● Michelle Williams's next big role is to be somewhat less glamorous than her last. With no big projects on the horizon, she says that she "just [wants] to go back to being a mom for a while." [Huff Post]

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!

● 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]

● Kim Kardashian must have figured she would be married at least until the new year when she ordered her holiday cards, all of which feature her and Kris Humphries' wedding portrait. [NYDN]

● Apparently AMC is cutting costs on its own shows that are not called Mad Men. It could very well be the reason Frank Darabont ran away from The Walking Dead. It also reminds us of that episode of Friday Night Lights, where the rest of Dillon High gets shortchanged at the expense of the Panthers. Go Panthers! [LA Times] ● Amaaaaaazing new for Dawson Creek fans! My Week with Marilyn, starring Michelle Williams as Ms. Monroe, will be the centerpiece of this year's New York Film Festival. We know someone that saw it, and they say Williams is amaaaaaaazing in it. [EW] ● If the rumors are true—and when are rumors not true—George Clooney is embroiled in a fling with WWE Diva Stacy Keibler. And no, he's not just in it for the looks. Ms. Keibler had a 3.7 grade point average as a communications major in college, so there. [Us Weekly]

● 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]

"I consider Ryan and Michelle to be co-writers."

UPDATE: Well this is good, if not expected, news. The MPAA has reportedly corrected its mistake by unanimously overturning its previous decision to award Blue Valentine a crippling NC-17 rating. Now with parental guidance, tweens can watch the collapse of a marriage set to a Grizzly Bear-penned score. Welcome to indie-dom, kids!

Last week, the MPAA stamped an NC-17 rating on Blue Valentine, starring Ryan Gosling and Michelle Williams, because of "a single scene that depicts Gosling’s character performing oral sex on Williams." Now the Weinstein Company is appealing the rating, and today both Gosling and Williams have come out with fiery public statements in defense of their film.

Where's Scarlett Johansson when you need her? The only thing that could have improved this short film starring a Natalie-Portman-vs.-Michelle-Williams-catifght was if ScarJo was in the mix dropping elbows, and if director Roman Polanski could've shot the thing in one of those extra long takes he's so fond of. The film is a part of an art project, a faux ad for a faux perfume, and premieres tonight at the Gagosian Gallery in Rome. Since I know most of you won't be able to make that, the good people of the internet have got it for you right here.