Farrah Fawcett got an unbeatable gift for her 60th birthday: a clean bill of health.
The actress, who revealed in October that she was fighting cancer, learned this week that she is cancer-free, spokesman Mike Pingel said Friday.
Dr.
Gary Gitnick, Fawcett's lead physician at the University of California, Los Angeles, said the actress ``has had a full and complete response to treatment.''
``Her prognosis is excellent,'' he said.
The former ``Charlie's Angel'' star said she was ``deeply grateful'' to her doctors and her family and friends ``who have sustained me as I battled this terrible disease.
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``This is an extraordinarily happy day for me and my family,'' she said in a statement. ``I hope that my news might offer some level of inspiration to others who unfortunately must continue to fight the disease.''
Fawcett planned to celebrate her birthday Friday with family and friends, Pingel said, and expects to return to work ``in the next month or two.
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Fawcett did not disclose the kind of cancer she was treated for. Her ex, Ryan O'Neal, told People magazine she was being treated for anal cancer.
Academy Award-winning director Ang Lee grew up in Taiwan and started his career there.
Now he wants to give back to its movie industry.
He and younger brother and fellow filmmaker Lee Kang have started a program to cultivate Taiwanese directors by financing them and providing help in marketing, Lee Kang told the Associated Press on Friday in a phone interview.
``Nowadays directors have to do everything -- raising money, writing the script, securing government grants, shooting, producing and marketing,'' he said.
The Lee brothers hope to free up filmmakers to focus on directing. ``We'll produce for the directors . .
. We'll plan their marketing for them,'' he said.
He wants to train directors in making commercial movies and counter Taiwan's preference for art-house cinema, while Ang Lee, who won the best-director Oscar last year for ``Brokeback Mountain,'' will serve as an artistic consultant, focusing on developing the scripts of chosen directors.
Jennifer Lopez will receive an award for her work as producer and star of a film examining the murders of hundreds of women in a Mexican border town, Amnesty International officials said Friday.
Lopez will receive the Artists for Amnesty award Feb. 14 at the Berlin Film Festival from Nobel Peace Prize winner Jose Ramos-Horta.
The film ``Bordertown'' will make its debut Feb. 15 at the festival.
In ``Bordertown,'' Lopez plays an investigative journalist reporting on the serial killings of women in the border city of Juarez, Mexico.
Directed by Gregory Nava, the film also stars Antonio Banderas and Martin Sheen.
``Since first hearing of these atrocities in 1998, when Gregory Nava came to me with this project, I desperately wanted to tell this story,'' Lopez said. ``I began working to ensure we made this film in order to bring the attention of the world to this tragedy and to pressure the Mexican government to bring to justice those responsible for these horrible crimes.
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Lopez, 36, screened the film for some of the mothers of women killed in Juarez and will receive special recognition from Norma Andrade, co-founder of Nuestras Hijas de Regreso a Casa (Bring Our Daughters Home), an organization comprising mothers and families of the murdered women of Juarez.
Kevin Federline has something to say to those who are offended by an upcoming Super Bowl ad featuring him as a fast-food worker: He's ``really sorry.''
``The commercial is completely intended for me, making fun of myself and my own situation,'' the aspiring rapper, 28, told Associated Press Television in a recent interview.
``It has nothing to do with anybody in the fast-food industry at all. So, you know, if we've offended anybody, I'm really sorry about that.''
National Restaurant Association President and Chief Executive Steven Anderson said last week that the ad amounts to a ``strong and direct insult to the 12.
8 million Americans who work in the restaurant industry.''
Nationwide Mutual Insurance Co.'s 30-second spot shows Federline performing in a glitzy music video.
However, the punch line is that he's daydreaming -- while cooking french fries at a fast-food joint.
It's a ```Saturday Night Live' skit on myself. .
. . Maybe it'll land me some good roles in Hollywood,'' said Federline, whose debut rap album, ``Playing With Fire,'' has had dismal sales since its release last fall.
On Thursday, Federline's attorney confirmed that K-Fed and estranged wife Britney Spears will continue to share custody of their two young sons this month, following the terms of a January custody agreement. Spears filed for divorce from Federline in November after two years of marriage, citing irreconcilable differences.
``I'm a good father,'' said Federline, who wouldn't talk about his personal life.
``I love my kids and I'll always be here for (them).''
Academy Award-winning director Clint Eastwood will receive the Motion Picture Association of America's inaugural humanitarian award, the association announced Thursday.
Eastwood, 76, will be presented the Jack Valenti Humanitarian Award at a private dinner Tuesday in Washington, D.
C.
``For decades, (Eastwood) has exemplified the decency and goodness of spirit in his moviemaking,'' said MPAA Chairman Dan Glickman, lauding the filmmaker for his recent pair of World War II-themed works, ``Flags of Our Fathers'' and ``Letters from Iwo Jima.''
``These films exemplify the true power of movies to tell human stories and inspire national conversation,'' Glickman said.
Eastwood is nominated for an Academy Award for directing ``Letters from Iwo Jima.'' The film is also up for best picture.
The humanitarian award was named after the MPAA's longtime chief, Valenti, who helped choose Eastwood as its inaugural recipient.
Whitney Houston wants to fast-track her divorce from Bobby Brown.
The singer, who filed divorce papers in October, requested a default judgment in a document filed on Dec. 28 in Orange County Superior Court.
A checked box on the two-page document indicates that there are ``no issues of division of community property'' in the divorce.
The document was obtained by the CelebTV.com Web site, which reported it Thursday.
Houston, 43, has asked for custody of the couple's 13-year-old daughter, Bobbi Kristina, and that Brown, 37, be allowed visitation rights.
The couple wed in 1992.
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