THINGS YOU NEED TO KNOW

• Keeping an eye on Willie Nelson, who has had to cancel three shows in California this week due to illness.
• Lady Gaga's music sales surged over 1000% after her Super Bowl halftime show.
• Brad Pitt's "World War Z" sequel was supposed to be in theaters this June, but it's now been bumped to next year... or the year after that!
• Conan O'Brien is defending himself against a lawsuit by a comedy writer who claims that Conan stole five of his jokes.
• Kylie Minogue has won a legal battle against Kylie Jenner over the "Kylie" name trademark.
• 63-year-old Christie Brinkley appears with her two daughters, all in bathing suits, in his year's Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue. The issue comes out Monday.
• 8% of U.S. broadband households plan to purchase a plug-in electric vehicle in next 12 months.
• The New England Patriots paraded through downtown Boston yesterday to celebrate their latest NFL championship.
• Baylor University fired an assistant strength and conditioning coach Monday after he was arrested over the weekend for attempting to solicit a prostitute.
• Madonna adopted two four-year-old twin girls from Malawi on Tuesday.
• Selena Gomez and The Weeknd continue to be pretty cozy together.
• Three decades after the original Playboy Club closed in Manhattan, a new one will debut later this year in a hotel a few blocks from Times Square.
• Even though Scottie Pippen filed for divorce last October from his wife Larsa, the two were spotted in Hollywood over the weekend, with Larsa wearing one huge diamond ring.
• Pink is saying that Lady Gaga copied her act when she went flying around in the Super Bowl half-time show.
• For the record, Scott Foley puts peanut butter on his scrambled eggs.
• Nancy Pelosi's comment at her press conference the other day might come back to bite her: "We've seen nothing where we can where -- where I can work with President Bush on..."