"A TV show so stupid, a caveman would watch it." This should be the tagline for the latest pilot commissioned by the wise executive minds at ABC. Tentatively dubbed (imaginatively) Cavemen, the sitcom would feature the cavemen from the mildly amusing Geico car insurance commercials that have swept the nation. These ads, in case you've been living under a rock (or in a cave. ha ha!), depict neanderthals miffed by an insensitive ad campaign revolving around the catchphrase, "So easy even a caveman can do it."However inspired the commercials, a full-blown sitcom seems farfetched. That is, until you consider that Dinosaurs ran for over three years. In any case, the Cavemen pilot, produced by the prolific Touchstone Television (It's only one of 14 pilots they are making in the current batch) will set the poor, misunderstood Homosapiens predecessors in 2007 Atlanta, where they struggle with modern life. Oh, the humanity. Er. cave-manity. Take solace in the fact only a tiny fraction of pilots make it to TV.

Munich creator Steven Spielberg recently had his own run-in with government agents, although in a far less dramatic fashion than that of his films. Last week, his staff realized that one of Spielberg's numerous Norman Rockwell paintings was featured on an FBI Web site listing famous pieces of stolen art. An FBI agent and art expert were quickly dispatched to the director's offices and confirmed that it was, in fact, the stolen "Russian Schoolroom."

The painting, unwittingly purchased by Spielberg in 1989, was pilfered sometime earlier from an exhibit in Missouri. It was later auctioned in 1988 in New Orleans and then sold again from a Rockwell exhibit in New York. Where Spielberg obtained the dubious canvas is still uncertain. He was and has always been a Rockwell enthusiast, helping to found the Norman Rockwell Museum in Stockbridge, Mass.

The painting, valued at $700,000 by the FBI, depicts a class of students overseen by a bust of Vladmir Lenin. Looks like in the future Spielberg will have to be as vigilant as the late communist leader if he wants to avoid any other embarrassing SNAFUs Oe la Thomas Crown Affair.