The Daily Briefing is on vacation.

•"The Bill Clinton Collection: Selections From the Clinton Music Room" to contain both real and light jazz, Judy Collins. No word on poetry compilation. [WP]

• Panel on free speech at Michael's restaurant in NYC to be a gilded cage match between Time Inc.'s Norman Pearlstine and Vanity Fair's Michael Wolff; Wolff pounded Pearlstine's argument about turning over Matt Cooper's notes re: Valerie Plame in latest issue of VF. . . . Hobbit-pal Viggo Mortensen continues to champion the little people, visited Cindy Sheehan in Crawford. [NYDN]

• Coldplay's Chris Martin nixes invite from Tony Blair because "Martin frets it would damage his image," doesn't like idea of becoming UK's Toby Keith. [The Scoop]