This one goes to eleven: Lloyd Grove reports that MSNBC's Rita Cosby has been awarded a portrait-justifying timeslot on the network for her as new show (title TBA). She'll air at 11:00 opposite reruns on Fox and CNN, but which will also pit her against "The Daily Show." We're reserving judgment until we see her in Harry Potter glasses. [NYDN]

...and the watchers become the watched: Us Weekly's $2.4 million-dollar Min and her, er, Min-ions will be featured in a documentary on "how celebrity culture has changed America," according to Page Six (who was first to use the word "minions" but may not have intended the pun. Either way, credit where credit is due). They will be filmed at Us for three months, paving the way for numerous "just like us!" jokes. Either way, lunch is on Wenner! [NYP]

They were all impressed with your Halston dress and the people that you knew at Elaine's: Today marks the start of hearings in the libel case brought by fugitive filmmaker (and Oscar winner) Roman Polanski who is suing Condé Nast for a July 2002 Vanity Fair article that claimed Polanski hit on a hot Swede at Elaine's shortly after the grisly murder of his wife Sharon Tate in 1969. Somehow, Polanski managed to finagle the case over to plaintiff-friendly Britain, where he is to testify via closed-circuit TV lest he be extradited to the US to stand trial for borkig a 13-year old. Witnesses for the plaintiff include Mia Farrow ("Rosemary's Baby"); Condé Nast will call Lewis Lapham, to whom the offending anecdote is actually attributed. Graydon Carter will not testify. Kind of an interesting situation, granting the right to a fugitive to testify remotely so as not to face extradition. Interesting system, those Brits. NB To the best of my knowledge, Polanski did not ever wear a Halston dress to Elaine's, whatever he may have promised the hot Swede. [Variety]

And I am telling you I'm not going: You all know this by now, but Chief Justice William Rehnquist will not be stepping down from the Supreme Court. He's staying, he's staying and you and you and you, you're gonna love him. Yeah, you have no clue now but when Beyonce sings it you'll be all over it. [CNN]