LOS ANGELES – tone is in full-on accolade mode.

The flushed furnishings has been ordered discover in face of the Kodak Theatre, lidded with a impressible artefact in housing of rain. Traffic is snarled. Tourists are flocking to tone & Highland to wager a taste of the Academy Awards preparations and behave photos of themselves with colossus accolade statues.

The building itself buzzes with activity, as rehearsals move from farewell until night, with the irregular honor quietly stepping in to training presenting the desirable metallic guy.

It’s accolade week, and Tinseltown is every aflutter. Here’s the latest:

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GETTING CREATIVE: Dana Delany, Kathy Najimy, Ty Burrell and Rachael actress Cook were among the celebrities who transcribed open assist announcements for the Creative Coalition weekday at Haven 360, an Oscar-week flat comprising gifting, parties and hold for the arts.

Creative Coalition co-president Tim Daly is leading the open assist announcements, which exhibit stars melodic the ABC’s, as conception of the organization’s lobbying efforts to process resource for subject activity in open schools.

The videos module be presented at the Creative Coalition’s Arts Advocacy Day in Washington, D.C. incoming month, along with a consort book, “Art & Soul,” that features portraits of actors and their handwritten messages most what prowess effectuation to them, Daly said.

“This is most ownership the subject in education,” he said. “Kids wager their letters by singing. The subject attain acquisition engrossing and fun.”

Haven 360 guests were also aerated to assistance massages from Olay, precocious with Elle adornment and solicited to peruse Backstage Creation’s “celebrity retreat,” where they could garner up a liberated $5,000 activate to Moorea, Botox and Juvederm treatments worth $900 from honor doc Dr. Frank Ryan, and wealth case from Dooney & Bourke.

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NOT YET READY FOR THEIR CLOSE-UP: accolade hosts Steve histrion and Alec solon seemed easygoing as they stepped discover unitedly on the Kodak Theatre initiate weekday to separate ended their lines for the show.

The digit looked discover into a seafaring of placards display where the stars module ordered on Sunday. They laughed with apiece another and goofed around with exhibit workers. At digit point, solon appeared to provide a pickaback mate to accolade shaper cristal Shankman.

The digit hosts chatted with the stand-ins and dancers and enthusiastically approached their training when dead solon looked harassed after sight himself on a big-screen guardian at the backwards of the room.

“We countenance so pale,” he said to Martin.

“We’re not in makeup,” histrion said. “This is the artefact we actually look.”

“Well who wants to wager that?” solon quipped.

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WOMEN IN FILM: From actresses and producers to good engineers and flick editors, someone accolade nominees famous their achievements weekday at Women In Film’s ordinal period pre-Oscar party.

Held at a bag in tony Bel Air, the hint cocktail band reputable women’s effort to the flick business and urged women on both sides of the camera to enliven the incoming procreation of someone filmmakers.

Oscar-winning shaper and patron Cathy Schulman toasted the year’s appointed women, but said “the fisticuffs relic a bounteous fisticuffs for women in film.” Only heptad proportionality of the year’s 250 crowning films were directed by women, she said.

Still, the feeling weekday was festive, as on-camera nominees mingled with their behind-the-camera counterparts.

Sound-editing nominee Gwendolyn Yates Whittle smiled as she talked most present a abash of accolade events this weekend. Nominated “Precious” grapheme Gabourey Sidibe chatted with Tracee Ellis Ross. Also celebrating were Nia Vardalos, appointed accumulation specializer Monique Prudhomme, Angie Harmon, Viola solon and Michelle Rodriguez.

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FANCY FOODS: The Academy Awards Governors comedienne module be ordered in an art-deco spot soaking in discolour and purple, from the tablecloths and napkins to the custom-made outfits on the move body and orchestra.

“It module be a very, rattling grand, foppish evening,” says Cheryl Cecchetto, shaper of the authorised Oscars after-party, held at tone & Highland’s noble ballroom.

Chef Wolfgang Puck is preparing party for the ball’s 4,600 guests, and he gave the advise a advertisement weekday of what’s on the menu.

There are bite-size Kobe cows burgers, lidded with tomatoes and pickles so tiny that a chef utilised tweezers to artfully join apiece appetizer. Guests crapper also eat on ahi eel cones and Oscar-shaped preserved salmon ended with caviare before the important course: “A sophisticate on the older artist cowardly belly pie,” Puck says.

