A Better Cab Show, Julia Laughs at Tomato, Big Buffet, and Lindsay's Lost Conquest

The tomato, a surprising threat to actors.

1. In her unofficial debut to Broadway last night, Three Days of Rain's Julia Roberts broke out of character and into her trademark grin when a plastic tomato escaped its confines of a table and bounced noisily across the stage floor.

2. Alka-Seltzer's papa, Bayer HealthCare LLC, celebrated its 75th anniversary with a Guinness Book of World Record-making LARGEST BUFFET IN THE WORLD EVER (annoying caps are necessary here) with 510 dishes and 850 lucky customers that enjoyed a discount off the Las Vegas Hilton's $12.99 buffet--final price: $7.50 and perhaps some cheesy cultural stock? The debbie-downer note of the story though was that there was no previous record for this anyway, but way to market Alka-Seltzer. Oh, the silver linings. (AP)

3. The next time you hop on a cab, be prepared to look good, be smart, and win win win. Discovery Channel's new game show, "Cash Cab," has the only cab in NY that could pay you for riding in it. Your driver will engage you with questions that will become increasingly harder and lucrative, and each correct answer is awarded with money ($25, $50, $100...) and gets you closer to your destination. The passenger/contestant gets two freebies or "shout outs," which means you can ask a stranger or a person you phone for help. Three incorrect answers, and you're ejected from the cab, no matter where you are, though that doesn't seem much different from a regular ride. My suggestion to the show is to only pick up people on Friday and Saturday nights.

4. The "48-hour rule," which protects cops from being questioned for two days in controversial incidents, has been killed by the state's Court of Appeals yesterday. The Patrolmen's Benevolent Association believes the ruling to be wrong. I believe all organizations seeking support should include the word "benevolent" in their names.

5. Two fetuses were removed from a two-month-old baby at the Children's Hospital at Pakistan Institute of Medical Science in Islamabad. Head of Pediatric Surgery Zaheer Abassi said this was the first case of fetus-in-fetu he has seen in Pakistan, commenting that "basically, it's a case of triplets, but two of the siblings grew in the other." And I learned today that babies can induce vomiting from me. (AP)

6. A source tells US Weekly that Lindsay Lohan tried to snag George Clooney the other night at Bungalow 8 but in vain. Despite all her flirting and chatting him up, they left separately. (Daily News)

Poor Lindsay.