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David Blaine has found a new project: Mia Farrow. The 64-year-old activist/actress has tapped into the magician's bag of tricks to get some tips on how to endure a hunger strike. She started the fast on Monday, in the name of Darfur, and has been blogging about it on her website, saying, "Before I began this fast David Blaine (magician and endurance artist) called me. So kind of him. He told me a little about how to prepare and what to expect. He said after 6 days I won't feel hunger. He told me to drink 4 liters of water." Farrow only weighs in at 110 pounds, and will be living on a water-only diet for three weeks. She maintains: "What I am going through now is nothing compared what the people of Darfur are facing. When I feel hunger pangs and my head aches, I think of them." [via the Daily News]

• Today on the Gothamist Newsmap: an armed carjacking at the intersection of 164th St. and the Union Turnpike in Queens, an unconscious firefighter at 51st St. and 5th Ave. in Manhattan, and a slashing on Myrtle and Wyckoff Aves. in Brooklyn.
• Mia Farrow is speaking out against the atrocities in Darfur.
• This is the summer of our discontent. The beach season is winding down with below-average-temperature weather and rain and clouds.
• An eight-month-old boy is doing well after receiving a quintuple organ transplant of a liver, small bowel, pancreas, colon and stomach at the Childrens Hospital of Morgan Stanley New York-Presbyterian.
• Experts begin testifying on causes of steampipe explosion. Any conclusions are likely to be a couple of months away.
• A new law signed by Gov. Spitzer can force rape suspects to undergo HIV testing.
• Oprah Winfrey will leave Chicago behind to tape a show in NYC this September. We predict Dave Letterman as a guest.
• A slideshow of NYC in the apocalyptic future without humans to scoop poop.

Everyday at 5 PM EST, Peabody award winning journalist Gary Baumgarten sits down with the likes of Arianna Huffington, Dr. Keith Ablow, and Mia Farrow for a one on one discussion. But this isn't for TV or the Radio, it's for Paltalk's News Talk Online , a web based talk show that allows listeners from all over the world to get the answers they want by asking the questions themselves.

Gallery-goers may have shown up at Julie Saul Gallery for last Thursday’s opening reception of Brian Ulrich’s Copia—stunning photographs that show how mass production permeates the everyday life of pop princesses and counterculture teens alike—but it was Roz Chast’s Theories of Everything series that sideswiped the show. Originally scheduled to close last month, the exhibit has been extended to February 10. And with good reason.

If you count yourself as a New Yorker and a movie lover, it's tough to not have a special affinity for films by Woody Allen. Practically the filmmaker laureate of the city, Allen's prolific 40 plus year career is getting a three week long screening series at Film Forum starting this Friday. Gothamist loves Allen's movies (both the highs and the lows) so much that we thought we'd chat with an Allen expert, Queens College professor Bob Kapsis, about how to plan our screening calendar during "Essentially Woody."

has been building. Maybe it's merely the oddity of combining Garrison Keillor's radio program, Altman's usual troop of amazing character actors and the teen starlet that has people intrigued but it finally hits general theatrical release. Besides a blonde LIndsay trying to hold her own with the likes of Lily Tomlin and Kevin Kline, it should be fun to see Streep behind the mic, as apparently she and many other cast members sing in the film.

Legendary Director Roman Polanski (Chinatown, The Pianist), who testified against a Vanity Fair article - via video, of course, to avoid extradition in the US where that sex with a minor issue is still hanging over his head, just won his libel case in a British court. The VF's article claimed Polanski seduced a woman at a NYC restaurant en route to the funeral of his wife Sharon Tate and their unborn child, who were viciously murdered by the Charles Manson clan in 1969. So, if Gothamist gets this right, you flee a country because you're too spineless to face justice, only to seek it once a magazine dares to run some gossip - good to know that Polanski’s inability to self-examine himself is almost laughable.

Jessica Blank and Erik Jensen, playwrights

, a musical inspired by the songs of the Beach Boys. The show began on July 29th and runs through August 2nd.