Not every candidate would welcome an endorsement from a guy known as “Meathead.”

But when that guy is Rob Reiner — Meathead in the 1970s television hit All in the Family — you take the endorsement and run.

Reiner, the 62-year-old actor, director, comedian and political activist, and one of the most connected people in Hollywood and Democratic politics, came out for Hillary Rodham Clinton in September.

New York City police arrested the personal assistant to celebrity real estate broker Linda Stein today, charging her with murdering her boss by bludgeoning her with yoga equipment.

Natavia Lowery, 26, confessed to killing Stein after Stein refused to stop blowing marijuana in her face, police said. Lowery told investigators that Stein had verbally abused her and that she had snapped. She said she repeatedly struck Stein with a yoga stick.

If you’re familiar with the phrase, “You know you love me,” you’ve been tuning into one of the latest guilty pleasure TV shows: Gossip Girl.

The new drama is from writer and producer Josh Schwartz, best known for creating the The OC, which went off the air in February 2007.

Son of a diplomat, a long-time journalist, a teacher, Charles Kaiser is, by any measure, well-connected.

And all of these connections made him the right person for a sitdown interview with Andrew Rosenthal, editor of the editor page of the New York Times editorial page.

The speculation over who fills Richard Parsons’ CEO job at Time Warner Inc. is over, as Jeffrey Bewkes has been named company chief, effective Jan. 1.

Now the guesswork begins over what Bewkes, currently Time Warner president, will do to improve performance at the media giant. Indications are that Bewkes will come out swinging.

Natalie Bancroft, meet Viet Dinh.

Proving it can cover its own corporate owners with energy, the Wall Street Journal yesterday gave a full account of the latest bumbling and stumbling of the Bancroft family.

Earlier this year, the family, after great indecision and internal debate, agreed to sell Dow Jones & Co., which owned the Journal, to Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp.

During life, Heinz Prechter was a powerful force in industry and politics.

He got his start in the 1960s, by installing car sunroofs, a feature common in his home country of Germany, but relatively unheard of then in the U.S. Prechter built the operation into a global automotive company, ASC Inc.

At the same time, he assumed enormous influence in Republican politics, co-chairing the national finance committee for President George H.W. Bush’s 1992 re-election and bringing early support to George W. Bush’s first presidential run.

Yet his public image was very much at odds with his private torments. Prechter suffered from manic depression, or bipolar disorder, but had kept his illness secret.

Most often, it’s the board of directors that pushes the company’s CEO out the door.

But the shoe was on the other foot last week when lawyers for Dallas-based Affiliated Computer Services Inc. asked the five non-management members of its board to resign.

The board members at first balked, and then stepped down.

But later in the week, they fought back, suing ACS for saying that they had breached their fiduciary duties.

Awkward. That’s the best way to describe John Bowman’s position in the writers strike that began today. He is chairman of the negotiating committee for the Writers Guild of America, but also executive producer of the new series, “Frank TV,” starring comedian Frank Caliendo.

By striking, Bowman is walking away from his producer job.

This is the first industrywide writers strike since 1988. About 12,000 movie, TV, radio and animation writers are involved.

Like any sport, baseball needs its villains.

And right now, there’s no better villain than Scott Boras, the California-based sports agent who has the audacity to seek and get really, really good contracts for his millionaire clients.

Boras, 55, is so hateful, it would seem, that he will even upstage the World Series.