TERRY MELCHER: Producer for the Byrds ("Mr. Tambourine Man," "Turn, Turn, Turn,"), Gram Parsons, The Mamas & Papas.  The real target of the Manson Family.  Dead of melanoma at 62.

FWIW, Matt Drudge blurbs Sunday night: "Military commanders say need for more troops in fight against insurgents in Iraq increasingly likely..."

U2, seizing the moment, threw in an impromptu cover of the Beatles' "Rain" at the opening of the Clinton Library. But why didn't they ask President Bush to sit in on "Sunday Bloody Sunday?" His version isn't bad.

SPIELBERG plans to shoot War of the Worlds in 75 days and have it theaters next summer.

CHURCHGOING CAN BE HAZARDOUS TO YOUR HEALTH, according to Holland's Maastricht University.

ANN ALTHOUSE blogs the 400 nominees for greatest movie quotes by the AFI.  Yours truly makes an uncredited, but unmistakable, cameo near the end.

END OF THE WORLD UPDATE: After the locusts in Egypt and the toads in Austraila, more locusts in Israel.

BRITNEY AND SILICON: Yes, that is spelled correctly.

ROLLING STONE MAGAZINE'S "GREATEST 500 SONGS OF ALL TIME:" The point of such lists seems to be to generate the inevitable disagreement and discussion.  Plus, the mag gets to have Brian Wilson, Jeff Tweedy and others generate content for free.  I'll just note the essential dishonesty of the title, given that the voters were instructed to select songs from the rock & roll era.  And it seems that Richard Thompson was not among the voters.

AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE: Doesn't like the British much.

UMA THURMAN is moving into the Penthouse.

PRESIDENT BUSH: bodyguards o­ne of his bodyguards.

THE SENATE WILL LOOK AT PORN: It's a dirty job, but someone has to do it.  Apparently, some believe porn is as addictive as heroin or crack.  Sadly, the late Jeffrey Lee Pierce is unavailable to testify, but they could listen to his work.