GREEN & GLOVER: Three blond mice

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By Stephanie Green and Elizabeth Glover

Beginning July 7, blondes will have more fun, on TV anyway. After weeks of breathless speculation, we can confirm that "Blonde Charity Mafia," the reality TV show chronicling the lives of three twenty-somethings in Washington society, will debut on CW and run through early August.

Court is in session

Monday night, Washington was Shakespeare's Illyria of "Twelfth Night" fame, as the Shakespeare Theater Company hosted its annual mock trial, this year pitting Malvolio against Countess Olivia in a harassment case.

The back story: In the play, Malvolio, a servant to Olivia, is having trouble in the Elizabethan workplace. His colleagues at court, with whom he's not getting along, play a practical joke on him that results in his being locked away. After the Countess becomes aware of the underhanded ploy by her courtiers, she promises Malvolio that she will make things right by him.

There ends Shakespeare's play, but … it seems Malvolio eventually went on to sue Olivia and was awarded $10 million in punitive damages for infliction of emotional distress. The Countess appeals the verdict — after all, it wasn't she who perpetrated the ruse — and that's where the trial begins.

The case was heard by Supreme Court Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Samuel Alito, and Stephen Breyer.

Malvolio was represented by former Bush administration Solicitor General Paul Clements and Olivia by appellate litigator and anti-trust lawyer Roy Englert.

Reached as he prepared for the trial, Mr. Clements told G2 he is doing his work pro bono, but thinks the trial will be "good fun."

"I read the play in high school or college, or maybe both," he said.