Here's what's happening in pop culture:
• "The Artist" -- which will get to Salt Lake City next week, I promise -- wins four Critics' Choice Awards, including Best Picture and Best Director. Also winning: George Clooney, Viola Davis, Christopher Plummer and Octavia Spencer. [The Washington Post]
• After doing better than Jon Huntsman in a South Carolina poll, TV "pundit" Stephen Colbert is contemplating his own run for the presidency -- and, in so doing, he expertly satirizes the current political-money mess. [The Huffington Post]
• Early word is that Bruce Springsteen's next album is "the angriest album he's ever made." [The Hollywood Reporter]
