● Kristen Bell totally freaked out when her boyfriend, Dax Shepard, got her a sloth for her 31st birthday because, well, who wouldn't? Sloths are so cute! [Buzzfeed]

● "I hope somebody makes a movie about Obama’s life soon because I could play him," says Drake, who was, as you might recall, a child actor up in Canada. He's even been preparing: "I watch all the addresses. Any time I see him on TV, I don’t change the channel. I definitely pay attention and listen to the inflections of his voice. If you ask anyone who knows me, I’m pretty good at impression." [RS]

With the speed of a lumbering engine powered by critical hubris and self-importance, the 84th Academy Awards nominations dropped into our newsfeeds this morning with predictable result. Did you know that people liked The Descendants this year, The Artist as well? Brad Pitt and George Clooney scored the requisite Hollywood heartthrob acting votes (they will lose to the no-name French guy who doesn't talk), while Meryl Streep got her due for sticking around. Woody Allen and Martin Scorsese were also nominated, just like they always are. It's another Oscar ceremony, y'all!

● Do things feel different this morning? It might be because the Bey-b is here! Beyoncé and Jay-Z welcomed a little girl named Blue Ivy into the world early Sunday morning in a New York Hospital. She is already very much loved. [NYDN]

● In the grandest of gestures, Angelina Jolie bought Brad Pitt a whole waterfall in California as a combined 48th birthday/Christmas present. "Brad has dreamed of a home with the sound of a waterfall cascading under the house," Us Weekly reports. "He wants to pull all aspects of nature, light, glass and varying levels into the concept." [Us]

● Drake thinks it's "absolutely incredible" that a woman would want to tattoo his name on her forehead, but that the artist who did it needs to have his license revoked. "And if I ever see you I’m gonna fuck you up," he warns. [MandoFresko]

● Skinny 50 Cent is back, and this time he wants to help you get skinny, too. The notoriously health conscious rapper is working on a weight-loss book called Formula 50: A 6-Week Total Body Transformation Plan, wherein he'll lay out the baics for muscle building, nutrition, exercise and, of course, mental strength. [Page Six]

● T.I. thinks that Tracy Morgan's "If you can take a dick, you can take a joke" joke about gay people being too sensitive is really funny and also "kind of true." And he thinks it's his American right to do so. "If you’re gay you should have the right to be gay in peace, and if you’re against it you should have the right to be against it in peace," he told Vibe, sounding about as clear on the First Amendment as he is on the Second. [TMZ]

With a scant 50 movies under his belt, up-and-comer Brad Pitt should really keep his options open before spouting off rumors that he'll retire from acting at a mere fifty years old. 

Yesterday, a Hungarian SWAT team raided a Budapest warehouse full of prop guns from World War Z, a zombie flick produced and starring Brad Pitt. The anti-terrorism squad seized the guns because, as US Weekly reports, they weren’t props. The cache, which came via private jet, consisted of 85 fully functional firearms--many of them automatic assault rifles. Does nobody care about movie realism anymore?