AP - George Carlin will be awarded the 11th annual Mark Twain Prize for American Humor.

AP - Cuban television on Tuesday showed the first images of Fidel Castro in almost six months, broadcasting a silent video of the ailing revolutionary chatting in a garden with visiting Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez.

Reuters - Showtime's pot-themed comedy series "Weeds" started its fourth season off on a real high, becoming the network's most-watched telecast on record.

E! Online - OMFG. Consider the Gossip Girl word sufficiently spread.

E! Online - Welcome to the old-friends edition of the Casting Couch.

AP - Still reeling from Tim Russert's death, NBC News must now contemplate replacing the man who not only dominated the Sunday morning talk shows, but served as chief political commentator and ran the Washington bureau.

Reuters - NBC Sports is taking a further step into Olympic sports with the acquisition of World Championship Sports Network, a small television network and online site that televises year-round competitions.

AP - Billy Ray Cyrus says he wasn't around when Annie Leibovitz photographed his 15-year-old daughter, Miley, wrapped in a sheet with her back exposed, for the June issue of Vanity Fair magazine.

AP - President Bush and his wife, Laura, went to a wake for Tim Russert, the television newsman who died last Friday.

AP - "Star Trek" star George Takei is ready to "live long and prosper" with his partner of 21 years.