Eminem, Lady Antebellum Lead Grammy Nominees

Lady Antebellum and Eminem (inset)

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This year, the Grammy Awards are spreading the wealth.

Fronting a diverse array of nominees, rapper Eminem led the pack with a total 10 nominations, including nods in such major categories as Album of the Year and Record of the Year, it was announced Wednesday night.

Not far behind: Bruno Mars, with seven nominations, including several as a songwriter, while Lady Gaga and country trio Lady Antebellum each earned six nominations, including one for Album of the Year for their stirring single "Need You Now."

Many of the major nominations were announced live on CBS during an hour-long concert special hosted by LL Cool J from L.A.'s Club Nokia, which featured performances by Katy Perry, Justin Bieber and Miranda Lambert.

Album of the Year nominations went to Arcade Fire's The Suburbs, Eminem's Recovery, Lady Antebellum's Need You Now, Lady Gaga's The Fame Monster and Katy Perry's Teenage Dream.

An enthusiastic Perry, who opened the concert special with a performance of her hit "California Gurls," raved: "It's like no other award show, because I feel like you're being recognized by your peers."
 
In the major category of Record of the Year, nominees were: ....
B.o.B. ("Nothin' on You"), Eminem (featuring Rihanna) ("Love the Way You Lie"), Cee-Lo Green ("F–– You"), Jay-Z & Alicia Keys ("Empire State of Mind") and Lady Antebellum ("Need You Now").

Best New Artist nods crossed genres and went to Justin Bieber, Drake, Florence & the Machine, Mumford and Sons and Esperanza Spalding.

"Wow, it feels amazing. I can't believe I'm in this position," an overwhelmed Bieber said, live via satellite from London, after the news was announced. "I don't think of myself as a superstar. I think of myself as a normal person living my dream."

Selena Gomez and Foo Fighters rocker Dave Grohl announced nominees for Song of the Year, which is given to the songwriter. The five nominees were Cee-Lo Green for "F––– You," Ray Lamontagne for "Beg Steal Or Borrow," Lady Antebellum for "Need You Now," Eminem for "Love the Way You Lie" and Miranda Lambert for "The House That Built Me."

Other key nominees include the cast of Glee, which earned two nominations, as did Bieber. Perry and Rihanna walked away with four nods, while Beyoncé earned two.

The 53rd annual Grammy Awards will air live on CBS from Los Angeles's Staples Center on Feb. 13.

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The looming Oscar smackdown

Natalie Portman is the star of Darren Aronofsky's nightmarish ballet drama "Black Swan."

STORY HIGHLIGHTS

• "Black Swan" is dark to the point of being a quasi-horror film
  
• "Kids," though it deals with tough issues, is ultimately a warm-hearted crowd pleaser
  
• "They both give great performances, and they should be proud of their work," a source says

Can Natalie Portman's psycho "Black Swan" ballerina snag the Best Actress Oscar from Annette Bening, a veteran nominee who caused audiences to swoon in "The Kids Are All Right?"

(The Daily Beast) -- It may only be December, but the Best Actress race is already shaping up to be the most competitive in years, with everyone from back-from-obscurity Nicole Kidman to indie darling Tilda Swinton to newcomer Jennifer Lawrence causing a stir. It's a pity that the race has already boiled down to a smackdown between just two of the divas: Annette Bening, for her role as an uptight lesbian in Lisa Cholodenko's "The Kids Are All Right," and Natalie Portman, the star of Darren Aronofsky's nightmarish ballet drama, "Black Swan," which opens this weekend.
It causes déjà vu, of course -- last year, the elder stateswoman versus ingénue-y battle lines were drawn between Meryl Streep ("Julie & Julia") and Sandra Bullock ("The Blind Side"). And the same arguments that were made on behalf of those......
actresses are being repurposed, almost verbatim, this season: that the older Bening has been nominated thrice before (for "The Grifters," "American Beauty," and "Being Julia"), and thus "deserves" to win. That Portman has, Bullock-like, "surprised" us by playing a part no one knew she was capable of.
In "Black Swan," the 29-year-old Portman graduates from turns in cute indie movies ("Garden State") and unapologetic blockbusters (the "Star Wars" prequels) to play a Type AAA professional ballerina who wins the lead role in "Swan Lake" and becomes embroiled in an "All About Eve"-like war with a brazen new arrival (Mila Kunis) to the dance company.
Like Jodie Foster's Oscar-winning performance in "The Accused," the role demonstrates a new range and maturity for Portman, who trades in her saccharine cuteness for a quiet intensity that teeters on the brink of hysteria. Like a glass doll perched on a precarious ledge, she seems always this close to falling over the edge and self-destructing. Even her rail-thin body has a severity to it, the result of a year-long, daily training regimen of five to eight hours of ballet work, swimming a mile, and eating next to nothing. The process, Portman recently told the New York Times, sent her into "complete physical distress."

