This was my big scene in Michael Mann's "Collateral" that was cut out. Thanks to Tom Cruise, I can show it to you here.

Maybe I'll be in the extras when the DVD comes out.

Hong Kong police seized about 300 crickets, $1,025 in cash and arrested 115 men for illegally gambling on insect fights.

The money I could make with the bugs I find in my bathtub...

I was asking a friend if he had seen the new TV show, "Greencard" where they put Mexicans through a series of difficult challenges to win a Greencard?

He hadn't.

Sounds like a "Fear Factor" for illegal aliens. Challenges, I believe are how fast you can cross a river, move through a sewer pipe, remove a car radio, and sprinting with a TV set while Police dogs chase you.

To me this sounds wrong and insulting, but then so does almost all television these days. But since I don't have cable and the fact that the only broadcast stations that come in are Spanish... And they are crystal clear! With just rabbit ears they come in like HDTV.

I guess I'll watch.

Today at Island's in Burbank, I was eating a bucket of fries and found a hair deep-fried in it. I looked at it a bit, but the fries were perfect up until that point, yet I didn't want to stop. So I asked my friend if he would tell the waiter?

He said, "The deep-frying has killed any germs."

Then I thought about "Fear Factor," and how if a former contestant was in a restaurant and found a bug or something in their food, can they even complain?

Wouldn't the waiter just go, "Haven't you had worse?"

Investigators in England think a fire at the Devizes Cricket Club was caused by a rabbit that was hiding in a pile of branches stacked up for a bonfire the grounds crew lit, the rabbit ran out with its tail on fire and dashed into the club.

There was a resent wildfire out here that was blamed on a bird that caught fire on a powerline and flew in flames into the dry brush.

While others went to see, "AVP," I was watching, "AFV" on ABC.

"America's Funniest Home Videos" was really good. There was a lil' weener dog that was watching a fireworks display and decided that the Roman Candle needed to be fetched. The dog was running around with fireballs shooting out from its mouth into the crowd.

Awesome!

You can't get that kind of entertainment in movies these days. Free TV is where it's at...