This week, Brüno told us jokes, got us drunk, and helped us love America again. Michael Jackson was mourned by us and others (but not Justin Timberlake or Nancy Pelosi). Also, he saved the music business, danced in a car, and was possibly the victim of foul play. What else happened?

• Jeff Tweedy was loved two times by Times.

• Kal Penn finally made it to work.

• Liz Lemon got paid.

• Nabokov's final novella found a home.

• 3-D flopped.

• A nytwyrk chynged its nyme.

• Jay-Z decided to finally learn how to use a pen.

• Certain disaster was averted.

• Advertisers loved a show about advertising.

• There was no fooling Paul McCartney.

• Quentin Tarantino vigorously promoted a movie that will never exist.

• James Hibberd was tragically eaten by a shark.