LONDON, Dec. 29 (UPI) -- About 14.3 million viewers tuned in to watch "A Matter of Loaf and Death," the latest installment in Britain's "Wallace & Gromit" franchise, the BBC said.
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif., Dec. 29 (UPI) -- Nomination ballots for the 81st Academy Awards have been mailed to the 5,810 voting members of Hollywood's Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
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LOS ANGELES, Dec. 28 (UPI) -- The emotionally charged family-and-their-puppy comedy "Marley and Me" was top dog among five holiday releases in U.S. theaters, Box Office Mojo said Sunday.
PALM SPRINGS, Calif., Dec. 28 (UPI) -- Actor Sean Penn will be honored by the Palm Springs International Film Festival for his role in "Milk," the head of the California festival says.
SANTA MONICA, Calif., Dec. 28 (UPI) -- Sculptor Robert Graham, who earned fame for designing civic monuments, has died in Santa Monica, Calif., after a nearly six-month illness, a friend says.
NEW YORK, Dec. 28 (UPI) -- Opera singer Dorothy Sarnoff, who earned a strong reputation as an image consultant, has died in New York at the age of 94, a friend says.
LONDON, Dec. 28 (UPI) -- Protesters who booed Katherine Jenkins at a Harrods sale in London say the opera singer should not be involved with a store selling fur products.
NEW YORK, Dec. 28 (UPI) -- Music executive Bud Prager, who once managed the rock groups Foreigner and Damn Yankees, reportedly has died in Montauk, N.Y., at the age of 79.
NEW YORK, Dec. 28 (UPI) -- Radio shock jock Howard Stern's popularity has significantly dwindled among the U.S. general public since going to satellite radio, TV star Jay Leno says.
PASADENA, Calif., Dec. 28 (UPI) -- The organizers of the Rose Parade in Pasadena, Calif., say even heavy rains will not stop the annual New Year's Day event from taking place.
NEW YORK, Dec. 28 (UPI) -- A Holocaust memoir written by author Herman Rosenblat will not be published by Berkley Books due to questions about its veracity, the U.S. publisher says.
LOS ANGELES, Dec. 28 (UPI) -- U.S. actress Scarlett Johansson says she enjoys not being a paparazzi target like many of her fellow young Hollywood stars who party all the time.
NEW YORK, Dec. 28 (UPI) -- U.S. actor Viggo Mortensen says his involvement in the dark movies, "Good" and "The Road," have helped him focus on the important things in life.
CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa, Dec. 27 (UPI) -- Additional steps will be taken to better protect valuable artwork being kept at temporary galleries in Iowa following last summer's floods, an official says.
ASPEN, Colo., Dec. 27 (UPI) -- Pop singer Mariah Carey said she was excited to spend her Christmas holiday with her husband, actor Nick Cannon, in Aspen, Colo.
LOS ANGELES, Dec. 27 (UPI) -- The impact of Barack Obama's election as the first black U.S. president will have on the African-American holiday Kwanzaa is unclear, a filmmaker says.
LOS ANGELES, Dec. 27 (UPI) -- A 2009 calendar focused on Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin is the top office product supply item being sold on Amazon.com, figures indicate.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 27 (UPI) -- U.S. residents needing digital converters for their televisions in preparation for the coming shift from analog technology should act soon, experts say.
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LONDON, Dec. 27 (UPI) -- The late British singer John Lennon says in a new TV commercial, made possible through modern technology, that the world's poor children need access to laptops.
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, Dec. 27 (UPI) -- "America Idol" judge Simon Cowell says he works hard to maintain the toned body he recently showed off during a Barbados vacation.
HARTFORD, Conn., Dec. 27 (UPI) -- A former Wall Street executive says the town of Old Saybrook, Conn., will likely benefit from the creation of the Katharine Hepburn Cultural Arts Center.
ATLANTA, Dec. 27 (UPI) -- Rapper T-Pain says he is surprised by his current success in the U.S. music industry, noting the harsh criticism that greeted his first album.
NEW YORK, Dec. 27 (UPI) -- Beatles fans will have to wait for highly anticipated reissues of the disbanded British rock group's music and make due with a commemorative pen, Apple says.
Police remove a tresspasser after runing on the field in the seventh inning during a game between the Philadelphia Phillies and the St. Louis Cardinals at Busch Stadium in St. Louis on May 24, 2012. UPI/Bill Greenblatt
