Friday, Nov. 13, 2009

Scorcese given lifetime award

Los Angeles -- Director Martin Scorsese is receiving the Cecil B. DeMille Award for lifetime achievement at the Golden Globes.

The award will be presented to Scorsese at the 67th annual Globes on Jan. 17.

Scorsese turns 67 next week and is an Academy Award winner for directing "The Departed" and a two-time Golden Globe winner for that film and "Gangs of New York." He also was nominated for Oscars and Globes for such films as "Raging Bull," "Goodfellas" and "The Aviator."

Actress Vera Farmiga, who appeared in "The Departed," made the announcement Thursday at a press conference in Beverly Hills. For Scorsese, filmmaking is "a holy experience," she said.

"He has the power to rouse a crowd and bring them along on his holy mission," Farmiga said. "He considers it holy work, and cinema is his shrine. And he instills in the actors, in the crew, and everybody around him just what a powerful tool it is."

Grammer's 'Hank' axed

New York ABC's cancellation of the comedy "Hank" makes it two failures in three years for star Kelsey Grammer.

Grammer, the multiple Emmy winner as the star of "Frasier," also saw his Fox series "Back to You" with Patricia Heaton given the boot in the spring of 2008. The Nielsen Co. said "Hank" averaged 6.7 million viewers each week.

Spears' accounts hacked

New York Britney Spears' Twitter and MySpace accounts have apparently been hacked.

Messages on her Twitter profile Thursday purported to be from the 27-year-old pop star and claimed she worshipped the devil. The handful of unusual messages were deleted after Spears' management regained control of the account.

Her Twitter feed boasts more than 3.7 million followers and is updated by herself and her "team" of handlers.

Warhol brings $44 million

New York A painting by Andy Warhol, "200 One Dollar Bills," brought the equivalent of 43.8 million dollar bills at auction, more than three times its highest presale estimate of $12 million. The piece, one of Warhol's first silk-screen paintings, sold at Sotheby's on Wednesday evening. The auction house did not reveal the names of the buyer and seller.

Livingston, DeWitt marry

Los Angeles Ron Livingston and Rosemarie DeWitt have tied the knot.

The 42-year-old "Office Space" star and 35-year-old "Rachel Getting Married" actress married Nov. 2 in San Francisco, according to Livingston's spokeswoman, Carri McClure.

Livingston and DeWitt starred together as crisis negotiation partners in Fox's short-lived drama "Standoff."

Crawford extorted

Los Angeles A German man was charged Thursday with trying to extort $100,000 from former supermodel Cindy Crawford and her entrepreneur husband Rande Gerber over a photo of their daughter bound to a chair and gagged, authorities said.

Edis Kayalar, 26, has not yet been arrested. He was recently deported to Germany and believed to be in Stuttgart, authorities said. He was charged with one count of extortion.

Birthdays today

Producer-director-actor Garry Marshall, 75

Country singer-songwriter Ray Wylie Hubbard, 63

Actor Joe Mantegna, 62

Actress Frances Conroy, 56

Actor Chris Noth, 55

Actress Whoopi Goldberg, 54

Actor Neil Flynn, 49

Comedian Jimmy Kimmel, 42

Actor Steve Zahn, 42