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‘Safe House’ wins holiday weekend with $27.5M (AP)

February 22nd, 2012 by admin | No Comments | Filed in Movie News

‘Safe House’ wins holiday weekend with $ 27.5M

Feb. 21, 2012 4:48 PM ET (AP)

Denzel Washington’s action thriller “Safe House” held the No. 1 spot at the box office with $ 27.5 million over the long President’s Day weekend.

The top 20 movies at U.S. and Canadian theaters Friday through Monday, followed by distribution studio, gross, number of theater locations, average receipts per location, total gross and number of weeks in release, as compiled Tuesday by Hollywood.com are:

1. “Safe House,” Universal, $ 27,542,825, 3,121 locations, $ 8,825 average, $ 81,812,440, two weeks.

2. “The Vow,” Sony Screen Gems, $ 26,640,786, 2,958 locations, $ 9,006 average, $ 88,567,623, two weeks.

3. “Journey 2: The Mysterious Island,” Warner Bros., $ 25,934,109, 3,500 locations, $ Ň,410 average, $ 59,050,451, two weeks.

4. “Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance,” Sony, $ 25,470,773, 3,174 locations, $ 8,025 average, $ ಙ,470,773, one week.

5. “This Means War,” Fox, $ 20,006,912, 3,189 locations, $ 6,Ꮢ average, $ 21,616,717, one week.

6. “Star Wars: Episode I _ The Phantom Menace,” Fox, $ 9,920,675, 2,655 locations, $ 3,737 average, $ 35,793,910, two weeks.

7. “Chronicle,” Fox, $ 9,164,061, 2,556 locations, $ 3,585 average, $ 52,643,487, three weeks.

8. “The Secret World of Arrietty,” Disney, $ 8꺌,864, 1,522 locations, $ 5,706 average, $ 8,684꽀, one week.

9. “The Woman in Black,” CBS, $ 7,794,176, 2,559 locations, $ 3,046 average, $ 46,404,794, three weeks.

10. “The Grey,” Open Road, $ 3,717,234, 2,107 locations, $ 1,764 average, $ 48,610,293, four weeks.

11. “The Descendants,” Fox Searchlight, $ 3,489,672, 1,243 locations, $ 2,807 average, $ 75,572,442, 14 weeks.

12. “Big Miracle,” Universal, $ 3,162,190, 1,634 locations, $ 1,935 average, $ 17,605,685, three weeks.

13. “The Artist,” Weinstein Co., $ 2,971,453, 808 locations, $ 3,678 average, $ 28,070굼, 13 weeks.

14. “Hugo,” Paramount, $ 2,201,239, 558 locations, $ 3,945 average, $ 67,287,363, 13 weeks.

15. “Red Tails,” Fox, $ 1,769,318, 1,009 locations, $ 1,754 average, $ 47,885,854, five weeks.

16. “Underworld Awakening,” Sony Screen Gems, $ 1,350,106, 826 locations, $ 1,635 average, $ 61,593꽫, five weeks.

17. “The Iron Lady,” Weinstein Co., $ 1,296,474, 623 locations, $ 2,081 average, $ 24,656,260, eight weeks.

18. “One For the Money,” Lionsgate, $ 929,ᒿ, 933 locations, $ 996 average, $ 25,605,720, four weeks.

19. “Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close,” Warner Bros., $ 771,146, 577 locations, $ 1,336 average, $ 30,774,123, nine weeks.

20. “Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked,” Fox, $ 684,115, 400 locations, $ 1,710 average, $ 129,872깂, 10 weeks.

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Universal and Focus are owned by NBC Universal, a unit of Comcast Corp.; Sony, Columbia, Sony Screen Gems and Sony Pictures Classics are units of Sony Corp.; Paramount is owned by Viacom Inc.; Disney, Pixar and Marvel are owned by The Walt Disney Co.; Miramax is owned by Filmyard Holdings LLC; 20th Century Fox and Fox Searchlight are owned by News Corp.; Warner Bros. and New Line are units of Time Warner Inc.; MGM is owned by a group of former creditors including Highland Capital, Anchorage Advisors and Carl Icahn; Lionsgate is owned by Lions Gate Entertainment Corp. IFC is owned by AMC Networks Inc.; Rogue is owned by Relativity Media LLC.

