Water Cooler

Here are a few items in pop culture that caught our eye last week.

■ Lake Mead National Recreation Area is ranked the fifth-most-visited place in the National Park system. Um, yay?

■ A Florida woman finds a Goldfish cracker with a cross imprinted on it. The fact that it’s a fish-shaped cracker, and not an Oreo or something, does make it more believable somehow.

■ Samoa Air unveils a fare system that charges passengers on the basis of their weight. “You know I’d love to visit your parents, honey, but, darn it, we can’t afford it until I can drop 20 more pounds.”

■ NBC announces that Jay Leno ■ will leave “The Tonight Show” next year. Fool me once ...

■ Mouseketeer and beach movie queen Annette Funicello dies at age 70. Days at the beach will never again seem quite as sunny.

JOHN PRZYBYS (jprzybys@reviewjournal.com)