I never thought I'd be writing this. … I have breast cancer.

So in the coming months, you will probably notice that I will have my good days and my bad days, but I know I will get through it with the love and support of my family and friends…

To you, our viewers, please know that your thoughts and prayers very much sustain me as they always have each and every morning when I sit in the chair next to Diane and say "Good Morning America." You have always been there for me … and I love you back.

–ABC's Robin Roberts announces that she has breast cancer and is seeking treatment, attributes her discovery of the disease to her longtime friend/colleague, Joel Siegel [via ABC]

• Jeffrey Katzenberg on Joel Siegel: "He understood that behind every movie was a person, a human being, somebody who had poured their heart and soul out for a year or two or three and he cared."

• How do television networks and advertisers count the number of viewers on the Web? On one hand…at least for reruns of The Facts of Life and Mr. Belvedere. ZING!

• Meanwhile, a Murdoch-owned WSJ "would be a horror show," says an apparently still-interested Tina Brown.

• Turns out dangling prepositions, misplaced modifiers and syntax errors could (mis)spell disaster for would-be online daters.

• Women's Health is so green it's actually blue.

• Just because Kate Spade is now owned by Liz Claiborne Inc. doesn't mean their ads won't still be elitist, and really, really expensive.

He was a gladiator—brave, wildly funny, passionate about Dylan, Ena and his family—and completely in love with every new day. Film critic may have been his job description — what he really did was tell us about the wonder and heartbreak of life.

The wonder was to know him. The heartbreak, today.

All of us love Joel . Present tense. Without end.

–Diane Sawyer pays tribute to her friend Joel Siegel, who lost a long battle to colon cancer on Friday at the age of 63. [via E! News]

• Joel Seigel walks out of his first movie in 30 years. Kevin Smith responds via MySpace, "bleep, bleep, bleep." [Page Six]

• So, Christie Brinkley's husband had a thing for barely legals long ago. We wonder where he was when Britney Spears was an up and coming aspiring singer who couldn't sing? [NYP]

• Unless there is a Friends reunion, Jennifer Aniston won't have anyone to celebrate Thanksgiving with. [Star]

• Bryce Dallas Howard legs have never seen the sun. Or a man. [R&M]

• ABC swears next season of Desperate Housewives won't suck quite as badly as last season's. But, since they're keeping Teri Hatcher and Marcia Cross around, we have trouble taking their word for it. [AP]