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Oscar nominees dish on their red-carpet underwear (AP)

February 21st, 2012 by admin | No Comments | Filed in Movie News

Oscar nominees dish on their red-carpet underwear

Feb. 21, 2012 12:33 PM ET (AP)
By SANDY COHEN

Anybody who is aware of their Oscars knows that nominees’ style plans are strictly top secret until eventually the big day. They seem to be much more revealing about their designer undergarments, though.

While it may fit into the too-considerably-details file, some of the year’s most celebrated actors and directors are not afraid to speak about the merchandise placement underneath people tuxes and gowns.

“What I do, because I get chilly, I like to put on lengthy johns. The complete 1 with the trap door in the back,” explained a joking George Clooney, a double nominee for his top part in “The Descendants” and his adapted screenplay for “The Ides of March.”

Nominated “Descendants” director Alexander Payne declined to describe his planned underwear, so Clooney spoke for him.

“Garanimals,” he explained, referring to the children’s clothes brand. “Underoos.”

“It’s what I bargain for from the Indian salesman on Orchard Street,” Payne explained.

Octavia Spencer, supporting actress nominee for “The Support,” will not be repeating the triple-Spanx technique she took at the Golden Globes.

“I want to be comfortable and appear great and have entertaining,” she said. “So I am just going to do the regular 1 here, a single there. (Laughs.) Right here a Spank, there a Spank, all over the place a Spank-Spank.”

The shaping undergarments have turn out to be such a red-carpet staple for girls that Spanx introduced a men’s line designed to boost pecs and reduce guts.

Berenice Bejo, who is nominated for her supporting function in “The Artist,” may be planning to function her sex appeal on the red carpet Sunday, wherever she’ll be accompanied by her husband, nominated director Michel Hazanavicius of “The Artist.”

“You suggest Spank or no Spank?” Bejo asked when presented with the underwear inquiry. “I never believe so, since of the dress I’ll have, I never feel I’ll put on too considerably.”

The Academy Awards will be presented Sunday at the Kodak Theatre.

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AP Entertainment Author Mike Cidoni Lennox contributed to this report.

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AP Entertainment Writer Sandy Cohen is on Twitter: www.twitter.com/APSandy.

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Polish folk art society defends its ‘Oskar’ award (AP)

February 21st, 2012 by admin | No Comments | Filed in Movie News

Polish folk art society defends its ‘Oskar’ award

Feb. 20, 2012 one:15 PM ET (AP)
By MONIKA SCISLOWSKA

Handful of would confuse the glitz of the Academy Awards with a ceremony held by a folk arts society in Poland, but Hollywood doesn’t want anyone else handing out Oscars.

So the Academy of Movement Picture Arts and Sciences is demanding that Poland’s Association of Folk Artists quit giving out what it calls the “People’s Oskar.”

Waldemar Majcher of the Association of Folk Artists mentioned Monday the dispute is the outcome a misunderstanding. But he also questioned Hollywood’s demand.

Majcher stated the “People’s Oskar,” was named right after Oskar Kolberg, a 19th-century Polish ethnographer who wrote some ten,000 Polish folk songs. Nevertheless remembered and respected in Poland, Kolberg died in 1890.

In its 10-year historical past, the “People’s Oskar” _ a metal plaque with an engraved image of Jesus _ has been awarded to person artists, museums, folk festivals and even a bread fair.

Last week, Majcher mentioned, he received a letter from Polish attorneys representing the Academy of Motion Image Arts and Sciences protesting the use of the name “Oscar” in its Polish spelling “Oskar.”

The letter from Wardynski and Partners _ which Majcher read to The Associated Press _ demands the Association of Folk Artists end utilizing that name and stated the academy had obtained protection of the “Oscar” trademark in Poland in a law adopted in 2000.

The letter mentioned the “verbal trademark Oscar … is inseparably associated with the Academy Awards.”

