● How this year's Sports Illustrated cover girl Kate Upton dougied her way to supermodel. [NYT]
● Another week, another Hitchcock remake: word has it that Paramount and The Killing's Veena Stud have teamed to remake the Joan Fontaine and Cary Grant starring Suspicion. [Variety]
● Shakira was attacked by a sea lion while vacationing in South Africa. "[It] looked me in the eye, roared in fury and tried to bite me," she wrote on her Facebook, adding that both she and the beast were "scratched by the rocks while trying to protect ourselves." [NYP]
● Oprah made a desperate plea to her Twitter followers Sunday night asking that, "Every 1 who can please turn to OWN especially if u have a Nielsen box." And we thought Oprah was better than that. [Deadline]
● Osama Bin Laden apparently had so strong an eye for Whitney Houston that he was ready to spend "vast amounts of money" and was "willing to break his color rule" to marry her. [NME]
● Nicki Minaj's big pop single, "Starships," proves once again that Nicki is not afraid to make you dance. [RapRadar]
● Kim Kardashian had the audacity to smile and laugh while out to lunch with her old flame Reggie Bush. [TMZ]


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