· A half-hour CSI stage show at Magic Mountain will allow visitors to Six Flags to "witness a fake crime, then guide them through the 'whodunit' process," before shuffling them through turnstiles for the ride of their life on The Wild Blacklight Splooge-Stain Coaster! [Variety]
· Filmmaker R.J. Cutler will turn the new book Comedy at the Edge: How Stand-Up in the 1970s Changed America into a feature-length documentary, highlighting the amazing stand-up accomplishments of groundbreaking comedians like Steve Martin, Richard Pryor, George Carlin, and a 4-year-old Dane Cook, who to this day holds the title for youngest Boston Yuk-Yuks headliner of all time. [Variety]

· The Departed writer William Monahan will pen a true crime story based on an article about "a drug dealer who traded a prison sentence to go undercover at a maximum security hospital for the criminally insane." The piece will will appear in Playboy later this year: Look for the issue with either the politician-toppling hooker or supporting star of The Hills on the cover. [Variety]
· The boys from local sketch comedy troupe Summer of Tears have sold a screenplay, titled Beat Kip, to Paramount Vantage. Envious sketch comedy troupes are claiming the Tears boys used their past history as strippers to their self-promotional advantage. [THR]
· Sundance Channel, owned by CBS, NBC Universal and Robert Redford, may be up for sale, available for Rupert Murdoch to snatch up, hack the "Sun" prefix from its name, and replace its indie oasis mandate with 24-hour So You Think You Can Dance marathons. [THR]

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