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Los Angeles - At the distinctly un-starlike hour of 5:30 am (1330 GMT) Thursday morning, the Oscar season will officially move into high gear.
That's when Forest Whitaker, who won an Oscar in 2006's The Last King Of Scotland, will unveil the nominations for the 2008 Academy Awards from Hollywood's Samuel Goldwyn Theatre.
Forest, 47, will be reading out the names at the press conference alongside Sid Ganis, who heads the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
Los Angeles - For the first time, fans had their say and voted high-flying Spaniard Rudy Fernandez of the Portland Trail Blazers as the fourth member to participate in the Slam Dunk Competition on Saturday night of NBA All-Star Weekend, February 13-15 in Phoenix, Arizona.
"It's very exciting for me to play in the slam dunk contest for the fans and for me," told Fernandez local reporters at a Monday afternoon press conference following the announcement. "It's my dream, you know."
Los Angeles - Nintendo, the world's largest maker of game consoles, continued to dominate the US video game market in 2008, according to figures released Friday.
The top seller was Nintendo's Wii console which sold 10,224,000 units in the US last year. This was followed by the Nintendo DS portable gaming unit, which sold 9,951,000 units, according to figures released by researcher NPD Group.
Third place was taken by Microsoft's Xbox 360 and the next three spots were taken by Sony machines for the Playstation Portable, Playstation 3 and Playstation 2.
Park City/Los Angeles - Outgoing US president George W Bush saw art as a political threat, Hollywood legend Robert Redford said, adding that he believed president-elect Barack Obama will come to the rescue of the US arts scene by increasing support for it.
Redford's hopeful political prognosis was made at the opening of the Sundance Film Festival Thursday night. Redford founded the event 25 years ago and built it into the most important independent cinema festival in the US. This year it is screening 118 features and 90 short films.
Los Angeles, Jan 16 : Indian fashion designer Anand Jon can still hope that he will be exonerated from rape charges, for his attorneys have filed a motion in the court for him to receive a new trial.
At Jon''s Jan. 13 sentencing hearing in the Clara Shortridge Foltz Criminal Justice Center here, the proceedings were delayed while Judge David S. Wesley conducted a meeting with deputy district attorneys Mara McIlvain and Frances Young together with Jon''s defense attorneys Donald Marks, Anthony Brooklier and Leonard Levin in his chambers, reports Indiawest. com.
Los Angeles - Patrick McGoohan, the British actor who created and starred in the 1960's cult classic The Prisoner, has died aged 80 at a hospital in Santa Monica, California, his family announced Wednesday.
McGoohan died peacefully on Tuesday after a short illness, his son-in-law Cleve Landsberg said in a statement.
McGoohan was most famous for playing a character known only as Number Six in the cult hit series The Prisoner in which he is abducted and held captive by sinister unknown powers on a strange island village.