Keeping alive the spirit of America’s theatrical past, the Tonys showered awards, including those for best revivals, on the new productions of August Wilson’s 1987 Tony-winning best drama Fences – now starring this year’s Tony-winning best actor Denzel Washington and best actress Viola Davis – and the intimate, revisionist production of 1983′s best musical Tony winner La Cage aux Folles. The new La Cage also took Tonys for its outstanding leading man Douglas Hodge and director Terry Johnson.

“I’m amazed,” said Washington, 55. “I’m really surprised … and blessed.”

In her Broadway debut, Catherine Zeta-Jones, 40, an Oscar winner for the movie Chicago, was named best actress in the musical revival of Stephen Sondheim’s 1973 A Little Night Music. “I really do feel like Cinderella,” she said, thanking her parents and her husband, Michael Douglas – whom she called “a movie star, and I get to sleep with him every night.”

The three-hour ceremony’s first-time host, Will & Grace Emmy winner Sean Hayes, now starring in a revival of the 1968 best musical Promises, Promises, opened the show on the piano, before being joined by the casts of the season’s musicals. Capping the showstopper was the band Green Day, playing from the show based on their songs, American Idiot.

“Welcome to the Tony Awards,” Hayes announced, “the World Cup of show tunes.”

For a complete list of Tony winners, click here.

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Last night in L.A., Taylor Swift and Taylor Lautner made their first public appearance together (sorta) since their holiday breakup.

Everyone, close friends included, knew Tay-Squared wasn’t going to last, since the relaysh was more out of convenience than romance. So how did the two teen stars interact at last night’s People’s Choice Awards when the cameras weren’t rolling?

We all know that Miss Swift and her mother graciously gave Tay-Tay a standing ovation when he won his People’s Choice Award for favorite breakthrough actor.

But was it all for show? Sources inside the theater tell us the former “lovebirds” didn’t interact at all.

In fact, when Swift made her belated entrance to the awards show during a commercial break, the audience went wild for the country star—but Lautner didn’t even look up!

Don’t think it was a dig at his former girl, though; it was so loud and crazy in there he prob just didn’t even know what was going on. Right? Right.

The two stars were seated in the same section but at opposite ends from each other, so they didn’t really get the opportunity to chat. Neither exactly went out of their way, though.

Lautner left the show shortly after accepting his award, and Swift stayed until she won for favorite female artist, near the end of the PCAs.

Taylor insiders insist there is no bad blood between these two cuties, ‘tho.

We imagine that’s just because neither of them really cares that much! Wish more Hollywood breakups would go this smoothly.

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Tiger Woods’ 15th woman — Sandra Bullock?

George Lopez presented the Favorite Movie Actress award at Wednesday night’s People’s Choice Awards, saying, “I have the honor of naming the five white women in America that Tiger Woods has not slept with.”

After naming Bullock, 45, the winner, she took the stage and joked, “It’s only four women up here who have not slept with Tiger Woods.”

“Just kidding. I’m so just kidding,” she continued while making a funny face.

Bullock — whose movie, The Proposal, also won Best Comedy Film — also joked about wearing the same side-parted hairstyle as Nicole Kidman.

“I’d just like to say Nicole and I deliberately did our hair the same today,” she quipped as cameras flashed to Kidman, who placed her hands over her face.

Bullock then turned serious, fighting back tears.

“Life is hard sometimes, but we get through with laughter,” she said. “To my Dad — I hope you’re feeling better. And my husband, who is my boyfriend, who makes me feel like this every single day. He allows me to leave the house and he keeps things settled until I get back so I get to do what I get to do.”

Johnny Depp nabbed Favorite Movie Actor.

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Beyoncé, Taylor Swift and the Black Eyed Peas are among the megawatt stars set to perform Jan. 31 at the 52nd Grammy Awards in Los Angeles, it was announced on Tuesday.

Country cutie Swift, whose eight nods are second only to leading nominee Beyoncé’s 10, will also present at the show, an inside source told People on Tuesday.

Fellow nominees Lady Antebellum (with two nominations) and Maxwell (with six) will also perform on the live CBS telecast, while others are still to be named.

This year, Beyoncé, already a 10-time Grammy winner, is up for Record of the Year (“Halo”), Album of the Year (I Am … Sasha Fierce) and Song of the Year, for “Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It).”

