Timberlake, "Boardwalk Empire" win at Creative Emmys (Reuters)

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Singer Justin Timberlake took home two more Emmys on Saturday in his burgeoning career as a comedic actor, while Gwyneth Paltrow added a television honor to a life spent mostly in the movies.

The 30-year-old, who started out as a pop singer, already has two Emmys for his previous work on "Saturday Night Live."

Timberlake was not on hand to collect his trophies, which were handed out in the creative arts portion of the PrimeTime Emmy Awards.

Timberlake won the guest comedy actor Emmy for hosting the season finale of "Saturday Night Live" in May, and shared another for co-writing the original song in his opening musical monologue for the sketch show.

HBO's prohibition era series "Boardwalk Empire" and 1930s drama "Mildred Pierce" both got off to a good start in their bid for next week's main Emmy awards. "Boardwalk Empire" walked off with a leading seven Emmys on Saturday, while "Mildred Pierce", starring Kate Winslet, won three.

Some 76 awards were announced in categories ranging from costumes and picture editing to reality host ahead of the main acting, comedy and drama series awards ceremony on September 18.

Paltrow, better known for drama, added a guest actress Emmy to her "Shakespeare in Love" Oscar for playing sexy substitute teacher Holly Holliday in the hit Fox musical comedy "Glee."

Paltrow, who beat Tina Fey ("Saturday Night Live") and nine-time Emmy veteran Cloris Leachman ("Raising Hope"), explained earlier this week that she could not attend Saturday's ceremony in Los Angeles.

But critical darling "Mad Men" came away empty-handed on Saturday in what could bode ill for its chances next week of winning best drama series for the fourth consecutive year.

GOVERNOR'S AWARD

John Walsh, host of the long-running crime show "America's Most Wanted", was given the Television Academy's Governor's Award for his contribution to society through television, winning a standing ovation from the audience.

Television Academy chairman John Shaffner thanked Walsh for "making the world a better place through television," noting that his show has helped police capture 1,500 fugitives and find 50 missing children since 1988.

"America's Most Wanted" was canceled by Fox as regular series earlier this year but will get a new lease on life on the Lifetime cable network.

On the drama side, Paul McCrane of "Harry's Law" was a surprise winner for best guest actor -- a category in which Michael J. Fox's quirky lawyer in "The Good Wife" was considered the favorite.

Loretta Devine took home her first Emmy for her guest actress role in hospital drama "Grey's Anatomy." Devine told reporters backstage, "I am over the moon. I just was not expecting it."

There were no surprises, however, for the best reality show host, which was won for the fourth time in four years by Jeff Probst of "Survivor." Probst said, "As we have seen tonight, the people in front of the cameras are nothing without the people behind the cameras".

Alaskan crab fishing show "Deadliest Catch" was a popular best reality program winner and also won three other technical awards.

Other notable winners included "So You Think You Can Dance" choreographers Mia Michaels and hip hop duo Tabitha and Napoleon D'umo, while the Kennedy Center Honors beat Lady Gaga's Monster Ball concert as the best variety, music or comedy special.

(Editing by Will Dunham)

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Paltrow, Timberlake win creative arts Emmy Awards (AP)

By RYAN PEARSON, AP Entertainment Writer Ryan Pearson, Ap Entertainment Writer – Sun Sep 11, 12:59 am ET

LOS ANGELES – "Boardwalk Empire" captured a leading seven trophies at the creative arts Emmy Awards, with Gwyneth Paltrow and Justin Timberlake earning TV comedy series guest-star honors.

Paltrow, recognized for "Glee," and Timberlake, a winner for hosting "Saturday Night Live," were no-shows at Saturday's ceremony for technical and other achievements. It preceded the main Sept. 18 Emmy show.

"She couldn't be here because it's happy hour at the Starlight Room," presenter and "Community" actress Alison Brie joked about Paltrow's absence.

Timberlake received his award for hosting a "Saturday Night Live" episode and shared in another Emmy for co-writing his opening monologue, in which he crooned about not wanting to sing.

"Justin Timberlake really wanted to be here but we said no, they want to see the writers," "SNL" head writer Seth Myers told the audience.

"Boardwalk Empire," which stars Steve Buscemi as a Prohibition-era politico in Atlantic City, N.J., earned trophies for categories including art direction, picture editing and makeup.

Loretta Devine was honored as best guest actress in a drama series for "Grey's Anatomy," with Paul McCrane earning the category's best actor award for "Harry's Law."

Fired "Two and a Half Men" star Charlie Sheen, the subject of a Comedy Central "roast" taping across town Saturday, was at the ceremony in spirit as his former co-star Jon Cryer and series creator Chuck Lorre presented awards in the casting category.

Lorre said he'd been urged to share funny stories about casting, asking Cryer: "What do you think? Got any amusing anecdotes?"

