(POP NEWS) Zac Goes Butch; Rihanna; Starbucks; Bomer, Too Gay; Madonna; Sweat; Grind!

• BUTCH: Zac Efron Shows Off His Muscle, Car in New John John Denim Ads!

• WHORE: Rihanna Just Too Sexy to Rep Nivea?

• INSTANT: Starbucks to Take Mobile Payments Via Square!

• MISS KITTY: Cats Are More Murderous Than You Think!

• TOO GAY: Author Brett Easton Ellis thinks Matt Bomer is “too gay” to play lead in “Shades of Grey” movie!

• ENDORSE: Singer Ben Gibbard Backs Obama Because Obama Backs Marriage Equality!

• PRO-TEST: Madonna Announces Pro-LGBT Pink Wristband Demonstration at St. Petersburg Concert!

• BEARD WITHDRAW: Rob Pattinson 'Drunk-Dialing' Kristen?  

• DREAM: Games' Strangest Job is Sweat Mopper!

• HOOK UP: 'Interview' Magazine Puts Top Male Models on Grindr!

(POP NEWS) Madonna Vs Gaga; Kim Vs. Rihanna; Tapia; Dogs support Marriage!

• BITCH STOLE MY 'SONG': Madonna Digs into Lady Gaga in 'MDNA' Tour Rehearsal Clip!

• BITCH FEST: Kim to Rihanna: Stay Away From Kanye!

• SUSPECTED: Black Eyed Peas Dancer Tied to Student Death in Tokyo!

• AFFECTED: Boxing Great Johnny Tapia Dead at 45!

• ACCEPTANCE: Dogs for Marriage Equality!

(POP NEWS) Brady's New Look; Evangelista's BIG Ticket; SpongeBob; Just Demi; GAP goes GAY!

• SMOKIN: Tom Brady has a new look!

• BIG TICKET: Evangelista SAYS Lover Told Me to Get an Abortion!

• REALLY: Bachelor Host Soon to Be a Bachelor!

• TRAGIC: Bear Who Went to College Killed by Car!

• Critics Agree: Avengers a Blast! 

• DROWNING: SpongeBob Ratings Sinking Fast!

• WHORE: Courtney Love Gave Up Rights to Kurt's Image for Cash!

• OFFICIAL: @Mrskutcher Switches to @Justdemi on Twitter!

• PRICELESS: 2 New Little Prince Pages Shed New Light on Book! 

• SMART: Lost Parakeet Tells Cops His Address! 

• Diagnosis of the Day: 'Tanorexia'! 

• GREEDY: Spirit Airlines to Charge $100 for Carry-Ons! 

• DEATH OF MIDDLE CLASS: In Today's America, Death of a Salesman Is Dead!

• BE ONE: GAP's New Gay Ad!

(POP NEWS) Marilyn, Nude; Elizabeth's meltdown; Pepsi; Scream; Baby for sale!

• Revealed: Why Marilyn Posed Nude!

• MELT-DOWN: Edwards' Betrayed Wife Tore Off Shirt, Bra and Collapsed!

• OFFENSIVE: Ashton Kutcher Brownface Ad Yanked!

• GUILT: Pepsi Teaming Up ... With Michael Jackson!

• Look Out, Viagra: Testosterone Drugs Gain Popularity!

• LOVE: Dogs Provide Therapy for Stressed-Out Law Students!

• SCARY: Munch's The Scream Fetches Record $120M!

• BABY FOR SALE: Simpson's Baby Could Make Her $14M—or More!

(POP NEWS): GLAAD's New Prez; Brad, Angelina Plans; Smith's Diva Demand; Love's Mis-step!

• NEW BLOOD: Meet GLAAD's New President! 

• LEGAL: Brad, Angelina to Marry on France Estate! 

• DIVA ALERT: Maggie Smith Wants 'Downton Abbey' Producers to Kill Off the Dowager Countess! 

• WOOF: Loyal Dog Paints Heartbreaking Picture, Will Be Adopted! 

• THREATS: Kinkade's Lover Threatens to Reveal Family Secrets! 

• OOPS: Courtney Love to Daughter: 'Sorry I Believed Gossip'!

(TOP VIDEO) Madonna's 'Girl Gone Wild'; Brokeback; Bieber; Ab Fab!

• Madonna's 'Girl Gone Wild' Video!

• Brokeback That Ass Up!  

• Justin Bieber in the Boxing Ring!  

• Patsy Stone Meets Kate Moss in New 'Ab Fab' Clip!   

•  If You're Homophobic, Yep, You're Probably Gay!

     

• Take A Hike From A Dog's POV!

(POP NEWS): Cameron Slandered; It is Natural; Takei and Aiken's Cat Fight; Moore on Palin; Cheep Wine; Sexless Tebow; Franco!

• WHO ME? Kirk Cameron Says He's Being 'Slandered'!

