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The below is from a BBC documentary on the Hotel Chelsea, it includes footage of Andy Warhol (inexplicably wearing headphones) sharing a meal with William S Burroughs and Nico singing "Chelsea Girls".

A look at some noteworthy television this week:

LAist has so much fun this week! They go to E3, where they overhear the timeless remark "Man, this is where nerdy girls get laid." Is that a promise? They also give us this week's best CDs and make us realize that LA is the best place to use Zillow.

Forget hiring some young, enthusiastic fresh-faced college graduate - the new trend in hiring nannies seems to be looking for ones that speak Mandarin. The BBC reported that more families are looking for Chinese nannies who might be able to give their kids an edge in the future when China is expected to become an even bigger superpower. And two families were bidding over a nanny that the final salary rose to $70,000! If only Gothamist knew Mandarin - then we'd have another backup job option. Reader Alex, who passed along the link to us, wonders if this is similar to the 1980s trend of parents teaching their kids Japanese (just look at Sofia Coppola!). Gothamist suspects another important reason: To be able to order off the menu at Chinese restaurants. But what's daunting is the Chinese character system - although a 6 month old apparently read a thousand of them (that's about 950 more characters than Gothamist knows).

As the Mayor, Deputy Mayor Dan Doctoroff and the NYC 2012 bid committee lick their wounds and the rest of the city breathes a sigh of relief, as after being dinged in the second round of Olympic voting for a 2012 site, the Mayor admits that the NYC bid "was a long shot," as the NY Times puts it. Mayor Bloomberg also called the bid "a unique opportunity" that helped NYC in many ways, from getting people to realize how wonderful the city is and to encourage development. Except for the West Side! And it seems that the West Side Stadium problems helped doom the NYC bid, though the implications that NYC's bid was about "power and money" and September 11 sympathies probably didn't help (London's bid emphasized bringing sports to youth, especially disadvantaged youth in the East End). The BBC, which has had great coverage, shows the vote tallies after each round, and NYC had a very low number of votes. Honestly, Gothamist never knew how much we cared about the NYC 2012 bid until we were rejected in the second round; we thought we could make it to the third round! Perhaps the Daily News' Mike Lupica sums things up best:

At least we will never again have to hear about how Dollar-a-Year Dan Doctoroff, the deputy mayor of New York City who should start moving toward the door now, sat at the Meadowlands in 1994 and watched a World Cup soccer game between Italy and Bulgaria and began dreaming of bringing the Olympics to New York.

Then he rants about overdevelopment and using sports as the excuse. Gothamist hears ya, Mike. So, the $100 million bid (privately raised funds, supposedly) will be the target of the Mayor's detractors. Gothamist supposes Bloomberg will continually drive home the idea that the Olympics bid was all about showing off NYC as a truly world class city, and that he wanted to bring development to the city.

The BBC reports that Warburtons graciously asked 2,000 filmgoers what the cheesiest movie lines were, and their answers are this:

- Official BBQ thumbs-up for the 4th

Another sunny day! High of 84. Right now the humidity is around 61%, hopefully it'll stay low.

Mostly sunny again. High of 83.

Though Gothamist is a self-professed Anglophile who can often be seen fondling the Hob Nobs at Myers of Keswick, Gothamist admits to having totally missed the boat on Alistair Cooke. It must have been his long-running stint as host of Masterpiece Theater that shadowed his brilliant work for the BBC, the Letter From America.

Or we should just brand things for George and friends, as low culture suggests.

Seems that Brit pop band, Blur, will be a part of space history as they have composed a song that will be played on a Britian space craft's mission to Mars. The BBC says "The track will act as a call sign that will be transmitted back to Earth once Beagle 2 is on the surface. The idea came from Blur's drummer Dave Rowntree and bassist Alex James who contacted scientist Colin Pillinger." Ah, Rowntree and James...Gothamist always knew they were the biggest nerds in the group.

The BBC will be releasing a list of the top 100 books as chosen by the British public soon, so the Independent though they'd ask a few British notables what the worst books they've read are. Here are two interesting entries: