You'd think the shameful performance of the "official" Sarah Palin documentary, The Undefeated, would put an end to the Palin documentary sub-genre. You'd think. But how then, do you explain Sarah Palin – You Betcha!, another moving picture documenting the Palin phenomenon? Let us try. Whereas The Undefeated was made by a Tea Party disciple who had Team Palin's full blessing, You Betcha! takes a more back-channel approach. The first film was made by and for Palin's shrinking group of supporters. This one was made for everyone else.

● Josh Brolin can officially rule out a role in Mission: Impossible 5, after telling The New Yorker that Scientology is "really fucking bizarre." [The New Yorker] ● Watch B.o.B deliver a meta-performance of his hit "Airplane" on an airplane, giving new meaning to the term "in-flight entertainment." Get it?! [YouTube] ● Lady Gaga tweeted that her new single, "Born This Way," will be out this Friday. Then her boyfriend tweeted how proud of her he is. Then I sneezed. [Lady Gaga/Twitter]

Instead of buying a burrito for lunch, Michael Moore helped buy the freedom of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange by contributing $20,000 of his own money to Assange's bail fund. According to a blog post written by Moore on today's Daily Cos, "We were taken to war in Iraq on a lie. Hundreds of thousands are now dead. Just imagine if the men who planned this war crime back in 2002 had had a WikiLeaks to deal with. They might not have been able to pull it off. The only reason they thought they could get away with it was because they had a guaranteed cloak of secrecy. That guarantee has now been ripped from them, and I hope they are never able to operate in secret again. So why is WikiLeaks, after performing such an important public service, under such vicious attack? Because they have outed and embarrassed those who have covered up the truth. The assault on them has been over the top..."

At the New York Film Festival premiere of Broken Embraces:

● Paris Hilton tries to remain relevant by gushing about former/current BFF Nicole Richie’s new son, calling Sparrow “a perfect addition to the family.” [Us] ● Friends of Jessica Simpson worry the singer (?)/actress (?) is about to go all Sylvia Plath and fall into the bell jar now that her "baby" Daisy was mauled by a coyote. [People] ● Jason Segal and Chloë Sevigny are bumping uglies -- the TV duo were spotted making out at an after-Emmy party, but quickly de-locked their lips once noticed by the masses. [E!]

You won't see a lot of interviews with Michael Moore in the lead-up to his new doc Capitalism: A Love Story. Why not? Well, as the LA Times’ Patrick Goldstein recently found out, Moore’s doing a sit-down with Oprah on September 22, and the price of her oh-so-critical attention is total exclusivity. The doyenne-of-daytime doesn’t want anyone stealing her thunder. A New York Times piece and a Leno appearance scraped by because they preceded the Oprah booking, but otherwise that’s it until the 23rd when the film drops in NY and LA.

The last time I was imprisoned in the waiting room of a hospital, I spent the better part of an hour trying to figure out how many Q-Tips I go through in an average month. Not so for Erik Luchauer and Kevin Antoine, brothers-in-law from Knoxville, Tenessee, who did battle with slogging healthcare monotony by creating Rootclip.com. It's a website through which aspiring Stan Brakhages are invited to add "chapters" to an existing short. Rootclip provided the first two-minute clip, an open-ended plot introduction, and users are asked to finish their story—one one-minute entry at a time.