The Morning Fix: Tony, Ridley Scott looking at MGM? Glenn Beck's cash machine. Desperate divas and Marc Cherry.

After the coffee. Before deciding whether to shave today.

To the rescue? Brothers Ridley and Tony Scott have emerged as surprise bidders for Metro-Goldwyn-Meyer, having submitted a plan to restructure the studio, according to the Financial Times. MGM's creditors have hit the pause button on an auction after bids were lower than hoped. Meanwhile there is also a push inside MGM to not sell and bring in yet another management team that could include Paramount big shot Jon Dolgen or Spyglass chief Roger Birnbaum.

Between the brothers. While everyone knows about Bob and Harvey Weinstein, the founders of Miramax who want nothing more than to get the company back from Disney, less is known about the other set of brothers bidding on the asset -- Tom and Alec Gores. Vulture looks at those two and the other brother, Paradigm agency chief Sam Gores. Meanwhile, the Hollywood Reporter looks at the Miramax library and why the bids are what they are.

Katzenberg talks. DreamWorks animation chief Jeffrey Katzenberg talks to Variety about the dangers of exploiting 3-D, rips the conversion of "Clash of the Titans" and warns of a backlash against the technology if Hollywood doesn't play it right.

Cue the tears, count the cash. Forbes takes a look inside the wallet of Fox News personality Glenn Beck and finds that he has "managed to monetize virtually everything that comes out of his mouth." Writer Lacey Rose looks inside Glenn Beck Inc., which grossed $32 million last year. 

Desperate drama. The Daily Beast digs into the drama behind-the-scenes at ABC's "Desperate Housewives" in the wake of former star Nicollette Sheridan's suit against ABC Studios and executive producer Marc Cherry. Lots of ex-writers (none on the record, of course) reveal that Cherry is very mercurial and can be tough to work for but that the cast is no prize either. Guess I'm just surprised that after all these years that a) the cast can't just agree to tolerate each other and ride this gravy train out to the end and b) that anyone still cares about this show.

Phew. Good news. You can avoid talking to family in the early evening for another four years as game shows "Wheel of Fortune" and "Jeopardy" have been renewed by the ABC owned stations. No doubt the price ABC paid for the shows dropped. Details from the Wrap. 

Inside the Los Angeles Times: NBC.com wants to figure out what you'll watch. "Date Night" is poised for a big opening weekend at the box office. The Los Angeles Film Festival is leaving Westwood for downtown!

-- Joe Flint

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Comments

[David]

He obviously doesn't have to worry about his and his family's health care. How can he claim to be one of "us" the working poor when he earns this kind of money? He may have once been in "our" shoes, but he's now running a marathon in golden shoes now. Not that I begrudge his success, I just feel he is a poor representative for "normal" average or low income Americans.

[Justin]

His whole "concern" and love for America seems questionable. The crying and carrying-0n by Glenn is getting predictable and boring. For the people up in arms with their "TEA" parties, I have to ask where were all of you when George Bush was tossing away our wealth on a "contrived" war with Iraq? That was not only "generational theft" in a monetary sense but also a human one too with many of our younger American citizens dying in the military for what? Iraq didn't cause the slaughter on September 11, 2001 yet the Bush government selected Iraq as their convenient scape-goat. I don't ascribe to be either a Democrat or a Republican but I find that it hypocritical of Glenn Beck and the Tea Party movement to organize only when the Democrats are spending money on fixing a flawed health care system but not when the Republican governments borrow and spend tons of cash on wars overseas where Americans end-up the casualty. It's hard to believe he is objective and the cause he praises.

[Millicent]

Glenn Beck kept absolutely silent when the Bush presidency borrowed massive amounts of cash and put America in debt for the Iraq war but now that we have a government who is trying to make sure Americans are "fairly" covered with access to affordable health care he suddenly has decided that this is Marxism! I watched him for a few months on FOX believing that it was good that he was putting forth arguments to debate and in some respects I've learned a lot from watching his compelling analysis of the Obama White House. But I cannot help but notice that he is too 1 sided although he claims he's not a Republican. He advocates on behalf of the Republican party in a very sly way. I'm not a stupid person and can see through his exaggerated rhetoric. If Glenn truly believes that America is coming to an end, maybe he ought to take some of that 32 million and build himself an Armageddon shelter and perhaps hire Michael Jackson's doctor to take with him. Yes Obama is a Socialist and some institutions in the USA will be socialized but you have to ask yourself this question; would that have happened if it wasn't for George Bush, Wal-Street bankrupting America with phony wars, shady deals and sending our jobs overseas to Communist China? If you leave Americans destitute what do you expect? Look at Russia at the turn of the last century when a few rich drove 99% of Russia's poor into changing the system to support them rather than just 1% of the rich that didn't give a rat's behind about them. People with the money and power had better start giving that some thought if they want to maintain some semblance of the America they claim to adore. You destroyed America's middle class and now the tables are turning on "you".

[John De Salvio]

When it comes to the bare facts about Glenn Beck's gross earnings, "gross" sums up everything about him.