• So many changes around CourtTV, but one thing remains constant: The network's execs remain stingier than their staffers when it comes to helping the homeless.

• Your days of freebasing and blowjobs at the Roxy are, at long last, coming to an end.

• Rachael Ray's cooking show that involves celebrities preparing their favorite dishes is, allegedly, someone else's idea. Though not a hard one to come up with.

• Billionaires Ron Burkle and Eli Broad make a play not just for the LAT, but for the entire Tribune Co.

• The point of a launch party is not to try the product, but to show up for a glass of bubbly, have your photo taken, and leave for a better soiree.

• President Bush trades one old white guy for another.