Natalie Portman Stars In New Dior Commercial – Black Swan star Natalie Portman features in a new TV ad for Christian Dior’s Miss Dior Chérie fragrance. Again directed by Sofia Coppola, this latest installment for the scent shows the Oscar nominee as her most French self, dressing up in Dior (bien sûr), lounging around a dreamy bedroom, and blindfolding her male counterpart. [luxuo]

Charlie Sheen Blasts Two And A Half Men Creator, Show Gets Suspended – CBS canceled production of “Two and a Half Men” for the rest of the season Thursday, quickly striking back at Charlie Sheen’s venomous rant against the hit show’s creator. The hard partying star called his sitcom boss Chuck Lorre a “clown,” “turd” – and a “contaminated little maggot.” And he inexplicably harped on Lorre’s Jewish birth name – “Chaim Levine.” Hah – beautiful. [nydailynews]

Gaddafi Compares Himself To The Queen Of England, Blames Bin Laden – Libya’s embattled Col. Moammar Gaddafi compared himself to Queen Elizabeth today while blaming the violent uprising in his country on Osama bin Laden and what he said were drugged-up and armed Libyan teenagers. “Bin Laden … this is the enemy who is manipulating people,” Gaddafi said. “Do not be swayed by bin Laden.” [aolnews]

Hefner Sets Wedding Date – Hugh Hefner and Crystal Harris have set their wedding date for June 18 at the Playboy mansion, and plans for their nuptials are underway. Harris was a student at San Diego State University when she caught Hefner’s eye at a Halloween party at the Playboy mansion. The two, who have a 60-year age difference with Hefner being 84 and Harris 24, announced their engagement on Christmas Eve via Twitter. Stunning. [thirdage]

De Villiers Powers SA To Easy Victory – AB de Villiers’ unbeaten 107 powered South Africa to a seven-wicket victory over the West Indies in a World Cup Group B match on Thursday. South Africa’s Pakistan-born leg-spinner Imran Tahir (4-41) dazzled on debut, sharing seven wickets with pace colleague Dale Steyn (3-24) to skittle out the West Indies for 222 in 47.3 overs. [mail&guardian]

Mark Zuckerberg Becomes A Comic Book Super-Hero – Most guys his age are only reading comic books, but this 26-year-old accidental entrepreneur is already the king of social networking, has a book and Oscar-nominated movie about him, was named Time’s magazine’s Person of the Year, is the youngest billionaire on the planet – and is now the subject of a glossy comic book. God help us. [csm]

Wikileaks’ Assange To Be Extradited To Sweden – Wikileaks founder Julian Assange should be extradited to Sweden to face sexual assault allegations, a judge has ruled. At Belmarsh Magistrates’ Court in south London, District Judge Howard Riddle said the extradition would not breach Mr Assange’s human rights. Mr Assange said the ruling, which he will challenge, was due to a “European Arrest Warrant system run amok”. The 39-year-old denies three allegations of sexual assault and one of rape last August in Stockholm. [bbc]

Space Shuttle Discovery Blasts Off On Final Voyage – NASA’s most traveled space shuttle blasted off on its final voyage, following nearly three decades of service. During the launch, Discovery’s engines carried it aloft on nearly 1 million pounds of thrust, leading to forces on the astronauts within the vehicle three times that of Earth’s gravity, NASA said. Discovery thundered to speeds of about 18,000 miles per hour within 8 1/2 minutes on its journey, en route to a meetup with the International Space Station Saturday. [foxnews]

Facebook Shuts Down Breakup Notifier – Those trying to download Breakup Notifier to see who’s suddenly single on Facebook may find it’s not working — that’s because Facebook has shut down the application. Breakup Notifier, a new Facebook app created by Dan Loewenherz, to keep track of crushes as they become single and attracted more than 100,000 users in only 24 hours. But after being downloaded 3.6 million times, Facebook blocked the app early Wednesday, according to Breakup Notifier’s Twitter account. [nbc]

Beyoncé’s Blackface Photo Shoot With French Fashion Mag L’Officiel Paris Sparks Controversy – Color Bee controversial. Beyoncé’s latest photo shoot came under fire Wednesday when images of the singer’s famous face appeared in the pages of a French fashion magazine – covered in dark paint. L’Officiel Paris chose the diva to don different colorful garbs and headpieces in a nod to Nigerian musician and human rights activist Fela Kuti in an “African Queen”-themed 90th anniversary issue. [nydailynews]

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