FIRST DRAFT: Courtesy of White Collar creator's Jeff Eastin's Twitter, here's a massive collection of TV scripts hosted by Google, with an emphasis on pilots. Ones of interest include:

• The House pilot script, set not in Princeton, but in Cambridge, introducing us to Greg House, who "wields the truth like a sword--and isn't afraid to cut you."
  
• The original Studio 60 pilot script, which reads much better and sharper than what ultimately made it to air.
• The Modern Family pilot--sadly, not the original version where the documentary crew were characters, but featuring jokes that didn't make to air, including Phil performing "We're All In This Together," a discussion of the appropriate time to shoot someone with a BB gun, and the revelation of what Mitchell does for a living,
  

One-Hit Wonders of the 2000s Page 1 | Billboard.com

WELL, HE HAD AT LEAST ONE GOOD DAY IN THE STUDIO: Billboard Magazine names Daniel Powter's "Bad Day" the one-hit wonder of the Aughts, though Macy Gray, Vanessa Carlton, Blu Cantrell and James Blunt are among those who have not been forgotten in the process.

The list looks at artists whose top single charted from 2000-07 (because folks in the last two years could return some day), "ranked by how high their big song climbed on the chart compared to how far down the tally their subsequent highest-charting effort peaked."

AND THAT'S WHY YOU ALWAYS CHECK THE AMAZON GOLD BOX: For those who haven't seen Arrested Development in its entirety yet, you now have no excuses--the Amazon deal of the day is all three seasons for a mere $28.99. That's about 55 cents an episode, and that, my friends, is value.

Y'KNOW, IF YOU'RE GOING TO CALL A SHOW "THE AMAZING RACE," HOW ABOUT MAKING THE TEAMS TRAVEL ON FOOT UP AND DOWN THE VEGAS STRIP RATHER THAN TAKE TAXIS EVERYWHERE? And what was with all the hidden service entrances? Yes, our Race is over, and we had one great challenge tonight -- the Cirque challenge, a tremendous test of athletics and reasoning under pressure -- as well as a deceptively tough one: "what's in Monaco?" But as much as I admired the chip-counting task on a strategic and working-accurately-under-pressure level, it was impossible for viewers to determine what teams were completing it properly as it happened, and so as far as overall narrative cohesiveness is concerned I'm still not entirely sure why the team that won, won.

What I appreciated about this season of the Race, overall, was that its challenges were more tourist-based than stunt-based, tasks that reasonably approximated things anyone could do in visiting these places. No, these teams weren't quite as compelling as those in the past, and I missed all the airport-fu -- there was nothing like Season 5's ending which was determined by two teams failing to remember that checking your luggage through to the final destination means you can't change your flights midway. But, still, it's a damn fine show. Party at Wayne's house!

Fienberg talks about what I didn't: the awesomeness of the interactions with the embalmed Wayne Newton.

COMMISSIONER'S CORNER: By now, we all know what happened in the second quarter of the New Orleans-Washington game today, per the AP recap:

[F]acing third-and-26 at the Redskins 44, Brees backpedalled under pressure and threw a desperation pass deep over the middle toward Jeremy Shockey in triple coverage. Kareem Moore dived over Shockey's back to make an interception, rolled over, got up and ran 14 yards before Meachem simply took the ball away from an upright Moore and started running down the sideline -- high-stepping 44 yards for the team's ninth return touchdown of the season.

Query for this crucial last week before the fantasy playoffs: is your league scoring this (and should it be scored) as an offensive touchdown for Meachem? As a touchdown for the New Orleans defense/special teams? Both? Neither?

QUESTION: BASED ON A SNARKY THOUGHT BY THE BLOGGER THE PATHETIC EARTHLING: Is the the name of this movie actually "Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire" not just "Precious" a movie which is based on the novel 'Push' by Sapphire?

EXCESSIVE BLOCKING: The Blind Side is definitely a well-made movie and tells its story well, but loses something important from the book--distance. The lengthy discussion in the book of how and why the left tackle position became so important in condensed to a brief voiceover from Sandra Bullock at the start of the film, over the film of the Lawrence Taylor-Joe Theisman incident. Likewise, the film loses the skepticism and uncertainty Lewis brings into the book at first--even though Sean Tuohy was a childhood friend of his, at least at first, Lewis is not uncertain that their aims are entirely altrustic and above-board.

There's also a couple of really lame "ghetto" scenes near the end of the film that pull you out of the film, and a few minor continuity errors, largely due to them filming in Georgia, rather than Memphis. For instance, even though there's a brief discussion of how the Tuohys don't know any Democrats, before that, we see in their son's room what I immediately recognized as a Harold Ford, Jr. for Congress poster. But that said, you can't deny that it's moving, and the theatre I was in sat, no one leaving, even through the credits, when we see pictures of the real Michael Oher and the Tuohys--that says something.