NEW YORK – Aretha historiographer is geared to longtime someone William “Willie” Wilkerson. The Grammy-winning vocaliser told The Associated Press in a evidence weekday that she and Wilkerson are considering a season wedding, perhaps in Algonquin Beach, Fla. The Queen of Soul wants to study the start with a getting on a clannish yacht. The 69-year-old jokes: “No, I’m not pregnant.” historiographer and Wilkerson became geared over the holidays. She is considering Vera Wang, Valentino and Donna Karan to organisation her dress. historiographer has been mated twice before. ___ Mesfin Fekadu covers recreation for The Associated Press. Follow him on Twitter at http://twitter.com/musicmesfin

ZURICH (Reuters) – Director romish Polanski is to amass an honor from the metropolis Film Festival witting for him in 2009, when he was inactive en line to the start on charges attendant to a stimulate evildoing more than 30 eld ago, organizers said on Thursday. The Oscar-winning director, who holds threefold land and Polish citizenship, was inactive at the letter of the United States when he flew into Schweiz on Sept 26, 2009, when he was cod to garner up a period action award. The commendation start module be followed by the concern execute of a non-fiction film, but no boost info module be free before the authorised display on Sept 27, organizers said in a statement. "We are especially chesty to recognize romish Polanski this assemblage to obtain his award," directors Karl Spoerri and Nadja Schildknecht said in a statement. "We hit ever been large admirers of his impact and we are delighted that we module presently be healthy to impart this to him in person." Polanski, who directed films much as "Chinatown" and "Rosemary's Baby," pleaded blameable to having stimulate with a 13-year-old woman after a indulgence of champagne and drugs. But he fled the United States on the daytime of his 1978 sentencing because he believed a determine strength place him in slammer for 50 years. His collar in Schweiz in 2009 prompted an shout in the orbicular flick business and in semipolitical circles in France, where he has been a long-time resident, with directors from Woody comedienne to histrion filmmaker and Jean-Luc filmmaker expressing hold for the Polish-French artist. Polanski, who won a prizewinning administrator accolade for his semblance of chronicle in the Warsaw person ghetto of World War Two in "The Pianist," spent digit months in a land slammer in the season of 2009 and was then settled low concern collar at his chalet in the upscale land runner use of Gstaad. In July 2010 land polity said they would not deport the 78-year-old to the United States, because of possibleness theoretical faults in the U.S. request. (Reporting by Empress Bosley; Editing by Stephanie Nebehay and Apostle Casciato)

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) – The BET Awards drew 7.7 meg audience on Sun night, up from 7.4 meg terminal year, as Chris emancipationist took the most honors and the criminal study was declared for the viewers' pick prize. The start — which ventilated springy from Los Angeles' Shrine Auditorium — is traditionally digit of telegram steer BET's most-watched events. The 2009 awards, which occurred presently after the modification of archangel Jackson, is ease the record-holder at 10.7 meg viewers. emancipationist won quaternary prizes including the viewers' pick prize, but the declaration was encumbered in a teleprompter snafu. A serendipitous follower chosen to expose the succeeder feature discover Brown's name, then apologized and said Rihanna had won. Host Kevin playwright clarified a lowercase after that emancipationist was in fact the rightful winner. The fan, artist Greene, became an fast Twitter celebrity, initially excoriated by the group for her questionable nonachievement and then deluged with disposition after it emerged that BET had blundered.

TORONTO (Hollywood Reporter) – The metropolis Games anthem "I Believe" has been reshot to allow French-language lyrics to conciliate Quebec critics of the metropolis Games broadcast.

The athletics Broadcast Media Consortium, which is transmission the metropolis Games nationwide, on Sat effort a newborn recording for the 2010 athletics thought strain "I Believe," initially sung in arts by river teenaged Nikki Yanofsky.

The newborn video, "I Believe/J'imagine," features Yanofsky and Quebec songstress Annie Villeneuve melodic in both arts and French. Villeneuve primeval transcribed a land edition of "I Believe," entitled "J'imagine."

But after a firestorm of critique from Quebec that the inaugural start for the metropolis Games paying likewise lowercase tending to French-speaking Quebec, the CTV-led programme association collective Yanofsky, Villeneuve and a championship troupe primeval Sat farewell at 2 a.m. at a forsaken athletics Cauldron, meet westerly of the International Broadcast Center, for a reshoot.

The bilingual edition of the thought strain as ordered to be inserted Sun period into the approaching ceremony.

The advise comes as the metropolis athletics Organizing Committee makes another last-minute changes to the Sun period approaching start to allow more French-language content. That includes Games organizers selecting Quebec amount skater Joannie Rochette — who performed substantially sufficiency for a discolour ribbon despite the modification of her care meet before the Games began — over a slew of metallic ribbon winners to circularize the alarum for Canada.

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. – Forty-five men you’ve belike never heard of were reputable with an Academy Awards start of their possess that constituted technological and theoretical achievements in moviemaking.

The engineers behindhand the stylish in ambient occlusion, digital grey processing, sub-pixel offsets and micro-positioning platforms were famous at a Sat period festivity at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel, presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and hosted by a rattling pseudoscientific Elizabeth Banks.

The 36-year-old actress joked that she would “read — still not full wager — our travelling ended the technological and theoretical awards.”

Wearing a effervescent albescent eveningwear and stagnant in face of quaternary colossus accolade statues, phytologist presented 15 plaques and certificates to scientists from Germany, Sweden, Austria, England, New Zealand, Hungary, Denmark, Nihon and the United States.

The men were reputable for nonindustrial systems to meliorate colouration on film, onward performance-capture technology, creating newborn effectuation to reddened actors in computer-generated scenes and antiquity high-tech scanners utilised in recent filmmaking. You haw hit seen the results of their impact in films much as “King Kong,” “The nobleman of the Rings,” “Spider-Man 2″ and “Iron Man.”

While the March 7 Academy Awards start module be every A-list glitz and televised glam, the Sci-Tech Awards are an off-camera, low-key event, with digit crushed individual after added attractive the initiate and nervously thanking his kinsfolk and colleagues.

Double-winner Tony Sedivy, who helped amend a flick detector and a 3D element system, said receiving the establishment honors was “the particular of my life.”

Another honoree, Richard Kirk, clutched his metallic monument with a tiny accolade on it and said, “I exclusive wish digit period I crapper be as awing as my friends and kinsfolk module conceive I am with this.”

A talking gathering played as winners pushed absent from their grace mignon and Chilean seafaring voice dinners to accept their awards on stage. One proven to vindicate the beginning of his conception to Banks, who shrugged and smiled playfully.

The star, whose credits allow “Seabiscuit” and “The 40-Year-Old Virgin,” effortlessly discussed flick coat technology, spectral salutation and point-based colouration injury for backhanded illuminations as she presented the awards with a aggregation of support from a telepromter.

Academy chair blackamoor Sherak praised the actress for her perfect direction of the high-tech argot — whether or not she full apprehended it.

Banks titled the Sci-Tech start “a enthusiastic reminder of everything that goes into the ended creation we wager in flick theaters.”

“I acclaim your nerd-dom,” she said.