Cityfile: New York's Most Notable and Influential

Don't Kiss the Tennis Players | Keep in mind that if attend the US Open and you run out onto the court to kiss your favorite player and express your undying love, you will end up in handcuffs and find yourself charged with criminal trespass and "interfering with a professional sporting event." Not that Rafael Nadal minded much when a fan did just that in Flushing Meadows last night. "For me it wasn't a problem," he told a reporter after the incident went down. "The guy was really nice... He was a great fan. He said, 'I love you,' and he kiss me." [NYT, NYP] 

Happy Birthday | CNN's Anderson Cooper turns 42 today. Tennis star Rafael Nadal is turning 23. Humorist/Apple pitchman John Hodgman is 38. Stanford law professor and Internet pioneer Lawrence Lessig is 48. Raul Castro, the president of Cuba, is turning 78. Actor Tony Curtis is turning 84. John Barlow, the Broadway publicist and partner of producer Scott Rudin, is 41. High Line advocate Josh David turns 46. Phish bassist Mike Gordon is 44. Melissa Mathison, the ET screenwriter and ex-wife of Harrison Ford, is 59. And former game show host and Confessions of a Dangerous Mind author Chuck Barris turns 80 today.

• Star Trek reeled in $76 million at the box office this weekend. [WSJ]
• Metro is selling off its collection of free (and money-losing) newspapers to Seabay Media, a company controlled by Metro's former CEO. [WaPo]
• Playboy says it's planning to make "radical changes" to the mag, and may raise prices as well as reduce the number of issues it prints every year. [Folio]
• Jon Stewart is creating a two-hour special for the History Channel. [B&C]
• Lit agent Larry Kirshbaum is shopping a memoir by Rafael Nadal. [Crain's]
• More speculation the Sulzbergers will be forced to give up the Times. [NYP]
• Speaking of the Times, a San Francisco organization paid columnist Tom Friedman $75,000 for a speech he's given before (and which is online). [SFC]
• Brit chef Jamie Oliver and Ryan Seacrest are working on a new reality show for ABC that will "give healthy makeovers to an entire city." Be afraid. [THR] More

• NBC is leading the ratings with its coverage of the DNC. [TVDecoder]
• The picture isn't so rosy at the New York Times. Revenues dropped 10 percent in July, largely because of the housing slump. [Bloomberg]
• Denise Richards' bid for stardom just got a bit more complicated. Her reality show on E! has been canceled after a single season. [NYP]
• Jon Stewart says Fox News is a "brutish, slow-witted beast." Fox News says Stewart is "out of touch." [Gawker]
• It took months but it seems Rafael Nadal has finally decided on a new look—in partnership with marketing execs at Nike, of course. [WSJ]
• Amanda Lepore is appearing in a new ad campaign for Jawbone Bluetooth headsets. [Copyranter]
• A guide to the nastiest feuds on cable news. [Gawker]

• Alessandra Ambrosio just gave birth, but she isn't wasting any time. She's reportedly already looking to sell pictures of her newborn daughter Anja to the tabloids. [P6]
• Real Housewives star LuAnn de Lesseps went to Todd Rome and Vanessa Brahms' Southampton wedding, where she may have gotten drunk, sang songs, and tried to make out with a married man. This may also explain why she reportedly got into a fight with her husband afterwards in the parking lot of Nello's. [P6]
• Rafael Nadal didn't care much for the photo of him on the cover of last week's New York. The tennis star says it went "further than he was comfortable with." [MSNBC]
• Guy Ritchie says he's not a follower of Kabbalah, and that he and Madonna may "possibly" be adopting another child from Malawi in the future. [OK!, Observer UK]