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LOS ANGELES — There is happiness to be found in late-night TV these days. Just ask Jimmy Kimmel, who is celebrating the seventh anniversary of his ABC show Tuesday with guest Harrison Ford. Ford is set to deliver a “very special” gift to the “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” host to mark the occasion, ABC said Monday. “People often ask me if I ever imagined we’d be on the air this long,” Kimmel said. “It’s a weird compliment wrapped in an insult, but I’ll take it.” He added that he feels lucky to work “for a network that showed enough patience to allow us to grow and, more importantly, pays almost no attention to what goes on after midnight.” Kimmel’s milestone comes just days after Conan O’Brien ended his seven-month tenure as “Tonight” host, with Jay Leno set to reclaim the job he left last year. O’Brien’s exit was preceded by a bitter public battle with NBC over its plan to shift him to a post-midnight slot. “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” airs at 12:05 a.m. EST weeknights on ABC. Also appearing on the anniversary show Tuesday are Kristen Bell and the Silversun Pickups band. Among the highlights of Kimmel’s run: a pair of comic films that went on to become Internet sensations, one in which Matt Damon and Kimmel’s on-again, off-again girlfriend Sarah Silverman sing of their faux hot love affair, and the other with Kimmel striking back by claiming a romance with Damon’s pal Ben Affleck. — On the Net: ABC, http://www.abc.go.com
LOS ANGELES — “The Hurt Locker” scored the top film award from the Producers Guild of America, building new momentum for the Iraq war drama in the expanded Oscar race for best picture. The film about a risk-taking bomb disposal technician beat out such celebrated nominees as “Avatar,” “Inglourious Basterds” and “Up in the Air.” “The Hurt Locker,” starring Jeremy Renner and directed by Kathryn Bigelow, also bested the films “Star Trek,” “District 9,” “An Education,” “Invictus,” “Up” and “Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ By Sapphire” at Sunday’s Producers Guild Awards at the Hollywood Palladium, the latest kudofest in the run-up to the Academy Awards in March. Assuming “The Hurt Locker” earns an Oscar best-picture nomination Feb. 2, it will have just as much competition as it did at the PGAs, which followed Oscar organizers lead and doubled the best-picture category to 10 nominees, aiming to bring a broader range of movies into the fold, which means a blockbuster could take the top category. In other PGA film categories, “Up” won for animated feature and “The Cove” was lauded for documentary. The Harlem drama “Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ By Sapphire” was honored with the Stanley Kramer Award, a prize named after the late director that recognizes work which explores and addresses provocative social issues. Four television shows were repeat winners from last year: AMC’s “Madmen” for drama TV; NBC’s “30 Rock” for comedy TV; Comedy Central’s “The Colbert Report” for live entertainment and competition TV; and CBS’ “60 Minutes” for nonfiction TV. The HBO TV film “Grey Gardens” snagged the prize in the long-form TV category. Career achievement awards were bestowed on Sony Pictures chairman Michael Lynton and co-chairman Amy Pascal; Walt Disney and Pixar Animation Studios chief creative officer John Lasseter; and “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” and “Dollhouse” mastermind Joss Whedon. — On the Net: http://www.producersguild.org/
LOS ANGELES — James Cameron’s “Avatar” is on a course to sink “Titanic” at the box office. No. 1 for the sixth-straight weekend with $36 million, the 20th Century Fox sci-fi spectacle lifted its domestic total to $552.8 million, according to studio estimates Sunday. “Avatar” raised its worldwide total to $1.841 billion. That’s $2 million shy of first place behind Cameron’s last movie, the 1997 shipwreck epic “Titanic,” at $1.843 billion. “It defies all superlatives,” said Chris Aronson, head of distribution for Fox. The studio said “Avatar” has hit $1.29 billion in international ticket sales, passing the $1.24 billion mark set by “Titanic.” The saga set on the alien world of Pandora is also en route to overtake “Titanic” in domestic sales. After 37 days in theaters, “Avatar” soared past “The Dark Knight” on Saturday to become the second highest grossing film. “We’re witnessing box office history,” said Paul Dergarabedian, box office analyst for Hollywood.com. “We’re watching all of these big records fall, and there doesn’t seem to be