Travers: 'Back Swan' one of year's best

The academy, and the acting branch in particular, which votes on Best Actress, adores such admissions of self-inflicted torture for the sake of Art, and under normal circumstances, it would be time for Portman to start thinking about her acceptance speech. Also in her favor is that over the past decade, youth has been rewarded in the Best Actress category -- with the exception of 2006 winner Helen Mirren and Bullock, who was 45, all of the winners have been in their late twenties or thirties. "One pattern that has been clear in the Best Actress category in recent years with the old boys in the academy is that they treat it like a beauty pageant," Tom O'Neil, who runs the awards website GoldDerby.com, told The Daily Beast. "When you look at the parade of lovelies that have won, it's Charlize, Julia, Nicole, Halle ... This year the babe of the year is Natalie Portman."
But 52-year-old Bening, who has twice been denied an Oscar by the same starlet (Hilary Swank, who won for "Boys Don't Cry" when Bening was nominated for "American Beauty" and for "Million Dollar Baby" the year of "Being Julia"), is not about to step aside and let another whippersnapper steal the spotlight. If anything, she is using her age and experience as a weapon. At Q&A screenings of "Kids" for guild members, she has made a point to remind fellow thespians that she is an actor's actor, one with a long body of work both on the stage and screen. It's also been made clear that playing a middle-aged mom required its own kind of suffering. Portman may have starved herself, but Bening was willing to do something that in Hollywood is considered far more unthinkable: not wear makeup. It's maybe not as extreme as Oscar-winner Charlize Theron's transformation in "Monster," but it still falls under the "going ugly" category, which has always been Oscar catnip. And it's sure to strike a chord with female voters of a certain age.
Something else Bening is doing is working it. During these all-important weeks of non-stop schmoozing before Oscar ballots are due, Bening has been a red-carpet regular. In August, she was honored at the Hollywood Foreign Press Association luncheon (the HFPA votes on the Golden Globes). In October, she was given the absurdly titled "Hollywood Actress Award" at the Hollywood Film Festival, one of the most ridiculed awards ceremony in a land of dubious festivals and awards shows. And in January, she's set to receive the American Riviera Award at the Santa Barbara Film Festival -- another thinly veiled opportunity to hobnob with Oscar voters. (Last year, Bullock took home the Riviera Award.)
Another one of Bening's weapons is husband Warren Beatty, a Hollywood dean who knows a thing or two about Oscar campaigning (he's been nominated 10 times and won Best Director for "Reds") and is one of the town's most well-connected citizens.
"Warren can call [Jack] Nicholson up and start having screenings in living rooms, dinner with their friends -- that's how they're going to get her the nomination and win," noted another Oscar consultant, referring to a less formal, more insidery schmoozing tactic known as the Bel Air circuit.
But observers add that however aggressive Bening is being, she's ultimately waging a graceful battle. "She campaigns as classy as anyone I know," said the consultant. "She handles herself in an exemplary manner. There are people who campaign in such a way that it makes many of us feel uncomfortable, but it's a very thin line to walk."
As for Portman, her lesser visibility is in part due to the fact that "Black Swan" has not yet been released and is only now starting to be screened for Academy members. Fox Searchlight has kept the film and its stars under tight wraps since its premiere at the Venice Film Festival in September. There have been the obligatory spreads in major newspapers and magazines in recent weeks, and Portman and the rest of the cast were on hand last month when Aronofsky presented "Black Swan" at the AFI Festival in L.A., but otherwise the film has been relying more on buzz (which has been intense, and largely rapturous) than showboating.
Though on the eve of its release, the reins are loosening. On Wednesday night, Searchlight threw a lavish Oscar party on the rooftop of the trendy Thompson hotel in Beverly Hills, attended by Portman et al. Expect more such rollouts -- and Portman face-time ops -- in the coming weeks from Searchlight, which has a reputation as a big spender this time of year. (In contrast, Focus Features, "Kids'" distributor, tends to rely more on a grassroots approach and savvy, as opposed to extravagant marketing.)
Something else that will tip the scales in either Portman or Bening's favor is how "Black Swan" is received by Oscar voters. Unlike "Kids," which, though it deals with tough issues, is ultimately a warm-hearted crowd pleaser, "Black Swan" is dark to the point of being a quasi-horror film, and includes an incredibly graphic sex scene between Portman and Kunis. At this stage, the reaction from the academy has been "divisive," the Oscar consultant said. "I've heard people say it's amazing, and others have hated it."

