QUOTE: "TV shows have been tumbling down [a] slippery language slope for quite a while now. First a few 'b‑‑tards,' then a lot of 'd‑‑ns' and the next thing you know, you've got a title of an upcoming CBS show that could easily forgo all the random symbols in $#*! My Dad Says. But as the new crop of viewers raised in the Wild West culture of the Internet and lax cable standards emerge, traditional TV barriers could change quickly. … Public watchdog groups have attempted to stave off the coarsening of our culture and encouraged the attempts by the FCC to regulate the few remaining entities under its control. TV stations have to adhere to FCC rules to keep their licenses and face hefty fines if they don't watch their language. But once the profanity genie popped out of the bottle on cable and the Internet, there was no going back."

—todayshow.com contributor Susan C. Young, on how the recent court ruling against the FCC's tight regulation of fleeting profanities may result in televised vulgarities increasing to the level already heard on the Internet and cable

QUOTE: "I just finished a film called The F‑‑‑ Buddies that may not ultimately be called F‑‑‑ Buddies. I don't know why—I think people would love to go see a movie called The F‑‑‑ Buddies. … I think if I saw a poster and it said The F‑‑‑ Buddies, I'd be like, 'I'm in, I'm going to see it.' I think it's going to be a really, really funny movie. I can't think about it without laughing. That should be the title. I'm shooting for that."

—actor Ashton Kutcher, talking about his upcoming comedy with Natalie Portman

About half of Australians believe that romantic comedies have hurt their view of what relationships are all about, according to a new poll. About 25% say they expect their partner to know what they're thinking, while 20% expect presents and flowers "just because." "It seems our love of romcoms is turning us into a nation of 'happy-ever-after' addicts," says Gabrielle Morrissey, a relationship counselor. "Yet the warm and fuzzy feeling they provide can adversely influence our view of real relationships."

A photograph of plus-sized model Crystal Renn, a size 10, was recently whittled down digitally to a size 2 by photographer Nicholas Routzen. Renn responded to her virtual shrinkage on The Today Show. "I understand a reasonable amount of retouching, if there's a zit, for instance, or you want to smooth things out," she said. "But to change my body completely, that's not what I'm about, that's not my message and that's not important to me." Routzen defends his work as "minimal retouching," saying, "[It's] nothing you wouldn't see in any magazine today. There is nothing hidden about this."

Filipino pop sensation Charice Pempengco, 18, recently underwent a skin-tightening procedure and Botox injections to, she said, "look fresh on camera" and make her naturally round face narrower for her new role on the TV show Glee. The baby-faced teenager told ABS-CBN television, "All people will be anticipating, how will Charice look? Is she good enough to pit against Rachel Berry [a Glee character played by Lea Michelle]? So of course there is tremendous pressure."

QUOTE: "Pls don't. Ur husband should love u 4 who u are! Don't try 2 b someone else. Im sure u are beautiful inside and out! Just as u are."

—Kim Kardashian, tweeting to a fan who said she planned to get "head 2 toe plastic surgery" to look just like the starlet and to please her Kardashian-obsessed husband

QUOTE: "I view making this movie as an important first step in my career. I've watched how successful Kim Kardashian became and I think a lot of it was due to the release of her sex tape by Vivid. I'm hoping the same magic will work for me. I'm impatient about getting well-known and having more opportunities and this seemed like a great way to get started on it."

—19-year-old Montana Fishburne, the daughter of actor Laurence Fishburne, announcing that she's making her entrance into entertainment by way of a porn film

A mechanic from England has officially changed his name to Buzz Lightyear to commemorate the opening of Toy Story 3 in Great Britain. "It's a great name, a great film and my girlfriend is going to love telling people she's going out with Buzz Lightyear," the 26-year-old man, formerly known as Steve Bolton, said.

Actor Eric Roberts—older brother of Julia, father of Emma—will be joining Leif Garrett, Janice Dickinson and Jeremy London on the upcoming season of VH1's reality show Celebrity Rehab With Dr. Drew. The reason, his wife Eliza told E!, is that he's become addicted to marijuana after using it medicinally to treat anxiety. "He uses marijuana as a medication. He has a prescription. … [But now] he has no interest in anything, other than marijuana."

Seventeen-year-old Taylor Momsen, one of the stars of Gossip Girl and the lead singer of her band, The Pretty Reckless, is making waves after Fox News published excerpts of her provocative interview with Disorder Magazine. Among other things, the teenager said that she was "bored of men" and that her "best friend is her vibrator." Elsewhere in the article, she described her band's debut album as, "A life record and it confronts issues and goes, here's what f‑‑‑ing sucks about everything and I don't really know how to fix it but I'm f‑‑‑ing dying and I'll sing about it. It covers all the bases of life—love, death, sex, religious, politics, murder, hate, drugs."

Only 19% of 15-year-olds believe they've got meaningful relationships with adults beyond their immediate family, according to a national survey conducted by Search Institute (and sponsored by Best Buy).

When 13-year-old Deisha gave up technology for a week as part of an experiment done by Nick News With Linda Ellerbee, her mom said she "didn't think she was going to make it. I thought she was going to break down and beg." Deisha admits that before the experiment, she texted more than she talked. But during the week, she discovered talents and interests she didn't know she had. "I ended up being the talkative one," Deisha says. "My family basically got sick of me because I was always around, talking."