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Bill Murray

The Caddyshack star was victorious at the Pebble Beach National Pro-Am golf tourney

Tiger Woods

The stumbling PGA pro was fined after spitting on the green during the final round of the Dubai Desert Classic

MARKETING

Slim Cola

Diet soda got a Fashion Week makeover when Pepsi unveiled a svelte can at the New York City event. Though the cola company calls it a “celebration” of “confident women,” scarily skinny soda doesn’t seem to jibe with high self-esteem.

BOOKS

Ghosting Assange

Julian Assange’s memoir is bound to be a best seller; now there’s a good chance it might also be well written. Scottish novelist Andrew O’Hagan has been tapped to help the WikiLeaks founder write his book. Celebs have long used ghostwriters, but choosing a literary type like O’Hagan is less common. Still, O’Hagan is no stranger to channeling others. His last novel was written in the voice of a terrier.

Kaffi, 5, is an Icelandic sheepdog

CELEBRITY

Friends in High Places

They never really went away. But after years of so-so work, five-sixths of the former Friends finally seem to be getting their mojo back.

LISA KUDROW

The Comeback P.S. I Love You

Web Therapy (Internet series)

MATT LEBLANC

Joey Episodes

MATTHEW PERRY

Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip

Mr. Sunshine

DAVID SCHWIMMER

Madagascar Madagascar 2

JENNIFER ANISTON

Derailed • Rumor Has It … Friends with Money • The Break-Up Marley & Me • Love Happens The Bounty Hunter • The Switch

Just Go with It

COURTENEY COX

Dirt

Cougar Town

VERBATIM

‘Stay off the crack. Drink chocolate milk. Enjoy every moment. That’s all I got.’

CHARLIE SHEEN, offering some practical advice to the UCLA baseball team. Sheen’s substance-abuse problems have led his show, Two and a Half Men, to go on hiatus

INTERNET CAUSES

Rallying for RoboCop

In the 1987 dystopian sci-fi flick RoboCop, the title character protected a crime-ridden Detroit. Appropriately, the city is now rallying to his defense. When Detroit Mayor Dave Bing politely declined a request via Twitter that the city erect a statue of the mechanized hero, he set off a minor Internet storm. As of Feb. 16, a website set up to raise money for the statue had surpassed its funding goal of $50,000 in pledges toward a plan to house RoboCop on a parcel of private land in a city park. Bing seems to have softened his position: a spokesperson said the mayor’s office would consider erecting donated “public art.” As for the person whose tweet started the whole affair, he later said it was only a joke.

MEME ALERT

Hipster Ariel

This mermaid definitely does not want to be part of your world. When design student Braden Graeber Photoshopped a pair of Ray-Ban glasses onto a still of an anguished Ariel from The Little Mermaid, he tapped into a latent hipster nostalgia for Disney films. The image took off online as people added text that combined memorable quotes from the film with snarky commentary on contemporary life. Within days, Little Hipster Mermaid had a Facebook page and a Twitter feed. Not bad for a girl who lives under the sea.

ROYAL WEDDING

Of Maids and Men

They faxed their save-the-date, but to announce who would stand by their sides when they say “I do” on April 29, Prince William and Kate Middleton took to Twitter. “Miss Catherine Middleton has asked her sister, Miss Philippa Middleton, to be her Maid of Honour,” read one tweet from Clarence House, the Prince of Wales’ official feed. William has enlisted his brother Harry as best man. Filling out the bridal party is a gaggle of royal youngsters, including 3-year-old Eliza Lopes, granddaughter of Camilla Parker-Bowles. No word yet on how frilly the frocks will be.

MUSIC

Gaga for Food Fashion

In September, she wore a meat dress. At the Grammys, she emerged from a giant translucent egg. Since Lady Gaga seems determined to be an icon of culinary couture, we suggest a few more outfits to help the pop star cover all the food groups.

MUSIC

Radiohead: Pay for Our Album

Even the most ardent Radiohead fans were surprised by the British rock group’s Feb. 14 announcement that it would release a new album online five days later. Equally surprising: the band ditched the successful pay-what-you-want method that it used for its 2007 release In Rainbows, choosing instead to go with the traditional pay-what-we-want model. What they want is $9 to $14 for a download of The King of Limbs (hard copies available March 28) and $48 to $53 for a deluxe version, containing two vinyl albums, a CD, MP3s and artwork, that comes out May 9. So far, there is no payment model that would allow Thom Yorke to just sing directly to you.

For guys who think breathing room is overrated

FASHION

Stylish or Stifling?

Intended as a tribute to former flames, Levi’s new Ex-Girlfriend skinny jeans for men raise the question, Did the ex-boyfriend T-shirt really need a male equivalent?

5 THINGS YOU DON’T HAVE TO WORRY ABOUT

1. Getting a mild form of Legionnaires’ disease, since you weren’t at a recent Playboy Mansion event

2. F. Scott Fitzgerald’s legacy, since someone has just released an 8-bit video game of The Great Gatsby

3. Donald Trump running for President, since he has a history of toying with the idea

4. Being unable to watch cinema classics, since the Criterion Collection and Hulu have just joined forces

5. Having to mock the Pacific Northwest alone, since IFC’s Portlandia has been renewed