• David Letterman told last night’s audience he thought of them as a “human shield” after a jihadist threat on his life.
• Elsewhere in the talk-show panopticon, E! has signed Jay Leno’s sometime “intern” Ross Matthews for a talk-show pilot that might join Chelsea Lately on the air.
• Sex and the City and Melrose Place creator Darren Star has been removed from the set of his next television show, Good Christian Belles, in consultation with ABC.
• Bill and Hillary Clinton went to see Crazy, Stupid, Love, a romantic comedy about a couple in midlife destroyed by the wife’s cheating, at a Westchester multiplex.

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