•    In San Francisco, they may clamp a 23-cent a pack tax on cigarettes to pay for the cleanup of all the cigarette butts left around town.
•    There was a Twitter rumor going around that Patrick Swayze had died. But his publicist says he's a live and well.
•    The National Football League and Comcast have completed a deal that will finally put the league's NFL Network on widely distributed tier of the cable operator.
•    The New York Post says Alex Rodriguez was with Kate Hudson after last Friday's game, celebrating in the back room of the Mustang Grill on Second Avenue.
•    Mary-Louise Parker, star of the "Weeds" on Showtime, says she regrets doing a nude bathtub scene last season. "I didn't think I needed to be naked, and I fought with the director about it, and now I'm bitter," Parker tells More magazine.
•    The most notable TV show cancellations: NBC dropped "My Name is Earl" and "Medium." CBS canned "The Unit" and "Without A Trace" and picked up "Medium" from NBC. ABC said goodbye to "Samantha Who?," "Cupid" and "The Unusuals" and Fox dropped the rock on "Terminator: Sarah Connor Chronicles" and "Sit Down, Shut Up."
•    White bread will just make you want to eat more white bread says Louis J. Aronne, author of "The Skinny."
•    Penelope Cruz has had to miss an event at the Cannes Film Festival after suffering food poisoning.
•    Steven Spielberg is working on bringing Dr. Martin Luther King's life to the big screen, but two of King's kids are threatening a lawsuit because they weren't included in the movie deal.
•    Just hours after a statue of President James Garfield was dedicated at Hiram College in Ohio, someone decapitated it.
•    Wayne Allwine (Ahl'-wine), the actor who voiced Mickey Mouse for more than 30 years, died Monday of complications from diabetes. He was 62. His wife of 20 years and the voice of Minnie Mouse, Russi Taylor, was by his side.
•    New Orleans got the word this week that they'll be hosting the 2013 Super Bowl.
•    The mother of Mel Gibson's new girlfriend insists that her daughter did not break up his marriage. It was already broken.