Great news, lambs! Newly slim and semi-recently unbatsh*t pop star Mariah Carey will bathe Manhattan in lavender, pink and white light this weekend when the Empire State Building ignites in those hues to honor Carey's new album, E=MC, a sure scientist fave. We couldn't say it any better than a friend of the 'bowl, who writes: "I love that someone like Mariah Carey has taken the work of a genius, Einstein, and corrupted it for the title of her little album, E=MC. And now we all get to bask in the dim glow of her celebrity. Thanks for nothing, Mimi."

Specifics, should you wish to take your pink, lavender and white sign to tomorrow's lighting ceremony, where Carey will hopefully only flip the switch (not flip out), after the jump.

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1. The specialty media discovery. In Radar's April issue, a piece runs on celebrity inspired blow-up dolls. Focusing on the creations of blow-up doll baron Nick Orlandio, mention is made of a Sarah Jessica Parker model, "Sarah Jessica Porker Loves Sex In Her Sh***y":

The most recent one [is] Sarah Jessica Porkher. The dolls are all about the box and artwork, because if you've seen the dolls, they're miserable-looking. The SJP doll is funniest. We were able to take existing copy and have fun with it.

Keep in mind that Radar mentioned a variety of celebrity inspired dolls, folks. Not just Sarah Jessica Parker.

2. Around 1.5 weeks after the Radar piece hits newsstands, the New York Post discovers
the SJP blow up doll:

The Chatsworth, Calif., sex-toy company's Web site touts the doll with mock laudatory newspaper reviews, like this one from "USGay Today": "From laptops to lap dances, this high-class piece of a — is gonna show you her Lower East Side!"

"I would think HBO would make an effort to stop this on the basis of trademark infringement," Brian Brokate, a Manhattan intellectual-property attorney, told The Post.

3. Blogs discover it.

OMG JORDAN!

Since we pretty much considered our girl-cousins on both sides dead to us in the late '80's when they fell like Bear Stearns stock for the New Kids on the Block, there was no way in hell we'd go anywhere near midtown on this Day of the Historic NKOTB Reunion. Liz Daniel felt differently as of 5 a.m. today, so for your high-pitched squealing pleasure, we offer her on-the-ground breakdown of the Kids' reunion appearance live on the TODAY show, featuring Joey McIntyre, Jordan Knight, Donnie Wahlberg and those other two no one ever remembers.

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26-year old US News & World Report Associate Editor Alex Kingsbury appeared on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart last night. They talked about his reporting on the Iraq War. ''When are you going back,'' Stewart asked at the conclusion. ''My family hopes not soon, so we'll see'' came the reply.

The Sex and the City: The Movie viral marketing season has officially started.

You see, we picked up our morning papers today to the news that Sarah Jessica Parker was royally peeved over a Maxim poll naming her the "Unsexiest Woman Alive."

The only problem? The poll was released back in October. Five months ago. It was an "unsexy" list that contained Madonna and Sandra Oh as well. Here's what Parker told British celeb weekly Grazia in an interview this week:

"Do I have fake boobs, Botox and big lips? No. Do I fit some ideals and standards of some men writing in a men's magazine? Maybe not. Am I really the unsexiest woman in the world? Wow! It's kind of shocking when men... It's so brutal in a way, so filled with rage and anger, so it was surprising to me that more people didn't talk about the providence of it, that it's coming from these men. [...] It's condemnation, it's insane. I guess you can't please all people. But I played a lot of parts, women that are really interesting and attractive to me. Obviously someone thinks I'm palatable to some degree."

So, the question remains, why were Parker and the interviewer bringing up the five month old Maxim interview? It's simple: By feigning anger at the poll, Parker got free press in (among others) the New York Post, the New York Daily News and Fox News for the upcoming Sex & The City movie. Friggin' genius.

Not to mention the fact that, we hear, her publicist was sending around the same excerpt from the same UK i'view to various publications.

So, that's how Sarah Jessica Parker handles stealth marketing for movies. As for her co-star Kristin Davis, she apparently prefers sex tapes. It's funny how they leaked online just before the movie...

