My Friend Leonard Officially a Novel? [GalleyCat]
So a little bird in the book biz told us about a meeting with a Penguin sales rep in which, so the claim goes, it was revealed that the paperback edition of James Frey's My Friend Leonard, coming out at the end of May, has been reclassified from memoir to fiction.

Advanced Questions in Celebrity Profiling Ethics, Featuring Sean Penn [FishbowlLA]
Say you're profiling Sean Penn. And say Sean Penn — at the time in which you and Sean Penn are hanging out together so that you can get to the bottom of his complicated personality — is writing up his trip to Iran for the San Francisco Chronicle. Do you give him editorial advice and then brag about it in the profile you're writing?

Fox Has Their Defenders [FishbowlDC]
Were we too harsh/ignorant/dismissive or dead on accurate when we called Fox News' post-party at Eyebar last night a "mixed success"? Apparently we were, since we're getting an earful about it from Fox fans today.

That's Just Rickey Being Rickey [FishbowlNY]
For a baseball beat writer, this last week of Spring Training has gotta be beyond tedious to cover, right? Enter a spacey, 47-year-old future Hall-of-Famer whose verbal flow is permanently stuck in third person. Who says Rickey could play another "five, six years." Who says teams are afraid to let Rickey try out because they're afraid Rickey'd make the team. Who says Rickey talks in the "third party" on purpose. Now you've got a story.

CNN's Chris Burns Apologizes To French Foreign Minister For Kyra Phillips' Remark [TVNewser]
"A CNN journalist in Paris on Wednesday described as 'regrettable' a comparison made by the US chain's anchor between jobs protests in Paris and the Tiananmen Square uprising in Beijing."

V for Very Small, Somewhat Awkward Protest [FishbowlNY]
We haven't seen V for Vendetta yet, but we've seen enough previews to know V is for That Movie Where That Chick From Star Wars Shaves Her Head. If you thought that joke was awkward, what would you think of a politically-charged protest of the film in Times Square involving a three-man street-theater troupe wielding tin-foil daggers?

Finally, A Reason to Watch Spike TV [Unbeige]
They've released their new logo this week after getting flak from people for the one that rolled out with the network in 2003, which was deemed too un-masculine.