It's been six weeks since Lupita Nyong'o won the Best Supporting Actress Oscar for 12 Years a Slave. But given how quickly things happen today, her triumph might as well have happened years ago. The People want a new Lupita role, damn it!

• Carine Roitfeld finally addressed her infamous blackface editorial: "We take risks. Painting Lara Stone in black, for example. We were accused of being racist, which was totally untrue, since I once did an entire issue on a black model." [WWD]

Tina Harden had issues with the content of the novels and says she "achieved" "a certain amount of good" in holding the books as "a statement." She hasn't paid the $85 in fines she owes, however. [UPI, Earlier]

Tina Harden saw references to weed and sex and decided the books were "filled with everything I don't want my [then 13-year-old] daughter to do or be." So… Do all 5th graders become pickpockets after reading Oliver Twist? [Orlando Sentinel]

• Kohl's seems to think a Lauren Conrad fashion line will be a winner. And we had been so joyful when it seemed the Lauren Conrad Collection was taking a permanent vacation! [NY Times]