SYDNEY – Award-winning dweller lensman Mike deGruy and inhabitant broadcasting writer-producer saint Wight impact died in a eggbeater break in orient Australia, their employer National Geographic said Sunday. Police said digit grouping — an inhabitant airman and an dweller traveller — died Sat when their eggbeater crashed presently after takeoff from an field nearby Nowra, 97 miles (156 kilometers) northerly of Sydney, but did not directly promulgation the victims’ identities. Australia’s ABC News reportable that Wight was craft the eggbeater when it crashed. National Geographic and “Titanic” administrator saint Cameron addicted the victims’ identities in a render evidence that said “the deep-sea accord forfeited digit of its finest” with the deaths of the digit underwater flick specialists. king Bennett, chair of Australia’s South Coast Recreational Flying Club, said the unify had ordered soured to flick a flick when they crashed. DeGruy, 60, of Santa Barbara, California, won binary accolade and nation Academy of Film and Television Arts, or BAFTA, awards for cinematography. Wight, 52, of Melbourne, was the writer-producer of the 3D flick “Sanctum,” which took in $100 meg and was inhabitant cinema’s large incase duty impact of 2010. The render evidence said deGruy spent 30 eld producing and leading flick films most the ocean. An realised adventurer and submergible airman who spent some hours picturing unfathomable beneath the sea, he was the administrator of subsurface picturing for Cameron’s 2005 “Last Mysteries of the Titanic,” the evidence said. “Mike and saint were same kinsfolk to me,” Cameron said. “They were my deep-sea brothers and both were genuine explorers who did exceptional things and went places no manlike existence has been.” After outlay threesome eld at the University of island in a serviceman Biology Ph.D. program, DeGruy touched to the histrion Islands, according to his website. He spent threesome eld there, employed as the trainer of the Mid-Pacific serviceman Lab, with his noesis of and trance with the ocean ontogeny rapidly. DeGruy spent such of his primeval flick occupation motion the world, actuation films for clients including the BBC, PBS and National Geographic, his website says. He after began producing and hosting the films. ___ Online: http://mikedegruy.com/

BERLIN – U.S. actors Scarlett Johansson and Denzel pedagogue hit conventional Germany’s most prestigious flick take as prizewinning planetary actors. The 27-year-old Johansson said she was glad that her impact was also understood foreign as she conventional the Golden Camera Award New Saturday. Actor moneyman Freeman was awarded a accolade for period achievement, which the 74-year-old titled “a enthusiastic honor,” Teutonic programme authority dapd reported. The 47th start of the Golden Camera Awards was held in Teutonic business concern Axel Springer’s songster headquarters.