"Uh, none that amuses me," Cryer replied.

"Drawing a blank," Lorre concluded.

"America's Most Wanted" host John Walsh received the Governors Award, and said backstage that he had received offers from Fox, which dropped the show, and CNN to do news commentary. He turned them down.

"I said to Fox, all I really want to do is catch bad guys and find missing children," Walsh said. "This is the only thing I know how to do on television."

He'll be hosting a new version of the show on the Lifetime network and hopes to expand internationally.

Howie Mandel teased next week's Emmy Awards, saying: "This is great. These are the creative Emmys. Unlike the Emmys next week, where there's no creativity at all."

HBO earned a leading 15 awards Saturday, followed by PBS with 10, Fox with nine, CBS with seven and NBC with five. ABC won three awards, behind the four each for Discovery Channel and History.

The creative arts ceremony will air Sept. 17 on ReelzChannel, which earned three awards for the controversial miniseries "The Kennedys." The 63rd annual prime-time Emmy ceremony, with "Glee" star Jane Lynch as host, will air live the next night on Fox.

Other winners at the creative arts Emmys included:

Host, reality or reality-competition series: Jeff Probst, "Survivor," CBS.

Voice-over performance: Maurice LaMarche, "Futurama: Lrrreconcilable Ndndifferences," Fox.

Reality program: "Deadliest Catch," Discovery.

Commercial: "Born of Fire: Chrysler 200."

Animated Program: "Futurama: The Late Philip J. Fry," Comedy Central.

Nonfiction series: "American Masters," PBS.

Writing for a variety, music or comedy series: "64th Annual Tony Awards," CBS.

Music composition for a series (original dramatic score): "American Masters: John Muir In The New World," PBS.

Music composition for a miniseries, movie or special: "Mildred Pierce: Part Five," HBO.

Choreography (juried award: possibility of more than one award): Two awards, "So You Think You Can Dance," Fox.

Casting for a drama series: "Boardwalk Empire," HBO.

Casting for a miniseries, movie or a special: "Mildred Pierce," HBO.

Casting for a comedy series: "Glee," Fox.

Costumes for a miniseries, movie or a special: "Downton Abbey Part 1 (Masterpiece)," PBS.

Costumes for a variety-music program or a special (more than one award possible): "Gettysburg," History.

Costumes for a series: "The Borgias: Lucrezia's Wedding," Showtime.

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Justin Timberlake joins Mila Kunis at marine ball (Reuters)

LOS ANGELES (TheWrap) – Justin Timberlake says he may join "Friends With Benefits" co-star Mila Kunis in attending the Marine Corps Ball in November.

After one Marine invited Kunis to attend on YouTube, Cpl. Kelsey De Santis issued her own YouTube invitation to Timberlake. Santis is apparently the only woman posted at the Martial Arts Center for Excellence at Marine Corps Base Quantico, in Virginia.

Timberlake had urged Kunis to accept her invitation -- and at a "Friends With Benefits" press event, she in turn urged him to accept his.

"Do it for your country," she said.

"I don't feel backed into a corner at all!" Timberlake said, before adding, "I'll tell you what, I accept. If my schedule works out to do it, I'd love to do it. It's an honor."

Kunis' attending was briefly in question after Access Hollywood's Billy Bush reported that she wouldn't be able to keep her date with Sgt. Scott Moore because she is filming two movies in November.

"Do not believe what Billy Bush says," Kunis told reporters. "I am attending ... I accepted an invitation and I'm staying true to my word."

The November 18 ball will take place in Greenville, N.C., with Kunis and Timberlake on the arms of some lucky marines.

"I don't get asked out, ever. So, I was very flattered by that. And I hear that she's trained in martial arts, so I'm hoping we can tussle at some point," Timberlake said of his date.

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Justin Timberlake: Stealth Silicon Valley angel? (Reuters)

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – As it turns out, Justin Timberlake's role as Napster founder Sean Parker in "The Social Network" was a wink and nod to the celebrity's little publicized role in driving Silicon Valley start-ups.

But his involvement in the technology industry drew public notice this week with news that Timberlake, whose character in the Oscar-nominated movie helped shape Facebook's early days, will take a stake in Myspace, the ailing social network website that New Corp is selling at a large loss.

The move -- in partnership with Specific Media -- is the latest in Timberlake's quietly expanding business and investment empire. It may also be one of his most high-profile to date, thrusting the singer-actor into a category of celebrity-turned-businessman in the mold of Ashton Kutcher.

"Fame is a highly fungible commodity," said Paul Levinson, a professor of communications and media studies at Fordham University and an author on media innovation. "It makes anything you do more likely to be successful."

