Here's a trailer for J. Edgar, the Clint Eastwood biopic of the original G-Man, J. Edgar Hoover. Here the gradually Brandoing actor Leonardo DiCaprio plays the conflicted and controversial man, with plenty of heavy accent and face putty.

Just every once in a while! Rather than playing cartoonish Indians from old Western serials. Also today: Clint Eastwood continues to cast his J. Edgar Hoover movie, a terrible show gets renewed, and old people get a second chance.

Well, maybe. It seems there's a rumor afoot that the hoax-pulling actor is director Clint Eastwood's top pick to play J. Edgar Hoover's lover in his biopic about the top g-man, which will star DiCaprio. Intriguing! And also, vaguely, ew?

Howard Zinn, the popular leftist author and historian who died earlier this year, was quite the target of anti-communist surveillance in his heyday! The FBI accumulated a file of 423 pages on him over the years, which it released today.

Former FBI director J. Edgar Hoover's personal stash of pictures, letters, and office furniture will be housed in the future National Law Enforcement Museum in Washington, DC. A cop museum… cool. But will they have a taser section? [NYT]

Man-child Norman Mailer's voluminous sexual appetite, among other things, has been posthumously expanded, and the same is true of his squabbles with the Federal Bureau of Investigation. A Washington Post Freedom of Information request on Mailer's FBI file was finally granted a year after his death, and in the 165…