Tiny Temptress Turns Wordsmith: It may be hard to imagine what 4-foot-11 MySpace-turned-MTV star Tila Tequila has not yet revealed, but the bisexual entertainer will follow the second season of her reality show A Shot at Love with a tell-all book, due out this fall. The starlet, 26, found fame after netting millions of friends on the social networking website, where she divulged intimate thoughts and posted suggestive photos. Tequila's tome will feature the answers to fan questions and may include details about Bobby Banhart, the last man standing on Season 1 of Love.

No Kool-Aid, Just Kooky: Just how is it a twice-divorced former preacher who resembles an underfed bridge-dweller divines a job whose description includes bedding the wives of others and getting naked with teenage girls? The good folks at National Geographic must have wondered the same thing. Inside a Cult, airing tomorrow at 10 p.m., follows Michael Travesser, 66, for seven months in the lead-up to Judgment Day, which the head of the New Mexico-based, 56-member Strong City had discerned to be Oct. 31, 2007. No word on whether his followers remained.

Tamed for Tribute: Oprah fans saw a much mellower Tom Cruise on the couch yesterday than the one who proclaimed his love for Katie Holmes in May 2005. Cruise's kind words were reserved for work this time around. "There are some places that I know I belong, and on a movie set is one of them," Cruise told Winfrey in the second of two episodes to f??te the actor's career. Twenty-five years have passed since Cruise shed his shorts to play Joel Goodsen in Risky Business.

Yesterday's episode featured clips from Cruise's films and videotaped messages from Steven Spielberg and Ren??e Zellweger, among other stars. Friday's broadcast, from the actor's Telluride, Colo., home, focused on touchier topics, including Scientology, antidepressants and family matters.

Olympics a Boost in Race for Ratings: A major competition for your TV-watching hours means more to watch this summer.

NBC hopes a slate of reality programming and broadcasts of the Beijing Olympic Games will put it atop the ratings podium ' and lure viewers back to TV sets after the writers' strike doomed the regular season to repeats. The network has 287 hours of original programming planned for its "All-American Summer"; that's more than three times as much programming as CBS, which has a record 90 hours planned. NBC plans to dedicate 54 hours to Olympic programming, 20 to scripted series and a whopping 106.5 to reality TV. Fox typically wins the summer ratings race.

LATE NIGHT

Strombo at 11: Gordon Lightfoot

Letterman at 11:35: Ashton Kutcher and Steve Winwood

Leno at 11:35: Christina Ricci and KT Tunstall

Kimmel at 12:05: Robert Downey Jr.

Conan at 12:35: Jason Lee, Galactic

Ferguson at 12:35: John Goodman

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