Timberlake has several publicized business ventures, from jeans and clothing line William Rast and record label Tennman Records, a joint venture with Interscope Records, to 901 Silver Tequila, a name inspired by an area code in Timberlake's hometown of Memphis.

But Timberlake has been providing relatively under-the-radar angel investing to tech start-ups via his Tennman Digital, an operation based in San Francisco's tech hub.

It incubates "great ideas that we think will change how we share information, consume media, and interact with the people around us," in the interactive digital media space, according to a profile posted on techVenture, a website that pairs investors with start-ups.

Tennman Digital has funded start-up Particle, which develops micro-video application Robo.tv, among other things. The group has also provided funding to Apple iPhone gaming application developer Tapulous.

Timberlake's role at Myspace remains unclear, although he will have his own office and a staff of six that will work for him, according to Specific Media Chief Executive Tim Vanderhook.

Vanderhook said his company's expertise in technology and advertising would complement the star's innate creativity to produce a site with "high entertainment value," with original content from a community of musicians, photographers and other creative professionals.

The combination of money, an iconic image and the business acumen displayed by him in the past all increase the likelihood of success, Levinson said.

That's good news for Timberlake and Specific Media, whose investment signals optimism that the brand of Myspace can be revived.

"The one thing that's been underreported is how excited Justin is to do this. I was blown away by his excitement level," said Vanderhook in a phone interview. "I think he was blown away by his excitement level, too."

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Justin Timberlake part of group buying MySpace (AP)

LOS ANGELES – Justin Timberlake apparently wasn't satisfied with just playing a social media impresario in the movies, so now he's becoming one in real life.

The pop star, who played Napster co-founder Sean Parker in "The Social Network," a movie about Facebook, has joined Specific Media in buying its downtrodden rival, MySpace, from News Corp. in a deal that closed Wednesday.

Timberlake will have an office at MySpace's Beverly Hills headquarters and a staff of about a half dozen people working for him "around the clock" developing his ideas for the site, said Specific Media CEO Tim Vanderhook.

The partners are set to unveil their plans for reviving the flagging site in a couple of months.

"When we met with Justin and we discussed what our strategy was, we hit a chord with him," Vanderhook told The Associated Press. "One of his passions is he really enjoys helping other artists and creating a community for people to really express themselves. I think we were blown away that we were able to get someone like Justin to be so excited about what we were doing."

The deal is for $35 million, mostly in Specific Media stock, according to a person familiar with the matter. That's a small fraction of the $580 million that News Corp. paid for the site six years ago. The sale resulted in the layoff of about half of the site's remaining 500 workers, said the person, who was not authorized to speak publicly and spoke on condition of anonymity.

As part of the exchange, News Corp. received a private equity stake in Specific Media and less than a 5 percent stake in MySpace.

With Timberlake's help, the buyers hope to revitalize MySpace and transform it into a destination for original shows, as well as bolster its already available video content and music. Vanderhook said the revamp will include additional investment in technology and maintain the right to stream music through the joint venture it has with major recording companies, MySpace Music.

"There's a need for a place where fans can go to interact with their favorite entertainers, listen to music, watch videos, share and discover cool stuff and just connect," Timberlake, an Emmy and Grammy winning artist, said in a statement. "MySpace has the potential to be that place."

The sale closed a day before the end of News Corp.'s fiscal year, meaning it was able rid itself of about $250 million in losses, estimated Barclays Capital analyst Anthony DiClemente.

Over the last 11 quarters, News Corp. had cumulatively lost about $1.4 billion on the business segment that houses MySpace. It was a disastrous performance by a company that CEO Rupert Murdoch had predicted would reach $1 billion in annual revenue. It never reached that goal.

Walking away from the site was "the right decision," said Standard & Poor's equity analyst Tuna Amobi. "It's something that they should put behind them and kind of move on."

MySpace CEO Mike Jones, the last member of a three-member executive team appointed to fix the site in April 2009, said in a memo to staff Wednesday that he would help with the transition for two months before departing.

MySpace launched in 2003, founded by entrepreneurs Chris DeWolfe and Tom Anderson, who is every MySpace user's first friend. It became a popular Internet destination and a key way for little-known musicians to market themselves and interact with their fans.

But MySpace lost its footing over the years as the fun of customizing one's profile began to bore its users and heavy use of banner advertisements slowed the speed at which pages load. Meanwhile, Facebook, founded in 2004, limited what users and advertisers could do, but kept pages clean, and freshened them with its "news feed" of updates, a feature that MySpace later copied.

MySpace peaked with 76 million monthly U.S. visitors in October 2008. Advertisers and musicians who once relied on it for promotion fled the site for other hotter social networks like Facebook and, more recently, Twitter.

When Facebook a few years ago began allowing apps, including music functions and addictive games like "FarmVille," MySpace was left in the dust.

