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Tragic End: A budding Brooklyn filmmaker with model good looks was crushed to death by an 18-wheeler in Greenwich Village after he lost control of his bicycle and fell under the big rig's tire, cops and witnesses said. Derek Lake, a graduate of the School of Visual Arts who earned extra cash modeling for Esprit, was turning right from La Guardia Place onto West Houston Street at about 9:30 a.m. when he encountered a metal construction plate sticking up about 2 inches from the street bed. Witnesses said Lake, 24, skidded trying to avoid the plate and flew across an empty lane, before being swept, head first, under the truck's wheel. He was declared dead at the scene. (NYP)

Best 'View' Around: There are plenty of stories and theories floating around about Star Jones' departure from "The View," but this one is the funniest and bitchiest one I've seen. Who said Canadians were nice? (Canada.com)

'Law? What Law?": Well it's about f**king time: The Associated Press has finally said what many of us having been saying for years about the president's tendency to violate laws that he signs, but it's so much nice seeing it from a internationally known news wire. (Raw)

Splendor on the Grass: The rain let up at Wimbledon and three-time defending champ Roger Federer quickly disposed of Frenchman Richard Gasquet, giving him his 42nd straight on grass, surpassing Bjorn Borg's Open era mark set from 1976-81. (All 41 of Borg's wins came at the All England Club.) When the draw came out there was a lot of talk that Gasquet was going to be a problem for the Swiss magician, but if a 6-3, 6-2, 6-2 victory is what they meant by a problem, then yes, it was one. (ESPN)

Secondhand News: To all those smokers who think I'm just being a big baby about having smoke blown in my face, suck on this. (AP)

A Big Return: I've seen about a dozen reviews of Brandon Routh's Superman and they're all good. Might I be seeing it for reasons besides the superbulge? (doubtful). (WP)

Jokers Wild: Did you see the surveillance camera capture some idiot shooting wildly in the middle of the Silver Nugget casino? One man was killed and a woman was injured. Some crazy shit. (AP) Meanwhile at the Vegas airport, police shot and killed a man who abducted a 3-year-old boy from a toy shop. (AP)

Standing Up for What's Right: A man in Idaho is protesting "The Joy of Gay Sex" by checking it out of his local library. That's funny. I protest Torso, Advocate Men and Latin Inches magazines by buying them at my local newsstand. (Advocate)