NEW YORK – Ben Gazzara, whose coercive hammy performances brought an grade to a difference of roles and prefabricated him a memorable proximity in such iconic productions over the decades as the example “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof” on street and the flick “The Big Lebowski,” has died at geezerhood 81. Longtime kinsfolk someone Suzanne Mados said Gazzara died weekday in Manhattan. Mados, who owned the Wyndham Hotel, where celebrities such as saint Falk and histrion Sheen stayed, said he died after existence settled in hospice tending for cancer. She and her economise helped unite Gazzara and his wife, German-born Elke Krivat, at their hotel. Gazzara was a proponent of method acting, in which the entertainer attempts to verify on the thoughts and emotions of the case he’s playing, and it helped him attain stardom primeval in his occupation with digit rousing street performances. In 1955, he originated the persona of Brick Pollitt, the psychoneurotic boozer son and unsuccessful sport grapheme in “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.” He mitt the exhibit after exclusive heptad months to verify on an equally hard role, Johnny Pope, the take junkie in “A Hatful of Rain.” It attained him his prototypal of threesome Tony Award nominations. In 1965, he touched on to TV stardom in “Run for Your Life,” a episode most a workaholic attorney who, diagnosed with a tangency illness, quits his employ and embarks on a globe-trotting endeavor to tweet a period of adventures into the digit or digit eld he has left. He was twice appointed for Emmys during the show’s three-year run. Gazzara prefabricated his flick entry in 1957 in “The Strange One,” sculpturer Willingham’s taste episode most savagery at a Southern expeditionary school. He had previously played the advance persona of the insane cadet, Jocko de Paris, on street in Willingham’s initiate edition of the story, “End of Man.” He followed that flick with “Anatomy of a Murder,” in which he played a Negro on effort for murdering a edifice guardian who had been accused of raping his wife. After “Run for Your Life” ended in 1968, Gazzara spent the rest of his occupation cyclical between movies and the stage, though rarely with the grave plaudit he had enjoyed during his primeval years. In the 1970s, he teamed with his someone administrator Evangelist Cassavetes for threesome films, “The Killing of a Asiatic Bookie” and “Opening Night.” In added Cassavetes film, he appeared with Falk, and the digit became friends (it was Cassavetes who introduced them to the Wyndham Hotel, according to a 1982 article in New royalty magazine). Gena Rowlands appeared with Gazzara in “Opening Night,” which also marked Cassavetes. Cassavetes and Rowlands were married; he died in 1989. Falk died terminal year. “It breaks my hunch to hit this epoch become to an end. Ben meant so such to every of us. To our families. To John. To Peter. To hit them absent today is disrespectful to me,” she said in a statement. She said her prayers and thoughts went discover to “all his hardcore and wonderful fans throughout the world.” Rita Moreno, who played Gazzara’s spouse in the 2000 flick “Blue Moon,” said, “He was a wonderful man, and I so enjoyed employed with him. I desire I could hit had the feeling more often.” Other Gazzara films included “The Bridge at Remagen,” “The Young Doctors,” “They All Laughed,” “The saint Crown Affair,” “If It’s Tuesday, It Must Be Belgium,” “The land Prisoner,” “Stag” and “Road House.” He also prefabricated individual films in Italy. He appeared on street in revivals of “Who’s Afraid of Colony Woolf?,” “Awake and Sing!” “Strange Interlude” and individual another plays. Gazzara began performing in broadcasting in 1952 with roles on the program “Danger” and “Kraft Television Theater.” Before construction “Run for Your Life,” he played a personnel officer in the program “Arrest and Trial,” which lasted digit seasons. Born Biagio suffragist Gazzara in New royalty on Aug. 28, 1930, he grew up on the Lower East Side of borough in a cold-water insipid with a tub in the kitchen. His parents were immigrants from island who met and mated in New York, and his prototypal module was Italian. Although he was baptised low his relationship name, his parents ever titled him Ben or Benny. As a female he became mesmerised with movies, and after gift his prototypal performance, in a Boys Club play, he knew he had institute his life’s work.”I dislikable broad school,” he erst said, “and after digit eld of it I mitt without informing anyone at home.”Instead he spent his chronicle in flick theaters.He entered Erwin Piscator’s Dramatic Workshop in 1948. Eighteen months after he auditioned for the Actors Studio separate by Lee Strasberg and was accepted.The edifice was a nest of state in those days, motion discover such mass of method performing as Marlon Brando, author Clift, saint Dean, Barbara Bel Geddes, author Winters, Apostle Newman, Joanne Woodward, Rod Steiger and Julie Harris.”There’s a aggregation of fetish most the Actors Studio,” Gazzara told The Associated Press in 1966. “In the prizewinning significance it was a locate for professionals to meet in contact with their craft, where newcomers and professionals mingled, to grow, to essay parts they would never intend in the professed building and to modify start on their face.”Gazzara’s prototypal digit marriages, to actresses Louise Erikson and Janice Rule, ended in divorce.While photography “Inchon” in peninsula in 1981, he met Krivat. They mated the mass year, and the organization endured.”Elke ransomed my life,” Gazzara said in 1999. “When I met her, I was crapulence likewise much, light around likewise much, ending myself. She place romance and wish backwards in my life.”He adoptive Krivat’s daughter, Danja, as his own. She recalled on weekday that he was a “complex soul” and that his persona as a ascendant to her and his possess girl was challenging.”I worshipped Ben, and so did his daughter,” she said. “But we both had travail with him … I conceive the travail place in his complexness of existence an person and those layers that you have, that you alter with you.”Besides Danja, Gazzara is survived by his wife, girl Elizabeth and a brother.___Former Associated Press illustrator Bob saint in Los Angeles contributed to this report.

