Ask Fox News Channel’s Megyn Kelly how her new prime-time program will differ from the edgy news show she had been hosting in the afternoon and she says that “it’s going to be dark out.” The joke has a serious point. “If you watch O’Reilly, you hear a lot about what Bill O’Reilly thinks,” she said. “Sean Hannity, same thing. But you’re not going to hear what I think.” The Kelly File is the linchpin to the first overhaul of Fox’s primetime lineup since 2002. Starting today, Hannity moves back an hour to 9 p.m. to make room for Kelly at 8 p.m., Greta Van Susteren shifts to 6 p.m. and Shepard Smith becomes a roving news anchor. Kelly often speaks up in ways that run counter to Fox’s image. She marched off the set on Election Night to interview Fox’s numbers guy, minimizing the embarrassment when Karl Rove questioned the declaration that President Barack Obama had won re-election, and expressed disgust at a suggestion that children of working mothers don’t fare as well as children with stay-at-home moms. Yet on a day-to-day basis, her show has been one that Fox’s primarily Republican audience can feel comfortable with.

Sean Penn is ecstatic that his relief organization will sponsor runners from Haiti to participate in the New York City Marathon. The J/P Health Relief Organization will include five Haitians on the nation’s 10-person team for next month’s 26-mile run. The 53-year old actor just came back from Haiti’s capital, Port-au-Prince, where he visited the runners. The two-time Oscar-winning actor made the comments at the world premiere of his film, The Secret Life of Walter Mitty at the New York Film Festival. The New York Marathon takes place on Nov. 3.

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