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'Twilight' tops at MTV Movie Awards

LOS ANGELES, June 7 (UPI) -- The vampire-themed "The Twilight Saga: New Moon" was the big winner at the MTV Movie Awards, taking five prizes, including one for best movie.

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Its stars, Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart, won for best male performance and best female performance and Pattinson took home a golden popcorn statuette for the new category of "Global Superstar" at the awards ceremony Sunday, MTV said in a news release.

Stewart's best actress award was her second in two years for her work in the film series about a teenager who falls in love with a vampire (Pattinson).

"The Hangover," a surprise hit of 2009, won two awards -- one for Zach Galifianakis for best comedic performance and one for Ken Jeong for best "WTF" moment. Jeong played an over-the-top bad guy in the story of a bachelor party gone wrong in Las Vegas.

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Anna Kendrick was honored as best breakout star for her performance in "Up in the Air" and Tom Felton was named best villain for his performance as Draco Malfoy in "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince."

Oscar-winning actress Sandra Bullock received the MTV Generation Award for her overall career. She was also nominated for best kiss, with Ryan Reynolds in "The Proposal," and Bullock planted a kiss on Reynolds' wife, actress Scarlett Johansson, so Johansson wouldn't feel left out, MTV said.


Limbaugh weds 4th wife, Elton John plays

PALM BEACH, Fla., June 7 (UPI) -- Elton John played a wedding in Florida during the weekend, providing the music at right-wing talk radio icon Rush Limbaugh's fourth marriage, guests said.

Limbaugh, 59, married Kathryn Rogers, 33, Saturday in Palm Beach, Fla., with about 400 guests in attendance but no media, the Los Angeles Times reported Sunday.

The guest list for the event in the Ponce de Leon ballroom at The Breakers, an upscale hotel, included political figures Karl Rove, Sean Hannity, Rudy Giuliani, Fred Thompson, James Carville and Mary Matalin, the newspaper said.

John earned $1 million for the gig, the Times said.

Limbaugh and Rogers met in 2004 at a charity golf event.

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'Thick of It' wins big at BAFTAs

LONDON, June 7 (UPI) -- "The Thick of It" swept the sitcom categories at the British Academy of Film and Television Arts television awards ceremony in London.

The show was named best sitcom and its stars, Rebecca Front and Peter Capaldi, picked up the BAFTAs for female and male performance in a comedy role.

"Misfits" was declared best drama series, Kenneth Branagh best leading actor for the miniseries "Wallander" and Julie Walters best leading actress for the bio-picture "Mo."

TV presenters Ant McPartlin and Declan Donnelly earned the gong for best entertainment performance as hosts of "I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here!"

"Britain's Got Talent" was named best entertainment program and its creator, Simon Cowell, took home a special award for outstanding contribution and development of new talent.

Comedian Graham Norton presided over the BAFTA ceremony Sunday at the London Palladium.


Syfy to run 'American Hero' marathon

NEW YORK, June 7 (UPI) -- Syfy says it will air a marathon of episodes of "The Greatest American Hero," which hasn't been seen on U.S. television since its original run ended in 1983.

The 20-hour event is to start July 4.

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The action-comedy series aired from 1981-83, and starred William Katt, Robert Culp and Connie Selleca.

Katt portrayed Ralph Hinkley, a young high school teacher in Los Angeles who encounters extra-terrestrials while on a field trip in the desert. The aliens give him a red flying suit with special powers, but unfortunately Ralph loses the instruction book. Culp plays a neurotic FBI agent who persuades Ralph to use his new powers to fight crime, while Selleca plays Ralph's girlfriend, an attorney.

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