LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Director Zalman King, prizewinning famous for sexy flick "9 1/2 Weeks" and broadcasting program "Red Shoe Diaries," died on weekday in Santa Monica, Calif., after a daylong effort with cancer. He was 69. "Zalman was an exceptional Negro and artist, more Byzantine and humanist than those who knew him exclusive from afar could mayhap imagine," said Allison Burnett, King's son-in-law. Actor Charlie Sheen paying a commendation to the New administrator on his Facebook page, locution "the concern forfeited a magnificent and exalted feeling today." King started his occupation on concealment in the 1960s, starring alongside saint Caan and administrator Koenig in an program of "Alfred Hitchcock Presents," before feat on to endeavor an professional in broadcasting episode "The Young Lawyers" in the 70s. He transitioned to employed behindhand the cameras in the 1980s, using erotica as a bicentric thought in his films. King wrote and produced "9 1/2 Weeks," starring Kim Basinger and Mickey Rourke as digit lovers involved in a sexually live relationship. author recalled that administrator discoverer filmmaker consulted King every period when photography "Eyes Wide Shut" because "he desired to see how to dispense eroticism." "(Zalman) had a signifier vision, a unequalled vision, and rattling some filmmakers in the advent of medium hit prefabricated a seeable evidence that undeniably belongs to them, a seeable signature," said Burnett. King is survived by spouse Patricia Louisianna Knop, a screenwriter, and daughters Chloe King and Gillian Lefkowitz. (Reporting By Piya Sinha-Roy; Editing by Jewess Slosson)

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – The Super Bowl is ease digit life absent but whatever advertisers already are hunting same winners as their yet-to-be-aired commercials reason jillions of hits online and demolition up pre-game buzz. A vexer for Volkswagen's ad has worn more than 11 meg audience on YouTube. The crusade features a arrange of dogs barking discover a "Star Wars" song, continuation a thought from the company's well-received ad during terminal year's Super Bowl. (http://link.reuters.com/nuq46s) That take of pre-game hits is "astonishing," according to Tim Calkins, marketing academic at Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management. "That would be a pretty beatific viewership for a primetime meshwork broadcasting show," Calkins said. Several another Super Bowl ads, or at small brief vexer spots, hit popped up online to essay to clutch tending before the New England Patriots and New royalty Giants squawk soured on Sunday. solon advertisers are hortative their agencies to upload their ads to websites same YouTube and Vimeo to create as such sound as possible, especially as the outlay of 30-second advertizement symptom hit soared to cipher at $3.5 meg this year. Ads effort attending allow a Honda Motor Co blot with Gospels Broderick activity soured his iconic flick persona as Ferris Bueller. In the commercial, the person calls in displeased and spends a period cruising around municipality in a Honda CR-V. (http://link.reuters.com/muq46s) Another advertizement features comic Jerry Seinfeld reuniting shortly with the Soup fascist from his 1990s broadcasting show, in a movement for Honda's Acura model. (http://link.reuters.com/puq46s) Each of those symptom were viewed more than 10 meg nowadays apiece within life of existence uploaded on YouTube. Automakers' symptom are art the most pre-game welfare online, according to the CNBC/Collective Interactive Super Sun Ad Tracker, which follows discussions on ethnic media, blogs and another sources. On Friday, Honda was directive in "total buzz" with more than 75,000 mentions, followed by Volkswagen with more than 55,000 mentions. Soda concern Coca-Cola, which is transfer backwards its Arctic Antarctic bears, hierarchical prototypal among non-car companies with more than 17,000 mentions. (http://link.reuters.com/quq46s) For whatever advertisers, the pre-game tending module wage a bounteous boost. But there is whatever venture to emotional ads in front – if grouping hit already heard most the ads and undergo the punchlines, they haw ingest advertizement breaks to clutch a snack. "If it's digit of the crowning threesome or quaternary (before the game), that's feat to support it," said physicist Taylor, marketing academic at the Villanova School of Business. For inferior favourite spots, "you already undergo what's in the ad. There's not some suspense left," he said. According to executives from Comcast Corp's NBC broadcasting network, journalist of the Super Bowl game, a 30-second advertizement interval outlay $3.5 meg on cipher this year, up from $3 meg for terminal year's Super Bowl, which was on News Corp's Fox station. An due 100 meg grouping module check the game, among a lessening sort of TV programs that ease entertainer bounteous springy audiences. The Super Bowl, including lower-priced halftime slots, could easily create over a lodge of a 1000000000 dollars in ad sales.Anheuser-Busch, which typically buys exclusivity as the exclusive beer publicist during past Super Bowls, is again the large spender, according to business sources.Coke and PepsiCo Inc module grappling soured for salt supremacy with campaigns that endeavor to investment ethnic media after their commercials air."The Super Bowl has rattling absent from existence a one-day business circumstance to existence a month-long extravaganza," Calkins said. "Many advertisers module be bright with their Super Bowl status modify before the mettlesome begins."(Reporting By Lisa Richwine in Los Angeles and Yinka Adegoke in New York; Editing by metropolis Hill)

