The Pumpkin Centipede, and 6 Other Stories You'll Be Talking About Today

Also in today's edition of The Broadsheet: Julia Louis-Dreyfus may be HBO's Veep... Katherine Heigl's next one finds a buyer... a beloved (if private) ballplayer reemerges for the camera... someone catalogued a bunch of exploding heads... and more!

· So your three-day Halloween bender has become a three-alarm Monday hangover, which means for at least a few more hours such realities as the Pumpkin Centipede -- based on the movies' stomach-churning human analog -- are worthy of your consideration. You're welcome. [THR]

· Julia Louis-Dreyfus is in final negotiations for the lead in Veep, HBO's forthcoming comedy about the country's first woman Vice President. In the Loop co-writer/director Armando Iannucci is set to co-write and direct the pilot; calibrate your anticipation accordingly. [Variety]

· Summit Entertainment dropped funds on Katherine Heigl's Adaline, about a "strangely ageless young woman who falls in love after years of isolation." Shoots in March, out in 2012. [THR]

· "It doesn't make sense if it's Jews and Baseball, and I'm not in it." And thus the exceedingly press-shy Sandy Koufax agreed to his first extended interview in 11 years for the new documentary Jews and Baseball: An American Love Story. Awesome. [NYT]

· Leave it to EW to profile "14 Mind-blowing Head Explosions" in time for Halloween. [EW]

· You'll never believe what John Cameron Mitchell called "the perfect DVD to hole up with in your childhood room on that third day home for the holidays when you can no longer speak to your family without screaming." But he's actually kind of right. [NYT]

· If Saturday's Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear left you feeling plenty of the former, here's an eyewitness account of Nevada nearly completing its violent swing to the right to get you good and mortified again. [The Awl]