“The letter gave us a scare, but we are receiving lots of encouragement from men and women,” Majcher mentioned, adding that in some techniques members of his association are impressed that “this kind of a massive institution got interested in our modest project.”

He stated a team of lawyers is preparing a response defending the use of the name People’s Oskar.

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‘Midnight in Paris,’ ‘Descendants’ win WGA honors (AP)

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‘Midnight in Paris,’ ‘Descendants’ win WGA honors

Feb. 19, 2012 11:10 PM ET (AP)

Woody Allen’s romantic fantasy “Midnight in Paris” and Alexander Payne’s family members drama “The Descendants” have won leading screenplay honors from the Writers Guild of America.

With his biggest hit in decades, author-director Allen earned the guild’s prize Sunday for original screenplay on “Midnight in Paris.” The film stars Owen Wilson as a present day Hollywood author who gets a chance to hang with his literary idols in the 1920s Paris of Hemingway and Fitzgerald.

Director Payne shared the adapted screenplay honor with co-writers Nat Faxon and Jim Rash. Primarily based on the novel by Kaui Hart Hemmings, “The Descendants” stars George Clooney as a Hawaiian dad struggling to have a tendency to his two daughters after a boating accident puts his wife in a coma.

The wins increase the prospects for both films to earn the same prizes at up coming Sunday’s Academy Awards, in which both motion pictures also are in the running for very best image.

But not all key Academy Awards contenders have been eligible for the Writers Guild honors, such as Oscar greatest-picture front-runner “The Artist.” The black-and-white silent film is competing against “Midnight in Paris” for unique screenplay, but “The Artist” was ineligible at the Writers Guild awards since it was not created below the union’s contract guidelines.

The guild’s prize for huge-screen documentary writing went to Katie Galloway and Kelly Duane de la Vega for “Better This World.”

Among the guild’s Tv winners:

_ Drama series: “Breaking Bad,” Sam Catlin, Vince Gilligan, Peter Gould, Gennifer Hutchison, George Mastras, Thomas Schnauz and Moira Walley-Beckett.

_ Comedy series: “Contemporary Family members,” Cindy Chupack, Paul Corrigan, Abraham Higginbotham, Ben Karlin, Elaine Ko, Carol Leifer, Steven Levitan, Christopher Lloyd, Dan O’Shannon, Jeffrey Richman, Brad Walsh, Ilana Wernick, Bill Wrubel and Danny Zuker.

_ New series: “Homeland,” Henry Bromell, Alexander Cary, Alex Gansa, Howard Gordon, Chip Johannessen, Gideon Raff and Meredith Stiehm.

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Lindsay Lohan to guest host ‘SNL’ next month (AP)

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Lindsay Lohan to guest host ‘SNL’ following month

Feb. 19, 2012 7:01 PM ET (AP)

Lindsay Lohan’s comeback trail is major her to “Saturday Evening Dwell.”

NBC says the troubled actress, whose occupation in latest years has been upstaged by legal and private issues, will serve as guest host of “SNL” on March 3. The network explained Sunday that the musical guest that evening will be Jack White.

It will be Lohan’s fourth turn as host of the late-night comedy show. She presided in 2004, 2005 and 2006, prior to her career faltered. In modern years, she has mainly been in the public eye in connection with her several arrests and episodes of substance abuse. In December, she appeared in Playboy magazine in a largely nude pictorial.

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Italy’s ‘Cesar Must Die’ wins Berlin film festival (AP)

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Paolo, right, and Vittorio, left, Taviani pose after receiving the Golden Bear for their film 'Cesar Must Die' during the Awarding Ceremony at the 62 edition of International Film Festival Berlinale in Berlin Saturday, Feb. 18, 2012. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber, pool)

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Italy’s ‘Cesar Ought to Die’ wins Berlin film festival

Feb. 18, 2012 three:01 PM ET (AP)
By JUERGEN BAETZ

An Italian film showing inmates of a higher-safety prison staging Shakespeare’s “Julius Caesar” has been awarded the Berlin film festival’s best award Saturday.