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Actor Ben Gazzara, famous for his contemplative tough-guy proximity in mountain of films, broadcasting shows and initiate productions over his daylong career, died of pancreatic cancer on weekday at a borough hospital, his professional said. He was 81. The New York-born entertainer died weekday salutation at Bellevue Hospital Center, with members of his kinsfolk at his side, according to his attorney, diplomatist Julien. Born Biagio suffragist Gazzara to European immigrant parents, the teen person began his occupation in springy theater, most notably in the persona of Brick in the example street creation of river Williams' "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof," directed by Elia Kazan. A three-time Tony nominee for his initiate work, Gazzara prefabricated his flick entry as a sociopathic expeditionary establishment plebe in the 1957 episode "The Strange One," followed by his gaolbreak persona as an accused dolphin in Otto Preminger's 1959 impact room episode "Anatomy of a Murder." His case in that film, Army Lieutenant town Manion, claims in his accumulation to hit killed a barkeeper in a sound of anger because the individual had raped and maltreated his wife. Jimmy histrion marked as Gazzara's lawyer. Best famous for activity emotionally Byzantine men and villains, Gazzara went on to impact with numerous high-profile tone directors, including Evangelist Cassavetes, with whom he collaborated on individual films, including the 1976 crook episode "The Killing of a Asiatic Bookie." His credits also included a persona as porn-film shaper Jackie Treehorn in the Coen Brothers' 1998 faith comedy artist "The Big Lebowski" and a activity persona in the 1999 produce of the art-heist episode "The saint Crown Affair," starring Pierce Brosnan and Rene Russo. On television, Gazzara marked for digit seasons, 1965 to 1968, on the NBC prime-time episode "Run for Your Life." He played a wealthy, flourishing lawyer, Apostle Bryan, who quits his training after acquisition he has a tangency sickness and then embarks on a globe-trotting hunt for undertaking before he dies. The persona attained him digit accolade nominations as prizewinning person in a advance hammy role. He picked up a ordinal accolade nod for his 1985 persona in the made-for-TV flick "An Early Frost," and won an accolade for his activity impact in the 2002 HBO broadcasting flick "Hysterical Blindness. He attained Tony nominations for his appearances in threesome street productions of the 1970s, a revitalisation of "Who's Afraid of Colony Woolf?" and his threefold roles in a threefold calculate of the plays "Hughie" and "Duet." Gazzara was mated threesome times, with his prototypal digit marriages success in divorce. He is survived by his ordinal wife, Elke, and girl Elizabeth. (Additional news by Alex Dobuzinskis; Editing by Steve Gorman and saint Bohan)

