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After some rumors that the Reverend Al Sharpton hated Senator and presidential hopeful Barack Obama, Sharpton says they had a nice phone call yesterday. Sharpton, who just last week told Fox News he believed that Obama's campaign floated the story that he was jealous of the Senator, now says, "We had a good conversation. He said he's got a lot of respect for me and what I've done. We agreed to keep in touch." However, Sharpton won't be endorsing any Democratic candidates until next month, so we'll see how much respect remains after that. Related: The Sun-Times had an interesting story on Sharpton's "badmouthing" of Obama.

Watch out for the traffic around the Grand Hyatt tonight - Senator Barack Obama will be in town for a big fund raiser. As you may know via emails and news coverage, the response to a $100/ticket Obama fund-raiser "aimed at young people" was so overwhelming that the venue had to be changed from the Grand (former Au Bar) to the Grand Hyatt.

Shanghaiist probably knows a little more about China than the Chicago Sun-Times. Giving them the benefit of the doubt on that one. The city does to have a music scenei. Don't even front like they don't. They also have Dorrito bananas and white guys shopping for wives. What they don't have is any more tolerance for jaywalkers.

- Lawyers for Paramount and Columbia Pictures are suing a 63-year-old teacher's aide for allegedly downloading a copy of "The Longest Yard." Yes, the Adam Sandler movie.

Yesterday WWD had a story on how the transit strike is effecting our fashions. Leave it to them to declare the comeback of Uggs in a "major way". Though the Chicago Sun Times will declare it's the "Reeboks-and-gym-socks-with-your-business-suit" look that have come back in to style. We're they ever in style? And if so, what the hell does the Chicago Sun Times know about what we're wearing during the transit strike.

Keith Boykin, author, Beyond the Down Low

Wilder’s public disapproval might just be backlash at Burton who told Empire Magazine he found the 1971 version "quite disturbing" and The Chicago Sun Times the film was a bit too “sappy” & failed to incorporate author Roald Dahl’s vision:

"It's sappy when it shouldn't be sappy and it's weird. Let's just say it's not one of my personal favorites. I'd rate 'Chitty Chitty Bang Bang' much higher… I responded to the children's book because it respected that children can be adults, and I think adults forget that. There can be darkness and sort of foreboding. Very sinister things are very much a part of childhood. I like that sort of humor and emotion put together."

This is getting good: Mayor Bloomberg is pissed off by another Republican Congressman! This time it's Todd Tiahrt of Kansas, whose bill would "deny local investigators access to a federal database that traces guns," as in NYPD would not be able to trace guns. The Mayor said, "It is an outrage. It would take away the city's ability to look at the list of who has guns that may very well be used to kill people...This is an end-run by the NRA to take away the police department's ability to get guns off the street and for us to hold gun manufacturers liable." Tiahrt is a member of the NRA and his spokesperson gives the usual lip service about the Second Amendment. Good gracious, spokesperson of Tiahrt, do you not realize that civil liberties mean NOTHING to our mayor? In this case, Gothamist supports Bloomberg's attempted gun control, because it's a no-brainer. And why shouldn't the NYPD try to crack down on criminals and possible gun rings?

To update our post last year about the possibility of Matrix co-creator Larry Wachowski getting a sex change operation, it seems that Wachowski is going ahead with it. Friends confirm to the Chicago Sun-Times that Wachowski, who has been calling himself "Linda," will "complete the process of becoming a woman."

Chicago Cubs, you squander your 3 run lead in the eighth inning and let the Marlins score 8. And an assumed Cubs fan may have interfered with a play! This, of course, reminds New Yorkers of little 12 year-old Jeff Maier (ranked number 4 on The Sporting News' list of the top 25 Unusual and Unforgettable Baseball moments) who turned a possible fly ball into a home run for Derek Jeter, helping the Yankees win Game 1 of the 1996 ALCS. However, the Chicago last night correctly ruled no fan interference, but that doesn't mean Moises Alou ain't pissed. If it all hangs on that moment, then maybe next year? And while watching the local Chicago Fox station's post-game coverage, the sports reporter claimed that the kid who caught the ball was escorted out of the park by security with his sweater over his head. NBC 5 reported that a firefight sitting next to Chicago public enemy number one said the ball looked to be coming at the fan and if in fact the fan had interfered, the firefight would have shoved him out of the way. Brilliant.

The Chicago Sun-Times has drawn up a list and looked it at least once of who the best supporting actors of this summer's movies have been:

A summer Saturday night house party, who pauses to think whether the porch you're venturing out onto is safe enough? Over the weekend in Chicago, twelve people died and fifty seven others were injured when a porch in Lincoln Park collapsed. Investigators are looking to see is the 13'x20' porch was built properly, but speculation is that there were simply too many people on the three story porch structure - reportedly dozens. The Chicago Sun-Times reports that most of the deaths were

Honestly, Gothamist wasn't thinking of the Hulk in this way, but because the Chicago Sun-Times brought it up, now we can't help but think. And think. And think. Apparently there was some talk about creating a nude Hulk, but as special effects artist Dennis Muren says, " Clearly, Dennis Muren has never been to Chelsea.