Here's what's being talked about today in pop culture:
• Martin Sheen has taken back his criticism of Kathryn Bigelow's "Zero Dark Thirty," saying he intended to condemn torture not the depiction of it onscreen. [The Huffington Post]
• The ninth season of "How I Met Your Mother" next year will be the last and we'll finally find out who Ted ends up with. [Entertainment Weekly]
• Patty Andrews, the last surviving member of the World War II-era singing group The Andrews Sisters, has died at the age of 94. [New York Daily News]