Everything you’ve heard about “Knocked Up” is true: It’s even more riotously and consistently hilarious than its predecessor, Judd Apatow’s 2005 sleeper hit “The 40-Year-Old Virgin,” with even greater heart. No small feat.

‘The View’ goes on without Rosie after last week’s spat with Elisabeth Hasselbeck
Elisabeth Hasselbeck is trying to patch things up with Rosie O’Donnell, her former co-host on ABC’s “The View,” after last week’s on-air spat.

Britney Spears weighs in on rehab, tabloids
Spears says she “hit rock bottom,” in a message posted on her Web site about the end of her marriage and her time in rehab.

The Police begin reunion tour with sold-out concert in Vancouver
Fans took to their feet and sang along as Monday’s night’s show opened with “Message in a Bottle,” the band’s 1979 smash hit.

Is ‘Roscian’ harder than ‘appoggiatura’? Making the Spelling Bee list isn’t easy
The young competitors have spent months poring over word lists and dictionaries, probing the depths of entomology in an attempt to answer one nagging question: What strange word is Carolyn Andrews going to come up with next?

Dancer from Japan crowned Miss Universe 2007
Dressed in a black, red and purple Japanese-style gown, Riyo Mori nervously grabbed the hands of first runner-up, Natalia Guimaraes of Brazil, just before the winner was announced. Then she threw her hands up and covered her mouth, overcome with emotion.

Networks thinking of creative ways to keep you from skipping ads
Some of the most creative thinking in television these days has nothing to do with comedy or drama. It’s about the commercials. Fueled by a growing sense of desperation, networks are inserting games, quizzes and mini-dramas into commercial breaks.

Oden extras (updated)
I had a wonderful visit with Greg Oden this week, part of which will be relayed through a feature in Sunday’s editions of The Oregonian. First off, the kid is great. If the Blazers do indeed draft him with the…

Greg Oden on Portland: I know it rains a lot
Greg Oden was surpised by the news that Portland won the first pick. “I looked up and said, ‘Wow!’” Oden told ESPN.com by phone during a layover Tuesday night as he was making his way West to Las Vegas for…

Americans divided on whether doctors should help terminally ill patients die
More than two-thirds of Americans believe there are circumstances in which a patient should be allowed to die, but they are closely divided on whether it should be legal for a doctor to help terminally ill patients end their own lives by prescribing fatal drugs, a new AP-Ipsos poll finds.

New fitness vibration plates popular but may be risky, experts say
What if you could burn fat while shaking a martini? Actually, it’s your body that shakes like a martini on a new type of fitness machine that’s generating lots of buzz and celebrity use. Even NASA has tested the concept.

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