an end in sight. ‘Avatar’ is dominating at a time where it has no big summer blockbusters to compete with it. It’s perfectly poised to keep breaking all these records.” “Avatar” is also positioned to win acclaim during awards season. While the computer-assisted performances didn’t earn any honors at Saturday’s Screen Actors Guild Awards, it captured the best drama and director trophies at last week’s Golden Globes and is considered a likely best-picture front runner when Oscar nominations are announced Feb. 2. Screen Gems’ apocalyptic thriller “Legion,” featuring Paul Bettany as an Armageddon-fighting fallen angel, debuted behind “Avatar” at No. 2 with $18.2 million. Fox’s family fantasy comedy “Tooth Fairy,” starring Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson as a hockey player who spreads his wings as a magical deity, took flight in the No. 4 spot with $14.5 million. Warner Bros. grabbed the No. 3 position with “The Book of Eli” at $17 million in its second week, despite three other films debuting in wide release this weekend. The post-apocalyptic action flick stars Denzel Washington as a traveling prophet who battles a villainous gang leader played by Gary Oldman while protecting the last known Bible. The medical drama “Extraordinary Measures,” the first film from new distributor CBS Films, opened with a disappointing $7 million in the No. 7 position. The film features Harrison Ford and Brendan Fraser as a doctor and businessman who collaborate to develop a drug that will treat a rare genetic disorder affecting children. “It did well in middle America,” said Steven Friedlander, head of distribution for CBS Films. “This is not a shoot-’em-up or fantasy film. It’s the true story of people doing courageous things, and it’s building good word of mouth. This is the kind of movie that plays well to a family friendly crowd who doesn’t need to see the movie the weekend it opens.” Estimated ticket sales for Friday through Sunday at U.S. and Canadian theaters, according to Hollywood.com. Final figures will be released Monday. 1. “Avatar,” $36 million. 2. “Legion,” $18.2 million. 3. “The Book of Eli,” $17 million. 4. “Tooth Fairy,” $14.5 million. 5. “The Lovely Bones,” $8.8 million. 6. “Sherlock Holmes,” $7.1 million. 7. “Extraordinary Measures,” $7 million. 8. “Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel,” $6.5 million. 9. “It’s Complicated,” $6.2 million. 10. “The Spy Next Door,” $4.8 million. — On the Net: http://www.hollywood.com/boxoffice
LOS ANGELES — While Jeff Bridges and Sandra Bullock’s chances for Academy Award gold were advanced with their trophies at the Screen Actors Guild Awards, the blockbuster “Avatar” may have felt a touch blue. The computer-assisted performances in James Cameron’s “Avatar” didn’t make the cut for SAG nominations. But the groundbreaking sci-fi film remains a strong best-picture contender for the Oscars in March. For Bridges of “Crazy Heart,” Bullock of “The Blind Side” and for SAG supporting-acting honorees Mo’Nique of “Precious” and Christoph Waltz of “Inglourious Basterds,” there’s reason to suspect the Oscar ceremony will be a happy rerun of Saturday’s SAG Awards and last Sunday’s Golden Globes. All four were recognized at the Globes, as well, while “Avatar” was named best drama and Cameron won as best director. He will face competition from director Quentin Tarantino, whose “Inglourious Basterds” won the SAG Award for best ensemble performance, which can be a precursor to the top Oscar award. Last year, SAG’s movie cast award was presented to “Slumdog Millionaire,” which went on to win the best picture Oscar. “It was an honor to be part of it, Quentin,” “Inglourious Basterds” cast member Eli Roth said in accepting the award for his fellow actors in the off-kilter World War II revenge saga. Bullock declined – strenuously – to look ahead. “Shhhhh. Shhhhh. Shhhhh,” Bullock said backstage when she was asked to speculate on her Oscar chances. She won for her portrayal of a tenacious real-life mom, Leigh Anne Tuohy, who helped a youth in need, future NFL player Michael Oher. “I would be a hostess or a waitress or a house restorer before I ever considered myself an actor, because I never thought I was good enough,” she added. Although respected by his peers, Bridges has largely been bypassed for major awards. “I love being an actor – pretending to be other people and getting into the shoes of other folks,” said Bridges, who plays a hard-luck, hard-living country singer in “Crazy Heart.” Waltz was honored for his role as an enthusiastically ruthless Nazi. Mo’Nique’s trophy came for her