(Nov 24, 2008)

Talking today

David Letterman: Nicole Kidman, Simon Baker, Kanye West

Jay Leno: Ron Howard, the Jonas Brothers

Late Late Show: Mary Steenburgen, Eamonn Walker

Conan O'Brien: Hugh Jackman, Marge Klindera, Tom Morello

Last Call: Kat Von D, Jim Norton, Young Jeezy (R)

Jimmy Kimmel: Earvin Magic Johnson, Anna Torv, the Killers

The View: Tony Bennett, Simon Baker

Regis and Kelly: Reese Witherspoon

Ellen DeGeneres: Bette Midler, Pink

Tavis Smiley: James Taylor (R)

Best of Letterman's Top 10

(From The Late Show with David Letterman, Feb. 20, 2003)

Top 10 ways dumb guys are preparing for a terrorist attack

10. Wearing special "anti-terror" hat 24/7.

9. Adding seat belts to dining room chairs.

8. Wearing same cologne as Tom Ridge.

7. Building a tolerance to radiation by standing in front of the microwave.

6. Interrogating pets.

5. Watching a lot of them Lethal Weapon movies.

4. Stocking up on Tums.

3. Just to be safe, getting vaccinated for small and large pox.

2. Creating elaborate colour-code systems to alert citizens to threat levels.

1. Taping a duck.

Top 10 movies

The weekend's top 10 movies including last week's position and the weekend gross in U.S. dollars from Yahoo Canada Movies:

1. (-) Twilight $70.6 million

2. (1) Quantum Of Solace $27.4 million

3. (-) Bolt $27 million

4. (2) Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa $16 million

5. (3) Role Models $7.2 million

6. (5) Changeling $2.6 million

7. (4) High School Musical 3: Senior Year $2 million

8. (6) Zack And Miri Make A Porno $1.7 million

9. (19) The Boy In The Striped Pajamas $1.7 million

10. (8) The Secret Life Of Bees $1.3 million

Today in music history

* In 1966, The Beatles began recording sessions for their next album, Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. The song they recorded on this date, Strawberry Fields Forever, did not make it onto that album.

* In 1972, the television show In Concert, produced by Don Kirshner, premiered on ABC. Guests on the first show were Alice Cooper, Chuck Berry, Blood, Sweat and Tears, Seals and Crofts, Poco and the Allman Brothers.

* In 1991, Queen lead singer Freddie Mercury died at his home in London one day after revealing that he was stricken by AIDS. He was 45. Queen's elaborate and bombastic songs were scorned by the critics but hailed by fans in the late 1970s. The band is best known in North America for their two No. 1 hits in 1980, Crazy Little Thing Called Love and Another One Bites the Dust.