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Los Angeles — Kris Jenner says her daughter Kim Kardashian is thrilled to have a new baby.

Kardashian and her rapper boyfriend Kanye West were keeping silent in the wake of multiple reports that Kardashian gave birth over the weekend – about a month premature.

But Jenner told E! at the Daytime Emmys on Sunday that Kim is "extremely happy and thrilled for the new baby and she's doing great and she's beautiful."

Kardashian's sister Khloe appeared to have let a rather cryptic cat out of the bag on Twitter.

"I can not even begin 2describe the miracle that is now apart of our family. Mommy/baby are healthy &resting. We appreciate all of the love," she tweeted Sunday.

She quickly followed with a second tweet: "More info will come when the time is right! Thank you all for understanding! We love you all dearly! Overwhelmed with love right now."

Jenner linked...

Los Angeles — Quotes from the 19th annual Screen Actors Guild Awards.

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"I'm just so thrilled I have dental." – Best supporting actress winner Anne Hathaway after accepting her Screen Actors Guild award for her role in "Les Miserables."

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"Just tape the `Big Bang Theory' for once, for crying out loud." – Best supporting comedy actress winner Tina Fey, whose show "30 Rock" is ending its run this week and is going up against a show more popular in the ratings.

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"If I made him laugh a couple of times, I think he'd be happy enough with that." – Best actor winner Daniel Day-Lewis on what President Abraham Lincoln might think of his performance.

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"To me this has nothing to do with me, it has to do with the incredible people who were in this movie." – Ben Affleck, whose film "Argo" won for best movie cast.

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"You can probably tell from my public speaking that...

Los Angeles — Tommy Lee Jones of "Lincoln" and Anne Hathaway of "Les Miserables" claimed the first prizes of the night Sunday at the Screen Actors Guild Awards, winning supporting-acting honors that boost their prospects for the Academy Awards.

Hathaway won for her role as a doomed single mother forced into prostitution in the adaptation of the stage musical based on Victor Hugo's epic novel. Her win came over four past Oscar recipients – Sally Field, Helen Hunt, Nicole Kidman and Maggie Smith.

"I'm just thrilled I have dental," Hathaway said. "I got my SAG card when I was 14. It felt like the beginning of the world. I have loved every single minute of my life as an actor. ... Thank you for nominating me alongside incredible women and incredible performances."

Jones was not at the show, but the win improves his odds to become a two-time Academy Award winner. He previously...

Beverly Hills, Calif. -- Jodie Foster came out without really coming out, and suggested she was retiring from acting without exactly saying so, in a long, breathless and rambling speech at Sunday night's Golden Globe Awards.

Foster took the stage as this year's winner of the Cecil B. DeMille Lifetime Achievement Award, which had been announced previously. But her acceptance speech was anything but predictable as the veteran actress seized control of what is every year a noisy, boozy ballroom; the crowd of A-listers quickly quieted down as it became apparent that she had something serious and important to say.

The 50-year-old Oscar-winner for "The Silence of the Lambs" and "The Accused," who's been protective of her private life and reluctant to discuss her sexual orientation, was coy at first, suggesting she had a big announcement that would make her publicist nervous (the broadcast audio dropped out at this point,...

Beverly Hills, Calif. — Quentin Tarantino, who delves into Deep South history in his revenge saga "Django Unchained," says slavery continues in the United States more than a century after the Civil War. It has just taken on a different form.

"If you go to Malaysia, there's sexual slavery going on in places like that, but I'm more concerned about the slavery that is going on in America," Tarantino said backstage at Sunday's Golden Globe Awards. "The drug laws that have put so many black males in jail that wouldn't have existed in the `70s, that is slavery. It is just straight up slavery as far as I'm concerned."

Tarantino won the screenplay award at the Globes for "Django."

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Virtually all "Castle" fans agree that Richard Castle (Nathan Fillion) and Kate Beckett's (Stana Katic) long-awaited romance is a huge win.

So far, so good. But how will it affect the show in the long-term?

Zap2it reached out to some of "Castle's" biggest supporters for their reactions to the series' game-changer. Read on, and feel free to weigh in yourself in the comments below!

"I think we have already seen that their relationship has brought a whole new dimension to the show," points out CastleTV.net's Beth Harris. "It has certainly returned some of the fun that took more of a backseat in the last two seasons and to me it is that sense of fun that sets 'Castle' apart from other procedurals and makes it something special. The relationship also allows not only Castle and Beckett to grow as they move forward in a new...

Los Angeles -- Horse racing has long withstood the deaths of its skittish, injury-prone thoroughbreds. Hollywood proved it lacks the stomach for it.

HBO abruptly cancelled its racetrack drama series "Luck" this past week after three horses used in the production were injured and euthanized during 10 months of filming in the last two years.

The abrupt fall of "Luck," which will end its single-season run on March 25, reveals the chasm between the racing and entertainment industries.

At the track, a horse puts its life on the line so gamblers can stake $2 or more to win, place or show, with the industry and fans accepting the danger to animals and jockeys as a harsh part of the bargain.

