Think the National Enquirer is just a checkout-line tabloid? Think again.

While the reputation of the publication hasn't always been sterling, it's still in the running to receive a Pulitzer Prize for its breaking coverage of the John Edwards scandal.

The Enquirer is nominated in two categories: Investigative Reporting and National Reporting.

This news comes after initial reports that the Enquirer's submission packet would be tossed out because of a variety of technicalities, one of them being a quibble over whether or not the Enquirer is actually a newspaper or more of a magazine. Prize rules indicate that the Pulitzer can only be given to a newspaper or news site that is published at least on a weekly basis.

However, it has since been determined that the Enquirer is a newspaper, and therefore will be judged in the competition accordingly.

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CNN has confirmed that William Shatner has been cast to star in an adaptation of the Twitter account @S-MyDadSays. (You can fill in the dashes.)

The show is reportedly planned as a CBS series to be executive produced by "Will & Grace" creators David Kohan and Max Mutchnick.

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There's obsessed, and then there's celebrity obsessed. Ashton Kutcher, who is in Russia, recently sent out this TwitPic.

@aplusk said on Twitter: "I just saw something i could never imagine. a man in siberia who has me tatooed on his arm."

While the colors are a bit off, the resemblance is pretty remarkable. And if you have to have someone's face on your arm - Kutcher is a pretty choice.

What do you think - would you ever get a celebrity's face tattooed on your body? If so, who?

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The sometime profane, wise-cracking redhead is tackling a dramatic role on “Law & Order: SVU.” She’ll appear March 3 on an episode of the popular show portraying a gay activist who lays a lip lock on Detective Olivia Benson, portrayed by actress Mariska Hargitay.

Griffin, who has found fame mocking her status in Hollywood on her Bravo reality show “My Life on the D-List,” told the New York Daily News that she approached the role very seriously and did not want to let down the cast and crew.

"My mind is programmed to go for the joke,” she said. “My whole life is looking for the joke, but this was no joke. I didn't want to disappoint them." FULL POST

Shortly after his public apology Friday, the majority of posts on Twitter regarding Tiger Woods seemed to be less-than-empathetic, to say the least.

However, Twitter’s more notable users - including Eve and Mandy Moore - had a different take on the former golf pro’s plea.

“Whatup ya'll... Don't ya'll think they should leave Tiger Woods alone. He's human, what the hell,” Eve wrote. “He didn't handle the media right but whateva. The only appology he ows is 2 his wifey…”

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Though 1,700 people have joined a Facebook group called "Draft John Mellencamp for Senate," the hitmaking Hoosier's representative told CNN that he had no comment on the movement.

The Facebook supporters are responding to the announcement by Sen. Evan Bayh (D-Indiana) that the two-term senator and former Indiana governor won't seek re-election this fall.

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Simon Cowell said he honestly has no idea who will replace him on “American Idol” after this year, but he has some thoughts.

During a conference call on Thursday, the departing judge said whoever fills his seat needs to have knowledge and not just the ability to be critical.

“I think over the years judges have been replaced by personalities,” said Cowell, who also jokingly said his replacement needs to be very handsome. “That in the long term will create problems because you’ve got to be able to spot a star. So whoever replaces me, my advice has always been, find somebody who actually knows what they are talking about and has actually experienced success in the music business.”

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An actress with Down syndrome who guest-starred on the animated show “Family Guy” thinks Sarah Palin just doesn’t get the joke.

The former vice-presidential candidate and Alaskan governor slammed the Fox animated series after the show racked up some laughs with a line she felt mocked her family.

On a recent episode, a character with Down syndrome named Ellen goes on a date with one of the show’s teenaged characters, Chris. Ellen tells Chris that her mother is “the former governor of Alaska.”

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Conan O'Brien took the millions of dollars he received in his settlement with NBC and hightailed it to Hawaii, with his wife and kids in tow.

Earlier this week, photos emerged of a bearded O'Brien strolling down a Hawaiian street - wearing proper sun protection of course - along with his two young children, Neve and Beckett. FULL POST

I think I had a small stroke when I read the headline on Popeater.com: "Alexis Bledel Ponders a 'Gilmore Girls' Movie." I still cannot get enough of the two Lorelais, even though "Gilmore Girls" completed its run nearly three years ago.

The show - set in fictional Stars Hollow, Connecticut - centered on a mother-daughter duo who were best friends first and parent/child second. Oh, and it was magical! Not in a wands and broomsticks sort of way, mind you; but in a "sitting on a window seat, watching snow fall, drinking hot cider (or coffee, if you’re a Gilmore) and savoring a great book" way.

Series creator Amy Sherman-Paladino (a.k.a the smart American girl's hero) breathed tremendous life into her characters. For example, Bledel's character, Rory, aspired to be CNN's Christiane Amanpour, quoted Dorothy Parker (Sherman-Palladino's production company is named Dorothy Parker Drank Here Productions) and read Proust. Literature was essentially an un-credited character on "Gilmore Girls." FULL POST