Visiting the Rolling Stone offices on Friday June 6: Team Slipstream-Chipotle! No, that's not some British DJ duo — it's the classy American racing outfit that's making serious waves in the professional bike racing scene. Now you might think that the Capri Lounge is no place for a post about a pro bike racing team. Well, I think it's no place for an affectionate post about the New Kids on the Block, and we've sure had plenty of those recently. So put that in your Joey McIntyre doll and smoke it, fanboy.

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Hey guys, just got back from a screening of the Sex and the City movie here in New York City. To date, it's only been shown to select critics and at a premiere in London last week. Obviously, anticipation for this movie is HUGE. We're talking Indiana Jones meets Iron Man huge. Here in New York, there are people scalping tickets to opening night showings for as much as $200 — that's just a seat at the movies!

So on to the review……SPOILER ALERTS EVERYWHERE. DO NOT READ IF YOU WISH TO BE SURPRISED BY THE SATC MOVIE.

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Now here in the Rolling Stone office: New Kids on the Block!! Everyone’s here: Donnie, Jordan, Danny, Joey, and the other guy! Like, OMG, best ever, right!!

We’re turning to our correspondent who will live blog the event here in the RS offices:

12:10 PM: NKOTB arrives here in the RS conference room. Several female staffers mob the guys and pull off Donnie’s baseball cap, revealing a…pet rat named Barnaby

12:20 PM: Joey says his three favorite things are cars, pasta, and long, slow kisses. Two girls faint.

12:28 PM: Donnie says he's just looking to settle down and raise a family with a woman who can be "sweet to my mother." Five girls faint.

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The Capri Lounge wandered across the street this afternoon to the 30 Rockefeller Center headquarters of NBC, where, in the worst-kept secret in show business, Jimmy Fallon was introduced as Conan O'Brien's successor as Late Night host when O'Brien takes over for Jay Leno sometime in 2009.

Fallon was his usually Fallon-y, charming, self-deprecating self, telling the assorted hacks that he'd always aspired to joining the late-night talk show racket. Standing beside Lorne Michaels — the man who brought him into TV via Saturday Night Live — Fallon said he wasn't "going to reinvent the talk show format" before adding "all the furniture would be suspended six feet in the air." He declined give details about his contract, other than to say, "I just want to live comfortablty — in Dubai."

The selection of Fallon for the Late Night chair has already provoked a fair amount of discussion, naturally. Those unimpressed by Fallon’s cutesy antics on SNL wonder if he has the bona fides for the Late Night grind.

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Our very nice friends at Frito-Lay sent us a giant mess of Limited Edition Tim McGraw Spicy Jalapeno Frito Corn Chips (LETMSJFCC) today and boy are they...interesting! Honestly, they must have sent us like 30 bags (right now they're available in selected stores but will be expanding throughout the universe later in the year) and you would have thought it was Christmas morning in the Capri Lounge from all the bag-tearing excitement. As everyone knows, nothing tastes better at 10:45 AM than a cup of coffee and a nice fist full of jalapeno-flavored corn chips!

We don't want to go overboard so we asked our colleagues for some one word reviews of the LETMSJFCC. Here they are:

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News item: Jessica Simpson has reportedly written a song for her new album about her boyfriend, Dallas Cowboys quarterback Tony Romo.

"Oh Tony"
By Jessica Simpson
(With Burt Bacharach)

I first met you at the ESPY awards
You were tall, I was todally boreds
When said you were a Dallas Cowboy
I said 'What's that?' My Dad groaned, 'Oy.'

But that night our love was easy to see
We went for Chicken Fingers at Applebees
You drank Coors Light and a shot of Patron
I had six appletinis and I passed out, gone

The next day we played catch with a Nerf
You kissed me on the lips and threw me on the turf
You introduced me to Terrell Owens and said he was the tops
I asked him, 'Damn, what up with all those end-zone drops?'

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Barbara Walters has a brand new memoir out, in which she reveals a secret romance with a US Senator and her hurt feelings at those "Baba Wawa" jokes. Other details revealed in the new tome include:

• Barbara Walters real name: Lew Alcindor III.

• Barbara Walters produced Rickie Lee Jones' "Pirates"

• Barbara Walters' least favorite vegetable? Tie: Cucumber, Celery.

• Barbara Walters telephoned plays to Doug Flutie while he was a quarterback for the New Jersey Generals of the USFL.

• Barbara Walters did not sleep in 1976, or 1987.

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FORT WORTH, Texas, April 30 (UPI) — Police in Fort Worth, Texas, said a man has been arrested after he presented a check made out for $360 billion to bank tellers. Bank employees told investigators that the check held by Charles Ray Fuller, 21, made them suspicious, so they phoned the account holder and verified that the check was bogus. Police said Fuller told them during his arrest that he was attempting to start a record label.

Through an anonymous source, the Capri Lounge has located the itemized budget for Charles Fuller's would-be $360 billion record label:

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EXCLUSIVE

Must credit The Capri Lounge

Vice-President Dick Cheney this afternoon expressed his "deep embarrassment" by the topless photograph of him scheduled to appear in an upcoming issue of Vanity Fair magazine.

"At the time, I was led to believe that this photograph was an artistic expression," Cheney said. “However, in seeing it now, I can only conclude that I received bad intelligence. I am full of deep embarrassment and I apologize to my fans. All two of them."

A spokesperson for Vanity Fair said the magazine's photograph "speaks for itself."

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Appearing in the office a couple days ago: Speidi! As in Spencer and Heidi, the blond-haired hydra from MTV’s The Hills and the bane of poor Lauren Conrad's nightmares. Heidi is soon to appear with Lauren and her Hills castmates on the cover of Rolling Stone (next cover stunt: Kim Jong-Il and Dick Cheney!), but she and her beau/svengali were in NYC for a fun week of snuggling, shopping and publicity — Tyra Banks' show, Nightline (yes, that Nightline), and Live with Regis and Kelly. In between, they joined us for a conference room snack and a Q & A with staff. Heidi wore (of course) Heidiwood, her new fashion line that made its debut last week. Spencer wore a suit and a sly grin.

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