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Time for a Pop Culture update and we begin with the story of boys growing breasts with the help of a few herbs. On to the sweetest Nobel nomination of all and exclusive to this Blog, the bones of Romeo and Juliet? In memory of Frankie Laine, a horse that can dance with the best and, we're not making this up, an Easy Bake Oven Story.

LOS ANGELES, California (AP) -- Frankie Laine, the big-voiced singer whose string of hits made him one of the most popular entertainers of the 1950s, died Tuesday. He was 93. Laine died of heart failure at Scripps Mercy Hospital in San Diego, Jimmy Marino, Laine's producer of more than a dozen years, told The Associated Press. "He was one of the greatest singers around," Marino said. "He was one of the last Italian crooners type." With songs such as "That's My Desire," "Mule Train," "Jezebel," "I Believe" and "That Lucky Old Sun," Laine was a regular feature of the Top...

Frankie Laine, the singer with the booming voice who hit it big with such songs as "That Lucky Old Sun," "Mule Train," "Cool Water," "I Believe," "Granada" and "Moonlight Gambler," died today at Mercy Hospital in San Diego. He was 93. Laine entered the hospital over the weekend for hip replacement surgery but suffered complications from the operation, said his friend A.C. Lyles, the longtime producer at Paramount Pictures. In all, Laine sold well over 100 million records and was hugely popular not only in the United States but in Britain and Australia. Even after his popularity crested after the...