Steelers Linebacker James Harrison Is the NFL's Dirtiest Player
Plus: Wayne Rooney won't be distracted for England Euro Cup games, because he won't be playing
Today in books and publishing: The class-action lawsuit against Google gets the go-ahead, the Times of London paywall temporarily comes down, and a copy of the Book of Mormon has been purloined.
Plus: Wayne Rooney won't be distracted for England Euro Cup games, because he won't be playing
Plus: A 'miscommunication' led to one too many National Book Award nominees yesterday
Redford has wanted to play Branch Rickey, the man who signed Jackie Robinson, for years
Plus: Mitt Romney wants Steve Wynn's endorsement before next week's Vegas debate
Plus: Iran isn't saying why it put a monkey on a rocket
Plus: Will Arnett and Conan O'Brien hit the redhead jokes hard last night
Plus: The Oakland Raiders won't be for sale anytime soon
Also: Walter Isaacson's Steve Jobs biography traces the origins of his black turtleneck
Plus: Javier Bardem will be a bad guy in the new Bond movie
Plus: Jean Paul Gaultier's gold bar goes on sale Frifay
Plus: The Patriots gag order doesn't apply to talking about the gag order
Plus: The drip-drop of book proposals from the Amanda Knox trial begins
Plus: Disney CEO Bob Iger sets a timetable for his departure
That's the deadline (Pacific time) for the cast to accept a pay cut to continue the series.
Plus: Leonardo DiCaprio is on the rebound
Plus: ESPN actually considered keeping Hank Williams, Jr. on Monday night football
Also in books: Jonathan Franzen's next book, the pun of Murkami's "1Q84"
Plus: Clint Eastwood comes out of retirement for a baseball movie
Plus: there has been some sleuthing about that Tupac Shakur sex tape seller
Plus: Seth MacFarlane recalls a four-year old fight with Jon Stewart
Plus: Plasma replacement therapy is a miracle cure, except for the blinding pain
Plus: Rod Stewart jumps into the pop star memoir game
Plus: The Coen Brothers are creating a private eye comedy for Fox
Plus: Eddie Murphy could be lifting his SNL embargo this weekend
Plus: The soaring, majestic second 'War Worse' trailer is a snooze
Plus: Missouri ponders staying in the Big 12; Grantland now available in print (and leather)
Plus: The Amanda Knox memoir speculation begins
Plus: The Tommy Lee Jones contract snafu that keeps on costing Paramount
Plus: Fox responds to the "Black Swan" intern lawsuit
Plus: The one person who has everything you want
Plus: Herman Cain's biggest celebrity endorsement to date gets overshadowed
Plus: NBA stars party as lockout grinds on; Big East thinks expansion
Plus: The winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature will be announced Thursday
Plus: Moneyball can't win at the weekend box office
Plus: Christoph Waltz dislocated his pelvis training for Quentin Tarantino's new movie
Plus: the trailer for the Harvey Weinstein documentary could've used his help
Plus: The Nebraska Huskers are getting set to invade Wisconsin
Plus: Michael Chabon wife addresses his Amazon critics
Plus: Idris Elba really wants to be the next James Bond
Plus: Michael Bloomberg and Roger Ailes bury the sodium hatchet
Plus: A compelling argument against common courtesy
Plus: Bill O'Reilly and Jon Stewart had to talk on TV instead of watching baseball
Plus: Tom Brady's long, greasy hair is no more
Plus: Courtney Love sold a memoir to HarperCollins
Plus: Steve Spielberg's new movie will combine the best of robots and the apocalypse
Plus: Michael Wolff is reportedly out as editor-in-chief of Adweek
Also in video: Jay Leno counters by letting someone else make a funny phone call
Plus: Sarah Palin entertains the notion of Herb Cain
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