• Summer Glau has joined the cast of NBC superhero pilot The Cape. She will play an “investigative blogger.”
• Larry David said he may do another season of Curb The Enthusiasm for HBO.
• Sports movies casting: Robert DeNiro will play legendary Green Bay Packers football coach Vince Lombardi in an ESPN biopic… Tobey Maguire will portray chess master Bobby Fischer.
• Have you heard Jason Castro’s terrific, stripped-down version of Crazy, the Gnarls Barkley hit?
• Genesis, ABBA, The Hollies, Jimmy Cliff and Iggy Pop and The Stooges were inducted into the Rock ‘n Roll Hall of Fame on Monday night.
• Gamers are excited about the March 16th release of Sony’s God of War III, the highly-anticipated final act of the Kratos trilogy. The Boston Herald gave it an A-, calling it “fascinating, beautiful and technically amazing” and “disgustingly violent.”

Stone told the AP:

“It’s such an important issue in America right now — the sex addiction outbreak. We’re all really concerned about him and hope he gets better.”

People thought I was out of my mind for even thinking about seeing this movie. It’s just an animated kiddie alien flick, right? It’s important to remember that there’s a clear delineation in the family movie world, which separates the dog food that parents play on a continuous loop to keep the little ankle-biters at bay (see also: the complete works of Miley Cyrus), and then the good stuff, that we can all watch together. Stuff like “Planet 51.” The hook is the premise of an American astronaut who lands on a supposedly lifeless planet only to discover that he is the alien. What he walks into is a world that’s essentially 1950’s Americana all the way. It’s a small town story with small town tales, but made all the more cute by these squidgy little green folks (weirdly pants-less, but whatever). The green ones, the town, the dogs – all beautifully rendered and with impeccable comic timing. Voice talent of Dwayne Johnson, Jessica Biel, Justin Long, Gary Oldman and Sean William Scott accentuates these characters quite nicely. It’s a good little movie. You can put it on the shelf next to “Spaced Invaders.”

“The Pacific” will rock your soul and make your heart bleed. A 10-part HBO World War II miniseries, the long-awaited companion piece to “Band of Brothers” from Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks which begins Sunday night, is a masterful, compelling, intense and brutal depiction of battle, the men who fight it and then have to handle the sometimes unbearable consequences. It will be the television event of the season… as a weekly shot to digest and ponder… or better yet, if you can wait, a gigantic movie — for that’s what it is — to be experienced in one emotional viewing.

Spielberg and Hanks, who collaborated on the brilliant, beloved Emmy award-winning “Brothers,” a landmark HBO event in 2001, had no choice: they had to make “The Pacific” and tell the rest of the story. For the sake of history. Everyone knows about the American troops that stormed the beaches and fought the Germans in the familiar setting of Germany. Not as many are as well-versed on the wide, wide world of the Pacific battlegrounds. We know that the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor, drove the United States into the conflict, and that we took care of business and raised the flag at Iwo Jima.

But it was a very different war… against a very different enemy that would rather die than surrender… in a very different environment, a living jungle hell of torrid weather and frightening disease. “The Pacific” drops you smack in the middle of this mess. You can almost hear the mosquitoes buzzing in your ears.

The producers felt it was important that the mini-series, which took four years to develop, be based on real experience. “The Pacific” tracks the intertwined real-life journeys of three U.S. marines — Robert Leckie (James Badge Dale), Eugene Sledge (Joe Mazzello) and John Basilone (Jon Seda), a Medal of Honor winner. Books written by Leckie and Sledge provided some of the source material.

The largely unknown cast is superb. Dale — you may remember him as Jack Bauer’s partner Chase in season 3 of “24″ — has the most pivotal role, an aspiring, introspective journalist. “Fringe’s” Anna Torv has a bit part as a starlet hanging out — and screwing (one of the four sex scenes) — Basilone after he leaves the battle zone to push U.S. war bonds.

