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Reaction to Jay Leno at 10pm has been mixed at best. The show's numbers are down from the Tonight Show slot (now handled by Conan), but steady or up from lead-ins. Broadcasting and Cable magazine interviewed Leno about the difficulty of dealing with his new position in the TV lineup. Jay comes across as level-headed and realistic almost to the point of being boring, emphasizing repeatedly that going on at 10 is his "job" these days. Though he'd be willing to go back to the 11:35 time slot, he likes "the challenge of 10 o'clock," and emphasizes that he's not bitter about Conan's new position:

Jay Leno got his inner Hubness on last night on his self-named show with Jennifer Garner and Barney Frank. Garner was on plugging her new film with Ricky Gervais, The Invention of Lying. Frank was on being, well, himself.

Displaying little loyalty toward Brookline-born Conan O'Brien (as opposed to New York–born Jay Leno), Globe commenters wish failure on O'Brien as he prepares to take over The Tonight Show from Leno tomorrow evening. Comments quickly escalate from assigning O'Brien "little talent" to awarding him "no talent" to calling him a "total tiurnoff [sic]" and predicting "conan will tank." Some even accuse NBC of promoting an Obama agenda through O'Brien's assignment (which was made long before the election, right down to the date of the transition).

Jay Leno presented viewers of the Tonight Show with a clear definition of class as he hosted for the final time on Friday. Leno repeatedly tried to defer the focus from himself throughout the show even when he could have made it all about him. Conan O'Brien was the guest as Leno went out of his way to pass the torch and showcase the next guy. Leno praised James Taylor's logistical gymnastics that enabled Taylor to appear with Leno. Leno closed the show by assembling the children born to Tonight Show staffers during his tenure. It was surprising and satisfying.

Jay Leno was hospitalized yesterday for unidentified reasons, canceling episodes of the Tonight show for the rest of the week. The host is expected to be back on the air Monday. He's scheduled to leave the Tonight show May 29 (Conan! Conan!), and launch his new show (which will be aired on WHDH after all) in the fall.

Jay Leno, Andover High and Emerson College grad, recently put on several successful free shows in economically troubled Detroit, calling it Jay's Comedy Stimulus Plan. We feel for the automakers (the actual automakers, not the execs who got them into this spot), but where's the love for your native state, Jay? Massachusetts is at about 8% unemployment, perhaps paltry compared to Michigan's 12%, but it's still not all roses in the Bay State. Is Jay mad at WHDH for their decision not to air his new show, or is it just not bad enough in Boston for him to care about us? It's time for other Emerson funnymen to step up to the plate. Denis Leary can fulfill his mission of alienating everyone by planning a recession show and then charging for it. Or maybe Detroit can save the auto industry by implementing some of Steven Wright's genius automotive ideas: "I replaced the headlights in my car with strobe lights, so it looks like I'm the only one moving," or "I hooked up my accelerator pedal in my car to my brake lights. I hit the gas, people behind me stop, and I'm gone."

Channel 7 WHDH, Boston's NBC affiliate, is saying no way to airing Jay Leno's new show at 10pm this fall, asserting it will air the station's local news program instead. It's a slap in the face to a local boy made good, and also "a flagrant violation of the terms of their contract with NBC," according to John Eck, president of NBC TV Network. NBC is threatening WHDH with cancellation of its affiliate status if the channel persists in dissing Jay. But Ed Ansin, who owns both WHDH and WLVI, says the Leno show "will be detrimental to our 11 o'clock" news program and feels that more news viewers will be around at 10. Will WHDH be un-NBC'ed? Stay tuned this fall to find out.

--A truck making an illegal left turn near the BU East Green Line Stop hit a Green Line train yesterday morning. One Green Line passenger went to the hospital, and the truck driver has a date with the courts. [Boston Globe]

Manny Ramirez sure loves his cars. When he went on Leno, he seemed to want to talk about cars even more than the World Series. Putting car enthusiasts Manny Ramirez and Jay Leno together was risky because they might not have talked about the World Series at all. Fans got lucky, and the talk turned to baseball, but it might be safe to assume that Ramirez holds hot rods and baseball in similarly high...

Protest over national vs. regional chains, the never-ending debate over the place of cars and bicycles in our metropolises, professional sports scandals, remembering a solemn day, and being issued a search warrant - it all happened across our sites this week! Another banner week at Chicagoist started off with daily reports from food writer Lisa Shames on her attempt to eat only locally grown and raised foodstuffs all week as part of a farmers market...

Who says Boston doesn't have any celebrities? Since Norm and Cliff don't grace our Thursday night televisions and heralding Good Will Hunting has become passé a lot of people are talking about how we don’t have much celeb power here in the Hub. Forbes Magazine takes a break from rating the richest people in America and the world to take focus on the 100 hottest celebrities – based on both influence and on their annual...

It only took a few short months for Alex Reimer to get attention for his Red Sox podcast. At the young age of twelve Alex flew to LA and appeared on Jay Leno to talk sports. Too bad Jay calls it an internet radio show instead of hyping up the podcast name. Jay Leno or not, Boston loves its sports and Without a Curse is a good way to relive this season.

Bostonist recently came across two articles about those Bostonians we love to hate here in the Hub. From politicians to athletes to the handful of Hollywood stars, both lists give a good idea of who residents have heard enough about. Sure, we celebrate like no other city, but we bond best when joining in a group hatred for a Boston personality, don't we? After seeing the New York Press' "50 Most Loathsome New Yorkers" list,...