Tom Hanks to Appear on NPR's 'Wait, Wait … Don't Tell Me' [FishbowlLA]
Seeking a vaccination against the mindless piffle that will be hurled at him from countless TV talk show couches, we hear that Da Vinci Code star Tom Hanks has agreed to appear as a guest on brainy NPR quiz show "Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me."

Boston's Weekly Dig Challenges NY Alt-Weeklies to Clean Up Their Act [FishbowlNY]
If papers like the New York Press want to be seen as legit, maybe they should ditch the back-of-book ads for more-than-massages, and try to find legit advertisers who can help pull them out of the gutter.

Oprah: 'Does Anderson Inspire You?' [TVNewser]
When Oprah features CNN's Anderson Cooper on an upcoming show, she'll be putting viewers he's "inspired" through his coverage of bravery in the face of tragedy front and center. Those who fit the bill and want to be on the little screen are being invited to register via Oprah.com.

Rowling Rides Into Town After Six-Year Hiatus [GalleyCat]
Queen of the Harry Potter zeitgeist will be back on American soil after a long six years when she addresses the crowd at a charity reading benefiting the Haven Foundation in May at Radio City Music Hall, alongside fellow scribes Stephen King and John Irving.

New Fibre Campaign Heads and Shoulders Above the Rest [UnBeige]
Decapitation is du rigeur in design firm Fibre's work on a media packet for Motorola/MTV production Head and Body, a kind of film project they're doing exclusively for phones. The book chronicles the history of headlessness.

Bob Blog, R.I.P. [FishbowlDC]
While Bob Levey said he left the Bob Blog for "personal reasons," and is now a weekend voice of Washington Post Radio, our sources say that there's probably more to the story than that. Might columnist John Kelly, who replaced Levey, have complained about the return of his predecessor?

Whining Writers Full of the Wrong Stuff [MBToolBox]
Garrison Keillor: "I have had it with writers who talk about how painful and harrowing and exhausting and ALMOST IMPOSSIBLE it is for them to put words on paper and how they pace a hole in the carpet, anguish writ large on their marshmallow faces, and feel lucky to have written an entire sentence or two by the end of the day."