We swear, that kid Ben Silverman must have been born under an obnoxiously lucky star. Despite the fact that NBC recently nixed two programs, Lipstick Jungle and My Own Worst Enemy, neither one happened to fall in the studio's Entertainment co-chair's jurisdiction.

Instead, it's Universal's Katherine Pope who is taking the heat for the canceled shows, and for Heroes lackluster ratings. And Silverman is actually getting praised for his work at NBC, despite the fact that none of the shows he's brought on this season *cough*KNIGHT RIDER*cough* seem to be doing all that great either.

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"This is like, my first big action movie, and this is what I f*cking get. Wow, wow." That's Ed Norton in this Jimmy Kimmel clip from last week — the only real bit of press The Incredible Hulk star participated in (he did do the red carpet at the premiere, with "controlled" press, and the MTV Movie Awards). How come? Because, the story goes, he didn't want to have to get grilled on a little dispute over just how much he re-wrote the Hulk script submitted by Zak Penn (who wrote X-Men 3), and why Norton didn't get a screenwriting credit.

With the movie opening this weekend Norton supposedly ran off to some deserted island and refused to promote the flick, leaving Liv Tyler's lips to do all the heavy lifting.

So what was the end result of Norton refusing to take part in endless pool interviews? Oh, nothing really. Just a $60 million opening weekend box office take.

Watch Norton's Kimmel video, which hopes to rack up as many YouTube views as "I'm F*cking Matt Damon," below.

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The Incredible Hulk, which premieres this weekend just a few years after its most recent remake, which went down the box office crapper, is expected to perform quite nicely once all the box office receipts are counted. But don't expect any help from its star, Ed Norton — he's off on a remote island being attended to. And he won't be coming back. At least not until Universal ups his fee.

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Heavy metal act Killswitch Engage (oh, oh, we get it: there’s a switch you engage and then someone is killed) has gained newfound popularity through a video game. The Boston band has picked up buzz since their song “My Curse” (is the curse being responsible for engaging the killswitch?) appeared as a bonus track on Guitar Hero III. The digital sales of their single “Through the Fire and Flames” went up 180 percent after the game came out.

With Universal forcing Lindsay Lohan to do a third album, we kind of want to engage the killswitch on the record industry.

• Tommy Hilfiger is not a racist. And he's hired "outside people" to keep an eye on anyone who claims otherwise.

• Ion Media Networks, NBC Universal and hedge fund Citadel to get in bed together, feel awkward about it in the morning.

• Time Warner mags are still a drag on earnings. Fortunately, the insanely priced restaurants in the TWC more than make up for it.

• Tivo offers its customers the ability to fast forward through all the annoying commercials. Including all the annoying commercials for Tivo.

• How many over-privileged Communications majors does it take to plan an after-party for Charlotte Ronson? Answer: Who cares—as long as they're attractive.

• And finally, April showers brings…lousy ratings for CNBC.

• CNBC anchor Maria Bartiromo free to ride with Citigroup any time she wants.

• NYT is "praised" for not being as boring, apathetic as usual.

• Former NBCU Treasurer could face up to 20 years in jail for his "pillaging."

• The editor of an alternate weekly newspaper quits because he just can't stand The Man.

• Meanwhile, John Ambrosia quit the Sun-Times Media Group because there was a shortage of "truthiness."

• Those damn movie trailers are so persuasive even we're convinced Ferris Bueller's Day Off is a drama

• The former treasurer at NBC Universal is arrested for allotting a suspiciously large percentage of the budget towards, well, himself.

• Tyra Banks talks about bulking up for her role as the increasingly irritating host of America's Next Top Model.

• Check out the gold chain! Those chiseled abs! Josh Duhamel has gotta be the hottest guy this side of New Jersey!

• Special Olympics thanks American Idol for treating "special" contestants as nastily as everyone else.

• A bunch of Brooklyn idiots plan to race shopping carts on January 27th…and it's not too late to join them.

• Not exactly sure why anyone would want to watch it, but here's footage of Nicole Kidman mini-car crash caught on tape.

Who dares to take on the Internet proprietor giants MySpace and YouTube? Universal Music does. The company "has plans" for those devious copyright infringers who host videos owned by Universal. (We take it Universal isn't responsible for YouTube sponsor Paris Hilton's video.)

Bascially it's the same thing YouTube went through with Saturday Night Live's "Lazy Sunday" video — those who upload videos onto You Tube and MySpace shasay past the copyright and ownership of content laws. Though both sites technically act as "hosts" for content, and are known to take copyrighted material down once they're informed of it, Universal is not too happy with all their for sale content being freely distributed all over the place.

Then, there's also Huffington Post's explanation.

Universal Music Group is going after MySpace (Fox) and YouTube (not Fox) for cash because they're too stupid to come up with their own ways of repurposing their own content.

Which is probably more spot-on than the whole "YouTube doesn't respect infrigement laws" theory.

MySpace, YouTube targeted by Universal Music Group [Ars Technica]
Universal Sues MySpace, YouTube [Eat the Press]