After playing coy for years and ticking off a roomful of reporters in July, Star Jones has finally copped to using a gastric bypass to lose weight. Find the story here.

For all her talk about hypocrisy and the like, she apparently didn't learn everything about being honest from her experience. Check out my friend Alan Sepinwall's account of her ducking weight-loss questions during the TV critics' tour — just over two weeks ago.

Premiere dates, new "Apprentice," Jerry Seinfeld on "30 Rock," Norman Lear ..

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NBC picks up "30 Rock" for next season!

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Little things can feel like big worries. Nice to see Molly Shannon on a good "30 Rock" on Thursday, but she looked alarmingly thin. Then there's the way Newsweek's Joshua Alston wrote about Amy Winehouse …

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Trying to get a handle on Randy Newman and other notes, after the jump …

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