Swift’s nominations also include Record of the Year and Song of the Year, for “You Belong With Me,” and Album of the Year, for “Fearless.

Triple Grammy winners the Black Eyed Peas are up for six awards, including Record of the Year, for “I Gotta Feeling,” and Album of the Year, for “The E.N.D.”

Swift’s MTV Video Awards “rival” Kanye West also has six nods, setting the stage for another showdown between the two stars – that is, if West dares to show up.

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So I think my thumbnails are finally working! If you click on a thumbnail, it will take you to my new gallery feature! You can click “Next” and “Previous” and easily navigate through my pictures! Hope you guys like it!

Pictured: Penelope Cruz, Kate Hudson, Nicole Kidman & Daniel Day-Lewis.

I have to start out by admitting that I never actually made it to see Milk.  I’m sure it’s amazing, and I’m sure Sean Penn deserved it.  But did he deserve it over Mickey Rourke?  Mickey Rourke gave the performance of a lifetime!  How could he have lost!!

Were you shocked with any of the awards?  I have to admit, I was surprised that Penelope Cruz got it…I sort of thought Marisa Tomei would get it.

PS: Wasn’t the Oscars amazing this year?  I loved the whole thing! I thought Hugh Jackman did an amazing job! What did you think?

Best Actress:
WINNER:
Kate Winslet – The Reader
NOMINEES:
Sean Penn Angelina Jolie – Changeling
Anne Hathaway – Rachel Getting Married
Meryl Streep – Doubt
Melissa Leo – Frozen River

Best Actor:
WINNER:
Sean Penn – Milk
NOMINEES:
Richard Jenkins – The Visitor
Mickey Rourke – The Wrestler
Frank Langella – Frost/Nixon
Brad Pitt – The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button

Best Supporting Actor:
WINNER:
Heath Ledger – The Dark Knight
NOMINEES:
Josh Brolin – Milk
Robert Downey Jr – Tropic Thunder
Philip Seymour Hoffman – Doubt
Michael Shannon – Revolutionary Road

Best Supporting Actress:
WINNER:
Penelope Cruz – Vicky Cristina Barcelona
NOMINEES:
Amy Adams – Doubt
Viola Davis – Doubt
Taraji P Henson – The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button
Marisa Tomei – The Wrestler

Best Film:
WINNER:
Slumdog Millionaire
NOMINEES:
The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button
Frost/Nixon
Milk
The Reader

Best Director:
WINNER:
Danny Boyle – Slumdog Millionaire
NOMINEES:
Gus Van Sant – Milk
Stephen Daldry – The Reader
David Fincher – The Curious Case Of Benjamin ButtonPenelope Cruz
Ron Howard – Frost/Nixon

REST OF THE OSCAR WINNERS AFTER THE JUMP! (more…)

An underdog movie about a little guy overcoming life’s enormous obstacles swept the Oscars Sunday night, as Slumdog Millionaire racked up eight Academy Awards, including those for Best Picture and for its Director, Danny Boyle.

But it was not underdog Mickey Rourke (for The Wrestler) who took the Best Actor Oscar. That honor went to Sean Penn, for Milk, in which he played 1970s gay activist Harvey Milk.

“I did not expect this, and I know how hard I make it to appreciate me, often,” Penn said in his impassioned acceptance speech – in which he also acknowledged his fellow nominee, whose career had faded away in the ’90s. “Mickey Rourke rises again,” said Penn, “and he is my brother.”

Besides Penn’s Oscar, his second as Best Actor (his first was for 2003′s Mystic River), Milk was also singled out for its Original Screenplay, by Dustin Lance Black.

A breathless Kate Winslet was named Best Actress for her role as a troubled woman with a Nazi past in The Reader. She confided to the audience in her acceptance speech that she first pretended to win an Oscar when she was 8 and looking in the bathroom mirror, holding a shampoo bottle.

Only, Sunday night on the stage of Hollywood’s Kodak Theatre, she was holding a world-famous golden statuette. “Well,” she said, “it’s not a shampoo bottle now.”

She also advised her sister “goddess” nominees just to accept the overwhelming fact that they were nominated in the same category as Meryl Streep. More on the Oscars! (more…)