· Take heart, Britney fans: On today's The View, one of the upstanding new people in Spears's life told Barbara Walters she's getting the help she needs for her "treatable" mental "issues"; Walters wants to believe him, though she admits she's not as reliable a lie-detector as the ones they use on The Moment of Truth.
· Eugene Mirman sets the standard by which all subsequent Tom Cruise parody videos will be judged. Sorry, Jerry O'Connell, it's going to take more than adding some outtakes to unseat the new, turtlenecked king.
· A jubilant No Country for Old Men's Josh Brolin dances upon the grave of the big studios who signed his paychecks.
· The Daily Show's Aasif Mandvi helps explain the WGA's often-confusing strike rules.

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