Yesterday, Oprah Winfrey admitted she made a mistake (gasp!) and took James Frey and his publisher, Nan A. Talese, to task for making her look foolish on her show. Yes, Oprah defended the readers' right to know if something peddled as truth is false, but mainly, Oprah was ashamed that she had embarrassed herself by defending A Million Little Pieces. [You can order the tape and/or transcript that amazing hour of televsion here.] Gothamist then......

James Frey, Memoirist...

Gothamist loves us some TV, and we've been there for Friends for a decade (which then makes us realize why some things aren't getting done), but the Friends finale hype has finally broken our souls: We were on the backlash, but now Gothamist has surrendered. We will watch on Thursday to see all loose plots tied up neatly and with some innuendo...we've been watching the past few weeks and seen that the stories are boring......

Inimitably elegant photo blogger, rion, tells us that Gothamist's favorite crank, Larry David, has been hanging out in Midtown West, with the likes of Mel Brooks. Then she mentioned a poster of The Producers with Larry David and David Schwimmer on it. As the wheels started to turn, we thought, "Hmm, this smells like an episode of Curb!" Of course, rion was ready for our barrage of questions and directed us to this link that......

With all the "news" about Aisha Tyler playing Ross's love interest on Friends, starting tonight, Gothamist would like to point out that Ross has been the only friend to date minorities: He dated a Chinese woman played by Lauren Tom during second season, the first major wrench in the Ross-Rachel coupling, he was interested in Gabrielle Union during season seven, and most famously, he was married to a lesbian. Though David Schwimmer has to play......