THINGS YOU NEED TO KNOW

• If they pass a bill in Oregon, it would make cigarettes available only by   prescription.
• Russell Crowe as Noah? Yes sir, he’ll star in a new movie about Noah’s Ark   set for release in 2014.
• Union membership in the U.S. is down to its lowest rate in 70 years!
• Bradley Cooper says he would love to play Lance Armstrong in a movie.
• The movie “Cloud Atlas” has arrived in China. But by the time government   censors cut out the parts that offended them, they had removed 38 minutes   of the movie.
• Supermodel Kate Upton’s Super Bowl commercial is being criticized by a   parenting group. In the 90-second spot for Mercedes-Benz, Upton washes the   company’s latest model dressed in a skimpy outfit while being watched by a   group of young football players.
• Country singer Chely Wright is pregnant with identical twins.
• The man who was the voice of Charlie Brown in several “Peanuts” TV shows   was charged Wednesday with stalking and threatening his former girlfriend   and a plastic surgeon who gave her a breast enhancement he didn’t like.
• April 7, by the way, is the day for the season 6 premiere of “Mad Men.”
• Adele is going to perform “Skyfall” at the Academy Awards. By the way, her   baby’s name hasn’t been officially announced, but the rumor mill has it as   Angelo.
• HBO has renewed “Girls” for its third season and CBS has renewed its top   daytime talker Dr. Phil through the 2016-17 season.
• Justin Timberlake will be a special guest at DirecTV’s pre-Super Bowl   “Super Saturday Night” event on February 2, which will be co-hosted by Mark   Cuban.
• It’s said that Kelly Osbourne has gotten secretly engaged.
• A new study claims that smoking shortens your lifespan by at least 10   years.
• For the record, Justin Bieber has more followers now than Lady Gaga,   making him the current champ.
• In Chicago, a couple has glued 60,000 pennies to the floor of their bedroom, just because they can.