But whatever's going on behind the scenes, in public, everyone is being graciously judicious. When I asked "Black Swan" producer Mike Medavoy about the Bening-Portman rivalry, he said, "They both give great performances, and they should be proud of their work. I would say to both of them, 'Good luck.' They're both great actresses. We'll see how it all goes."

Coming to a movie theater near you

Reese Witherspoon teams up with Owen Wilson, left, in "How Do You Know." Paul Rudd and Jack Nicholson also star.

STORY HIGHLIGHTS

• With a crop of new releases, Hollywood hopes 2010 will go out with a bang
• Angelina Jolie and Johnny Depp tangle in "The Tourist"
• Garrett Hedlund gets pulled into the cyberworld of Tron in "Tron: Legacy"

(CNN) -- Need a break from shopping and celebrating the holidays? There will be lots of offerings at your local cinema as Hollywood is releasing a crop of new films through the end of the year.
NOW PLAYING
"Burlesque"
Plot summary: A small-town girl goes to California to perform in a burlesque musical revue.
Starring: Christina Aguilera, Cher, Stanley Tucci and Kristen Bell
"Faster"
Plot summary: An ex-con out to avenge his brother's murder must also deal with a hit man and a police officer hunting him.
Starring: Dwayne Johnson, Billy Bob Thornton and Maggie Grace
"Love and Other Drugs"

The stars of 'Love and Other Drugs'

Rapunzel's 21st century makeover

Plot summary: A pharmaceutical salesman begins a relationship with a woman who has Parkinson's disease.
Starring: Jake Gyllenhaal, Anne Hathaway and Judy Greer....

"Tangled"
Plot summary: Love inspires the long-haired Princess Rapunzel to leave her tower in this reboot of a beloved fairy tale.
Starring: Voices of Mandy Moore, Zachary Levi and Donna Murphy
"The Legend of Pale Male"
* Limited release in New York
Plot summary: Documentary about a red-tailed hawk who becomes a famous resident of New York.
Starring: N/A
"The Nutcracker in 3D"
* Limited release; wide release December 3
Plot summary: The classic story of girl whose gift comes to life one Christmas Eve gets a modern, 3-D twist.
Starring: Elle Fanning, Nathan Lane and John Turturro
FRIDAY
"The King's Speech"
Plot summary: An Australian speech therapist tries to help King George VI of Britain overcome a speech impediment.
Starring: Colin Firth, Geoffrey Rush and Helena Bonham Carter
"London Boulevard"
Plot summary: A parolee battles with a gangster for the affections of a movie star.
Starring: Keira Knightley, Colin Farrell and Jamie Campbell Bower
DECEMBER 3
"All Good Things"
* Limited release in New York