• HATE-FREE: Can Animals Be Homophobic?

• CAT FIGHT: George Takei calls Clay Aiken “catty”!

• YOU BETCHA: Julianne Moore Talks About Becoming Sarah Palin!

• SEX-LESS: TV's Next Bachelor: Tim Tebow?

• CHEAP: Why You Shouldn't Bother Splurging on Fancy Wine!

• STAND OUT: Moviegoer Sues AMC Over Crazy Snack Prices!

• ICONIC: 'It's a Small World' Songwriter Dead at 86!

• ARTY: Franco Channels Mapplethorpe!

 

 

 

(POP NEWS): TOP Mutt; Sanchez; Somerville comes OUT; Bristol Begs; Oscar Fix; Whitney Probe!

WEIRD: Pekingese Named Malachy is America's Top Dog!

 

 

KING: Lion Kills S. African Zookeeper!

 MATCH: Mark Sanchez Asked Santonio Holmes to Be His Valentine!

WINNING: Lin vs. Tebow? It's Lin by a Mile!

DESPERATE: Bristol Begs on Craigslist for Book-Signing Attendees!

OUT: Professional Poker Player Jason Somerville Says He's Gay!

CONFIRMED: Chris Colfer, Kevin Bacon and John C. Reilly added to the cast of next month’s benefit performance of ’8′!

FIXED: How to Fix the Oscars: Institute a Live Re-Vote!

QUESTIONS: Probe Launched Into Whitney's Prescriptions, Doctors!

 

(POP NEWS): Liza Drops OUT; Madonna Stalker; Twilight Dogs; Blue Ivy; Erica and Gloria Returns!

Liza Minnelli drops out of “Hot In Cleveland”

FROZEN: Police Catch Escaped Madonna Stalker!

How To Win the Westminster Dog Show? 

No. 1 Name for Dogs and Cats Is ... Bella!

SPOTTED: Beyonce, Jay-Z Post First Photos of Blue Ivy!

BACK: Gloria Estefan's New Music Video 'Hotel Nacional' Features Hot Sailors and Erica Kane!

 

MASTER-PIECE: A Day at the Dog Park, from a Dog's Perspective!

This is joy.

Here, Kelsey Wynns explains how he shot it.

FORCED: Dogs do 'Star Wars' in Super Bowl Commercial Tease!

And....Super Bowl commercial mania begins with this tease from Volkswagen, featuring 12 canines (some in appropriate attire) barking the Imperial March from Star Wars. Given that Volkswagen's ad featuring this theme and a mini Darth Vader pretty much won the Super Bowl last year, expect more where this came from once game time rolls around.

AND THE WINNER IS..Does This Dog Deserve an Oscar?

Can dogs act? And if so, should they be considered for an Oscar? Those are the kinds of questions moviegoers are wondering, many for the first time, after seeing Uggie the Jack Russell terrier ham it up in the much acclaimed film The Artist. Uggie fans have launched an Oscar campaign on Twitter—for "Best Pup-porting Actor" for his astute portrayal of the loyal, lovable sidekick of a fading silent film actor. He's already fetched the Palm Dog award at Cannes. One fan who definitely believes dogs can act is Susan Orlean.

She's written a book about that famous thespian Rin Tin Tin. "His performances sometimes leave you amazed. I mean how would you teach a dog to look suspicious or all of those emotional reactions that Rin Tin Tin had?" she asks. "Maybe he had a subtle kind of intelligence that allowed him to understand emotions." As for Uggie, he's not getting too wrapped up in all the hoopla. He prefers a good nap on the nearest sofa to winning the acclaim of his industry peers, reports the BBC.

WASTED: No Pets for 3 Years After Man's Puppy Drinks Vodka!

Attention dog owners: Next time you're drinking vodka and Coke, don't leave your glass on the floor. Matthew Cox, 26, did just that, went outside to have a cigarette, and returned to find that his 6-month-old Labrador puppy, Max, had finished his drink for him. The Brit was too drunk to help the swaying puppy, and ended up leaving him with his roommate when he went out to DJ, the BBC reports. Now Cox has been banned from having a dog for three years, and Max has found a new home. Police were alerted to the situation by two girls who saw Max, staggering and falling, outside stores near Cox's home. 

Officers later found Max at Cox's home, the Daily Mail reports. They brought him to a vet for emergency treatment, where he was put on an IV drip for nearly a full day to recover. Cox pleaded guilty to failure to ensure an animal's welfare, and the judge who handed down the three-year ban called his actions "just downright stupid."

BEAR-NATION: Newborn Polar Bear Siku Kills with Cuteness!

Siku, born last month at the Scandinavian Wildlife Park in Denmark, requires 24-hour care for the first year of his life because his mother did not produce enough milk to feed him. Three people are assigned the task of caring for the Polar Bear cub, who just may be the cutest thing you see all day.

