This is amazing: whoever writes the captions for the Celebrity Photos of the Week feature for The Globe and Mail apparently has a not-so-secret liberal agenda.

● So you can mingle with confidence, here's a cheat sheet of all the current events that will be discussed this NYFW, like the Marc-Jacobs-moving-to-Dior thing. [Style] ● Tumblr's hefty NYFW sponsorship rates are not sitting well with the fashion world. Fashionista] ● Lucky mag's handy fashion Twitter directory will definitely come in handy this month. [Lucky]

● After 19 years, Shaq announced he's stepping down from pro basketball yesterday via a twitvid. He already seems to be enjoying retirement. [Twitter/Shaq] ● Lady Gaga agrees that her album, in digital form, was only worth the 99 cents Amazon was selling it for. "It’s invisible. it’s in space. If anything, I applaud a company like Amazon for equating the value of digital versus the physical copy," she told WSJ. [WSJ] ● Justin Timberlake and Ashely Olsen have been spotted together at afterparties, art shows, and even a polo match. It must be love. [NYDN]

● Kristin Cavallari is drawing up a careful invite list for her wedding: high-school nemeses LC, Heidi, Whitney, and Brody are out; high-school besties Stephen, Audrina, and Stephanie Pratt are in. [PopEater] ● Michelle Williams will join James Franco, Rachel Weisz, and Mila Kunis in Sam Raimi's prequel, Oz, the Great and Powerful, as Glinda the good witch. [Variety] ● Robert Pattinson fancies himself not just a shimmering vampire but a singer, too. The New York Daily News thinks he sounds like Ray LaMontagne. We'd say that's generous. [NDYN]

Our good buddy Lauren Conrad is back. Going on the strength of her YA series L.A. Candy -- the first installment hit number one on the New York Times' bestseller list -- she's signed a three-book deal with HarperCollins. The new trilogy will be called The Fame Game and will be based on the reality TV world. Conrad told Us Weekly that "We took the mean girl of the [L.A. Candy books], spinning her off. This series is about a girl who loves everything that fame is, and that's all she's ever really wanted." Click through for excerpts from L.A. Candy (via Teen Vogue), to get a sense of what we're in for.

● Did Rachel Zoe have her baby? Reports late last night suggested that the super-stylist had checked into Cedars-Sinai in Los Angeles in labor, and her uncharacteristically quiet Twitter seemed to hint that something was up. If that was all last night, is it now safe to say she's lost the baby weight too, right?[Too Fab] ● But really, it's fine: Gwyneth Paltrow just likes to sing. [EW] ● You already hate her, but now you can really hate hate: Paris Hilton is racist. Neil Strauss quotes her in his new book, Everyone Loves You When You're Dead, as saying, "I can't stand black guys. I would never touch one." Why? "It's gross." [LAWeekly]

Two new Banksy works have appeared in Los Angeles, the first spotted by none other than our pal Lauren Conrad. Presumably, this is Banksy's way of messing with the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for preemptively banning him from appearing masked onstage should he win an Oscar. He's smart to take advantage of the buzz, but that's classic Banksy.

Prior to today, I actually wasn't aware that we could be subjected to a new Lauren Conrad reality show. It'd be about Conrad's work as a fashion designer for her line, Paper Crown. MTV doesn't want it, though -- the head of programming for the channel called the pilot "a great attempt but it just didn’t feel like a perfect fit for us now.” According to Conrad, that's okay, because she's been fielding a "flattering" number of offers from other networks.

● Javier Bardem has been offered a starring role in Sam Mendes' upcoming James Bond. 007 alum Daniel Craig will play Bond again, meaning Bardem will mostly likely play the villain, which means he'll most likely be sporting a bowl cut. [Deadline] ● Eminem is being paid $1 million to appear as a claymation character in what has been described as a "very funny" Lipton iced tea commercial to air during the Super Bowl. [NYP] ● Charlie Sheen wants to make it clear that, even though he's checked himself into rehab, he's just fine. "People don't seem to get it....Guy can't have a great time and do his job also?" he texted Radar. Also, as far as he's concerned, you're just a "Bunch of turds." Next time, Sheen, could we get some pictures with those texts? [Radar]

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