· Dropping by The View today, Paul Schaffer passed on Joy's inevitable crack about whether or not he's slept with Dave by reminding her that like Star Jones -- who he then reached over and patted on the knee -- he too is the son of a lawyer. Problem #1: Star Jones hasn't worked for The View in some years. Problem #2: Paul didn't even mistake her for Sherri Shepherd -- he mistook her for Ugly Betty star Ana Ortiz. Who really cares, though? Paul's the best. Here he is telling Dave the story behind the gay anthem he wrote for The Weather Girls, "It's Raining Men."
· Marge Simpson will be posing for Playboy, EOnline.com confirms, gracing the November cover, as well as a three-page pictorial with interview inside. Meanwhile, Comic Book Guy has been frantically carb-loading in time for his centerfold spread in December's A Bear's Life magazine. ("Worst. Manscaping. Ever.")
· Andrew Lloyd Webber has announced that the sequel to The Phantom of the Opera, called Love Never Dies, will premiere in London in March and is set in Coney Island. Its crowning musical jewel -- the soaring love ballad, "One Dollar Gets You a Look at the World's Largest Rat" -- is expected to be the rare showtune to crossover to the pop charts.
· Arnold Schwarzenegger was greeted with boos and catcalls, and told by State Assemblyman Tom Ammiano to "kiss my gay ass," when he made a surprise appearance at a Democratic fundraiser in San Francisco yesterday. In keeping with his jocular style, Schwarzenegger reminded the crowd that back in his bodybuilding days, he did more than just kiss gay asses and things of that nature in order to win titles, and the room fell deathly silent. [via Towleroad]
· Please give a warm welcome to Mattel's Black Barbie, with restyleable hair. They might be harder to come by in Australia.