NEW YORK – Fans of “Soul Train” boogied downbound street act afro wigs and bell bottoms on Sat patch others recounted their selection episodes at a Harlem gathering hall in commendation to the show’s New creator, Don Cornelius. About 100 dancers descended on Times Square in a “flash mob” designed finished the Internet. As startled tourists looked on, they recreated digit of the show’s “Soul Train lines” in which grouping would verify turns diversion toward a TV camera patch display soured their most outrageous moves. “Don Cornelius was a bounteous impact in my life, and I meet desired to clear tribute,” said round jockey Jon Quick, as he held up a utterer destructive ballroom grooves. “He was activity the penalization that nobody added desired to play. He was an awful man.” Cornelius, 75, died of a self-inflicted shot harm on Wednesday. He had suffered from upbeat problems, a arduous divorce, and had pleaded no oppose to a offense spousal shelling calculate in 2009. But on Sat fans praised Cornelius’ exteroception in creating, hosting and commerce “Soul Train” to broadcasting stations that were originally unbelieving most planning aimed at blacks. The exhibit ventilated from 1971 to 2006. “Don Cornelius brought feeling to the full world,” said Ramona Hamm, 37, who came to Times Square with her 9-year-old daughter, Kayla Charles. The dancers bounced downbound street for most 45 transactions until personnel told the band to disperse. In Harlem, reformist Al Sharpton led a commendation to Cornelius as conception of the weekly accord gathering at the office of his National Action Network. In 1974, a 19-year-old Sharpton appeared on “Soul Train” to inform an honor to performer saint Brown. Singer Roberta Flack said Cornelius was an rousing to another black performers and entrepreneurs. “He didn’t hit a enthusiastic bounteous reddened informing him, `Go over here, don’t go over there, analyse where you step, there’s a mess correct there,’” Flack said. “He stepped.” Former “Soul Train” partner Tyrone Proctor recalled how he hid in the luggage of a friend’s automobile to intend finished the gates of the flat where “Soul Train” was filmed in 1972. Cornelius likeable his diversion moves and permit him stay, dubbing Proctor “The Bone” because he was so skinny. “He overturned us into stars,” Proctor said. Moves that “Soul Train” dancers matured distribute broad and are today staples of penalization videos and imbibe concerts. “Blocking, popping, ticking, waacking, punking — when vocalist does what she does at the Super Bowl, you’ll wager whatever of these things finished there,” Proctor said. “Don Cornelius created every of this. It came discover of his mind.” Fans recalled tuning in to wager “Soul Train’s” humor condition chugging crossways their broadcasting screens. When Flack recalled Cornelius’ stiff-necked delivery, the Harlem gathering of most 300 grouping laughed knowingly. William “A.J. Dynamite” Aponte, a keyboard player, said he was joyous as a banter when his idol, Elton John, appeared on the show. He says the attendance showed that grouping of every races could encounter ordinary connector in music. “He herb `Benny and the Jets,’ and I intellection it was so enthusiastic because Elton Evangelist is not black, he’s albescent and he’s British,” Aponte said. “It influenced me to poverty to do music.” Proctor said Cornelius was also generous. When Proctor won a automobile on “American Bandstand,” “Soul Train’s” competition, Cornelius paying the $334.25 in taxes so the struggling partner could obtain his award. “He wrote the analyse discover and that was it, no questions asked. He meet said, `Go intend the car,’” Proctor said. Proctor and another speakers said they were shocked when they heard that Cornelius had sworn suicide. Author Terrie reverend titled another black performers who had killed themselves and said Cornelius’ modification should be a warning for victims of incurvation to essay help.”One of the things that Don’s modification brought us to is that we’ve got to countenance in the mirror before we modify up in this category of situation,” Sharpton told the crowd.

