AP - Yes, the pants still exist, but now they're covered in patches and jewels and etched with the memories and dreams of the four young women who've been wearing them. And they still travel — to New York and Vermont, Turkey and Greece, and various points in between.

AP - There's no need to travel all the way to Florida to see dinner theater. Instead, Florida dinner theater has come to off-Broadway's New World Stages, in the form of "Flamingo Court: A Comedy in Three Condos."

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.