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IT'S A POPE-OFF! Weeks after ex-Pope Benedict XVI (left) called it quits on the Papacy ... a brand spankin' new Pope Francis (right) has been elected.

No, that's not a down-on-their-luck homeless Olsen twin begging for change, it's just Ke$ha sprawled out on the sidewalk and drinking a can of beer out of a bag, silly.

As she threw back a cold one on the ground, the 26-year-old "Die Young" singer did her best to blend in with all the other hipster vagabonds tooling around Venice Beach on Tuesday.

Valerie Harper was in a great mood over the weekend, looking great and laughing it up as she talked to Savannah Guthrie about her terminal illness.

Harper was on "Today" ... discussing her brain cancer prognosis and the prospect that she may only have 3 months to live. A very wise Harper said, "If you die, you're not a failure. You're just somebody who had cancer, and that's the outcome."

When "Mob Wives Chicago" star Pia Rizza found out there were naked pictures of her being shopped to various media outlets ... she knew the drill -- RELEASE THE PHOTOS HERSELF!!!

Pia tells TMZ ... she took the racy pics -- which she allowed TMZ to publish -- sometime last year, while still filming "Mob Wives" and sent them to her boyfriend to get some feedback on whether she had the right stuff for Playboy.

But Pia tells us ... the pics somehow got into the wrong hands -- and someone was trying to sell them without her permission.

1. She doesn't want anyone making money off of HER image
2. Yeah, she wants Playboy to notice

So we gotta ask ...

There's nothing prehistoric about "Jurassic Park" star Jeff Goldblum.

Here's the 33-year-old hipster icon back in 1985 (left) -- and 28 years later, the 60-year-old "Independence Day" star in Beverly Hills this week (right).

He's so fly.

Best actress Oscar nominees this year, Naomi Watts and Jessica Chastain commiserated losing to Jennifer Lawrence at a fashion show in Paris on Wednesday.

Question is ...

Who needs Maxim magazine when you've got Instagram?!? Try and guess which famous faces are behind these sexy celeb self pics!

TGIF bitches ... here's a pic of Victoria's Secret Angel Doutzen Kroes basically getting completely naked in sunny St. Barts today. Absolutely nowhere near you.

It was a bathing suit besties battle as Cameron Diaz and new moms Drew Barrymore and Reese Witherspoon soaked their movie star bones while on vacation together in Mexico the other day.

Question is ..

A prominent Catholic organization is up in arms over photos plastered across a UK men's mag -- depicting a topless model scantily covered in priest regalia.

The photos of glamour model Lucy Pinder were published in the current issue of Loaded magazine -- along with the headline "For God's Sake" -- spoofing the retirement of Pope Benedict XVI.

Catholics are pissed ... Bill Donohue -- president of the Catholic League -- tells TMZ, "Lucy Pinder shouldn't have any problem turning men's heads, so it is all the more gratuitous to see her wearing a priest's stole, stitched with crosses, nicely covering her plus-sized chest." (Nicely indeed)

Donohue sarcastically added, "If Lucy has any guts, perhaps next time she'll carefully drape herself in some Islamic garb during Ramadan. And then run for the hills."

For her part, Lucy tells us, “The shoot is meant to be fun and very tongue-in-cheek," so chill, Catholics.

Reality stars Rob Kardashian and Honey Boo Boo's Mama June have guts ... to be so public with their weight battles.

Rob -- who has been working out hard trying to lose the 40 lbs. he gained since his breakup with Rita Ora -- showed off his manly curves in a clingy white t-shirt at the Clippers game in L.A. last night , while Mama June proudly showed off her slimmer physique on Wednesday ... after dropping 100 lbs. from not dieting and not hitting the gym.

Action star Vin Diesel showed off his guns ... by flashing his ridiculously buff body while on a magazine shoot with a leopard.

Valerie Harper is refusing to go gently into that good night ... continuing to go out in public and live her life after being diagnosed with terminal brain cancer.

The "Mary Tyler Moore" actress was pictured out in Santa Monica early Thursday morning with her husband of 26 years Tony Cacciotti ... sporting a brave face.

Earlier this week, 73-year-old Harper revealed she has leptomeningeal carcinomatosis, a rare form of cancer in which cancer cells spread into the membrane surrounding the brain.

Rage against the dying of the light.