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Feb 07 2008 12:00am EDT

Idle Chatter: MoDo, BaDi, 'Knight Rider'...

-Is Maureen Dowd having trouble telling black women apart? Dowd says no, but Times of London columnist Michelle Henery says yes. Dowd may be winning this one, however: The Times appears to have removed Henery's column from its website. [P6]

-Barry Diller, who recently called longtime business partner John Malone "insane," says he wishes Malone's Liberty Media weren't so "aggressive." [NYP]

-French publishers are racing to put out quickie biographies of brand-new first lady Carla Bruni. [WWD]

-Arrested Development star Will Arnett has pulled out as the voice of KITT in NBC's Knight Rider revival, owing to a conflict: KITT is a Ford Mustang, but Arnett's voice is featured in commercials for GMC trucks. Val Kilmer will replace him. [Variety]

-Does In Touch have its very own Jared Paul Stern? [Gawker]

-Scandal! That's not really Robert Jarvik rowing that shell in those Lipitor ads. [NYT]. □

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