The documentary “Cesar Should Die” by directors Paolo Taviani and Vittorio Taviani received the Golden Bear award out of 18 contenders at what is the initial of the year’s key European film festivals.

The Taviani brothers, each in their early 80s, thanked the international jury led by British director Mike Leigh and sent their greetings to the inmates of Rome’s Rebibbia prison who starred in the movie.

“I hope that somebody, going home, right after seeing ‘Cesar Must Die’ will think that even an inmate, on whose head is a terrible punishment, is, and remains, a guy. And this thanks to the sublime words of Shakespeare,” Vittorio Taviani explained.

The two filmmakers spent 6 months following the rehearsals for the play. The documentary does not dwell on the crimes the inmates have committed, but shows the actors immerse themselves in the play’s net of friendship and betrayal, energy, dishonesty and violence. But immediately after the premiere, the cell doors slam shut behind Cesar, Brutus and the other individuals, leaving them to return to their lives behind bars.

The festival’s runner-up Silver Bear went to Hungarian director Bence Fliegauf for “Just the Wind,” which focuses on the lives of a family of Roma as their community faces a series of deadly attacks.

The film attributes an amateur Roma, or Gypsies, cast and depicts the lengthy-suffering, grimly silent mom Mari (Katalin Toldi), her elderly invalid father and two young children who struggle to make ends meet and dream of emigrating one day to Canada _ against the quietly menacing backdrop of a series of killings in their out-of-the-way neighborhood.

The film requires its cue from accurate-daily life murders that happened in 2008-9, even though Fliegauf has stressed that it does not document those killings.

Roma, who make up an estimated five-8 percent of Hungary’s 10 million folks, battle deep prejudice and have been deeply impacted by the loss of assured jobs right after the end of communism much more than 20 years ago.

The Silver Bear for greatest actor went to Mikkel Boe Folsgaard for his role in “Royal Affair,” and the award for the greatest actress went to Rachel Mwanza for her part as a Congolese youngster soldier in “War Witch.”

The festival’s eight-member jury also included actor Jake Gyllenhaal and Asghar Farhadi, the Iranian director of last year’s Golden Bear-winning film, “A Separation.”

Farhadi’s film won very best foreign language film honors at the Golden Globes final month and is competing for the very same award at this year’s Oscars.

Outdoors the principal competition, the Berlinale festival’s highlights incorporated Meryl Streep being honored for her lifetime achievement and Angelina Jolie’s directorial debut, the Bosnian war film “In the Land of Blood and Honey.”

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Italy’s ‘Caesar Must Die’ wins Berlin film fest (AP)

February 19th, 2012 by admin | No Comments | Filed in Movie News

Entertainment News: Hungarian Roma killings film premieres in Berlin

Director Bence Fliegauf attends a news conference of the film Just The Wind (Csak A Szel) at the 62 edition of the Berlinale, International Film Festival in Berlin, Thursday, Feb. 16, 2012. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)

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Feb. 16, 2012 1:48 PM ET (AP)
By GEIR MOULSON

The director of a Hungarian film which focuses on the lives of a family of Roma as their community faces a series of deadly attacks says he hopes it will help tackle discrimination.

Bence Fliegauf told reporters at the Berlin film festival Thursday that he hoped “this movie is going to make a variation,” however he stressed that he hadn’t embarked on the project for any ideological cause.

In tackling the problem openly, “I hope my movie is going to do some thing for the image of Hungary,” he extra.

“Just the Wind” _ which has an amateur Roma, or Gypsies, cast _ premiered at the festival, exactly where it is 1 of 18 films competing for the top rated Golden Bear award. The winner will be announced Saturday.

It depicts the lifestyle of a Roma family members _ prolonged-suffering, grimly silent mother Mari (Katalin Toldi), her elderly invalid father and two young children who struggle to make ends meet and dream of emigrating 1 day to Canada _ against the quietly menacing backdrop of a series of killings in their out-of-the-way neighborhood.

