- President Bush approved a $13.4 billion rescue plan for General Motors and Chrysler, which will include immediate federal loan funding available to both companies, as well as a required 468 zooming shots of the GMC logo in the next Transformers movie.
- A new movie featuring the Tom Clancy character Jack Ryan is on the way, though no one has been tabbed to play the role as of yet. Needless to say, LaBeouf has been checking his email by the minute.
- Arkansas couple Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar just had their eighteenth kid, keeping those “Idiocracy will definitely come true sooner than we think” wheels in motion.
- The long-anonymous Watergate informant “Deep Throat” passed away today at the age of 95. Now that he’s gone, can we all finally admit how ridiculous it is that we actually chose that name for him and it made it onto straight-faced news reports?
- Tom Cruise arranged for a cake to be delivered to Katie Holmes on her birthday while onstage at the end of an All My Sons performance, and the audience sang “Happy Birthday”. All in all, it was the exact dramatic impact Arthur Miller always intended.