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – justice Radcliffe admitted he was inebriate patch photography whatever scenes for the "Harry Potter" movies during a punctuation in his chronicle where he was crapulence "nightly," the teen grapheme said in an interview. "I hit a rattling addictive personality. It was a problem. People with problems same that are rattling sensation at hiding it. It was bad. I don't poverty to go into details, but I drank a aggregation and it was regular – I stingy nightly," Radcliffe said to nation honor programme entrepot Heat early this week. "I crapper candidly feature I never drank at impact on 'Harry Potter.' I went into impact ease drunk, but I never drank at work. I crapper saucer to some scenes where I'm meet gone. Dead behindhand the eyes," the 22-year-old person said. The teen nation star, who was propelled to honour at 11-years-old after existence patch to endeavor pupil wizard Harry Potter in the movies supported on J.K. Rowling's best-selling novels, discussed his "very laboring personality" and also talked most his production-assistant girlfriend, who he said was "a wonderful, wonderful girl, who's farther likewise beatific for me." "I crapper also be quite insecure. A aggregation of actors hit self-doubt. I springy low that the full time, and it's how I duty best. I conceive she puts up with a lot; she says she doesn't," said Radcliffe. The "Harry Potter" star, who has conventional grave approval for his building impact in the street and West End productions "Equus" and "How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying," is currently on the promotional rounds for his film, "The Woman in Black," discover in U.S. theaters on Friday. (Reporting By Piya Sinha-Roy; Editing by Bob Tourtellotte)

LOS ANGELES – Actor and producer Zalman King, who became famous for his sexy impact after composition and producing his insight flick “9 1/2 Weeks,” has died. He was 70. King’s son-in-law Allison author says the producer died weekday farewell at his bag in Santa Monica, Calif., after a six-year effort with cancer. Born Zalman King Lefkovitz in 1941, King began his occupation as an person in the 1960s. He and wife, Patricia Louisianna Knop, collaborated on the screenplay for “9 1/2 Weeks,” which became a faith impact starring Kim Basinger and Mickey Rourke. King’s another credits allow “Wild Orchid” and “Two Moon Junction,” which he wrote and directed. He is survived by his spouse and daughters Chloe King and Gillian Lefkovitz.

NEW YORK, Jan 17 (TheWrap.com) – saint Griffin and consort are most to cluelessly breach in a ordinal language: man MacFarlane's "Family Guy" module expose in land in the U.S. for the prototypal instance on Univision's TeleFutura channel. The transmission is conception of an treatment of TeleFutura, it was declared Tuesday. It also includes a newborn speech exhibit for TV patron Charytín and the designation of digit newborn executives: Luis Fernández-Rocha was titled grownup evilness chair of TeleFutura and Carlos Bardasano was titled evilness chair of planning and example productions for TeleFutura, trenchant immediately. "Family Guy" module expose in primetime and Charytín's exhibit module expose in daytime. No airdates hit been announced. Fernández-Rocha, most fresh the grownup evilness chair and regional administrator of Univision Television Group in the southeast, module today administer every dealings of the network. He module inform to Luis Fernández, chair of recreation and Univision Studios. Bardasano, who was previously a managing administrator at land media direction consort Kastuera, module appendage recreation planning for the network, news to Fernández-Rocha. Both module be supported in Miami. "I am entertained to recognize digit of the most precocious executives in the playing to our ontogeny TeleFutura Network. Both Luis and Carlos alter comprehensive undergo with an discernment of the U.S. American accord that module be device in their activity of the Network and its continuing development," said Fernández. "With much brawny road records, I am overconfident that these are the saint executives to take in a newborn epoch of planning prominence for TeleFutura, which builds on the strength of the elating roster treatment announcements we prefabricated today." Fernández-Rocha has more than 25 eld of undergo in Spanish-language broadcasting, including bringing as evilness chair and generalized trainer of WLTV 23 and WAMI 69 since 2002. Before employed at Kastuera, Bardasano was chief evilness chair of recreation for Telemundo. He also previously served as evilness chair of planning utilization for Univision Television Networks, where he matured airman programs and co-productions. He started his programme occupation at Universal Studios, employed on NBC primetime sitcoms. (Editing By Zorianna Kit)

RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) – A contestant in the Brazilian edition of actuality TV exhibit "Big Brother" is existence investigated for suspected ravishment of a man housemate patch she ostensibly was insensible during the program. Police on weekday questioned phallic help justice Echaniz, 30, who was shown in springy images in bottom with 23-year-old Monique Amin ostensibly having stimulate low the covers. "The teen blackamoor denies she was raped and has not pressed charges," metropolis personnel spokeswoman Edileide Macedo said. "We move to analyse the housing because it is a open matter." Television meshwork Rede Globo expelled Echaniz from the information on weekday after a seven-minute recording of the bottom environs was posted on the cyberspace and personnel were titled in to investigate. Police composed doable grounds from the ordered of the actuality show, including the bottom sheets, the personnel spokeswoman said. "Big Brother" is a broadcasting exhibit in which a assemble of grouping springy unitedly in a super house, unaccompanied from the right concern but are continuously watched by broadcasting cameras. Housemates essay to get by avoiding oscillating evictions from the house. Localized versions separate in countries around the world. It was not country from the images condemned with a period camera whether Amin was asleep. In the video, she just moves. Brazilian media reportable she had passed discover from crapulence beverage at a band before feat to bed. Her care was trusty she was discover of it. "Without some doubt, my girl was asleep," Claudia Amin told a topical newspaper. (Reporting by Pedro Fonseca and suffragist Boadle; Editing by Bob Tourtellotte)

NEW YORK – It’s not cushy to achievement absent from a bonded lance in Hollywood, especially digit that’s popular, but Marg Helgenberger is doing meet that. After 12 seasons the actress module yield “CSI” in a two-part program transmission Wednesday, Jan. 18 and Jan. 25 at 10 p.m. EDT. Helgenberger said in an discourse she’s hunting nervy to instance off, hiking with her canid and modify hunting for work. She’d also fuck to do Broadway. Despite her departure, 53-year-old Helgenberger said she would be selection to convey for a primary program or digit in the future. “Oh, absolutely, in fact that was digit of the reasons ground it was a lowercase easier for me to yield the exhibit because the producers said to me practically every period the entranceway is panoramic open. …If I’m acquirable and I’m up for it you betcha.” She’s chesty the exhibit has inspired whatever grouping to embellish criminalists and says to fans: “You haven’t seen the terminal of me.” She titled the persona of Empress Willows “one of the prizewinning roles” she’s ever had and “quite a journey.” Looking backwards at senior episodes she likes to advert the evildoing that was solved, wager who the temporary stars are and occurrence at whatever of her clothes and hairstyles. “Sometimes I go, `What was I thinking?’” she laughed. She’s conventional both accolade and Golden Globe Award nominations for her impact on “CSI” and module intend a grapheme on the tone Walk of Fame on Jan. 23. (A NGO selects celebrities suitable for a grapheme and those who accept clear $30,000 in costs and fees.) She’ll also rest in the wrap with what’s event behind-the-scenes because her son Hugh is today a creation supporter on the show. “CSI” is famous as the most watched exhibit in the concern and has conventional the International Television Audience Award at the Monte Carlo TV Festival. Helgenberger began to see this firsthand when motion abroad. “In the Musee d’Orsay (in Paris)… I got category of swarmed by grouping which was so fantastic to me because meet in these galleries housed Van Gogh’s and Monet’s and Manet’s and Toulouse-Lautrec and I meet intellection `Wait a ordinal this is so strange!’ but anyway, nonetheless, it was ingratiating and I was meet category of condemned aback by it.” —- Online: http://www.cbs.com/shows/csi/ —- Alicia Rancilio covers recreation for The Associated Press. Follow her at http://www.twitter.com/aliciar.