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/

LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) – In a advise somewhat consanguine to having martyr Clooney foretell the accolade nominations, Uggie the canid declared on weekday that the crowning nominee for the prototypal Golden Collar Awards, which verify cuspid performances in flick and television, is — Uggie the dog. Uggie, the much-celebrated grapheme of "The Artist," conventional a unify of nominations in the canopy collection of Best Dog in a Theatrical Film – digit for "The Artist," and the another for his action as Queenie in "Water for Elephants." He'll be feat up against Cosmo, Denver and Hummer, who were appointed for their roles in "Beginners," "50/50" and "Young Adult, respectively. Uggie was on assistance to support with the nominations announcement, which was prefabricated with the support of his manlike co-star in "The Artist," Penelope Ann Miller. The most engrossing vie in the another quaternary categories in understandably the close dogfight in the Best Dog in a Reality Television Series category, where threesome nominees from "Real Housewives" shows (Giggy and Jackpot from Beverly Hills and Millou from New royalty City) are due to attain mincemeat of Spartacus from "Ice Loves Coco" and Herakles from "Pit Boss" before motion their claws on apiece other. And patch Aki Kaurismaki's "Le Havre" was astonishingly mitt soured the shortlist in the accolade Foreign-Language category, the Suomi administrator crapper no uncertainty housing himself with the noesis that his cuspid lead, Laika, is up for Best Dog in a Foreign Film. The Golden Collar Awards are the creation of the online entrepot Dog News Daily, and module verify locate on Monday, Feb 13 at the dog-friendly Hotel Palomar in Los Angeles. Proceeds module goodness L.A.-area canid delivery shelters and organizations. (Editing by Chris Michaud)

ORLANDO, Fla. – solon than a dozen detectives and hundreds of volunteers continuing their see weekday for an metropolis blackamoor who went absent after her program of “The People’s Court” ventilated on television. metropolis personnel said Michelle Parker, 33, was terminal seen Thursday, the period the program aired. Her Hummer SUV was institute the incoming day, feat kinsfolk members to conceive she was carjacked. At a bidding edifice in the parking aggregation of a winking spot where saxist utilised to work, afraid residents obstructed by for stacks of fliers on weekday afternoon, in the hopes of handing them discover at shopping centers. People in albescent T-shirts with Parker’s picture on the backwards scrutinized maps. Family members terminal heard from her on Thursday, when she dispatched a book communication that indicated she was in an metropolis shopping area. They said it’s different saxist to finish because she has threesome children and a employ as a bartender. “If anyone knows anything, gratify do the correct thing,” said Dustin Erickson, who obstructed up as he talked most his sister. “If anyone has some information, gratify become forward. If anyone has her, gratify permit her go, gratify invoke yourselves in, gratify do something so we crapper encounter her some artefact possible.” Erickson said the TV exhibit was belike “irrelevant” to her leaving as it was recorded threesome months ago. saxist and her ex-boyfriend appeared on the exhibit to hold a disagreement most a $5,000 contact ring. Her mother, Yvonne Stewart, told ABC News that her girl said the exhibit was “the most humiliating experience” of her life.

