"You can observe a lot by just watching!" said the one and only Yogi Berra.

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I don’t know about you but I thought it was very touching when Brad Pitt, out promoting his "Inglourious Basterds" movie, appeared on TV with Bill Maher and the host reminded him of years ago at a party when he (Brad) rolled the perfect joint – "Like a machine," said Maher.

Pitt at first answered, "I’m an artist." Then he got serious, saying he has given up marijuana. "I’m a dad now … You want to be alert."

Bravo, Brad!

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I watched the return of "Mad Men" last Sunday night with bated breath, happy that this TV show, which I believe I was the first person ever to write enthusiastically about … has won so much acclaim.

As for the new episode, if you never saw "Mad Men" before, you wouldn’t have had a clue what was going on. I’m not sure I knew what was going on. Speaking of TV, I usually don’t like advertising embodying dirty jokes but the "Deadliest Catch" won my heart in Variety this week. They show fishermen being beaten down by hard work under the line "Not Bad for a Bunch of Guys With Crabs." (Four Emmy nominations!)

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You can see wowOwow.com’s own Cynthia McFadden this week every night on "Nightline," and while she does her usual fine job of exuding intelligence, charm and what seems to be the rare expertise of excellent ethical journalism, she never brags. So, we at wOw will do it for her. Cynthia’s ABC show "Nightline" has outperformed Conan O’Brien and David Letterman for the seventh week in a row. If you can stay up late at night, you’ll see Cynthia doing her stuff all this week. (Her co-anchors are Terry Moran and Martin Bashir.)

And she isn’t the only wOw member who is making news. What about our fabulous writer friend Joan Juliet Buck, sometimes referred to on this website as "Violet" and using a photo where she is drinking a cup of coffee? Joan has a small but trenchant role in the current Nora Ephron hit "Julie and Julia," wherein she plays an acerbic, bitter and bitchy head of the Cordon Bleu cooking school in Paris. She despises Julia Child and has a final scene with Julia (Meryl Streep) where she exits laughing at the very idea that such a woman might ever become a great cook. And when you see "Julie and Julia" – and you will (you have to!) – don’t fail to notice Joan Buck’s clunky incredible shoes.

I knew Joan Buck had been a child actor in Paris back in the days when her papa, a movie producer, started her off. I knew she even made American movies such as "Greyfriars Bobby: The True Story of a Dog." I knew that as a very fine writer for Vogue and everybody else worthwhile, she still yearned to act. But I didn’t know she was so talented. This is a small role, but it’s a winner!

I am sure other wOw women are doing great things. For instance, my pet Whoopi Goldberg is buying herself a hideaway only 40 minutes as the crow flies in New Jersey. She can then get away from it all without getting too much away from it all.

If you’d like to be entertained, tune in to shelterpop.com on the Web and you’ll see the photos of Whoopi’s studio apartment in Greenwich Village. It is now for sale.