By TOM HOSKYNS Hit & Run... Michael Parkinson, eminence grise of light entertaiment, writes in his new memoirs that he doesn't approve of Simon Cowell - Parky reckons that 'The X Factor' mogul promotes mediocrity in the music industry.

After blowing away the pop world, the pianist is turning to Bollywood Two years ago, on a Mercury Music Prize shortlist that included Arctic Monkeys, Radiohead's Thom Yorke and Muse, the pianist Zoe Rahman damn near stole the show.

By RICK MASSIMO MANSFIELD, Mass. -- "It's the 21st century," Radiohead singer Thom Yorke sang during "Bodysnatchers" last night at the Comcast Center, and even though we presumably all knew it, he and the band went out and proved it.

Radiohead, aniBoom (aniboom.com), the premier independent animation network, and TBD Records have named the winners of the In Rainbows Animated Music Video Contest, as selected by the members of Radiohead themselves.

By Andrew Eaton I PROMISED myself that I wouldn't slag off the Nationwide Mercury Prize this year. What's the point? It's been said before, so many times, how self-important and self-deluding this daft prize is.