Yesterday, Deadline reported that a film biography of Rush Limbaugh is now in the script phase. Instantly after the report, conservative talk-radio fans, lovers of scandalous biopics, and the people who sell product placement to cigar companies alike all lifted their heads to the heavens and thanked their lucky stars that this blessed day had finally arrived. In other news, The phones of James Gandolfini, Phillip Seymour Hoffman, and John Goodman’s agents have all been ringing off the hook.

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During a television-side chat today Glenn Beck told a (yes…teary-eyed) tale of a recent excursion he and his family took to the Cirque du Soleil opening gala at which Beck found himself one row in front of James Gandolfini, of whom he is a fan. As Beck tells it, when he stood up to take his five-year-old son to the bathroom he reached over and introduced himself to Gandolfini (they apparently have a mutual friend) and shook his hand….at which point Gandolfini apparently said “what is Satan doing here?”

Mediaite has combed celebrity sites, media soirees, and the viral web to assemble some of our favorite costumes of Halloween ’09. In our travels, we’ve come across Heidi Klum dressed as a raven, Nick Douglas dressed as PostSecret, Jon Gosselin dressed as a shallow celebrity tabloid cover (!), and much, much more: