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'EXTRA' sat down with actress Gretchen Mol to discuss her lead role in 'The Notorious Bettie Page,' opening in theaters on April 14. Page was one of America's first sex symbols in the 1950s and she became the subject of a Senate investigation due to her bondage-related photos.

Mol discusses what it took to shoot the nude scenes, which were an essential part of the role.

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'EXTRA's' Jon Kelley got an exclusive opportunity to visit the set of Jessica Simpson's new film, 'Employee of the Month,' currently shooting in New Mexico.
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Now you can enter the Corleone world in the new Electronic Arts video game, 'The Godfather The Game.'
At the premiere party at club Privilege in LA last week, cameras caught up with Sonny Corleone himself, James Caan, as well as 'Godfather' fans Snoop Dogg and Ice Cube. The Hilton sisters and Tori Spelling were in attendance as well. Click here to go inside the party.

James Caan lent his voice to the game, as did Marlon Brando before his death - though most was recorded by a Brando sound-alike.
Click here to go behind the scenes of the making of 'The Godfather The Game.'

If 2005 hits were any indication, it appears that people will just embrace something familiar if they think it's quality entertainment. Cases in point: The latest installments of the 'Star Wars' and 'Harry Potter' movies became the year's top blockbusters; returning hitmakers 50 Cent and Mariah Carey delivered smash albums; and 'CSI,' 'American Idol' and 'Desperate Housewives' continued to dominate the TV landscape.

The documentary by director Chip Duncan is being made in partnership with Relief International, a Los Angeles-based aid organization. Pakistan's government also supported the project.

Relief International is worried that not enough food aid is in the pipeline for survivors of the Oct. 8 quake, which killed 87,000 people and left about 3 million homeless.

Duncan said he expected the documentary would be released on U.S. public television later this year. Excerpts will be used for fundraising, he said.

And he couldn't be happier.

The shirts are the ones worn by the ill-fated lovers, played by Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal, in Oscar front-runner "Brokeback Mountain." The shirts that represent their relationship. The shirts that, to Gregory, represent the ongoing plight of gays for acceptance in society.

"They really are the ruby slippers of our time," said Gregory, 45.

A longtime gay activist, Gregory plans to keep the shirts "as they were, on the hanger, entwined."

"I would never wear them, put them on, or separate them," he said.

Gregory collects signed celebrity photos from Hollywood's golden age, but this is his first foray into movie props. Focus Features, distributor of "Brokeback Mountain," donated the two shirts, which were sold on the auction Web site ebay.com to benefit Variety -- The Children's Charity of Southern California.

Gregory logged his winning bid -- $101,100.51 -- just 28 seconds before the 10-day auction came to a close on Monday.

Jason Kaminsky, UCLA campus events commissioner, made the announcement Tuesday. An awards ceremony is scheduled for March 7.

"It was said that Spencer Tracy's natural style set him apart from actors of his time and set performance standards for future generations," Kaminsky said. "We think that the same can be said for the acting of Mr. Freeman."

The film beat out a literary biopic "Capote," L.A. story "Crash," 1950s drama "Good Night, and Good Luck" and the British favorite "The Constant Gardener."

"The Constant Gardener," a spy thriller and love story, went into the ceremony with 10 nominations, but took only one award, for editing. "Memoirs of a Geisha" won three awards, for cinematography, music and costume design.

She's French actress Eva Green. She'll star in the new "Casino Royale" as the character of Vesper.

Green's film debut was a couple of years ago in the ultra-steamy movie "The Dreamers." The director of that N-C-17 film had once said Eva Green is "so beautiful it's indecent."

Now, Green will use that beauty opposite the new James Bond, Daniel Craig.

In other casting news, Jeffrey Wright, who's currently in "Syriana," will play a character named Felix Leiter in the new Bond film.

The Ang Lee-directed movie about a longtime affair between two cowboys is nominated for best director, best picture and best actor for Ledger.

Other nominations include best supporting actress for Ledger's fiancee, Michelle Williams, and best supporting actor for co-star Jake Gyllenhaal.

"The movie's already exceeded any expectations I had," Ledger told reporters Wednesday at the Berlin International Film Festival. "I think pleasing Annie Proulx, the writer, and getting her nod of approval was the biggest success for me, for us."

Ledger was in Berlin to promote "Candy," a film that saw him return to his native Australia and star as a man who joins his girlfriend on a downward spiral into heroin addiction.

Berry's performance in the 2004 action bomb earned her a worst actress award in last year's Razzies, a spoof of the Oscar's that trashes Hollywood's worst.

Berry also shook her hips in a faux-comic "dance competition" to prove her superpower skills and to "test" her abilities as an action star.

Before she was given the traditional brass pudding pot during a roast at Harvard's Hasty Pudding Theater, Berry danced suggestively with a Harvard student dressed like a French poodle, which Berry's presenter's dubbed Catwoman's "Dogman" nemesis, a character invented for the skit.

She also acted out scenes from "Monster's Ball," a film for which she won an Oscar and a SAG award in 2002.