searing portrayal of an abusive mother in “Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ By Sapphire.” On the TV side of the SAG Awards, the cast of AMC’s 1960s Madison Avenue saga “Mad Men” won the trophy for best drama series ensemble for the second year in a row, while 19 cast members of Fox TV newcomer “Glee,” about misfits in a high school singing club, accepted the award for best comedy series ensemble. “Glee” claimed the best comedy series award at the Golden Globes. Alec Baldwin and Tina Fey of NBC’s “30 Rock” won for best acting in a comedy series, allowing Fey to get in a sly joke about NBC and its bitter late-night battle with Conan O’Brien in her acceptance speech. “I just wanted to take a moment to say to everyone at NBC, we are very happy with everything, and happy to be there,” she said. Both she and Baldwin won the awards last year. Golden Globe winner Michael C. Hall of Showtime’s “Dexter,” wearing a cap because of treatment he’s receiving for Hodgkin’s lymphoma, won best actor in a drama series. The award for best actress in a drama went to Julianna Margulies of CBS’ “The Good Wife.” Kevin Bacon won as best actor in a movie or miniseries for the war-themed drama, “Taking Chance,” while Drew Barrymore received best actress honors in the category for “Grey Gardens,” about eccentric relatives of Jacqueline Onassis. Betty White, 88, accepted a lifetime achievement award from Bullock for an enduring career that included “The Mary Tyler Moore Show” and “The Golden Girls,” and showed her sharp comedic chops. When Bullock joked that she finds White annoying, White shot back, “Isn’t it heartening to see how far a girl as plain as she is can go.” “I should be presenting an award to you for the privilege of working in this wonderful business all this time. And you still can’t get rid of me,” White told the audience. Actors in two highly critically acclaimed films went home empty-handed, including “Up in the Air” star George Clooney and the film’s supporting actresses, Vera Farmiga and Anna Kendrick. The cast of “The Hurt Locker” also lost out. Clooney, however, was lauded by SAG President Ken Howard for helping organize Friday’s telethon to raise money for earthquake-devastated Haiti, a rare reference to the tragedy. Two honors not shown in the telecast went to stunt ensembles for the film “Star Trek” and the TV show “24.” — On the Net: http://www.sagawards.org
PARIS — Josephus Thimister returned from a years-long hiatus with a spring-summer 2010 haute couture collection that searched for beauty in horror. Thimister, a Paris-based designer who is of Russian, Belgian and French origin, looked to the bloodbath that was World War I for this collection of simple-lined ball gowns in silver and gold, red beaded cocktail dresses and full skirts in military drab worn with soldiers’ coats, satin sashes or mesh tank tops splattered in faux scarlet bloodstains. The show interspersed menswear looks – reinterpretations of the uniforms of Russian Cossack troops, modeled by male models – with the couture pieces. Often the men’s and women’s looks mirrored one another, as with the his-and-hers versions of the red satin pant suit that opened the show. Bursts of applause rang out from the audience – a sign of appreciation at Paris’ rarified made-to-measure shows – after many of the looks. Standouts included a cocktail dress in olive silk with a cape-let that transformed into a dramatic train and ball gowns made from woven gold ribbons. Another gown, which appeared to be made from the kind of foil blankets rescuers hand out after a disaster, made loud crunching and crackling sounds and the model tottered down the runway. The show ended with all the models, men and women alike, donning pilots’ jumpers for the final lap. Thimister’s grand return after several years’ absence marked the end of Paris’ 4-day-long menswear displays and the season’s first couture show.
BERLIN — The German rock band Scorpions is bringing down the curtain on a career spanning more than four decades. The band, known for its early 1990s hit “Wind of Change” among others, said on its Web site Sunday that “we agree we have reached the end of the road.” It said it would end its career with a final album – “Sting In The Tail,” to be released in March – and a tour that will start in Germany in May and take it across the world “over the next few years.” Guitarist Rudolf Schenker founded the band in Hannover in 1965. Singer Klaus Meine joined a few years later. Both men are 61. — On the Net: http://www.the-scorpions.com/english/
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