year-old son? And now Anna Nicole Smith's own kid? Authorities have declared 20-year-old Daniel Wayne Smith's death "suspicious."

No kidding, it's suspicious. If I were the "unknown father" (cough, attorney Howard Stern, cough) of Smith's new baby girl, I'd get an angiogram.