TODAY IS _ Today is Ditch New Years Resolutions Day.

ON DVD TODAY _ Courageous;The Ides of March (Ryan Gosling, George Clooney); Abduction (Taylor Lautner); Dirty Girl (Juno Temple, William H. Macy, Milla Jovovich, Mary Steenburgen); Bucky Larson: Born to Be a Star (Nick Swardson, Don Johnson); Waking the Dead - The Complete 6th Season.

CRACKER BARREL FOUNDER DIES _ The founder of the Cracker Barrel Old Country Store chain, Dan Evans, has died at 76. Evans opened his first restaurant in Lebanon, Tennessee, in 1969.

WACKY-BUT-TRUE: ESCAPED PRISONER FOUND IN ATTIC _ Police say the manhunt for an escaped prisoner in Germany (Bochum) was brief. The search began when wardens went to check in on a 50-year-old inmate after he did not show up to breakfast, only to find the bars of his cell window were sawed off and he was gone. The prisoner was found hiding in the prison's attic.

TOP TIVO'D MOMENTS AT THE GOLDEN GLOBES _ TiVo has singled out the moments that Golden Globes viewers were captivated by and needed to see again and again. At the top was host Ricky Gervais introducing Melissa McCarthy and highlighting her defecation in a sink on Bridesmaids: "That's still less demeaning then what most of you have done to make it in show business."

140-CHARACTER ALBUM REVIEWS _ Long-winded music reviews are getting a tune up. SPIN magazine announced on Wednesday that it will be squeezing the majority of its album reviews into 140-character tweets. SPIN is pulling most of the reviews out of its print magazine and will be tweeting them instead under the handle @SPINreviews. SPIN's senior editor says that about 120 of the 140 albums the publication plans to review each month will be reviewed in short form on Twitter. Long-form reviews will be saved for albums SPIN believes are the best and most newsworthy.

NEWS ATTACK! _ Police in Phoenix arrested a convicted felon for illegally carrying a concealed firearm in her bra. [It was a .44 Double-D Magnum.]

WACKY-BUT-TRUE: ANOTHER PLACE YOU SHOULDN'T SELL POT _ The Grant County, Washing, sheriff says deputies arrested a 22-year-old after citizens mentioned that a young man was approaching people in front of the county courthouse and asking if they wanted to buy marijuana. Sure enough, deputies found the man, who smelled strongly of pot, standing on the courthouse lawn. They also found more than 20 grams of packaged marijuana in his pockets.

WILL BARBIE GO BALD? _ There's an online movement to get Barbie to go bald. A Facebook page titled Beautiful and Bald Barbie aims to get toy maker Mattel to create a bald Barbie in support of children with cancer.

TV VERSION OF GOODFELLAS COMING TO TV _ Fans of AMC's mob movie marathons can rejoice: The network has a TV version of "Goodfellas" in the works. AMC is developing a series based on Martin Scorsese's classic "Goodfellas," with writer Nicholas Pileggi, who adapted the screenplay from his book "Wiseguy," on hand to co-write the TV adaptation.

These hot country tours are starting today…

Miranda Lambert is excited to be playing new music from her Four the Record album when her On Fire Tour kicks off tonight in Rockford, Illinois. And she was thinking about her girlfriends when she picked her opening acts, too. Joining her are Chris Young and Jerrod Niemann.

Blake Shelton has become quite the celebrity since his run on The Voice, but being a big country star remains his goal. And he says he won't be happy until he's doing shows like one of his heroes, Garth Brooks. Blake's Well Lit and Amplifed Tour opens in Toledo, Ohio tonight with special guests Justin Moore and his Voice protege Dia Frampton.

Brad Paisley's Virtual Reality World Tour 2012 makes its first stop tonight in Grand Rapids, Michigan and nobody could be more excited than opening act Scotty McCreery. Sandwiched between the two country gentlemen is the award-winning Band Perry.

Rascal Flatts kicks off their Thaw Out 2012 Tour tonight in Charleston, West Virginia. Sara Evans, a Flatts Fest alumni, is joining the boys, along with newcomer Hunter Hayes who is "chomping at the bit" to hit the road.