With movies and TV, which offer the on-screen vow that "no animals were harmed" in the making of make-believe, consumers have scant tolerance for harm to any creature great or small.

"More people...

Los Angeles -- Horse racing has long withstood the deaths of its skittish, injury-prone thoroughbreds. Hollywood proved it lacks the stomach for it.

HBO abruptly cancelled its racetrack drama series "Luck" this past week after three horses used in the production were injured and euthanized during 10 months of filming in the last two years.

The abrupt fall of "Luck," which will end its single-season run on March 25, reveals the chasm between the racing and entertainment industries.

At the track, a horse puts its life on the line so gamblers can stake $2 or more to win, place or show, with the industry and fans accepting the danger to animals and jockeys as a harsh part of the bargain.

With movies and TV, which offer the on-screen vow that "no animals were harmed" in the making of make-believe, consumers have scant tolerance for harm to any creature great or small.

"More people...

Los Angeles -- Finally, an awards show with some surprises and spontaneity.

The Screen Actors Guild Awards featured some unexpected winners, including "The Help" for best overall cast performance and Jean Dujardin for best actor in "The Artist" alongside some of the longtime favorites in movies and television.

But there was a looseness and a playfulness that permeated the Shrine Exposition Center Sunday night – maybe because it was a room full of people who love to perform, without the rigidity of one single host to lead them.

Unlike the great expectations that came with the sharp-tongued Ricky Gervais' reprisal at the Golden Globes a couple weeks ago or the much-anticipated return of Billy Crystal to the Academy Awards next month, there was no master of ceremonies at the SAG Awards. The presenters and winners seemed to have more room to improvise and put their own spin on the evening – but mercifully,...

Even if your favorite nominee got snubbed, Sunday's Emmycast could have been the most satisfying in memory.

It was funny, bright and skillfully hosted by "Glee" star Jane Lynch.

It moved at a brisk clip, free of the usual stumbles and lulls, and, even better, it flowed almost seamlessly, a next-to-impossible feat for any awards show.

Production values at the Nokia Theatre in Los Angeles were eye-popping, from the setting – an omega-shaped arch through which presenters made their entrance – to a tour-de-force comic musical number spearheaded by Andy Samberg and fellow "Saturday Night Live" performers that might have had some viewers scratching their heads in bewilderment, but had to leave them dazzled nonetheless.

Yes, "Modern Family" cleaned up – winning five Emmys (including best comedy, supporting acting trophies for TV parents Julie Bowen and Ty Burrell, and best writing and direction).

But Mark Burnett, the pasha of reality TV, was the night's behind-the-scenes winner.

Sixteen-year old Beth Harris got blindsided not once, but twice this week, while Mary stepped up to help her through it.

Indeed, "Meet the Shannons" brought out Mary's motherly instincts, or at least the closest thing to it I've ever seen from her.

Mary did a wonderful job of switching between tough love ("Just so we're clear, if you tell any of them anything I will move you and your family so fast it will make your tiara spin") to sharing her own father's fugitive past (albeit, leaving out the details) to let Beth know she wasn't alone.

It was great to see Mary take this kid under her wing and help her navigate the minefield her parents lies had created. Could this be a preamble for showing us Mary might have a motherly bone buried somewhere deep?

I couldn't get enough of Mary and Marshall's references to 24. Mary's right:...

Los Angeles — Melissa Leo has won the supporting-actress Academy Award for her role as the domineering matriarch of a boxing family in "The Fighter."

The win Sunday capped an unusual career surge in middle age for the 50-year-old Leo, who had moderate success on TV's "Homicide: Life on the Street" in her 30s but leaped to big-screen stardom in her late 40s, a time when most actresses find good roles hard to come by.

Some in Hollywood had speculated that Leo might have undermined her Oscar chances with self-promoting ads she ran in film trade papers. Such self-hype is considered tacky by some awards voters.

Whether it cost her votes or not, Leo still came out on top.

This Is A Breaking News Update. Check back soon for further information. AP's earlier story is below.

Los Angeles (AP) – The Lewis Carroll update "Alice in Wonderland" won the first prize at the Academy Awards on Sunday,...

Spike Lee has signed on to direct the TV commercial campaign for next year's Oscar telecast, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has confirmed. AMPAS director of marketing Beth Harris said the commercials will represent the first campaign for promoting the telecast to come entirely from a traditional ad agency, TBWA\Chiat\Day in Playa del Rey, Calif., which has pitched the Academy's internal marketing department the past three years and was awarded the business last week. Harris said marketing of the Oscar telecast "has evolved over the years, but in the last three or four (years), we've wanted to expand the marketing efforts and start looking off the ABC network at outdoor (advertising), for example." She said that in the past, the campaigns were created "mostly in-house" after competition to create key art and the campaign would not fully develop until after the host was announced and ads could be developed around the celebrity. "That was a challenge because that always came too late, especially for the number of stations that carry the telecast. So we've gotten more sophisticated in the things we want to do."...