Star Jones Takes Over Today [TVNewser]
Larry King spent an hour with Star Jones last night, in her first TV interview since leaving The View. CNN is rerunning the hour-long program at 11am today. But we're hearing more buzz about Al Roker's chat with Star this morning: "When was the last time you saw the Today show come back to the same guest after multiple commercial breaks?"

Animal Reimagines Brangelina As Several, Needles Radar [FishbowlNY]
Bucky Turco's Animal refuses to die. Err, "grovel like Radar." Having "finally scraped enough money together" to print issue #7 — the "Wildlife" issue to be released this weekend — Animal depicts Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie on its cover as a bird and full-lipped rhino, respectively. Turco and Co. also use the occasion to coin the term "celebimal," with Paris Hilton, George Clooney and Lindsay Lohan reimagined as human-animal hybrids.

Endless Summer Media Preview #3: Michael Eisner 'Sucks the Will to Live' Out of Studio Audience [FishbowlNY]
The third installment of our 2006 Summer Media Preview features some of the sharpest media minds young and old, including a Jossiper, a Dealbreaker and a "Public Intellectual."

Should Slate Lay Off Bush Already? [GalleyCat]
Last week at the linguistics-bent Language Log, Mark Liberman raised a compelling criticism of Bushisms, the Slate feature created by Jacob Weisberg to call attention to what the liberal intelligentsia views as some of George W. Bush's more dim-witted utterances. Weisberg was able to turn all those Web pages into a real book as early as 2001; now he's got a whole string of books as well as other ancillary products.

Bank Drama Continues [FishbowlDC]
The New York Times reports that the House of Representatives "condemned" the "disclosure of a classified program to track financial transactions and called on the media to cooperate in keeping such efforts secret." The resolution passed 227-to-183.

And Then There Were Six [UnBeige]
We just can't stop slapping ourselves on the back this week. You might have heard us tooting our own horns about being one of "twelve sites that define cool" in the design issue of Newsweek. Well, that was before we actually ponied up the $4.50 for the print edition, where we were shocked to see that only six sites were featured in the actual magazine.

Her Blue Materials [FishbowlLA]
New Line Cinema is hoping to make a fortune on a 12-year-old British schoolgirl with a stripper's name. Beating out 10,000 girls who auditioned across Britain, Dakota Blue Richards won the role of Lyra Belacqua, the heroine of best-selling children's trilogy His Dark Materials that the studio is hoping to turn into its very own Harry Potter.

Getting Things Done [MBToolBox]
If you are going to set goals this weekend, and if you like the idea of breaking each into a series of discrete actions that you can start taking now, you might like David Allen's Getting Things Done system. I love it, and so the the good folks at Lifehacker.