To help pay for the health insurance overhaul, the White House and congressional leaders propose taxes on elective cosmetic surgery.

Upset at the looming tax, many Botox users are said to be having their treatments modified so that their faces are frozen into frowns instead of smiles.

Thanksgiving in crisis: First the Eggo frozen waffle shortage, and now this: a pumpkin pie shortage. Bad weather has spoiled the harvest at the massive Libby’s pumpkin farm in Illinois.

In a plucky display of national resolve, Americans say they’ll make the best of things on Thanksgiving Day and replace the missing pie with an extra helping of whipped cream.

Dreamy Dracula: Few of those old enough to legally drink care, but the second movie in the “Twilight” teen-vampire saga, set (but not filmed) in Forks over on the Olympic Peninsula, debuts today.

The Buzz awaits a more realistic and true-to-its-setting “Twilight” in which Edward Cullen loses his job at the shingle mill and starts drinking heavily.