Less than half of MySpace's monthly visitors are now in the United States, where its visitor count dropped by half in May to 35 million, according to tracking firm comScore Inc. Facebook now has more than 700 million monthly visitors worldwide, it said.

"Apps were the breaking point and MySpace could never recover from that," said Charlene Li, a social media analyst and founder of Altimeter Group.

Rohit Kulkarni, an 18-year-old member of the San Jose, Calif. pop punk band Four O'Clock Heroes, said his group once exclusively used MySpace to reach fans with their music, but they haven't checked the site in months. They opened their Facebook band page last year.

"Most of our following was already on Facebook anyways," Kulkarni said. "Nowadays, people use Facebook over MySpace because it's integrated into almost everything, like all your mobile phones. I'm guessing that's why it became more popular."

Even "FarmVille" game-maker Zynga has taken a role promoting music, as shown recently when Lady Gaga unveiled her new album there.

Timberlake's involvement is a clear sign that MySpace will try to reconnect with its musical roots. Tim Vanderhook said that the acquisition is about returning MySpace "to what it was supposed to be."

Specific Media, based in Irvine, Calif., brokers the sale of ads to websites and has dabbled in creating original programming and matching it with sponsors. The company was founded in 1999 by brothers Tim, Chris and Russell Vanderhook.

At $35 million, Specific Media gets an Internet property for a price that Altimeter's Li called "ridiculously low" and values each monthly U.S. visitor at about $1 each. Its new owners should be able to recoup their investment if the company gets each user to click on about 20 ads over their lifetime, she said.

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Has Justin Timberlake got a new girlfriend - already? Not according to Olivia Wilde

We wouldn’t like to be Jessica Biel right now. And that’s not a sentence that can be heard coming out of our gobs too often.

It looks like Justin Timberlake, who dumped long-term girlfriend Jess last month - ouch, has already moved on and found comfort in the arms of movie co-star Olivia Wilde.

The pair were seen getting cosy in an LA nightclub at the weekend with one nosey onlooker saying,

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Has Justin Timberlake got a new girlfriend - already? Not according to Olivia Wilde

We wouldn’t like to be Jessica Biel right now. And that’s not a sentence that can be heard coming out of our gobs too often.

It looks like Justin Timberlake, who dumped long-term girlfriend Jess last month - ouch, has already moved on and found comfort in the arms of movie co-star Olivia Wilde.

The pair were seen getting cosy in an LA nightclub at the weekend with one nosey onlooker saying,

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Is Justin Timberlake Cozying Up to Olivia Wilde?

Newly single Justin Timberlake looks like he's doing just fine after his split from Jessica Biel. The 'Bad Teacher' actor was spotted out with his 'Now' co-star Olivia Wilde over the weekend.

According to PEOPLE, Timberlake, 30, and Wilde, 27, arrived together at The Roxybury nightclub Saturday night, both wearing white T-shirts and jeans.

The pair drank vodka and looked cozy together as they sat in the VIP section of the club. The pair moved to the patio before leaving at 3AM.

Timberlake split from Biel, after four years of dating, just a few weeks ago. "He hasn't been happy with Jessica for close to two years," a friend of Timberlake's told UsMagazine.com. "You'd be surprised at how soon the love was lost on this one. Justin said he was miserable."
Wilde is also a recent addition to the singles club. She announced her separation from her husband of eight years, Italian Prince Tao Ruspoli, last month. She was spotted out with another Hollywood heartthrob -- Ryan Gosling -- in March.

Timberlake and Wilde co-star in 'Now,' an upcoming sci-fi flick where time is used as currency. The film is set for an October release.

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Cameron Diaz: It Was 'Great' Working With Ex Justin Timberlake

Cameron Diaz and Justin Timberlake's off-screen chemistry may have fizzled some time ago, but that didn't stop them from reuniting on the big screen for 'Bad Teacher.'

Diaz told PEOPLE it "really wasn't a big deal" that the pair star together in the film, adding that they "had a great time" together.

Diaz dished that Timberlake brought his A-game when it came to delivering comedy and that hiring him for the role was an easy decision.

"He's a genius comedian, everybody knows," she said. "'Saturday Night Live' and all the stuff that he's done over the years, he's clearly talented. We went for the best person for the job, and it just so happened that it was him. And he delivers."
Diaz also revealed it was fun having Timberlake around on set.

"Justin and I have always had a good laugh together, and to make a movie where we get to have a laugh together," Diaz said. "There really was no one else who was more perfect for this part. That's why he got the part."

Timberlake and Diaz split in 2007 after four years of dating, but don't expect the pair to reunite romantically any time soon. Though Timberlake recently broke off his relationship with Jessica Biel, Diaz's relationship with New York Yankees star Alex Rodriguez is going strong.

Check out the trailer for 'Bad Teacher' below!

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