Son updates Ozzy's condition
NEW YORK, Dec. 11 (UPI) -- Jack Osbourne says he expects his injured rocker dad, Ozzy, to remain in a British hospital for another five or six days.
"He thought he was Evel Knievel for about five minutes and broke half his body," Jack joked on "The Sharon Osbourne Show" Thursday. Jack Osbourne has taken over Sharon's hosting duties while his mom is at his father's bedside.
Jack Osbourne reported the former Black Sabbath frontman broke six ribs, his collar bone and a vertebra in his neck, punctured a lung and underwent an operation on an artery in his arm injured by the collar bone in an ATV crash earlier this week.
Jack Osbourne added that although Ozzy is not in "too good shape" right now, his prognosis is good.
"He's on a lot of morphine, so I think he's kind of happy," Jack Osbourne quipped.
In another report, Osbourne's doctors at Wexham Park Hospital in Slough, South England, where he is being treated, say the singer may not regain his voice, according to WTEV in Jacksonville, Fla.
Medical director Dr. Dick Jack said: "He is not physically able to come off the ventilator yet. While he has got a tube in his throat he can't talk but, while awake, he has been making progress with people. His progress will be slow."
When asked if Osbourne will be able to speak once the tube has been removed, Jack responded, "We don't know."
Jack Osbourne, the co-star of MTV's hit reality series "The Osbournes" also said his mom is holding up, although she, like the rest of the family, was initially shocked.
"They're so damn co-dependent on each other," he said. "One can't live without the other."
Beyonce, R. Kelly win top Billboard Awards
LAS VEGAS, Dec. 11 (UPI) -- Beyonce and R. Kelly took four awards each to lead the field at the 2003 Billboard Music Awards in Las Vegas.
Beyonce was named Hot 100 Female Artist of the Year, New R&B Artist of the Year and New Female Artist of the Year, and won a Special Hot 100 Award for Most Weeks at No. 1.
R. Kelly won for Hot 100 Producer of the Year, R&B Producer of the Year, Hot 100 Songwriter of the Year and R&B Songwriter of the Year.
Shania Twain, 50 Cent and Lil Jon & The East Side Boyz took three awards each -- including Country Artist of the Year for Twain, Artist of the Year for 50 Cent and R&B/Hip Hop Group of the Year for Lil Jon & The East Side Boyz.
Audioslave, Chingy, Evanescence, Trapt and 3 Doors Down took two awards each. The Black Eyed Peas' "Where Is The Love" won for Mainstream Top 40 Track of the Year.
Sting was presented with Billboard's top honor, the Century Award.
The Billboard Awards were presented at the MGM Grand in ceremonies televised live on Fox.
OutKast tops Billboard Hot 100 again
NEW YORK, Dec. 11 (UPI) -- The Atlanta-based hip-hop duo OutKast owns the top two singles on Billboard's Hot 100 this week.
It's the second straight week at the top with the Andre 3000-led "Hey Ya!" "The Way You Move" featuring Sleepy Brown, went from third to second, and also claims the top slot over on Billboard's Hot Rap Tracks.
Close behind, Kelis' "Milkshake" is the Hot 100's fastest-growing track on radio, and holds at No. 4.
Alicia Keys entered the Top 10 with "You Don't Know My Name," jumping from 14 to No. 9, and is already a hit on urban radio. "You Don't Know My Name" went to No. 1 on Billboard's Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Singles & Tracks tally, knocking R. Kelly's "Step in the Name of Love" down to No. 2. Keys' new J album, "The Diary of Alicia Keys," debuted this week at No. 1 on The Billboard 200.
Special Oscar for filmmaker Blake Edwards
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif., Dec. 11 (UPI) -- The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced Thursday filmmaker Blake Edwards will receive an Honorary Academy Award.
Edwards -- best known as the writer-director of the "Pink Panther" comedies -- will receive the honorary Oscar at the 76th Academy Awards in Hollywood on Feb. 29.
"For more than 50 years, Edwards has had an extraordinary career writing, directing and producing mainly his own material," said Academy President Frank Pierson. "And that puts him in a select and very small group of outstanding filmmakers."
The son of a production manager and the grandson of a silent screen director, Edwards began in Hollywood as an actor in the 1942 drama "Ten Gentlemen from West Point." He began his writing career in 1948 with the George Montgomery Western "Panhandle" and broke in as a director in 1952 on TV's "Four Star Playhouse."
Although he is best known for comedies -- including "Victor/Victoria" and "10," starring his wife, Julie Andrews -- Edwards also directed the dramatic "Days of Wine and Roses" with Jack Lemon and Lee Remick, and the thriller "Experiment in Terror" with Remick and Glenn Ford.
His only Oscar nomination came for the 1982 screenplay of "Victor/Victoria."
