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Podcast Grows Up: Get ready for "The Ben and Dave Show," Here! TV's new talk fest starring "a fresh out of the closet comedian" (Dave Rubin) and "a former radio shock jock" (Ben Harvey). Looks fun, and Ben looks kinda hot. So how do I get Here! anyway? (Mr. Nightlife's Hollywood)

Blow Her Off the Court: Martina Hingis is taking a break from the party circuit to play some exhibition matches. (AP)

Dear Diary -- No! Esquire publishes the Heath Ledger diaries that never were. (NYT)

A Million Little Lies: The author who confessed this week to making up her memoir, "Love and Consequences," about growing up as a foster child in gang-ridden South-Central Los Angeles, appears also to have made up a foundation that she claimed was helping "to reduce gang violence and mentor urban teens" "Yeah. And about me being a woman ..." (NYT)

Roadhouse Blues: Very sad to read Patrick Swayze has been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. Now in his 50s, Swayze reminds me of another person who had this serious disease in a lot of way, one Michael Landon. Here's wishing Patrick well in his fight. (AP)

Didn't See This One Coming: Researchers have uncovered a rare photograph of a young Helen Keller with her teacher Anne Sullivan, nearly 120 years after it was taken on Cape Cod. The photograph, shot in July 1888 in Brewster, shows an 8-year-old Helen sitting outside in a light-colored dress, holding Sullivan's hand and cradling one of her beloved dolls. (AP)

Serious Transgression: So transsexuals in Columbia, S.C., have more legal protections than those in the great state of New York?

Sour Note: Sexy Juan Pablo di Pace didn't mind that a Royal Opera House poster showed him naked. He claims he didn't even mind that his penis had been air brushed into oblivion. The 28-year-old actor says he was just upset that the company didn't ask for his consent. (AP)