The story needs a little romance because the battle scenes are long, visceral and violent. “The Pacific” cost $200 million and it shows. “Band of Brothers” was kids stuff compared to technical advancements and what they do to upset your stomach (do not watch while eating dinner). I’ll spare you the details. Spielberg in the press materials: “Actually, we restrained ourselves. We pulled ourselves back from what we could have shown, what these soldiers actually encountered, things that they actually observed, but we had a line we wouldn’t cross.” Chapter 9, which depicts the bloody battles on Okinawa and was masterfully directed by Tim Van Patten (”The Sopranos”), is especially horrific and heart-wrenching. It’s an hour you won’t soon forget.

“The Pacific” is not a history book brought to life. The biggest fault of the miniseries is that it lacks a solid sense of cohesion. The battles blend together. More importantly, however, the producers wanted to show the underlying effects on the soldiers, who are mostly just boys. Hanks: “How can those guys do what they did and be expected to come back to a world where you just move on with things?”

Unlike “Band of Brothers,” “The Pacific” takes that needed step, wrapping up with a touching final chapter, written by Bruce C. McKenna and Robert Schenkkan, that occurs after the Japanese surrender as Leckie and Sledge try to adjust to post-war life. A final impression. These men — who grew up to form the Greatest Generation — leave you in awe.

“Hey Internet: I’m headed to your town on a half-assed comedy & music tour. Go to http://TeamCoco.com for tix. I repeat: It’s half-assed.”

The “Legally Prohibited From Being Funny On Television Tour” will kick off April 12 in Eugene, Ore., and will feature Conan and his sidekick, Andy Richter.

The 30-city tour will include a June 11th performance at Bonnaroo, where Conan will perform before 60,000 in Manchester, Tenn. O’Brien will also emcee Bonnaroo’s “What” stage on Friday and Saturday nights.

Here is a full list of the tour stops:

• April 12: Hult Center for the Performing Arts in Eugene, Ore.
• April 13: Orpheum Theater in Vancouver, British Columbia
• April 16: INB Performing Arts Center in Spokane, Wash.
• April 17: River Cree Resort and Casino in Enoch, Alberta
• April 18: Seattle Center, Marion Oliver McCaw Hall, in Seattle
• April 22: Nob Hill Masonic Center in San Francisco
• April 24: Gibson Amphitheater in Universal City, Calif.
• April 29: San Diego Civic Theater in San Diego
• April 30: Dodge Theater in Phoenix
• May 1: Pearl Concert Theater at The Palms in Las Vegas
• May 4: Grand Sierra Resort and Casino in Reno, Nev.
• May 5: San Jose State University Events Center in San Jose, Calif.
• May 6: Sacramento Memorial Auditorium in Sacramento
• May 9: Mackey Auditorium in Boulder, Colo.
• May 10: Ellie Caulkins Opera House in Denver
• May 13: McFarlin Memorial Auditorium, Southern Methodist University, Dallas
• May 14: Austin Music Hall in Austin, Tex.
• May 15: Brady Theater in Tulsa, Okla.
• May 16: Midland Theater in Kansas City, Mo.
• May 18: Orpheum Theater in Minneapolis
• May 19 & 20: Chicago Theater in Chicago
• May 22: Massey Hall in Toronto
• May 30: Borgata Spa and Resort Event Center in Atlantic City
• June 1 & 2: Radio City Music Hall in New York
• June 4 & 5: Wang Theater in Boston
• June 6: Mohegan Sun Arena in Uncasville, Conn.
• June 7: Tower Theater in Upper Darby, Pa.
• June 8: Constitution Hall in Washington
• June 11: Bonnaroo Music Festival in Manchester, Tenn.
• June 14: Fox Theater in Atlanta

Betty White fans, you’ve got your wish. The great old lady of comedy will host “Saturday Night Live” on May 8. The Mother’s Day episode also will feature a reunion of six former female cast members, most of them moms: Tina Fey, Amy Poehler, Molly Shannon, Maya Rudolph, Ana Gasteyer and Rachel Dratch. SNL executive producer Lorne Michaels told USA Today that the 88-year-old White can perform “as much as she wants to do” then added that the physical demands of the show led him to plan the cast reunion.