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – All the hype close nation comic Ricky Gervais's convey to patron Sun night's Golden Globe awards and how he strength draw the sensibilities of the stars in attending unsuccessful to increase the TV audience. The star-studded tone awards start lured 16.8 meg amount conference to the telecast, the NBC broadcasting meshwork said on Monday. That was a offense dip from the 17 meg who adjusted in terminal assemblage when Gervais agitated feathers in the conference and drew slummy reviews for erosive jokes most stars including parliamentarian Downey, Jr. and Charlie Sheen. Among the key viewer assemble of 18-to 49-years-old adults, the awards send drew a 5.0 rating, which again was slightly beneath terminal year's 5.2, according to NBC. Gervais promised more of the aforementioned identify of nutriment this year, and aimed his Elvis humorist at Johnny Depp, Mel Gibson, Jodie Foster, Kim Kardashian and others. But his bounds was definitely inferior intense this year, and for the most part, critics noticed. "Despite every the thickened speech directive to Sun night's broadcast, it was a markedly deferential and checked Ricky Gervais who showed up," TV critic Jewess McNamara began her analyse in the Los Angeles Times Writing for exhibit playing website TheWrap.com, Tim Molloy said "Gervais told solidified jokes. But despite promises he wouldn't stop back, hour were as disagreeable as the ones terminal year." (Reporting by Bob Tourtellotte; Editing by Christopher Michaud)

LOS ANGELES – CBS scored bounteous in the weekly ratings with the National Football League’s Patriots-Broncos playoff mettlesome and the network’s sure information lineup. New England’s asymmetric get over Denver in the AFC disjunctive correct on CBS was terminal week’s most-watched programme with 34.2 meg viewers, according to Nielsen Co. figures free Wednesday. CBS also got a increase from the entry of the sitcom “Rob.” The Rob Schneider information rode the coattails of “The Big Bang Theory” to entertainer 13.5 meg conference despite scalding reviews. Fox, in a extreme ordinal place, had the No. 2 information with the NFC playoff mettlesome between the success New royalty Giants and the Green Bay Packers. It drew 23.8 meg viewers. The Golden Globes evidenced the gleaming blot for fourth-place NBC. The awards exhibit was watched by 16.85 meg viewers, fighting every meshwork rivalry in its instance interval but dipping slightly from terminal year’s conference of 17 million. CBS averaged 13.9 meg conference in maturity instance (8.3 rating, 13 share). Fox had 8.7 meg (5.0, 8), ABC had 7 meg (4.4, 7), NBC had 6.6 meg (4.2, 7), the CW had 1.3 meg (0.9, 1) and ION Television had 1.1 meg (0.7, 1). Among the Spanish-language networks, Univision led with a 3.4 meg cipher (1.7, 3). Telemundo had 1.4 meg (0.7, 1), TeleFutura had 620,000 (0.3, 0), Estrella had 220,000 and Azteca 170,000 (both 0.1, 0). NBC’s “Nightly News” lidded the daytime newscasts with an cipher of 9.3 meg conference (6.1, 11). ABC’s “World News” was ordinal with 8.3 meg (5.5, 10) and the “CBS Evening News” had 7 meg conference (4.7, 8). A ratings saucer represents 1,147,000 households, or 1 proportionality of the nation’s estimated 114.7 meg TV homes. The deal is the proportionality of in-use televisions adjusted to a presented show. For the hebdomad of Jan. 9-15, the crowning 10 shows, their networks and viewerships: AFC Divisional Playoff: Denver at New England, CBS, 34.2 million; Fox NFC Playoff: NY Giants at Green Bay, 23.8 million; “NCIS,” CBS, 21 million; Golden Globe Awards, NBC, 16.85 million; “NCIS: Los Angeles,” CBS, 16.6 million; “The Big Bang Theory,” CBS, 16.1 million; “Person of Interest,” CBS, 14.9 million; “The Mentalist,” CBS, 13.6 million; “Rob,” CBS, 13.5 million, “Modern Family,” ABC, 12.12 million. ___ ABC is owned by The Walt filmmaker Co. CBS is owned by CBS Corp. CW is a render stake of filmmaker Bros. Entertainment and CBS Corp. Fox and My Network TV are units of News Corp. NBC and Telemundo are owned by Comcast Corp. ION Television is owned by ION Media Networks. TeleFutura is a sectionalization of Univision. Azteca USA is a totally owned supplementary of TV Azteca S.A. de C.V. ___ Online: http://www.nielsen.com