One of last night's reruns of Law & Order on TNT contained a Grimaldi's reference. In the episode "Tabula Rasa," detectives Curtis (Benjamin Bratt) and Briscoe (Jerry Orbach) are investigating a suspect who claims he's never been to New York before. After obtaining his credit-card receipts, they find he has visited Grimaldi's—alone, no less. Lieutenant Van Buren: [reading list of card charges] United Airlines, TKTS, Museum of Modern Art Bookstore, Barneys, Grimaldi's Italian Restaurant.Briscoe: Grimaldi's in Brooklyn?Van Buren: You know another one? Charge was for twelve bucks and some change.Briscoe: [with the wisecrack] You can't feed a family of... More

An alert Domino's employee helped spare two little girls from further neglect at the hands of their mother, TV station KATC reports. The mother had left her daughters, ages 8 and 10, alone for several hours with nothing to eat in a roach-infested, feces-strewn trailer. After the girls tried several times to order pizza, the employee became suspicious and called authorities, who discovered them.... More

The Sun takes a look at the diets of six television characters and notes that pizza plays prominently in the eating habits of Homer Simpson and Tony Soprano. About Homer: "With his couch-potato lifestyle and ability to munch his way through a dozen doughnuts, pizzas, Krusty burgers, pork chops and beer in one go, middle-aged Homer should really be heading for his death bed..."... More

The New York Daily News today gives some choice quotes from Art Carney's Ed Norton. Among them: "If pizzas were manhole covers, the sewer would be paradise."... More

Halloween night's Larry King Live featured an interview with Ted Rowlands of KTVU and Laura Ingle of KFI radio, who were in the courtroom for day three of alleged wife-and-baby-killer Scott Peterson's preliminary hearing. (Nancy Grace was guest host; Mr. King was out scaring trick-or-treators.) Grace: Well, let me ask Ted Rowlands a question, speaking of his urgency, his concern—yes, it may have wiped out his mind what he was fishing with, but am I correct? Was it in the testimony today, Ted Rowlands, that when he got home, saw his wife's vehicle, the pocketbook, the keys, the wallet, and... More

Matt Kennedy Gould, the unwitting dupe of Spike TV's fake reality show Joe Schmo, isn't upset after learning the program tricked him into believing he was starring in a real reality show. Heck, the law school dropout and former pizza deliveryman won $100,000, a trip to Tahiti, and a flat-screen plasma TV. One wonders how many tips it would take to make that kinda scratch schlepping pies.... More

Though I'm not a huge sports fan and probably won't watch the show, I do salute ESPN for naming its new morning news show Cold Pizza, obviously alluding to the cold-pizza-for-breakfast bachelor lifestyle of the show's target demographic.... More

Newsday reports on a Travel Channel special that will air tonight 10 (Time Warner channel 88). Called "Pizza Wars," the show gives the rest of the nation a primer on New York's storied parlors (and mentions some of that stuff Chicago passes off as pie).... More