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LOS ANGELES - The people still like Ellen DeGeneres.

The comedian picked up her 11th trophy at the 36th annual People's Choice Awards. DeGeneres was awarded the favorite talk show award Wednesday at the fan-favorite ceremony. During her acceptance speech, the new "American Idol" judge poked fun at Sandra Bullock, who was on hand with Ryan Reynolds to receive the favorite comedy movie award for "The Proposal."

LOS ANGELES - The people still like Ellen DeGeneres.

The comedian picked up her 11th trophy at the 36th annual People's Choice Awards. DeGeneres was awarded the favorite talk show award Wednesday at the fan-favorite ceremony. During her acceptance speech, the new "American Idol" judge poked fun at Sandra Bullock, who was on hand with Ryan Reynolds to receive the favorite comedy movie award for "The Proposal."

LOS ANGELES - Roman Polanski sent a letter from house arrest in Switzerland asking a Los Angeles judge to sentence him in a sex case without making him return to the U.S., but a ruling was postponed Wednesday.

The notarized letter signed by Polanski on Dec. 26 in Gstaad was filed by his lawyer. It said Polanski understood he had the right to be present at all legal proceedings, but "I request that judgment be pronounced against me in my absence."

LOS ANGELES - The director of the Palm Springs International Film Festival says two Chinese movies selected for the event have been withdrawn in response to the scheduled screenings of a documentary about the Dalai Lama and Tibet.

Darryl Macdonald says "City of Life and Death" and "Quick, Quick, Slow" were withdrawn from the 21st annual festival after organizers declined Chinese government representatives' request to cancel screenings of "The Sun Behind the Clouds."

LOS ANGELES - A hearing that could decide the fate of Roman Polanski's long-delayed sex case is under way in Los Angeles.

It is the first hearing in California since an appellate court last month rejected Polanski's bid to have the case dismissed.

KETCHUM, Idaho - The Idaho Supreme Court has refused to reconsider its ruling in a lawsuit pitting an Idaho contractor against Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson.

The Idaho Mountain Express reports the high court said last week its October ruling in favor of the acting and producing couple will stand.

- The ratios of "Youth in Revolt" are out of whack. Steve Buscemi and Zach Galifianakis are barely utilized, yet we get two Michael Ceras.

Cera plays Nick Twisp, a precocious Oakland, Calif., teenager who describes himself as "a voracious reader of classic prose" and refers to his mother's boyfriend (Galifianakis) as her "consort." He cherishes Frank Sinatra but has none of his suavity. He's a virgin, an issue, he says, that "can no longer be ignored."

LOS ANGELES - "Diff'rent Strokes" actor Gary Coleman is in a Los Angeles hospital after suffering what he believes was a slight seizure.

Coleman's agent, Robert Malcolm, says the 41-year-old actor was taken by ambulance to a hospital shortly after 8 a.m. Wednesday after he began feeling "fuzzy" and vomited while resting at a hotel.