Winners at Thursday's 14th annual Critics' Choice Awards:

NASHVILLE, Tenn. Country star Merle Haggard has sued an environmental awareness group, claiming it illegally used his name and likeness to raise money.

LOS ANGELES New "American Idol" judge Kara DioGuardi has a full schedule but there's someone she'd take a phone call from - Chris Daughtry.

SAVANNAH, Ga. Gregg Allman almost had a few less silver dollars after someone broke into his southeast Georgia home and stole a coin collection, knives and unreleased concert recordings, police said.

NEW YORK "Becky Shaw," which opened Thursday at off-Broadway's Second Stage, is a sharp social comedy of articulate anger laced with large helpings of angst and ambition. The perfect nourishment for theatergoers starved for a dramatic conflagration or two.

NEW YORK One actor in, another out of the upcoming Broadway revival of "Hair," scheduled to open March 31.

SANTA MONICA, Calif. The critics have spoken, and "Slumdog Millionaire" is their final answer.

MEMPHIS, Tenn. Fans gathered for a cake-cutting on Elvis Presley's 74th birthday and got word of two new residents at Graceland.

NEW YORK The Phish reunion is in full swing: The band just announced plans for a summer tour.

NEW YORK "Horrific" is how Tom Cruise described the sudden death of the son of his friend, John Travolta. Cruise struggled to maintain his composure as he spoke on "The View" about last week's death of 16-year-old Jett Travolta. "John just adored him, both of his children," Cruise said haltingly. "... It's something that I don't have the words for."

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LOS ANGELES Stephanie March is back on the job as New York prosecutor Alexandra Cabot on "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit."

NASHVILLE, Tenn. Gospel stars CeCe Winans, Elbernita "Twinkie" Clark and Donald Lawrence will be saluted by their peers in a musical tribute in Nashville.

NEW YORK The producers of "In the Heights" say the Tony-winning musical has recouped its $10 million production costs in the 10 months since it opened on Broadway.

WASHINGTON Spider-Man has a new sidekick: The president-elect.

LOS ANGELES Ned Tanen, a former Universal Pictures and Paramount chairman who greenlighted a string of hits including "Top Gun" and "E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial," has died. He was 77.

LOS ANGELES "The Dark Knight" has landed a Directors Guild of America nomination for filmmaker Christopher Nolan.

NEW YORK Signaling a look inward that echoes critiques of the media's performance in the months before the Iraq War, some of the nation's top financial journalists believe reporters dropped the ball as the nation's economy tumbled toward crisis mode.

Rachael Ray is giving Food Network fans a taste of the Latino kitchen.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. Dolly Parton, Michael W. Smith, Dr. Bobby Jones, the Dixie Hummingbirds and producer Lari Goss will be inducted into the Gospel Music Association Hall of Fame next month.

NEW YORK Early last October, NBC unveiled the 16-member cast of "Celebrity Apprentice" to reporters. Everyone on hand at the locked-down news conference swore to keep the participants' identities a secret until NBC said "go."

OCALA, Fla. Friends and relatives of John Travolta and his wife Kelly Preston gathered Thursday at their central Florida home for a memorial service to honor the couple's 16-year-old son, Jett.

WASHINGTON MSNBC political commentator Chris Matthews has told his colleagues he won't be leaving television to run for a U.S. Senate seat from Pennsylvania.

A complete list of winners at the 35th annual People's Choice Awards:

LOS ANGELES Taylor Lautner will be back to morph into the monstrous Jacob Black in the "Twilight" sequel "New Moon."

LOS ANGELES The King of Pop is back - in town, that is.

LOS ANGELES Filmmaker Ken Burns is adding a tenth inning to his nine-part "Baseball" documentary series that aired in the '90s on public television.

LOS ANGELES CBS is giving a juicy post-championship game time slot to its new hit series, "The Mentalist."

LOS ANGELES Holy People's Choice Awards, Batman!

UNIVERSAL CITY, Calif. Ian McKellen said he's fine that the full-frontal nude scene he played on stage as King Lear is missing from an upcoming public TV version.

NEW YORK ABC, CBS and NBC haven't sent their top news anchors to the Middle East to cover Israel's conflict with Hamas, even though each network did so in 2006 when Israel fought a war with Hezbollah.

Prime-time viewership numbers compiled by Nielsen Media Research for Dec. 29-Jan. 4. Listings include the week's ranking, with viewership for the week and season-to-date rankings in parentheses. An "X" in parentheses denotes a one-time-only presentation.

NEW YORK The San Diego Chargers-Indianapolis Colts game on NBC was seen by 27.8 million viewers Saturday, as football shook up the prime-time ratings on an otherwise quiet week for television.

Capsule reviews of films opening this week:

VALLEJO, Calif. The plastic surgeon who operated on Kanye West's mother before she died has been sentenced to a year in jail for drunken driving.

The Kabbalah. Hot college students. An abandoned mental institution. Gary Oldman. Jogging. Twins. Nazi scientists. A suicidal mother. A lost blue mitten.

Celebrity chef Bobby Flay is launching a talk radio show on which he will offer advice to men on everything from dating, dining, dressing and how to nail a tough job interview.

LOS ANGELES Add writing to Batman's bag of tricks. "The Dark Knight" earned a nomination Wednesday for best adapted screenplay from the Writers Guild of America.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. A judge has sealed records in a paternity suit filed by a California man who claims he is the biological son of the late country singer Eddy Arnold.

LOS ANGELES Brad Pitt is extracting himself from the tabloid love triangle: The actor says his relationship with current flame Angelina Jolie began sometime after splitting from Jennifer Aniston.

UNIVERSAL CITY, Calif. PBS chief Paula Kerger said it's inexcusable that people seeking coupons for the looming digital TV conversion are being put on a waiting list, and she called for immediate federal action.

The cliched comedy "Bride Wars" tosses out stereotypes about female materialism and cattiness with all the giddy gusto of a newly married woman flinging the bouquet at her single girlfriends.

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. Betty Freeman, patron to such contemporary musical masters as John Cage, Philip Glass and Pierre Boulez, has died. She was 87.

TOLEDO, Ohio Joe The Plumber is putting down his wrenches and picking up a reporter's notebook.

LOS ANGELES Batman is angling for top honors from the American Society of Cinematographers.

BOGOTA, Colombia Colombian coffee growers are brewing up a lawsuit over a U.S. comic strip joking that violence is so rampant there, maybe "there's a little bit of Juan Valdez in every can" of the country's java.

NEW YORK Jay-Z isn't performing at President-elect Barack Obama's inauguration, but he is planning to make a big splash on the eve of the event.

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. Beyonce Knowles, Alicia Keys and Jennifer Hudson are all multitasking for the NAACP Image Awards, earning nominations Wednesday in both music and film categories.