The film will take its cue from genuine-existence murders that occurred in 2008-9, although Fliegauf stressed that it does not document these killings.

Roma, who make up an estimated five-8 % of Hungary’s 10 million people, battle deep prejudice and have been deeply affected by the loss of guaranteed jobs right after the end of communism more than 20 many years ago.

4 guys are on trial in Budapest accused of carrying out attacks in nine villages among July 20Ǩ and August 2009 in which six Roma have been shot to death, including a 5-year-old boy. 5 sustained critical injuries.

Prosecutors allege the suspects were motivated partly by vigilantism, and desired to frighten and provoke the Roma neighborhood into acts of reprisal.

Toldi, who mentioned she had never acted in a film or even rehearsed ahead of, recalled facing such discrimination.

“We had been scared,” Toldi mentioned of her reaction to the 2008-9 killings. “I was questioning what would come about if they came to me.”

Fliegauf stated acquiring the amateur cast together was a complex challenge and a “very prolonged approach,” requiring him to go out into the nation to discover actors.

“I said, why not me? I could be part of this movie,” Toldi said. “I was a bit scared simply because I had never ever done something like this ahead of.”

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Actress Judi Dench says she’s battling blindness (AP)

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FILE - A Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2012 photo from files showing British actress, Judi Dench, arriving for 'The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel' world premiere at a central London venue. Actress Judi Dench says she's battling to save her sight. The James Bond star told the Daily Mirror newspaper that she had been diagnosed with a degenerative eye condition that can cause blindness. In an interview published Saturday Feb. 18, 2012, she said that her sight was already so bad she couldn't read her scripts and ev

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Feb. 18, 2012 8:12 AM ET (AP)

Actress Judi Dench is battling to preserve her sight.

The James Bond star explained in an interview published Saturday that she had been diagnosed with macular degeneration, an eye problem which can result in blindness, and that her eyesight was already so bad that she couldn’t even examine her very own scripts.

The 77-year-old told the Day-to-day Mirror that she was relying on close friends and household to keep her up to speed with her lines.

“It is typically my daughter or my agent or a buddy and in fact I like that, simply because I sit there and imagine the story in my thoughts,” she told the newspaper for the duration of an interview at a London hotel. “The most distressing factor is in a restaurant in the evening I can not see the individual I am having dinner with.”

The Mirror didn’t say specifically wherever or when the interview took place. Messages left for Dench’s agent have been not right away returned Saturday.

Dench produced her Shakespearean debut in 쌥 at London’s Old Vic and has because taken on a vast quantity of theater, film and tv roles.

She won an Academy Award for her part as Queen Elizabeth I in “Shakespeare in Really like” and is best recognized to international audiences as intelligence boss M in the James Bond series.

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List of winners of the 43rd annual Image Awards (AP)

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List of winners of the 43rd annual Image Awards

Feb. 17, 2012 11:05 PM ET (AP)
The Associated Press

Winners of the 43rd annual NAACP Image Awards, presented Friday in Los Angeles:

Motion Pictures:

Motion Picture: “The Help”

Actor in a motion picture: Laz Alonso, “Jumping the Broom”

Actress in a motion picture: Viola Davis, “The Help”

Supporting actor in a motion picture: Mike Epps, “Jumping the Broom”

Supporting actress in a motion picture: Octavia Spencer, “The Help”

Independent motion picture: “Pariah”

Foreign motion picture: “In the Land of Blood and Honey”

Documentary, theatrical or television: “Sing Your Song”

Television:

Comedy series: “Tyler Perry’s House of Payne”

Actor in a comedy series: Malcolm-Jamal Warner, “Reed Between the Lines”

Actress in a comedy series: Tracee Ellis Ross, “Reed Between the Lines”

Supporting actor in a comedy series: Nick Cannon, “Up All Night”

Supporting actress in a comedy series: Keshia Knight Pulliam, “Tyler Perry’s House of Payne”

Drama series: “Law & Order: Special Victims Unit”

Actor in a drama series: LL Cool J, “NCIS: Los Angeles”

Actress in a drama series: Regina King, “SouthLAnd”

