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In the News Today:

• Tomorrow’s Mega Millions Jackpot is up to $88 million bucks.

• Today is Teacher's Day, which is celebrated with the birthday of teacher and philosopher Confucius who was born in 551 B.C. He dedicated most of his life to teaching, starting at the age of 22 when he opened his first school. Today is a holiday for all Public schools so Teachers can celebrate with a day off.

• The 47th annual New York Film Festival is running for the next two weeks at Lincoln Center. The festival runs through October 11th and tickets and directions can be found at www.filmlinc.org. And if your choice is sold out don't give up hope: a limited number of rush tickets will be available before most screenings.

• A husband and wife who sell tacos and quesadillas have been named New York City's best street. Vendors, taking first place at the fifth annual “Vendy Awards” on Saturday. The Vendy Awards celebrate the best of the city's street food. The Martinezes make Mexican specialties out of their cart at the Red Hook ballfield in Brooklyn. 700 hundred people attended the awards ceremony at the Queens Museum of Art. An Austrian food cart called “Schnitzel and Things” was named rookie of the year.

• WACKY NEWS
  • Karaoke is one of those things: You either love it or hate it. A 25-year-old woman's karaoke performance at a Cafe in Stamford, Connecticut was not met with a kind reception – and the woman was assaulted by audience members. The Connecticut Post says the woman was verbally taunted by a group of women during her rendition of a Colombian pop song. When she exited the stage, one of the women punched her in the mouth and then others joined in beating her. The singer was treated at Stamford Hospital and released. Six women were ejected from the bar and arrested.
    

• Conan O'Brien hit his head during a stunt for the "Tonight Show" on Friday which halted production temporarily. He issued a statement through NBC saying he was treating the incident lightly and is expected back tonight.
  

• 'LAW & Order: Criminal Intent" is making dramatic cast changes for next season with four regulars departing. Star Vincent D'Onofrio will exit during the show's ninth sea son, handing over his badge to Jeff Goldblum as the top detective on the major case squad. Kathryn Erbe, who has been with the show since its beginning also will be phased out, as will Eric Bogosian, who plays the force's captain, Danny Ross. 

• "Saturday Night Live'' has started the season with an F-bomb. Newcomer Jenny Slate let the dreaded word slip during a parody of a talk show by biker women. The sketch continued with no interruption or further slip-ups. NBC declined to comment on the incident, other than to say the word had been restored to "reakin''' for the show's replays in western time zones.

• FALL TV PREMIERES
  
  • The premieres of “Trauma” on NBC and “Lie to Me” on FOX.

• Tonight on “Dancing with the Stars” the 14 remaining celebs perform a dance picked by the judges.

• We already have our first fall TV casualty - The CW's "The Beautiful Life'' is the first television series from the new fall season to be canceled after just 2 episodes. The drama created by Ashton Kutcher premiered to just 1.5 million viewers and the audience dropped even more for last week's episode. In its place the CW will repeat episodes of "Melrose Place'' just one day after it’s original airing.

• New releases couldn’t take down last week’s number one. "Tyler Perry's I Can Do Bad All By Myself," came in 5th. "The Informant!" with Matt Damon came in 4th. Opening in third place was "Fame," a new take on the 1980s music and dance hit – it took in just $10 million. The Bruce Willis thriller "Surrogates" debuted in second with $15 million. “Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs" took in $24.6 million to remain #1 at the box office for a second straight weekend.

• ON TV TONIGHT
  
  • The Jay Leno Show: Bill Maher
  • David Letterman: Felicity Huffman
  • Conan O'Brien: Drew Barrymore
  • Craig Ferguson: Chris O'Donnell
  • Jimmy Fallon: David Duchovny
     

MMS for iPhone launches TODAY, which is a full 3 months later than it was supposed to.

It'll be coming via software update for iPhone 3G and 3GS, but old iPhones are getting left out.

AT&T admits they're late, saying "it was important to give our customers a positive experience from day one" so they needed the extra to "to make sure our network is ready to handle what we expect will be a record volume of MMS traffic."
 

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