Los Angeles  - Nine films have advanced to the next round of voting in the foreign language film category for Oscars, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced Tuesday.

The list includes the recent Golden Globe winner for foreign language film, the acclaimed Israeli animated documentary Waltz with Bashir, about the country's invasion of Lebanon in 1982, as well as the German film the Baader Meinhof Complex, a unique look into that country's notorious terrorist group, the Red Army Faction.

Los Angeles  - Actress Jennifer Love Hewitt has been granted a restraining order against a 62-year-old man who is accused of stalking her, E Online reported Tuesday.

David Nolte is accused of sending the actress 120 "threatening and harassing" correspondences, "including disturbing and violent letters that reference weapons he owns and fantasies he has wherein [Hewitt] is being impaled."

Some of the letters detailed "delusional and violent fantasies about having sexual relations with Ms Hewitt ... marring her, impaling her and envisioning her fiance with his head blown off."

Nolte even is alleged to have sold his Colorado home to move to Los Angeles, where he appeared at her mother's home last December.

Los Angeles  - Brazilian supermodel Gisele Bundchen is engaged to marry American football superstar Tom Brady, People. com reported Monday.

The New England Patriots quarterback, 31, proposed with a diamond solitaire to the Brazilian supermodel, 28, on Friday, said People.

"He asked and she accepted," a source close to the couple was quoted as saying. "The couple is discussing a huge fashionista event in the spring or a more intimate and quicker ceremony in Costa Rica, where Gisele has a home."

Los Angeles - The Orlando Magic hit the long ball on Sunday night to beat the San Antonio Spurs at their own game.

Jameer Nelson scored 12 of his 22 points in the final quarter, and the visiting Magic hit 14-of-22 three-pointers to shoot down the Spurs 105-98 in a battle of division leaders.

"It was a really well played game with neither one of us able to stop the other for any length of time," said Orlando coach Stan Van Gundy, after his South-east Division leading Magic (30-8) moved to a league best 14-5 on the road.

"The difference in the game simply came down to three-point baskets. We simply shot the heck out of the threes."

Los Angeles - Darius Miles is back on the Memphis Grizzlies, which is bad news for the Portland Trail Blazers.

Defying a request by the Trail Blazers that could have considerable financial impact, the Grizzlies on Saturday re-signed Miles to a 10-day contract, three days after waiving him.

The Grizzlies announced the move just one day after Blazers team president Larry Miller sent an email to every NBA team threatening legal action if Miles was signed for the sole purpose of disrupting Portland's finances.

Los Angeles  - President-elect Barack Obama is getting some help from a superhero as he prepares to take charge of the United States in a time of crisis.

Obama will appear in a special inauguration issue of the Spider- Man comic book, in which the superhero will save the day when an imposter tries to snatch the reins of power at the swearing-in ceremony of the president.

The special issue will hit news-stands on Wednesday, just six days before Obama's inauguration, and is likely to immediately become a collectors' item.