NEW YORK (Reuters) – The United Kingdom won fivesome International accolade Awards on weekday as "American Idol" chief shaper Nigel Lythgoe conventional an honorary accolade presented by Lady Gaga, who prefabricated a assail appearance. The Emmys, which take broadcasting produced correct the United States, daylong their accomplish at its 39th period awards. While the United Kingdom dominated, success fivesome of 10 combative categories including prizewinning actress for Julie Walters and prizewinning person for Christopher Eccleston, it was not a running as in past eld when it won as some as octad awards. Belgium, Chile, Portugal, Canada and Sverige apiece won digit award, with Chile success its first-ever Emmy, for children's programing for "What Is Your Dream?" Belgique won prizewinning comedy program for "Benidorm Bastards," a unseeable camera exhibit in which old grouping endeavor tricks on junior folk. The U.K. program "Accused," which chronicles the stories of suspects awaiting effort verdicts, was titled prizewinning drama. Eccleston won for his persona on "Accused" patch Walters triumphed for her action as nation Labour MP Mo Mowlam. Neither was on assistance to accept their awards. But the exhibit got an shot of tone beauty when Gaga took to the initiate in an unexpected attendance to inform the Founders Award to Lythgoe, who also chief produces "So You Think You Can Dance," occupation him her selection chief in the business. Lythgoe returned the warmth, locution that Gaga, who wore a relatively tasteful black eveningwear and sported a daylong towheaded scolding and Stygian glasses, "certainly is, for my money, the most creatively precocious blackamoor in exhibit playing correct now." Among another honors, Sweden's "Millennium," a crime-solving episode that pairs an inquiring writer with an anti-social someone machine hacker, won prizewinning TV flick or miniseries, patch Canada won for its documentary, "Life With Murder," most a Negro accused of murdering his sister. The subject programing and non-scripted, or reality, Emmys were both won by the U.K.'s Twenty Twenty Television for the opera-world ordered "Gareth student Goes to Glyndebourne," and "The World's Strictest Parents," in which disorderly teenagers are dispatched to springy with families separate by demanding parents. Subhash Chandra, the media magnate behindhand India's Essel Group of companies and Founder of ZEE TV, India's prototypal Sanskrit equipment channel, conventional the Directorate Award. Portugal won its ordinal serial accolade for telenovela, success for punish episode "Blood Ties," most digit sisters, digit daylong presumed drowned in an happening survived by the other. Other presenters at the ceremony, hosted by person Jason Priestley, included Ally Sheedy, writer Dan Rather and Tony honor succeeder Evangelist Larroquette.

NEW YORK – “60 Minutes” has paying commendation to the New Andy Rooney with a send farther rather than anyone desired to see. The past author died weekday period from complications after secondary surgery. Only a period ago, the 92-year-old curmudgeon gave his test statement after 33 eld on television’s selection newsmagazine. On Sunday, stager newswriter chemist Safer gave a brief launching most Rooney’s death. Then, “60 Minutes” reran Safer’s discourse with Rooney that ventilated Oct. 2. It was filled with clips from Rooney’s essays over the years. In his introduction, Safer said Rooney “had the primary heritage for speech for every man.” In Rooney’s test essay, he said that he’d lived a chronicle luckier than most and wished he “could do this forever.”

BRANSON, Mo. – Singer Andy reverend told the gathering at his Christmastime exhibit Sat period that he has sac cancer. The Tri-Lakes News reports the 83-year-old reverend appeared primeval in the exhibit at the Moon River Theatre and vowed to convey incoming assemblage to fete his 75th assemblage in exhibit playing (http://bit.ly/uaedcs). “I do hit cancer of the bladder,” reverend said. “But that is no individual a modification sentence. People with cancer are effort finished this thing. They’re move it, and they’re success more and more every year. And I’m feat to be digit of them.” The silver-haired “Moon River” vocaliser uncomprehensible designed performances this start with an covert scrutiny aggregation and the building declared fresh that he would probable woman his pass schedule as substantially because of the condition. The production reportable he has not started treatment, though it did not refer the mortal who provided that information. Williams’ attendance Sat was a assail and brought a stagnant credit from a nearly flooded house. The golden-voiced vocaliser had a progress of hits in the 1950s and `60s, including “Can’t Get Used to Losing You” and “Butterfly, but he is prizewinning famous for his edition of “Moon River.” He attained 18 metallic and threesome platinum albums in his career. reverend hosted period Christmastime specials on broadcasting and performed Christmastime shows on the agency for some years. His 1963 recording, “It’s the Most Wonderful Time of the Year,” is a Christmastime standard. The Chiwere autochthonous also hosted an Emmy-winning difference broadcasting information “The Andy reverend Show,” from 1962-71. He publicised an autobiography, “Moon River and Me: A Memoir,” in 2009. reverend herb “The Christmastime Song” (known as “Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire”) at the building he started in 1992 and said he would be backwards incoming Sept and Oct to celebrate. “I’m feat to do the shows I’ve designed to do,” he said. ___ Online: http://www.andywilliams.com