Supporting actor in a drama series: James Pickens, Jr., “Grey’s Anatomy”

Supporting actress in a drama series: Archie Panjabi, “The Good Wife”

TV movie, mini-series or dramatic special: “Thurgood”

Actor in a TV movie, mini-series or dramatic special: Laurence Fishburne, “Thurgood”

Actress in a TV movie, mini-series or dramatic special: Taraji P. Henson, “Taken From Me: The Tiffany Rubin Story”

Actor in a daytime drama series: Emerson Brooks, “All My Children”

Actress in a daytime drama series: Tatyana Ali, “The Young and the Restless”

News/information, series or special: “Unsung”

Talk series: “Oprah’s Lifeclass”

Reality series: “Dancing With the Stars”

Variety series or special: “Oprah Presents: Master Class”

Children’s program: “I Can Be President: A Kid’s-Eye View”

Performance in a children’s program, series or special: Keke Palmer, “True Jackson, VP”

Writing:

Comedy series: Salim Akil, Mara Brock Akil, “The Game”

Dramatic series: Lolis Eric Elie, “Treme”

Motion picture: Ann Peacock, “The First Grader”

Directing:

Comedy series: Leonard R. Garner, Jr., “Rules of Engagement”

Dramatic series: Ernest Dickerson, “Treme”

Motion picture: Salim Akil, “Jumping the Broom”

Recording:

New artist: Diggy Simmons

Male artist: Cee Lo Green

Female artist: Jill Scott

Duo, group or collaboration: Mary J. Blige feat. Drake

Jazz album: George Benson, “Guitar Man”

Gospel album, traditional or contemporary: Kirk Franklin, “Hello Fear”

World music album: Sounds of Blackness, “Sounds of Blackness”

Music video: Jennifer Hudson, “Where You At”

Song: Kirk Franklin, “I Smile”

Album: Jennifer Hudson, “I Remember Me”

Literature:

Fiction: Reshonda Tate Billingsley, “Say Amen, Again”

Nonfiction: Hill Harper, “The Wealth Cure: Putting Money in Its Place”

Debut author: Lyah Le Flore, “The Strawberry Letter”

Biography/autobiography: Harry Belafonte, “My Song”

Instructional: T.D. Jakes, “The T.D. Jakes Relationship Bible: Life Lessons on Relationships from the Inspired Word of God”

Poetry: James Golden, “Afro Clouds & Nappy Rain: The Curtis Brown Poems”

Children: Tony Dungy (author), Ron Mazellan (illustrator), “You Can Be A Friend”

Youth/teens: Jeff Burlingame, “Jesse Owens: I Always Loved Running”

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Nick Cannon departs NYC radio show (AP)

February 17th, 2012 by admin | No Comments | Filed in Movie News
FILE - In a Sunday, June 26, 2011 file photo, Nick Cannon arrives at the BET Awards, in Los Angeles. Cannon said in a statement on the 92.3 NOW website that Friday, Feb. 17, 2012 was his last day hosting his New York City radio show, called "Rollin.". He said doctors had ordered him to cut back on his professional commitments and get more rest. The 31-year-old entertainer was hospitalized last month after suffering from a form of mild kidney failure. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello, File)

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Nick Cannon departs NYC radio display

Feb. 17, 2012 9:26 AM ET (AP)

Nick Cannon has stepped down from his New York City radio display.

Cannon mentioned in a statement on the 92.3 NOW site that Friday was his final day hosting the 2-year-old show, referred to as “Rollin’.”

He stated doctors had ordered him to cut back on his professional commitments and get more rest.

Mentioned Cannon: “Even Superman has to rest.”

The 31-year-old entertainer was hospitalized final month soon after suffering from what his wife, Mariah Carey, called “mild kidney failure.”

The couple became mothers and fathers of twins, a son Moroccan and a daughter Monroe, final year.

Cannon said he’ll carry on to host his syndicated weekend show, “Cannon’s Countdown.” He added that he will “appear forward to contributing to 92.three NOW whenever feasible.”

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http://923now.radio.com/

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