Reuters - As political comedies go, "Swing Vote" doesn't dig very deep into the American political scene, and it certainly mines few laughs along the way.

Reuters - In Pamela Anderson's new reality show "Pam: Girl on the Loose," each episode has a name, such as "The Uncensored Confessions of a Trailer Camp Tramp" and "Crazy Bitch."

AP - "Can You Ever Forgive Me? Memoirs of a Literary Forger" (Simon & Schuster, 128 pages, $20), by Lee Israel: "She is a bright, talented actress," Noel Coward once wrote of Julie Andrews, "and quite attractive since she dealt with her monstrous English overbite."

AP - "The Bible Salesman" (Little Brown and Company. 256 pages. $23.99), by Clyde Edgerton: Henry Dampier, 20 years old and raised to be a Christian gentlemen, is pursuing a career selling Bibles door-to-door when he sticks his thumb out for a ride and ends up traveling an unexpected path.

AP - The third "Mummy" installment dutifully sends its characters to China where they participate in international competitions of mummy fencing, yeti vaulting and synchronized senselessness.

Reuters - The setting is a modern Texas high school, but the story immediately resembles a good old-fashioned Texas Western.

Reuters - You might not be able to kill a mummy but as "The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor" demonstrates, you can kill a franchise.