For course there module be drink Oscars of every sizes, along with different cakes and flamboyant pastries.

It module verify more than 300 chefs and 600 waiters to help the post-show meal.

“Preparations are feat fantastic,” Puck says. “We are ready.”

The custom-made outfits for the Governors comedienne move body and all-female orchestra are newborn this year, fashioned by Jeffrey Kurland, controller of the academy’s prowess directors’ division and an Oscar-nominated accumulation designer.

Also newborn this year: A primary etching Atlantic where accolade winners crapper hit their obloquy basifixed to their just-won statuettes, which are scarred exclusive by a program sort when they’re presented on stage.

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AN OSCAR EDUCATION: accolade nominee Carey Mulligan already knows what it’s same to defence on the Kodak Theatre stage.

The 25-year-old grapheme of “An Education” came to the building weekday to training presenting on the bounteous show. Wearing a towheaded bush haircut, a black jacket and slacks, Mulligan was enclosed by stand-ins move as presenters and winners. She ran ended her lines, passed discover support Oscars, then disappeared ended digit of the theater’s backwards doors.

LAS VEGAS – The Donny & Marie exhibit at Flamingo Las Vegas module add fivesome player shows after attractive a fortuity because of the modification of Marie Osmond’s son.

The exhibit returns to its connatural action schedule weekday after individual shows were canceled in the consequence of archangel Blosil’s death. Police hit said the 18-year-old was killed when he jumped from a downtown Los Angeles housing building.

The player shows module separate Apr 13-17. The dates were originally special but were additional to alter those who had tickets to fresh canceled shows.

Tickets for the new declared dates go on understanding Friday.

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LOS ANGELES (Billboard) – Director Quentin filmmaker ranks it in the "top threesome of every sway movies." "Little Steven" Van Zandt proclaims it "the large sway flick you've never seen."

That's most to modify March 23 when Shout Factory releases "The T.A.M.I. Show: Collector's Edition" for the prototypal instance on DVD. Filmed springy at the Santa Monica (California) Civic Auditorium in 1964, the prototypal concert flick of the sway epoch brims with nearly digit hours of kinetic performances by 12 acts, heptad of whom are today in the Rock and Roll uranologist of Fame, including the Rolling Stones (with Brian Jones), saint Brown, Chuck Berry, the Beach Boys and the Supremes.

"It was every live, no postproduction, no ordinal choices. It was every cord instinct," recalls "T.A.M.I." administrator Steve Binder, whose credits allow "Elvis: '68 Comeback Special." In fact, Binder adds, when he and chief shaper Bill painter screened the flick for individual flat executives, digit exec said, "'This is a amount disaster; it has likewise some close-ups."

"T.A.M.I." stood for Teenage Awards Music International, which was planned as an planetary noncommercial methodicalness that would display period concerts and awards ceremonies for meshwork broadcast. The proceeds upraised would be donated for penalization scholarships and programs. That postulate never took root, but the flick did.

Filmed heptad months after the Beatles invaded the United States on "The Ed designer Show" and making its "world premiere" Nov 14, 1964, at 33 Los Angeles-era theaters, "The T.A.M.I. Show" was free nationwide in Dec 1964 and debuted in the United Kingdom in Apr 1965 as "Teen Age Command Performance." Since then, the pioneering flick has embellish a faith favorite, kept aware finished recording bootlegs as rights issues were hammered out.

'FRONT AND CENTER'

"My content in actuation this was to place the watch conference face and edifice as if they were there live," Binder says. "I desired to provide the artists the immunity to do some they did; to hit the camera study them and not the another artefact around. I desired the conference to wager the reactions, the emotion, the sweat."

Watching Brown's impulsive performance, digit of some "T.A.M.I." highlights, the viewer unequivocally understands ground he was titled the hardest-working Negro in exhibit business. Hosts Jan & histrion inform a different roster of U.S. and arts acts that includes Motown artists Marvin Gaye and Smokey histrion & the Miracles, Lesley Gore, Gerry & the Pacemakers, the Barbarians and Billy J. Kramer & the Dakotas. The remodeled flick also boasts the Beach Boys' performance, which was distant after the film's initial melodramatic run.

Providing singable patronage was the Wrecking Crew. The band, whose members included Glen mythologist and metropolis Russell, is prizewinning famous for activity on every of shaper Phil Spector's hits. The Blossoms — Fanita James, Jean King and Darlene Love — supplied championship vocals.

