Penn and Moore honored at Gotham Awards
Sean Penn and Michael Moore demonstrated their power in the independent film world, taking top honors at the 17th annual Gotham Awards.
Penn's “Into the Wild,” which he adapted from Jon Krakauer's best-seller about a doomed young idealist, won best feature. Moore won the award for best documentary for “Sicko,” in which he takes the pulse of America's health-care system and finds it seriously ailing.
The awards were presented by the Independent Feature Project at the Steiner Studios in the New York City borough of Brooklyn on Tuesday. The event will air Dec. 8 on The Documentary Channel.
‘Dancing With the Stars' champ and fiancee split
Helio Castroneves won the mirrorball trophy on ABC's “Dancing With the Stars,” but lost his fiancee, Aliette Vazquez.
Less than a day after Castroneves was declared the winner, Vazquez, a Miami-based business executive, announced she had called off her engagement to the Brazilian race-car driver.
“There's been a lot of rumors and a lot of stuff said, and she just wanted confirmed that they are no longer engaged. There's no animosity, there's nothing mean. Just a simple confirmation,” Vazquez's publicist, Howard Bragman, told The Associated Press on Wednesday.
Was Bragman hinting at viewer speculation that something seemed to be brewing between Castroneves and his dance partner, Julianne Hough?
“I'm not gonna talk about the rumors. I mean, they're clearly out there,” said Bragman, who wouldn't comment on when the engagement ended.
“I will tell you (that) we wanted to be respectful and wait until the show was over,” he said. “We did not want to affect the outcome of the show.”
Bragman said Castroneves and Vazquez had been together for more than six years and became engaged last year.
Usher and wife welcome son, Usher Raymond V
Usher is the father of a baby boy. His wife, Tameka Foster, gave birth to their son, Usher Raymond V, in Atlanta on Monday night, a publicist for the 29-year-old singer said in an e-mail to The Associated Press.
The baby weighed 7 pounds, 9 ounces. He is the couple's first child. Foster, 37, has three children from a previous marriage.
“We are so happy and proud of our beautiful son. What a blessing!” Usher said in a statement provided Tuesday night by publicist Patti Webster.
The couple wed in a large, glitzy ceremony in early September after exchanging vows a few weeks earlier in a civil ceremony. They had called off their July 28 wedding amid reports that Foster had checked into a hospital because of problems with her pregnancy.
A private ceremony was held Aug. 3 in the office of Usher's lawyer.
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Penn's “Into the Wild,” which he adapted from Jon Krakauer's best-seller about a doomed young idealist, won best feature. Moore won the award for best documentary for “Sicko,” in which he takes the pulse of America's health-care system and finds it seriously ailing.
The awards were presented by the Independent Feature Project at the Steiner Studios in the New York City borough of Brooklyn on Tuesday. The event will air Dec. 8 on The Documentary Channel.
‘Dancing With the Stars' champ and fiancee split
Helio Castroneves won the mirrorball trophy on ABC's “Dancing With the Stars,” but lost his fiancee, Aliette Vazquez.
Less than a day after Castroneves was declared the winner, Vazquez, a Miami-based business executive, announced she had called off her engagement to the Brazilian race-car driver.
“There's been a lot of rumors and a lot of stuff said, and she just wanted confirmed that they are no longer engaged. There's no animosity, there's nothing mean. Just a simple confirmation,” Vazquez's publicist, Howard Bragman, told The Associated Press on Wednesday.
Was Bragman hinting at viewer speculation that something seemed to be brewing between Castroneves and his dance partner, Julianne Hough?
“I'm not gonna talk about the rumors. I mean, they're clearly out there,” said Bragman, who wouldn't comment on when the engagement ended.
“I will tell you (that) we wanted to be respectful and wait until the show was over,” he said. “We did not want to affect the outcome of the show.”
Bragman said Castroneves and Vazquez had been together for more than six years and became engaged last year.
Usher and wife welcome son, Usher Raymond V
Usher is the father of a baby boy. His wife, Tameka Foster, gave birth to their son, Usher Raymond V, in Atlanta on Monday night, a publicist for the 29-year-old singer said in an e-mail to The Associated Press.
The baby weighed 7 pounds, 9 ounces. He is the couple's first child. Foster, 37, has three children from a previous marriage.
“We are so happy and proud of our beautiful son. What a blessing!” Usher said in a statement provided Tuesday night by publicist Patti Webster.
The couple wed in a large, glitzy ceremony in early September after exchanging vows a few weeks earlier in a civil ceremony. They had called off their July 28 wedding amid reports that Foster had checked into a hospital because of problems with her pregnancy.
A private ceremony was held Aug. 3 in the office of Usher's lawyer.
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On the Net:
Usher:
http://www.usherworld.com/
AP-ES-11-28-07 1136EST
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