"Siku" means "sea ice" in Greenlandic language, according to the park's website.

SPOILER: Female Splits Up 'Gay' Penguins!

The penguin love affair dubbed "Brokeback Iceberg" by Jimmy Kimmel is now definitely over. Pedro and Buddy, the "gay" African penguins the Toronto Zoo decided to split up last month, are now both more interested in females, the BBC reports. Buddy, who shared a nest with Pedro for a year, paired with a female within 72 hours of the split, zookeepers say. Pedro, meanwhile, has been pursuing a female for weeks without success. "Pedro is very ready to go, per se, but his prospective mate is a little standoffish," the zoo's curator of birds tells the National Post. The zoo, he says, decided to separate the pair for the sake of the species, whose numbers have dwindled from 1.2 million in 1910 to 50,000 today. As long as there plenty of females around, the curator doubts Buddy and Pedro will try to rekindle their romance. “We don’t think of gay penguins,” he says. “They’re bundled pairs. They break up in the wild, they break up in captivity."

LOADED: Meet World's Richest Cat!

Now that's some serious scratch—Tommaso, a 4-year-old former stray, is now the world's richest cat, the inheritor of $13.4 million worth of properties around Italy, reports the Guardian.

Tommaso's rich owner, a 94-year-old childless widow, died last month, leaving her entire estate to her cat. However animals cannot inherit property directly in Italy, so the widow named a cat-loving nurse she met in a park as Tommaso's trustee. "I had no idea the signora had such wealth," said the nurse, identified only as Stefania. Tommaso may be the world's richest cat, but he still has a long way to go to before the can compare to the world's richest dog—Gunther IV, a German Shepherd from Germany, is said to be worth $372 million.

EIGHTEEN LIVES: Cat With 2 Faces Sets Record!

The cat is named Frank and Louie. Yep, Frank and Louie. That's because it was born with two faces, mouths, and noses (but just three eyes, the middle of which can't blink). And he almost didn't make it. Marty Stevens rescued the cat from being euthanized, and 12 years later it enters the 2012 edition of Guinness World Records as the longest-surviving member of a group known as Janus cats, named for a Roman god with two faces, reports the AP. 

Janus cats almost never survive more than a few days: Most have congenital defects, including a cleft palate that makes it difficult for them to nurse. The condition is the result of a genetic defect that triggers excessive production of a certain kind of protein. But Frank (the face on the left) and Louie did not suffer from most of the common Janus problems, and used just one of his mouths to eat; the other does not have a lower jaw and isn't connected to his one esophagus.

CRUEL: Hide Your Dogs!

Brace yourself, dog lover: The world is full of cruel people, as evidenced by two odd animal crimes that happened in the last week. My Fox Dallas reports on a domestic incident that turned deadly for a Maltese named Diego on Saturday night. A couple reportedly got in a fight in an elevator, with a man allegedly punching a woman. Police say she then entered their shared apartment, poured bleach on his clothes, and left. When her boyfriend saw the clothes, he allegedly threw Diego out of the 19th-floor apartment's window. Though no one saw him fling the dog, his body was found the next day on the 8th-floor pool deck. Police are looking for the man, whose name has not been released. 

Me-WOW: Could Glow-in-the-Dark Kitties cure AIDS?

Some cats are glowing, thanks to researchers at Mayo Clinic, who inserted rhesus macaque plus jellyfish genes into unfertilized cat eggs. The mix makes resulting kittens apparently resistant to feline immunodeficiency virus, which causes feline AIDS.

Oh, yeah, and it also makes them glow under special lights. It's all part of a study on how to best fight human HIV and AIDS—as well as battle feline AIDS which is plaguing domestic cats. The glowing stunt helps researchers track the cats' engineered genes and cells. "We want to see if we can protect the domestic cat against its AIDS virus, if we can protect any species, eventually including ours, against its own AIDS virus," Dr. Eric Poeschla tells Live Science.

THAWED: Polar Bear Kills Tourist in Norway!

A British tourist is dead and four people are seriously injured after a polar bear attacked them today in Norway. The five were part of a group of campers in the Arctic Archipelago of Svalbard, according to a district governor's spokesperson. The group reported the mauling via satellite phone at 7:30am, and "there are no roads in the area of the Von Postbreen glacier where the incident happened so we scrambled a helicopter," the spokesperson says. The bear has been killed and the four victims are at a hospital, the Telegraph reports. 

The Guardian notes that the group was visiting a "beauty spot" on Spitsbergen, a remote island. "It's not been the first time," says a local of the attack. "Last summer a man was attacked by a polar bear and there have also been attacks on a man from Austria and a girl. ... The problem is when the ice goes the bears lose their way and cannot catch food. People don't really how dangerous they are; one came down to the sea recently and people were running down to take pictures."