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Lord Help Us: Former Republican Majority Leader and alleged criminal Tom DeLay will be a contestant on the next "Dancing With the Stars" along with Donny Osmond, Mya, Macy Gray and Aaron Carter; actors Melissa Joan Hart, Debi Mazar; professional snowboarder Louie Vito; Olympic swimmer Natalie Coughlin; former Dallas Cowboys wide receiver Michael Irvin, and many others.

A Word or, I dunno, like 80: It seems to be coming together a bit on Lost - another good episode last night. If you want the producers' perspective, they're on tonight after Grey's. Delay goes to his base tonight on Colbert. Tonight the networks will have the typical struggle between comedy and young-doctors-in-love, what will you succumb to? Tonight - Thursday - May 17, 2007 Angels @ Mariners (Fox Sports, 7:00 p.m.) Bob...

With all that went down this week, we thought we thought we'd cheer everyone up by giving everyone a double dose of dogs.

Usually the Midnight Movies that we feature at this hour are pretty lighthearted in nature, certainly nothing life-changing or serious, but tonight we want to share something with you that puts everything in perspective and not only celebrates the miracle of life but of the importance of sharing and recycling.

- Courtney Love was a good girl, judge removes her from probation, she cries. "Thank you for not taking me into custody... You've been a good, fair judge. Sorry for crying." E! News - SUV chased by LAPD crashes into a house near Exposition Park - Mercury News - LA Opera gets $4 million to help recover music suppressed by the Nazis - Playbill - Teen Soccer sensation Freddi Adu gets traded to SLC's...

Even though we are way way past school age, we still get a little melancholy at the close of summer. Fortunately, our friends across the -ist network know that the shenanigans don't need to end just because the big yellow buses are back on the roads. So, grab your sunscreen and your favorite hangover cure, as we take a tour of end of summer fun from -ist cities all over the damn place.

There's a whole wide world out there, and here's the proof:

Hello Klimt: Maria Altmann, the 90-year-old Angeleno who won a long dispute with the Austrian government over 5 paintings taken from her family by the Nazis, has loaned those paintings to LACMA; they go on display today. The museum characterizes all of the paintings as masterpieces; they include 2 familiar portraits of Altmann's aunt, Adele Bloch-Bauer.

This just in: Tom Delay abandons his bid to return as House Majority Leader.

The Republican National Convention opens today in New York City (after a welcome from hundreds of thousands of anti-Bush protestors), and LAist thought that our readers, being from one of the Bluest of Blue States, would appreciate a primer of what we can expect to hear from the Red Staters of the GOP. [Ed note: You can check out Joshuah Bearman's RNC coverage at for daily reports.]

Harman is the ranking minority member of the House Intelligence committee. She often brings a needed dose of sanity to Washington's efforts to prevent terrorism. An example? Her recent call for the U.S. to abandon the Homeland Security Dept.'s silly color-coded "threat system."