Kirsten Dunst does murder mystery

Travers: 'Back Swan' one of year's best

Plot summary: Inspired by one of the most notorious unsolved crime cases in New York history, the film is part murder mystery, part love story.
Starring: Ryan Gosling, Kirsten Dunst, Kristen Wiig and Frank Langella
"The Assistants"
* Limited release in Los Angeles.
Plot summary: A group of Hollywood assistants struggle to get a film made.
Starring: Joe Mantegna, Jane Seymour, Stacy Keach and Chris Conner
"Black Swan"
Plot summary: A thriller in which a ballet dancer finds herself pitted against a newcomer as they both compete for the ultimate role.
Starring: Natalie Portman, Mila Kunis and Vincent Cassel
"I Love You Phillip Morris"
Plot summary: A con man meets the love of his life behind bars.
Starring: Jim Carrey, Ewan McGregor and Leslie Mann
"Dead Awake"
Plot summary: A young man attempts to unravel a past that is haunting him.
Starring: Nick Stahl, Rose McGowan and Amy Smart
"Meskada"
* Limited release
Plot summary: A detective's investigation of a boy's murder leads him back to his hometown.
Starring: Nick Stahl, Rachel Nichols, Kellan Lutz and Jonathan Tucker
"Night Catches Us"
* Limited release in New York; New Jersey; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; and West Hollywood, California
Plot summary: In 1976, a young man returns after years of being away to the race-torn Philadelphia neighborhood where he grew up.
Starring: Anthony Mackie, Kerry Washington, Jamie Hector and Wendell Pierce
"The Warrior's Way"
Plot summary: A master swordsman seeks sanctuary in an American town after refusing a mission.
Starring: Jang Dong-gun, Kate Bosworth and Geoffrey Rush
DECEMBER 10
"The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader"
Plot summary: Lucy, Edmund and their cousin Eustace are drawn to Narnia again.
Starring: Georgie Henley, Skandar Keynes and Ben Barnes
"The Company Men"
Plot summary: Three men try to survive during a year in which their company undergoes corporate downsizing.
Starring: Tommy Lee Jones, Ben Affleck and Chris Cooper
"The Fighter"
Plot summary: The story of the early years of boxer "Irish" Micky Ward and his brother before the former went pro in the mid-1980s.
Starring: Mark Wahlberg, Christian Bale and Amy Adams
"Garden of Eden"
Plot summary: Promising American novelist David Bourne travels across Europe with his wife and her Italian girlfriend.
Starring: Jack Huston, Mena Suvari and Richard E. Grant
"The Tourist"
Plot summary: An Interpol agent draws a tourist into a web of intrigue.
Starring: Angelina Jolie, Johnny Depp and Paul Bettany
"You Won't Miss Me"
Plot Summary: A troubled young woman is released from a psychiatric hospital and lashes out at the world with a series of self-destructive acts.
Starring: Stella Schnabel, Simon O'Connor, Zachary Tucker and Borden Capalino
"The Tempest"
Plot summary: Based on Shakespeare's play, a vengeful sorceress unleashes her powers against shipwrecked enemies.
Starring: Helen Mirren, Russell Brand, Djimon Hounsou and Alfred Molina
DECEMBER 17
"And Soon the Darkness"
Plot summary: Two American girls bike in a remote part of Argentina when one disappears and the other must find her before it's too late.
Starring: Odette Yustman, Amber Heard, Karl Urban and Adriana Barraza.
"How Do You Know"
Plot summary: A woman is caught in a love triangle involving a baseball player and an old acquaintance.
Starring: Reese Witherspoon, Owen Wilson, Paul Rudd and Jack Nicholson
"Rabbit Hole"
* Limited release; wide release January 14
Plot Summary: A man and his wife struggle to come to terms with the accidental death of their 4-year-old son.
Starring: Nicole Kidman, Aaron Eckhart, Sandra Oh and Dianne Wiest
"Yogi Bear"
Plot summary: A documentary filmmaker travels to Jellystone Park where he discovers Yogi and Boo-Boo.
Starring: Voices of Anna Faris, Dan Aykroyd and Justin Timberlake
"Tron: Legacy"
Plot summary: A man is haunted by the disappearance of his father, a world-renowned video game developer.
Starring: Garrett Hedlund, Jeff Bridges and Olivia Wilde
DECEMBER 22
"Little Fockers"
Plot summary: The Focker family prepares for the arrival of a baby.
Starring: Robert De Niro, Ben Stiller and Teri Polo
"Somewhere"
Plot summary: A Hollywood bad-boy re-examines his life after an unexpected visit from his young daughter.
Starring: Stephen Dorff, Elle Fanning and Chris Pontius
"True Grit"
Plot summary: A teenager enlists the aid of a boozy, trigger-happy lawman to find her father's killer.
Starring: Jeff Bridges, Matt Damon, Josh Brolin and Hailee Steinfeld
"Gulliver's Travels"
Plot summary: A shipwrecked travel writer is a giant in Lilliput, land of little people.
Starring: Jack Black, Emily Blunt, Jason Segel and Billy Connolly
DECEMBER 25
"The Illusionist"
Plot summary: An aging magician bonds with a young fan who believes his tricks are real magic.
Starring: Voices of Jean-Claude Donda, Eilidh Rankin and Didier Gustin
DECEMBER 29
"Another Year"
Plot summary: A happy middle-aged couple are hit with life's highs and lows over the span of four seasons, including embracing their son's newly discovered partner and enduring an unexpected death in the family.
Starring: David Bradley, Jim Broadbent, Karina Fernandez and Oliver Maltman
"Biutiful"
Plot summary: A crook with a terminal illness tries to set his affairs in order.
Starring: Javier Bardem, Maricel Álvarez, Hanaa Bouchaib and Diarytou Daff
"Casino Jack"
Plot summary: Kevin Spacey stars as Washington lobbyist Jack Abramoff, whose greed and corruption get him in a heap of legal hot water.
Starring: Kevin Spacey, Barry Pepper, Jon Lovitz and Kelly Preston
"The Debt"
Plot summary: Past events haunt a former Mossad agent when she returns to Eastern Europe to investigate the apparent reappearance of a Nazi war criminal she thought was long dead.
Starring: Helen Mirren, Sam Worthington, Jessica Chastain and Jesper Christensen
"The Way Back"
Plot summary: This drama follows a group of soldiers who escaped from a Siberian gulag in 1940.
Starring: Colin Farrell, Jim Sturgess, Saoirse Ronan and Ed Harris
"Wild Target"
* Limited release
Plot summary: A respected hit man is thinking about retirement and starting a family when he meets a beautiful thief who may shake up his plans.
Starring: Bill Nighy, Emily Blunt and Rupert Grint
DECEMBER 31
"Blue Valentine"
Plot summary: A love story centered on a couple who try to save their marriage amidst the romantic memories of their past.

