Actor Roy Scheider died yesterday at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences in Little Rock, after battling multiple myeloma for several years and suffering complications from a staph infection. He was 75 and had been living in Sag Harbor, New York (after moving out his house in Sagaponack that Billy Joel purchased). Scheider may be best known for his role as Police Chief Martin Brody in Jaws. One of his lines from the movie,......

Two cops were injured in a car accident on the Upper East Side yesterday. Accidents do happen, but the Post's first sentence reads, "Two women cops were hospitalized yesterday after an early morning fender-bender..." Ah, this is one for Ask Gothamist: Why are male cops just cops, but lady cops "women cops"? In honor of this, we'd like to salute the female cops out there, as well as television's salute to gender-barrier-breaking shows, like Police......

In the Saturday Night Live spoof of Fear Factor, Fear Factor Junior, the SNL crew made a point of making fun of NBC's tendency to blurb and blurb with ellipses, much to the delight of many. Now Variety looks at how NBC will "break through the promotional clutter by any ... means ... necessary." The pattern breaks down like this: Three words, each separated by three periods - easy! Examples include "Best ... Boardroom .........