Global 2012: Lady Gaga tweets some racy images

English: Lady Gaga and Lady Starlight performing at Lollapalooza, 2007. Magyar: Lady Gaga és Lady Starlight a 2007-es Lollapalooza fesztiválon. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Lady Gaga's tweets were getting a lot of attention ahead of her Buenos Aires concert Friday night.

The Grammy-winning entertainer has more than 30 million followers on Twitter and that's where she shared a link this week to a short video showing her doing a striptease and fooling around in a bathtub with two other women.

She told her followers that it's a "surprise for you, almost ready for you to TASTE."

Then, in between concerts in Brazil and Argentina, she posted a picture Thursday on her Twitter page showing her wallowing in her underwear and impossibly high heels on top of the remains of what appears to be a strawberry shortcake.

"The real CAKE isn't HAVING what you want, it's DOING what you want," she tweeted.

Lady Gaga wore decidedly unglamorous baggy jeans and a blouse outside her Buenos Aires hotel Thursday as three burly bodyguards kept her fans at bay. Another pre-concert media event where she was supposed to be given "guest of honor" status by the city government Friday afternoon was cancelled.

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Manila 2012: Dolphy could get National Artist Award in 2013

English: Dolphy, Filipino actor (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
The national artists award could be given to comedy king Dolphy next year, the National Commission on the Culture and Arts (NCCA) said Friday.

Frances Alincastre, planning officer III of the National artist Award-NCCA, said in a radio interview that the commission's hands are tied with the procedure in approving and granting the prestigious award to an individual.

"Nalulungkot po kami pero wala kaming magagawa. Wala namang nabigyan ng national artist (award) without going through the process," Alincastre said, noting the need to process Dolphy's nomination before the screening board.

She said Dolphy, Rodolfo Vera Quizon Sr. in real life, has already been in the list of the nominees since he was nominated in 2009. She, however, did not pass the second deliberation of the screening committee that time, Alincastre added.

"We have six months to accept nomination then compile for each category, then nominees in their respective categories. Then we still do research on the nominees baka hindi sinasabi sa kanilang biodata na makakatulong din sa kanila," she said as she explains the process.

Alincaster added that after a month of research, the NCCA will start the deliberation process. A list of seven experts for each category will be included in the initial deliberation and the list is trimmed down to three experts for each category in the second deliberation.

She said the whole process may take until next year.

The family of Dolphy, who is in critical condition because of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), said Thursday that the comedy king will undergo dialysis to support his weakened kidneys.

“The reason why the option of dialysis was offered to us and the reason why we opted for dialysis is because overnight his vitals became stable. That was the longest time that his vitals were stable. But like I said, his condition still fluctuates,” Eric Quizon, one of Dolphy's sons, told reporters outside the Makati Medical Center.

Another son of Dolphy, Ronnie, had said in a radio interview that they are also contemplating of having the comedy undergo a lung transplant. The operation, however, would be too risky for the comedy king who is already 83 years old.

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Global 2012: Tiger Woods' calm, clinical dissection of Olympic Club at the U.S. Open was a cool change

DALY CITY, CA - JUNE 11: Tiger Woods of the United States hits a shot during a practice round prior to the start of the 112th U.S. Open at The Olympic Club on June 11, 2012 in Daly City, California. (Image credit: Getty Images via @daylife)
Under a cool blue-gray California sky on Thursday at the U.S. Open, Tiger Woods did the darndest thing. He played like Tiger Woods used to play at a major.

Tiger Woods shot a 1-under 69 in the first round of the U.S. Open on Thursday. (Getty Images)

Gone were the pained expressions after mis-hits. Gone was the clank of a golf club banging off a tee box in a disgusted follow through. Gone was the muttered profanity.

In was a calm, clinical golfer. In was a player intent on a game plan, on calling the USGA's bluff and opting for fairway-pounding tee shots. In was a player thinking his way around the grueling Olympic Club setup, cagily eyeing each hole as if it were an adversary worthy of his best chess move.

Sixty-nine golf shots later, Tiger had his best first-round score at a U.S. Open since his 67 at the 2002 Bethpage Black U.S. Open. He won that U.S. Open.

The question: Who kidnapped the Tiger Woods who hasn't won a major in four calendar years, and replaced him with Tiger Woods?

Don't think the field didn't notice. Bubba Watson, whose first-round 78 smacked of surrender to Olympic's beastly demands, sure did.

"That was the old Tiger," he said, in gifting the media with Thursday's mission statement. "That was beautiful to watch."

http://sports.yahoo.com/news/golf--tiger-woods--dissection-of-olympic-club-at-the-u-s--open-was-a-cool-change.html

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