Starring: Ryan Gosling, Michelle Williams and John Doman

Katy Perry vs. Lady Gaga: Who Made Your Album of the Year?

(clockwise from left) Eminem, Charles Kelley (of Lady Antebellum), Win Butler (of Arcade Fire), Lady Gaga, Katy Perry (center)

AP; AFF; Getty; Wireimage; inset: PictureGroup

From a meat-dress-wearing diva to a rapper to a country trio and beyond, this year's Grammy nominations in the top Album of the Year catergory are diverse to say the least.

The trophies won't be handed out until Feb. 13, but that doesn't mean you can't weigh in on your favorite of the five nominated choices.

Arcade Fire's The Suburbs
The album by the Canadian indie rockers was released in August and was described by frontman Win Butler as "a mix of the Depeche Mode and....
Neil Young." It drew two other nods this year: Best Alternative Music Album and Best Rock Performance By A Duo Or Group With Vocals.

Eminem's Recovery
Eminem called upon fellow superstars Pink and Rihanna to back him up on this one, which shot straight to the top of the charts when it was released in June. Critics generally liked it, with Entertainment Weekly seeing "flashes of new maturity" in the work. It's up for multiple awards, including Best Rap Album.

Lady Antebellum's Need You Now
The group's sophomore effort debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart and spawned the catchy hit – about an ill-advised late-night phone call made out of loneliness – of the same name.

Lady Gaga's The Fame Monster
The album, technically an EP, counts Beyoncé as one of its guests and deals with the darker side of fame. The Fame Monster spawned mega-singles including "Bad Romance" and "Alejandro."

Katy Perry's Teenage Dream
Russell Brand's wife is responsible for one of the songs of 2010, "California Gurls," the lead single from this disc. Teenage Dream went straight to No. 1 when it was released in August, and is also nominated for Best Pop Vocal Album.

Danny Bonaduce's Surprise (to Him!) Hawaiian Wedding

Amy Railsback and Danny Bonaduce

Courtesy Danny Bonaduce

For three years, Danny Bonaduce had promised Amy Railsback that he would marry her anytime and that he had even bought her a ring, but he wanted her to take care of the paperwork.

Then last November then phone rang.

"The wedding planner from the hotel called to speak with Amy and told me I was getting married!” Bonaduce, 51, tells PEOPLE. “I said, ‘Honey you got something to tell me?’ Then I thought about it, and said, ‘This is a great idea!’” 