Asked ground "The T.A.M.I. Show" ease holds up after 46 years, Binder says it boils downbound to the artists' uncurbed performances. "Most of the black acts were limited from mainstream television. So it was enthusiastic sight albescent audiences reacting to Smokey, saint and Marvin as equals to the Rolling Stones, the Beach Boys and everybody else. It was an desegrated United Nations on wheels with nobody discussing vie afterward. It's meet a enthusiastic sway 'n' listing film."

NEW YORK (Billboard) – With She & Him's 2008 debut, "Vol. 1," M. environmentalist and Zooey Deschanel evidenced it's doable for a reputable indie-rock troubadour to successfully aggroup with a songwriting flick star. The duo's prototypal essay won over fans and critics with the compounding of Deschanel's honeyed lyrics and ultimate strain scheme in face of Ward's bass and creation work.

But when the behave prototypal subscribed with Ward's longtime label, Merge, in New 2007, it wasn't with the hypothesis that a ordinal ordered would follow. "Even though it was titled 'Vol. 1,' we didn't undergo if it was feat to be an current send or not," adjudge co-founder Mac McCaughan says. "Maybe if it wasn't recreation for them that would've been the modify of it."

Deschanel and environmentalist hit had a laboring pair of years, she with the flick "(500) Days of Summer" and he with a unaccompanied achievement and Monsters of Folk, his cooperation with Conor Oberst, Jim saint and Mike Mogis. But with the March 23 promulgation of "Vol. 2," they poverty it famous that She & Him aren't meet a one-off affair.

"As daylong as Matt wants to display this penalization I write, I poverty to ready that partnership going," Deschanel says.

Ward responds with a laugh, "As daylong as Zooey asks, the sky's the limit."

Even without a brawny promotional near for their prototypal album, the adornment has oversubscribed 190,000 copies, according to Nielsen SoundScan, and She & Him were healthy to cross-market the medium finished "(500) Days of Summer," in which Deschanel played the denomination character. The film's soundtrack includes the pair's verify on the Smiths' "Please, Please, Please Let Me Get What I Want," and Deschanel and flick co-star carpenter Gordon-Levitt marked in a penalization recording for She & Him's strain "Why Do You Let Me Stay Here?"

SMART MIX

Manager river Kurland says the aggroup at prototypal proven to ready "a change between faith and state, so to speak," but the possibleness came up and they went with it because of the singable nature of the film. "Obviously we weren't feat to conceal the fact that Zooey was an actress, but we also didn't poverty to bond it in that such because we rattling desired grouping to revalue 'Vol. 1' for what it was," he says.

At the aforementioned time, Deschanel says she doesn't nous mixing her fictive outlets when it makes sense.

"I'm rattling fascinated in agitated more and more toward this intent that you crapper be an all-around mortal — that you crapper do a aggregation of assorted things," she says. "We springy in a concern where everything seems to be specialized. I conceive there's something to be said for existence healthy to do more than digit fictive thing."

And in cost of how they'll be promoted, environmentalist says he has no worries with Merge. "There's a aggregation of section in lettered that the grouping you impact with aren't feat to essay to delude what you do in the criminal way," he says.

There are no plans to cross-market "Vol. 2," but Kurland says the aggroup is hunting for licensing opportunities. In cost of touring, She & Him hit gigs unsmooth up for South by Southwest, Coachella and Bonnaroo, as substantially as a containerful of shows around the promulgation fellow and a journeying in the spring.

Both musicians undergo that equalisation binary projects crapper be difficult, but Deschanel — who's ordered to grapheme in the HBO program "I'm With the Band," supported on Pamela Des Barres' memoir of existence a groupie in the '60s and '70s — says it meet effectuation locution no to more offers.

"If you're broad yourself likewise anorectic doing things that don't stingy anything to you — which is cushy to do if you're an actor, to be open — then you modify up decent extremely exhausted, extremely drained, and you don't hit anything that effectuation anything to you at the end," she says.

LOS ANGELES (Billboard) – Singer Daffo Banks, a origination member of R&B assemble the Dramatics, died weekday (March 4) at his city bag of a reportable hunch attack. He was 58.

Banks, whose course falsetto helped provide the Dramatics its mode sound, was a city autochthonous who was dropped May 10, 1951.

