Each interview with actor Hunter Parrish invariably begins with a mention of his two shoes and how gosh darn goody they are. And so it’s a testament to his abundant talent that the 21-year-old star of Broadway’s Spring Awakening and the hit series Weeds has been able to play sexed-up pot peddlers with such conviction. Up next, Parrish will torment Zac Efron in 17 Again, which opens this spring. But will Hollywood’s freshest young star, an honest kid from Virginia, succumb to Hollywood’s debauched world of bottle service and bottle blondes? Parrish the thought.

New York magazine sent readers of all stripes into a fits of hysteria by claiming that both Sarah Palin and Hilary Clinton set women back a few decades by reinforcing reductive stereotypes -- specifically, the ditz and the bitch. But similar pundits are also waxing philosophical on the link between Barack Obama's election and the potential upswing for more diversity on TV. So if television is indeed the window into the American psyche (and let's be honest, who can contest otherwise?), then what sort of change are the ditz/bitch forces of Palin and Lady Clinton supposed to embody?

We’ve been fascinated by the sordid world of high-priced escort services for years. Thank Charlie Sheen and Heidi Fleiss for bringing it to the frontal lobe of public consciousness in the nineties, and more recently former New York governor Elliot Spitzer, for raw-dogging it back to front page status. Even ascending network Showtime is joining the biz. Tonight, following the fourth season premiere of “Weeds”, the network will debut “Secret Diary of a Call Girl.” We’d run down the plot for you, but it’s one of those title-says-it-all kind of things. The show is actually an import from the BBC, airing there for a couple of years, and based on the blog of London call girl Belle du Jour (named the Guardian’s blog of the year in 2003). Kudos belong to Showtime for airing the original product and not bothering with an Americanized version. And in this wonderful age of free shit online, you can already watch the first two episodes on the show’s official site.

Showtime’s “Weeds” made viewers re-evaluate everything they thought they knew about the unassuming suburban mother. With its innovative outlook on life in ticky-tacky suburbia, it was only fitting that the theme song be just as inventive. The innocent, sing-songy melody of “Little Boxes” takes on a new identity each episode, with different artists from every genre of the music world putting their own spin on the well-known tune. Now, Lionsgate and “Weeds” have compiled an assortment of these themes in its digital-only release of LITTLE BOXES DIMEBAG #1, available on June 17th. Featured artists range from Rise Against to Randy Newman to Billy Bob Thornton & the Boxmasters. This is one dimebag full of something that’s okay to get addicted to.