...and a thousand Photoshop files were launched! Diane Sawyer may be a veteran journalist and may seem totally unflappable, but even she has totally embarrassing moments. This morning, during a segment unveiling Good Morning America's new holiday windows from the New York Botanical Gardens, she called Mayor Bloomberg a "munchkin." Really: “As a little munchkin, did you come to New York?” To be fair, she was asking Bloomberg whether he visited New York during......

Sometime before 8 this morning, Patrick Moberg and Camille Hayton introduced themselves to Good Morning America viewers, Diane Sawyer and hopeless romantics everywhere. The Subway Cyrano met up with his mystery lady last night for dinner, where they said they "clicked." Hayton suggests the subway moment was serendipitous because she wouldn't have been on it (going to a friend's place) if her house hadn't just burned down. Moberg is compared to a Hollywood leading man,......

Hopefully Monday's season opener of Sesame Street will help in sweepin' these clouds away! The new season will begin how it always does, by determining the educational needs of their tv-watching tot demographic. Recent years focused on healthy eating in an effort to help the younger generation befriend veggies (they even have their own line of healthy foods). This year there are 26 new episodes all focusing on early literacy and language skills. USA......

These days, the most famous Staten Islander we know is Staten Island Chuck (sorry, Molinari!), the Staten Island Zoo's groundhog. Groundhog Day is just three weeks away, and the NY Times looks at the preparation the zoo and Chuck are doing in the run-up. Cue the montage sequence of Staten Island Chuck in training! For instance, his trainer Douglas Schwartz, zookeeper for the tropical rainforest section, brings the groundhog to his home by way of......

If you tuned into Good Morning America this morning, you may have noticed Diane Sawyer extracting something from a safe. And, yes, that red and furry object was the new Tickle Me Elmo T.M.X. - T.M.X. for Tickle Me eXtreme. Not only the the doll talk in the third person and giggle, Elmo basically has a crazy laughing fit - slapping his knee, falling on his back and convulsing, getting back up, falling on......

There's a hilarious item in Ben Widdicombe's Gatecrasher about Mariah Carey turning down the chance to perform on the Today show, opting instead to promote her upcoming album, The Emancipation of Mimi, on Good Morning America. Widdicombe writes, "The source laughs, 'They think the album will be so huge that the 3,000 people Rockefeller Plaza holds won't be enough. Times Square can hold 10,000.'" Gothamist is laughing also, unless Carey's record label is hiring 7,000......

What good are parents if they can't make up stories as to why you had to have a backing track while singing? In the aggressive counterspin in the SNL wake, minister-turned-manager/stage dad Joe Simpson told Ryan Seacrest that the acid reflux made her voice "hoarse" and "Just like any artist in America, she has a backing track that she pushes so you don't have to hear her croak through a song on national television. No......

According to kottke.org, there's a 40-foot robot in Times Square (that's his cameraphone shot at left). He's correct in guessing that it's a promotion for Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow (the movie that was shot in green screen and digitally manipulated so the stars look fuzzy the way Cybill Shephard did in Moonlighting); here are WireImage pictures of Gwyneth Paltrow and Good Morning America's Diane Sawyer in Times Square. There have been smaller......

Whitney, dear Whitney! As if the interview with Diane Sawyer weren't enough, Whitney is visiting Israel to meet her brothers and sisters in Israel, the "Black Hebrews" (or their full, official name, "The Original African Hebrew Nation of Jerusalem"). Prime Minister of Israel Ariel Sharon is going to meet with the Diva herself later this week. There goes any chance of calm in that country! Gothamist on Whitney and Bobby's interview with Diane Sawyer.......

Entertainment Weekly went from Gothamist's must-read entertainment bible (in pre-Gothamist days) to being "Entertain Me Weakly" (as Mad magazine spoofed them) with a string of boring, predictable so-called features, annoying reviews (Lisa Schwarzbaum, we're talking to you) and poorly art-directed (is it even art-directed anymore?) and falling off our radar. But the new issue, with this cover of The Dixie Chicks, makes Gothamist think there might be hope for EW. When we can find out......

I did see J. Lo perform on the Today Show, I missed Mariah's interview with Matt Lauer. . I didn't watch the Diane Sawyer interview with Whitney Houston, but I did glean from Saturday Night Live (Robert DeNiro sucked, by the way, or at least the skits did) Weekend Update when Maya Rudolph and Tracey Morgan spoofed Whitney Houston and Bobby Brown, that Whitney: 1) called Diane Sawyer, "Diane Swyer"; 2)Bobby Brown was profusely sweating;......

Not so shocking that Whitney Houston admitted drug use in her interview with Diane Sawyer. But her explanations are pretty funny. Yeah, Bobby Brown, people have tried that "I'm bipolar" excuse before!......