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'Real' Tired: Here's the cast of the 49th season of "The Real World," this time from Denver. (Yawn.) Hopefully this guy will wake us up: Davis, 23, from Marietta, Ga., "is the typical blonde-haired, blue-eyed, frat boy. Or is he? Hailing from the south, his upbringing was steeped in conservative Christianity. There's only one issue...Davis is gay. He first realized this in sixth grade, and came out to his mom a few years later(!!!). Not surprisingly, Davis' revelation was not received well within his family. Applying for the Real World was a big step for Davis. He's spent most of his life afraid to show the world who he truly is, but now he's ready for that to change." (Popbytes)

Unhappy Endings: I knew it was a sin to lust after this one, but the Mets still blew it. (WP)

You Call That Molestation? Can't Mark Foley just let bygones be bygones? (AP)

Everything's Coming Up Rosie: On Thursday's edition of "The View" Rosie O'Donnell.recounted her teary phone conversation with former President Bill Clinton, in which he apologized for the Monica Lewinsky affair. Later, during an interview with Elizabeth Edwards, wife of former vice-presidential candidate John Edwards, O'Donnell slammed John Kerry, the Democratic nominee for President, for conceding the 2004 election before all the votes were counted and accused the Republicans of "cheating" by tinkering with the voting machines. Then Rosie revealed that (her idol) Barbra Streisand invited her backstage following her recent concert at Madison Square Garden, and she was joined in the special access by Bill and Hillary Clinton as well as Katie Couric. On top of all that, the producers of "Nip/Tuck" want to do a spinoff of Rosie's recent character, Dawn Budge. Quite a week for our Long Island gal. (Contact)

Scissors Cut: The reviews for the film adaptation of Augusten Burroughs' "Running With Scissors" are starting to come in. This one isn't so promising: Augusten discovers his sexuality courtesy of the 30-something Neil (Joseph Fiennes), a schizophrenic patient and adopted son of Dr. Finch. It's interesting to see how Ryan Murphy's script dances around Augusten's actual age at the dawn of this affair (13). Murphy accordingly dulls the comic shock tactics that made the book's glib prose style so compulsively readable. A range of retro FM hits underscore the story's Nixonian time frame, but the film is utterly lacking in a sense of place. Burroughs' freewheeling coming-of-age was very much grounded in the angry feminism and boundary-pushing experimentation of a western Massachusetts college community in the '70s, a context that is entirely lost in Murphy's characterless Everytown USA. It's an oddly drab and disconnected experience, neither as raucously funny nor as moving as it wants us to think it is. (Newsday)