·Family Guy figured out a way around the Emmy policy that has always forced them to identify their show as either an animated or comedy series: They've classified their hour-long Star Wars parody episode as a "special," allowing them to now lose in both categories. [Variety]
· Overblown U.S. summer movie product continues to dominate the planet, as Indy 4 and SATC pull in $71.5 million and $39.2 million, respectively, and European boys and girls start showing up to school emulating Greaser LaBeouf and oversexed, 40-something fashion-whores. Oops—never mind. They always dressed like that. [Variety]
· Rob Marshall bid adieu to ICM, and headed directly into CAA's jazz-hand-shaking embrace, a deal consummated over a delicious babies, lox, and cream cheese brunch. [Variety]
· The Simpsons' cast met Fox half-way, accepting $400,000 per episode for the next four seasons. We'd like to take this moment to remind you that money doesn't always buy happiness, however, as evidenced by the unmistakable sadness behind Dan Castellaneta's eyes. [THR]
· Bryce Dallas Howard is close to signing on as John Connor's wife in Terminator Salvation: The Future Begins, a role vacated by Charlotte Gainsbourg due to a "scheduling conflict"—a loose translation of a French idiom literally meaning "to wake up to the stench of a money-lined outhouse and finally come to your senses." [THR]

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