● Beyoncé and Jay-Z are filing quickly for trademark of their baby's name, Blue Ivy, because two other people have already tried to do the same. [WP]
● The counts are in and it looks Lana Del Rey's much buzzed about Born To Die has landed at the number two spot on the SoundScan, having sold a respectable 77,000 units in its debut week. Adele's 21 remains impeachable. [MTV]
● 70 some odd movies and $500,000 dollars of debt later, poor Gary Busey has filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy. [TMZ]
● For her latest project, "Venus," Italian artist Anna Utopia Giordano gave some of art history's most celebrated nudes the Condé Nast treatment -- photoshop a little off the upper arm, soften up the bosom, and voila! Oh how the times have changed. [Flavorwire]
● Joan Rivers isn't buying Madonna's "trademark" glove. "She's not picking up the glove from Michael Jackson, she's trying to hide those wrinkly old hands," says the woman who has had a rumored 739 plastic surgeries. "Believe me, you can hide a lot of things, but the hands always give it away." [PopEater]
● As per her tour rider, M.I.A. won't go on unless three women in full burqas and high speed internet are provided. [SmokingGun]


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