The Partridge Family star and Railsback, 28, a former substitute teacher from Sacramento who is now his manager, were married Nov. 22 in a private ceremony in Maui.

It was a sunset ceremony at picturesque Plumeria Point, with just a wedding coordinator and minister on hand. Railsback says she picked out the garden spot because the backdrop was the ocean and islands

“I was going to tell him,” she says....
“It was an unintentional surprise.”

The bride wore an off-white crochet dress and Bonaduce wore cream colored slacks, a shirt and lei. After the ceremony, they went for a walk on the beach and then had a Hawaiian dinner at the hotel – marinated tuna, sashimi, and a Spam California roll that was sent over by a pal, Shane Victorino, a friend and a Philadelphia Phillies’ baseball player staying at the same hotel.

And the ring the actor had picked out? It was a $400 a sterling silver diamond crusted skull and crossbones.

"It’s our insignia,” he says, “and I have a similar one." Railsback also received a Scott Kay 1¼ carat white gold setting.

Says the new Mrs. Bonaduce: “Danny realized I might not want to wear a skull and crossbones every day."

Jets suspend, fine coach who tripped player

STORY HIGHLIGHTS

• Jets suspend strength and conditioning coach Sal Alosi without pay, fine him $25,000
• Alosi tripped Dolphins rookie cornerback Nolan Carroll on Jets' sideline on Sunday
• In statement, Alosi says he accepts responsibility for his actions, respects decision
• Jets head coach: "That's a thing that has no business in this league or anywhere else"

(CNN) -- The New York Jets on Monday suspended a strength and conditioning coach through the 2010 season's playoffs for intentionally tripping a Miami Dolphins player during Sunday's Jets-Dolphins game, the Jets said on their website.
The Jets said they suspended Sal Alosi without pay and fined him $25,000 for tripping Dolphins rookie cornerback Nolan Carroll on the Jets' sideline as Carroll was covering a punt in the third quarter of Miami's 10-6 victory.
"After reviewing the facts and consulting with the league office, we determined that this was the most appropriate discipline," Jets General Manager Mike Tannenbaum said on the Jets' site. "I have spoken with Sal. He understands the severity...
of his actions and has apologized to all parties involved in the incident."
Alosi, who will be barred from the Jets' practice facility until the end of the season, said in a statement that he accepts responsibility for his actions and respects the team's decision.
Carroll, covered by two Jets players, was running along the sideline toward the Jets' punt returner when the incident happened at the New Meadowlands Stadium in New Jersey. Video shows Carroll was out of bounds and trying to run back in the field of play when Alosi -- standing with his hands in his pockets -- leaned his left knee forward. The knee caught Carroll, who tumbled to the ground.
Carroll was shaken up but eventually walked to his sideline on his own power. He returned to the game in the fourth quarter.
Before the suspension was announced, Alosi told reporters Monday that he was sorry for the incident, and that he wasn't thinking during the play.
"If I could go back and do it again, I sure as heck would take a step back. It was just a situation where I wasn't thinking," Alosi said during a news conference Monday afternoon at the Jets' facility in Florham Park, New Jersey.
He said he apologized after the game Sunday to Carroll, Dolphins head coach Tony Sparano and Jets owner Woody Johnson, among others. He said he hadn't offered to resign but would accept whatever disciplinary action he received.
"I let everybody down yesterday with my actions. My actions were inexcusable and irresponsible. I'm extremely thankful that my actions yesterday didn't result in any significant injury to Nolan or any other player," he said.
Noting that the Dolphins had been penalized earlier in the game for running out of bounds, a reporter asked Alosi whether someone had instructed him and other Jets personnel to stand close to the sidelines to prevent such moves.
"No, that wasn't anything that was instructed," Alosi said. "Our inactive players -- guys that don't play -- we try to keep those guys focused on the game, root those players on. ... We wanted to cheer on our guys."
Meeting with reporters before the suspension was announced, Jets head coach Rex Ryan said the Jets and the NFL were working together on Alosi's punishment. Ryan said he wanted to apologize to Carroll and the Dolphins.
"That's a thing that has no business in this league or anywhere else. Sal made a huge mistake. He knows that. He's apologized for it," Ryan said.
Sparano, before he had a chance to review the tape, told reporters after the game Sunday that his coaches upstairs were telling him that Carroll had been tripped.
"I talked to the referee at that point ... [and] I told him at that point that it was on tape and that the people upstairs are telling me that that's what they see," Sparano said.
Carroll told South Florida's Sun Sentinel newspaper that he wasn't angry. But some of his teammates were.
"Come on, man. That's dirty! ... There's no place for that in football," Dolphins linebacker Karlos Dansby said Sunday, according to the Sun-Sentinel. "Hopefully they'll be fined for it. I'll leave it up to the league."

