FRIED PEANUT BUTTER AND BANANA SANDWICHES WILL HAVE TO WAIT UNTIL THE GIRLS TURN TWO: Elvis is once again a granddaddy, courtesy of Lisa Marie Presley's twin girls. Harper and Finley Lockwood were born to Lisa Marie and Michael Lockwood a week ago. We at Medieval Craft Guild Naming Headquarters salute the choice.

MURDER, SHE SANG AND DANCED:After a poorly received return to Broadway in last season's Deuce, Angela Lansbury will appear on stage again later this season in a revival of Noel Coward's Blithe Spirit, opposite Christine Ebersole and Rupert Everett. No word on whether murder and mystery will follow her wherever she goes.

e.t.a.by.adam: In other Broadway news, Oliver Platt has signed up to star in the upcoming Broadway revival of Guys and Dolls, portraying good old reliable Nathan, Nathan Nathan Nathan Detroit, a role previously inhabited on stage and screen by Walter Matthau, Alan King, Frank Sinatra, Robert Guillaume, Bob Hoskins and, of course, Nathan Lane. No casting yet for Sky Masterson, Miss Adelaide or Sarah Brown -- let alone Nicely-Nicely Johnson -- so your suggestions, hopes and fears are welcome.

STAT BOY: New York magazine and former Fametracker scribe Adam Sternbergh -- of whom we've long been a fan -- has done an extensive profile of Nate Silver of FiveThirtyEight.com and Baseball Prospectus fame, focusing on the differences between (and similarities of) forecasting politics and baseball:

As stats are to baseball, polls are to politics; i.e., the basic numeric measurement of how things have gone in the past and how they might go in the future. Ask any pollster, though, and he will tell you that polls aren’t meant to be used as predictive tools — they’re simply a rough measure of where the electorate stands at a given moment. As pollster John Zogby put it to me, “We take snapshots. And when you take many snapshots in a row, you get motion pictures.”

But unlike baseball stats, polls are a notoriously imprecise measurement. In baseball, at least, a hit is a hit. With polls, a yes isn’t always a yes. Sometimes it’s more like a “maybe,” or a “yes, until I change my mind,” or an “I don’t know, but I’ll say yes anyway to get you off the phone.” Poll results can vary dramatically based on what you’re asking, who you’re asking, how you’re asking, and how many people decide to answer you. Three different polls were conducted recently asking Americans how they felt about the federal $700 billion bailout. They all asked the question in slightly different ways and the results were essentially useless: One poll had people in favor of the bailout 57 to 30 percent, one had them against it 55 to 31, and one was basically split down the middle. In other words, polls are, at best, educated guesses. But if there’s one thing Nate Silver loves to make, it’s an educated guess.

Regardless of your political views, it's a piece worth reading.

AN ENCYCLOPÆDIA OF SUCK: I started to recap this week's HIMYM, and then I thought about the last ten minutes again and threw up in my mouth. But then I thought about the Barney stuff, and that was good. And so was the history of apartment damage and of interventions. But then they got back to all the Look, We Can Handle Real Emotional Stuff, and I threw up in my mouth again. Oh, those last scenes in the bar. Oh, the pain. Make it stop. Let Ted go to the suburbs, and then we can focus on the characters that don't make me want to shove a meat thermometer into my ear.

For NBC Pages, ‘Please Follow Me’ Is a Fervent Wish - NYTimes.com

IN FIVE YEARS, WE'LL EITHER ALL BE WORKING FOR HIM ... OR BE DEAD BY HIS HAND: The New York Times goes to the real 30 Rock to meet with NBC's pages, a program so selective and prestigious that 7,000 people apply for 60 to 85 slots each year. (Yale Law School, by way of comparison, has about half as many applicants for three times as many slots.)

TOO LATE FOR ROBERT K. OERMANN, SO JUST SHINE IT UP FOR BOURDAIN: They're going to add an Emmy for best Reality TV Judge.

IT'S NO CATFANCY: I am increasingly convinced that there is an ongoing effort to create media channels so narrow that each and every person will have a publication and/or television network directed towards them and them alone. The fact that there is now a publication-- Bingo Gossip, devoted entirely to major events impacting Bingo players in the state of Texas -- suggests to me that we're already well on our way.