• Chewy from “Star Wars” (not your barrio) hands the original lightsaber prop used by Luke Skywalker over to NASA so they can jettison it into space, marking only the bajillionth shameless publicity stunt in the franchise’s history. [CBS 5]
• Mexican authorities seize thousands of endangered turtle eggs from smugglers who sell them as aphrodisiacs in Oaxaca. Nothing like an exotic rarity to turn a woman on. [NY Times]
• James “Dawson” Van Der Beek will cameo on “Ugly Betty” as a transsexual-phobic fashionista this season. His character will spend the next eight years not getting laid there, either. [Hollywood]
• One of George Lopez’s bodyguard shoves a New York Post reporter on her way to watch “Superbad.” Maybe he just wanted to be first in line to watch what ‘experts’ remind us is the funniest thing ever made. [Page Six]
• A bunch of people we mostly don’t listen to get nominated for Latin Grammy’s. [Reuters]