AP - Among the first announcements President Barack Obama will make upon returning from his Hawaiian vacation is his choice for top economic adviser, a decision that could signal a new direction for the administration as it struggles to jumpstart the economy and wrestle down unemployment.

AP - When Angela Madsen was pulled off her plane and her wheelchair stayed on board, she knew she was in for a rough night. The paraplegic athlete struggled to get into the bathrooms at Kennedy Airport. Turning the wheels on her borrowed wheelchair strained her shoulders. Sleeping was impossible.

AP - A chair lift derailed at Maine's tallest ski mountain Tuesday, sending skiers plummeting 50 feet to the slope below and injuring several people, officials and a witness said.

AP - The Michelle Williams and Ryan Gosling marital drama "Blue Valentine" is agonizing to watch yet relentlessly compelling, even illuminating, playing almost like a sober documentary rather than a narrative film.

AP - Natalie Portman is pregnant with her first child and is engaged to Benjamin Millepied, the choreographer of "Black Swan."

AP - Lesley Manville is the latest British actress to emerge from the Mike Leigh laboratory of breakthrough performances.

AP - The holiday season is high time for film fans. The year's best pictures hit theaters, awards buzz begins and cold weather and extra days off make for perfect moviegoing conditions.

Reuters - New North American box office champ "Little Fockers" narrowly led the international field during the weekend as Mother Nature hit sales across Europe, which accounts for about half the foreign box office.

AP - Nothing really happens in Mike Leigh's latest, "Another Year" — nothing extraordinary, at least. As the title suggests, the film follows the usual comings and goings, ups and downs that transpire over four seasons among a longtime happily married couple, their family and friends.

AFP - "Little Fockers," the third in a series of Ben Stiller comedies playing on the nightmare in-laws theme, topped the Christmas weekend box office in North America, final figures showed.

AP - An 18-year-old woman has been charged with breaking into the Atlanta home of filmmaker Tyler Perry.

AP - Darth Vader proclaiming he's Luke Skywalker's father, John Travolta preening in his underwear and an early 20th-century deaf activist communicating in sign language are among the images that will be preserved by the Library of Congress as part of its National Film Registry.

AP - Elmo is tickled by his time away from Sesame Street.

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