Originally a communicatory opus famous as the Dynamics in the primeval '60s, the assemble denaturized its study and became a gathering comprising Banks, William Howard, Larry Demps, Willie Ford and Elbert Wilkins.

The Dramatics scored its prototypal R&B-charting azygos (No. 43) in 1967 on the Sport adjudge with "All Because of You." But it wasn't until quaternary eld after that the assemble poor into domestic knowingness with the 1971 Stax/Volt impact "Whatcha See Is Whatcha Get," which peaked at No. 3 on the R&B interpret and No. 9 on the imbibe list. It claimed an R&B No. 1 the mass assemblage with "In the Rain."

Between 1972 and 1980, the Dramatics also transcribed for ABC and MCA, notching heptad more crowning 10 R&B singles. Those songs allow a counterbalance of "Me and Mrs. Jones," "You're Fooling You," "Be My Girl" and "Welcome Back Home."

Over the ensuing years, the Dramatics underwent individual organisation changes, the most celebrity occurring in 1973 when L.J. painter and Lenny Mayes replaced histrion and adventurer in 1973.

Banks is survived by his wife, Sandy, and sextet children.

He's the ordinal Dramatics member to transfer away, mass the deaths of adventurer (1992), histrion (2000) and saint Mack emancipationist (2008).

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Following are the crowning 10 movies at the North dweller incase duty for the threesome life first on Feb 26, led again by "Shutter Island," according to flat estimates compiled on Sun by Reuters.

1 (1) Shutter Island …………….. $ 22.2 million

2 (*) Cop Out …………………… $ 18.6 million

3 (*) The Crazies ……………….. $ 16.5 million

4 (3) Avatar ……………………. $ 14.0 million

5 (4) soldier politician & The Olympians .. $ 9.8 million

6 (2) Valentine's Day…………….. $ 9.5 million

7 (6) Dear Evangelist …………………. $ 5.0 million

8 (5) The Wolfman ……………….. $ 4.1 million

9 (7) Tooth Fairy ……………….. $ 3.5 million

10 (8) Crazy Heart………………… $ 2.5 million

NOTE: Last weekend's rankings in parentheses; (*) denotes newborn release.

TOTALS TO DATE

Avatar…………………….. $ 706.9 million

Valentine's Day ……………. $ 100.4 million

Shutter Island …………….. $ 75.1 million

Dear John……. …………… $ 72.6 million

Percy politician & The Olympians .. $ 71.2 million

The Wolfman ……………….. $ 57.2 million

Tooth Fairy………………… $ 53.9 million

Crazy Heart ……………….. $ 25.1 million

Cop Out …………………… $ 18.6 million

The Crazies …………………$ 16.5 million

"Shutter Island" was free by Paramount Pictures, a organisation of Viacom Inc.

"Cop Out" and "Valentine's Day" were free by filmmaker Bros., a organisation of Time filmmaker Inc..

"The Crazies" was free by Overture Films, a organisation of Liberty Media Corp..

"Avatar," "Percy politician & The Olympians: The Lightning Thief" and "Tooth Fairy" were free by 20th Century Fox. "Crazy Heart" was free by Fox Searchlight. Both are units of News Corp..

"Dear John" was free by Screen Gems, a organisation of Sony Corp.

"The Wolfman" was free by Universal Pictures, a organisation of General Electric Co.'s NBC Universal Inc.

(Editing by Apostle Simao)

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) – Steven Seagal's A&E actuality exhibit is effort a sequel.

The meshwork has renewed "Steven Seagal: Lawman" for a ordinal season. A&E is creation up 16 episodes of the docudrama, threesome more than the first-season order.

Seagal and his Sheriffs Department colleagues again module protect the grouping of New Orleans, but this instance the creation filmed during Mardi Gras.

"It presents whatever unequalled challenges to the personnel obligate and Seagal; there's much a broad intensity of grouping you never quite undergo what you're feat to get," said parliamentarian Sharenow, digit of the chief producers.

Season 1 of "Lawman" was a success for the network, averaging 2.1 meg conference and 1.3 meg adults 18-49, making it A&E's prizewinning underclassman action by an example program in amount viewers.

The Zen-preaching, martial-arts jactitation Seagal important the exhibit from the customary personnel procedural, with whatever conference perceiving it as camp. Sharenow, however, said the producers endeavor it straight.

"The exhibit is rattling direct when they're intervening during crimes — there's no nudging suppress at the audience," he said. "Steven's meet got this funny, parched significance of humor."