Remember 1980s heavy metal band Twisted Sister? It turns out they're still around... and politically inclined. Twisted Sister guitarist (and New York native) Jay Jay French just recorded a remake of the band's song "I Wanna Rock" with the title "I Want Barack." Something tells us that the song won't be as popular as will.i.am's "Yes, We Can," however.

The only problem? It turns out Twisted Sister frontman Dee Snider supports another candidate for president, so the song is being released under the monicker "Jay Jay French and Friends."

Stephen Colbert is taking the 80 staffers of ''The Colbert Report'' on the road to cover the Pennsylvania Democratic Primary. From Monday, April 14 through Thursday, April 17 The Colbert Report will be taping from The Annenberg Center for the Performing Art's Zellerbach Theatre at the University of Pennsylvania. In a press release from Comedy Central, Colbert is quoted as saying, ''the road to the Democratic nomination goes through Pennsylvania and I intend to make my show the decisive pothole on that road! .. Plus, it's just across the river from Camden, New Jersey!''

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Ever the gracious host, satirical theocon and FishbowlNY frenemy Stephen Colbert helps Samantha Power spin that whole ''monster'' comment. And to make his guest comfortable, Colbert asserts that Senator John McCain is a Minotaur.

Dear Abby just got punk'd again. The following question was run in today's newspapers by writer Jeanne Phillips:

DEAR ABBY: I am 27, and my wife, "Marybeth," is 26. We recently went to my folks' house for supper. That evening a heavy snowstorm was starting and, because the trip home is 30 miles, we decided to stay overnight.

My old bedroom is upstairs, as are the rooms of my brothers, ages 25, 24 and 22. The guest room is downstairs. Because the room is quite small, and Marybeth said she felt a cold coming on, we decided I'd sleep in my old room.

The next day, while we were driving home, Marybeth told me she was glad I had come to her room after all and made love to her.

Abby, it wasn't me! She had mistaken one of my brothers for me in the darkness. We are all about the same size and build.

I have talked to each of my brothers (they all know about this), but they won't say who it was for fear of causing a rift between the guilty party and me. I told them that unless I find out who it was, there will be a permanent rift between all of us. (Marybeth still doesn't know it wasn't me.)

How do I handle this?

We could be wrong, but it looks like an advice columnist has once again fallen for a prank letter. In our world, when our wife sleeps with one of our brothers... we don't write Dear Abby about it. Just sayin'.

Entertainment Weekly's Clark Collis spent much of this week with the newly-relevant, post WGA strike SNL as they put together tomorrow's episode with guest host Jonah Hill. What can we expect? From EW: ''And as far as prostitution-scandal-plagued New York governor Eliot Spitzer, ''I'm not going to lie, this is an absolute gift,'' says (headwriter Seth) Meyers. ''I really can't thank Spitzer enough. It is our fourth show in a row -- we have hit the wall. And then this comes along. I'm sure we'll do something about it, [but] I don't think he will be on. My guess would be that he will be too busy doing other things.''

Since the strike, the not-yet-ready-for-Prime-Time players have garnered in their debut a season-high 7.5 million viewers, they have been name-checked during a Presidential debate, and they have been credited with reviving a woozy, punch-drunk Clinton campaign in Texas and Ohio. SNL head honcho Lorne Michaels, though, denies that SNL is particularly pro-Clinton. Some of the takeaways of the EW cover story:

-- On the Fauxbama controversy: ''... (S)everal non-cast members auditioned for the role, as did Kenan Thompson, currently the SNL cast's sole African-American. But with less than a week to go before the Feb. 23 return, Michaels still didn't have his Obama. Then SNL producer Marci Klein suggested Fred Armisen, a six-season veteran known for his ability to morph into anyone from Prince to Steve Jobs. 'It just clicked,' says Michaels. 'Fred is so benign, both as a performer and as a person. It wouldn't have any strong agenda.' Michaels says he did hesitate before casting a non-African-American to play the man who could be the country's first black president: 'Then I thought, no one really complained when he did Prince.' Says Armisen, who is part German, Japanese, and Venezuelan: 'I tried not to think about [the race issue]. I didn't think about it when I played Prince. I just wanted to look like Prince.'''

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