This is a clip of a kid that had a pretty lucky day on the Price is Right. Our favorite is Drew Carey's reaction. Did Bob Barker ever jump with excitement?

The wisdom of ESPN, "We're taking an entire 24 - one full turn around the sun..."

In case there is any confusion...it takes an entire 365 for the Earth to make "one full turn around the sun."

Our thanks to Reddit for pinch hitting on a slow news day.

Citibank, trying to bring some financial acumen to the Hollywood cesspool, is now the target of lawsuits from Ryan Kavanaugh's Relativity Media, while Citibank is simply saying back-at-ya, according to the trades.

A legal battle has erupted between Kavanaugh's Relativity Media and banker Citigroup Global Markets over a multi-million-dollar financing deal to invest in as man as 45 films produced or acquired by Sony Pictures, including Adam Sandler's awful clunker "You Don't Mess With The Zohan."

They may have the money, but nobody says they're critics.

Relativity filed suit Tuesday in Manhattan federal court against Citigroup, claiming breach of contract. Citigroup filed its own lawsuit in New York Supreme Court in Manhattan the same day.

More on Citibank below:

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American Idol has been a television juggernaut for Fox. It sweeps in the ratings - it's been a cultural mainstay for eight seasons. Nine? American Idol has been idolized - replicated and made into a formula to which we are all familiar: three judges watch crazy people that really think they're good but aren't. We laugh at their shocking lack of self-awareness (like we did with Sarah Palin), then the judges say mean things and Americans feel better about themselves for never trying.

Then the second half of the season, really talented people cry and say how bad they want to win in all their private interviews.

Bring on the product integration!

So now a woman named Paula Goodspeed, a contestant (her AI video, if you have the stomach to watch, can be found here) killed herself in front of Paula Abdul's house yesterday.

Now that it's happened, it seems like it was only a matter of time. These people are being mocked nationally for nothing more than ratings, our national sense of smugness and a overwhelming desire to tell untalented people off. It's like that line from Sunset Boulevard "You don't yell at a sleepwalker - he may fall and break his neck."

Will this change American Idol? Will it be like Jenny Jones after the murder of one of her guests? That arguably changed talk shows.

Will they stop using random unpaid fragile crazy people and just stick to having their regular celebrity fragile crazy people?

Discuss.

Arch conservative talk-show host Rush Limbaugh tried to take his anti-Obama campaign to a new level when he figured out on the air this morning (on KFI 640) that new White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel was in fact the brother to Endeavor agent Ari Emanuel.

"The Clintons had the Thomason's," Limbaugh bombasted about former President Bill Clinton's links to Harry and Linda Bloodworth Thomason. "Now the Obamas have access to anyone they want."

Apart from discussing how "nice, really great guy" Ari was (does he know what he's saying?) and how Ari invited, nay begged Rush to come out to Hollywood to go to the Oscars, Limbaugh dropped the subject quickly and moved on.

Luckily, Limbaugh wasn't aware that Ari is the model for Ari Gold on "Entourage," which no doubt would have led to a Limbaugh diatribe against the show's producers (Mark Wahlberg, among others) for not inviting him to be a guest star.

How do they say it? That's Hollywood.

The election is only five days gone, but the Republicans (if you can ever believe anything that AOL posts) are already huddling to find a candidate to challenge Barack in 2012.

A few names near the top of their list include Mike Huckabee, Mitt Romney, Newt Gingrich (remember him?) and of course, Tina Fey-lookalike Sarah Palin.

But the one they seem to have overlooked, Cal. Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, was made clear to me last week when I did an interview with Australian radio about my documentary, "Running with Arnold." The Aussies asked me: "Wouldn't Arnold be the next Republican nominee?"

I explained to them that the Ah-nuld would have to amend the Constitution to allow a foreign-born resident to become President and it would take two-thirds of Congress to say yes. Unless Arnold saves the world or maybe just the economy in the next couple of years, it's unlikely.

But it could still be a possibility. Arnold, if he can gain some momentum, could be a possible candidate. It's been a boyhood dream of Arnold's for years (my doc made clear), so I'm sure he would welcome it. We would also be prepping for "Running with Arnold 2."

According to Matea Gold at the LAT, a record 71 million watched Barack Obama's historic win Tuesday. The breakdown:

*ABC captured 13.13 million pairs of eyes.
*CNN drew 13.3 million people watching overall - though 12.3 million watched the network's coverage during primetime.
*NBC came in third with 12.02 million viewers.

Sam Tyler, of Tyler Productions, Inc., wrote us to let us know about this must-see TV broadcast:

I thought you might want to know that despite five letters threatening to sue us (from Wendy McCaw's attorney Barry Cappello), we are releasing Citizen McCaw to Public Television. The first broadcast will be on KRCB Channel 22 in the Bay Area this coming Sunday, November 4 at 8 PM. It's a great time slot.

More PBS stations will carry in 2009. The cover of KRCB's program guide is attached as is one of Cappello's letters. We ignored Cappello and have continued to move ahead.

-- Sam

Earlier: Wendy McCaw--Now In Panavision, Cinemascope and Wide Screen

Our Friends on Franklin Ave. noticed a new low for local news coverage:

Smack in the middle of reporting yesterday's 405 closure, KCBS weather girl Vera Jimenez basically does an ad for the Lincoln SKS -- including shots of her test driving the car. As Mike Schneider points out ""not so coincidentally, KCBS' morning traffic coverage is sponsored by SoCal Lincoln dealers, whose screen bug remains on the lower left-hand corner throughout). Cut to video of Vera, hanging out inside the vehicle and extolling the virtues of the car. Then cut to weather."

When Schneider asked a "KCBS insider" about the spot, the source "admitted that it was a bit awkward, especially given the placement. That person conceded that it was an 'experiment, but not necessarily something we'll be doing in the future.'"

This is the best we've heard or read about Dumb the Pandering. Stephen Colbert nailed it. Complete with a cameo by Cedric the Entertainer.