At first we thought it was a hoax and then, no, that trickle of emails in our inbox turned out to be true: Hollywood scribe Brenda You committed suicide Sunday night.

When we first heard rumblings this afternoon, we remembered that there was an article of You's still sitting in our to-read list of links: "Picture This," her witty and light-spirited analysis of magazine editor's self pics for Radar. We laughed, and we giggled — exactly what Brenda would've wanted.

Celeb Reporter Brenda You Found Dead [Gawker]
Blood Red Carpet [Perez Hilton]
Related: Picture This [Radar]

• Ariel Foxman remains safely in charge at Cargo, but that's probably more Andy Roddick's doing (his issue rocketed single copy sales to 89,000) than Foxman's talent. Or his hair.

• The New York Sun calling the New York Times a tabloid makes us giggle a little. Okay, a lot.

• Bonnie Fuller is looking at her own Devil Wears Prada now that former Star West Coast bureau chief Brenda You is set to release her first novel Blood Red Carpet. If there's nothing we like more than thinly veiled industry tell-alls, it's thinly veiled industry tell-alls with "before & after" titles.

• MSNBC truly had a captive audience last night. Among the passengers on JetBlue Flight 292 were three NBC staffers, who were able to watch their situation live on, uh, MSNBC thanks to in-flight DirecTV. And wouldn't you know: Alison Stewart nabbed the get with an interview when the plane landed.

• The good news? A Current Affair has been canceled. The bad news? It's being replaced by Geraldo at Large.

• Rupert Murdoch is moving ahead with plans to launch a business news channel while CNBC is moving ahead with stalled ratings.

• The New York Times hoped to start charging you for access to its op-ed columnists via TimesSelect on Monday, but some smarty found a way around it. Well, for 24 hours.

• Slashing 500 jobs across its newspaper holdings isn't keeping the New York Times from earning a "credit watch with negative implications" rating from S&P, but surely the new revenue from TimesSelect will rescue the Gray Lady.