Alosi, who played linebacker at Hofstra, joined the Jets as an intern in 2002 before serving as their assistant strength and conditioning coach from 2003 to 2005. He worked one year with the Atlanta Falcons before returning to the Jets as their head strength and conditioning coach in 2007.

Ten stars who followed Oscar-worthy performances with stinkers

While Natalie Portman deserves attention for her role in "Black Swan," her new rom-com could cost her precious Academy votes.

STORY HIGHLIGHTS

• Portman's rom-com "No Strings Attached" is coming out right before the Oscars
  
• Sandra Bullock made history in 2010 for winning both an Oscar and a Razzie
  
• Halle Berry followed her 2002 Academy Award with a Razzie Award in 2005

(The Frisky) -- Natalie Portman is getting a lot of Oscar buzz for her performance in "Black Swan." And while the young actress certainly deserves the attention for the mind-bending role, we're a little concerned that a dud of a movie is about to hit theaters that could distract critics from her performance in the ballet thriller. Her rom-com "No Strings Attached," also starring Ashton Kutcher, is coming out right before the Oscars.
Sometimes when this kind of thing happens, it makes the stronger performance seem like a fluke and can cost an actor precious Academy votes. But Natalie would not be the first star who went from stellar performance to getting stuck in a stinker.
From "Dreamgirls to "Norbit"
Apparently, a lot of people felt that Eddie Murphy's shot at winning an Oscar for ....
his role in "Dreamgirls" evaporated after his 2007 movie "Norbit." For his role as James "Thunder" Early in "Dreamgirls," Murphy took home a Golden Globe and a Screen Actors Guild Award and earned an Oscar nomination (but not a win), but when "Norbit" dropped in theaters, the movie ended up winning eight Golden Raspberry "Razzie" awards. That's a lot of bad "fruit."
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America's sweetheart bombs
Sandra Bullock made history in 2010 for winning both an Oscar and a Razzie in the same year. Actually, make that in the same weekend! Before accepting her Best Actress Oscar for "The Blind Side," the gracious actress accepted a Razzie for Worst Actress in "All About Steve." We're sure her two statues sit side by side.
From "Good Will" to six stinkers
Ben Affleck took home an Oscar in 1997 for writing "Good Will Hunting," so I suppose his acting prowess wasn't exactly on the line. But he followed up that win with a number of truly mediocre roles and was nominated for Worst Actor of the Decade Razzie this year for his contributions to film in "Daredevil," "Gigli," "Jersey Girl," "Paycheck," "Pearl Harbor," and "Surviving Christmas." Ouch. But it should be noted that Affleck did accept his 2004 Razzie in person, so at least he's a good sport.
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"Catwoman" was a "Monster"
Actress Halle Berry followed her 2002 Academy Award for Best Actress in "Monster's Ball" with a Razzie Award for Worst Actress in "Catwoman" in 2005. Berry accepted her Razzie while holding her Academy Award, which is awesomely ... awesome.
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He should have said "no" to "Vice"
Jamie Foxx had a great year in 2004 after winning an Oscar for "Ray," getting another nomination for "Collateral," and having a hit song with "Slow Jamz." But he followed that strong year with films like "Miami Vice" and "Valentine's Day," which, no matter what anyone says, was super mediocre.
She had a good and a bad "marriage" movie
Her performance in 2008's "Rachel Getting Married" earned Anne Hathaway an Oscar nomination, but her other bridal-themed flop, "Bride Wars," the following year made us forget all about it. Wedding-themed movies are just a hard genre to get right.
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From piano man to sci-fi flop
Nothing could make me stop loving Adrien Brody, but he did manage to disappoint critics when he followed up his 2003 Best Actor Oscar for "The Pianist" with "The Singing Detective" and (shudder) "King Kong." And now he's wasting his talent in weird sc-fi movies like "Splice" and "Predators?" Get this man a period piece, pronto!

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