List of Winners from the MTV Movie Awards
By Sandy Cohen, Entertainment Writer
UNIVERSAL CITY, Calif. (AP) --The hunks from “Twilight.” A girl-on-girl kiss. Katy Perry and Christina Aguilera in skimpy costumes.
The MTV Movie Awards were all they could be Sunday.
The irreverent pop-culture celebration, which honors the year’s films in quirky categories such as best kiss was a bleep-filled bonanza, as presenters and winners let loose with four-letter words.
“Twilight” was the night’s big winner, taking five trophies.
“I guess ‘Twilight’ is really awesome, and I agree,” said star Kristen Stewart. “Woo!”
“New Moon” sucked up prizes for best movie, kiss, female performance for Stewart and male performance and global superstar for Robert Pattinson.
Sandra Bullock won just one trophy, but it was a big one. The 45-year-old actress accepted the MTV Generation Award in her first live televised appearance since she split with unfaithful husband Jesse James earlier this year. She used her time on stage to clear up tabloid rumors — “No. 1: I’m not dead.” — and lock lips with Scarlett Johansson.
“I love what I do,” vowed Bullock. “I’m not going anywhere.”
Bullock, wearing a backless, glittery black dress, was presented with the show’s highest honor by her “All About Steve” co-star Bradley Cooper, “The Proposal” co-star Betty White and inexplicably Johansson, the wife of her absentee “Proposal” leading man Ryan Reynolds. When asked why she was there to help hand over the trophy, Johansson hinted she wanted to lay one on Bullock, who awkwardly obliged.
“Now that we have done that,” said a smiling Bullock, “can we please go back to normal?”
The two-hour ceremony at the Gibson Amphitheatre was brightened by such colorful moments.
Perry wore a blue wig and sparkly shorts as she performed her hit, “California Gurls,” with Snoop Dogg and a cast of dancers on roller skates.
Mark Wahlberg and Will Ferrell hung comically above the stage in a fake stunt gone wrong as Samuel L. Jackson, Dwayne Johnson and Eva Mendes presented the best villain award to Tom Felton of “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince.”
And Tom Cruise, who launched the show as “Tropic Thunder” character Les Grossman, a profanity-spewing Hollywood producer, danced enthusiastically with Jennifer Lopez to Ludacris’ “Get Back.”
Host Aziz Ansari also did some dancing to accompany his own R. Kelly-inspired musical tribute to “Avatar,” which ended with some profane words for British Petroleum.
Fans picked the winners Sunday, including “Obsessed” co-stars Beyonce Knowles and Ali Larter for best fight, “The Hangover” star Zach Galifianakis for comedic performance and “Up in the Air” co-star Anna Kendrick for breakout star.
This is the coolest moment ever,” said Kendrick, clutching her popcorn trophy. “This is going on my coffee table.”
Kendrick joined the “Twilight” cast on stage to accept the prize for best movie. Patriarch Peter Facinelli peppered his acceptance speech with four-letter words.
AP Entertainment Writer Derrik J. Lang in Los Angeles contributed to this report.
Winners from the MTV Movie Awards:
• Fight: Beyonce Knowles vs. Ali Larter, “Obsessed.”
• Kiss: Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson, “The Twilight Saga: New Moon.”
• WTF Moment: Ken Jeong, “The Hangover.”
• Scared-as-S–t Moment: Amanda Seyfried, “Jennifer’s Body.”
• Breakout Star: Anna Kendrick, “Up in the Air.”
• Female Performance: Kristen Stewart, “The Twilight Saga: New Moon.”
• Male Performance: Robert Pattinson, “The Twilight Saga: New Moon.”
• Global Superstar: Robert Pattinson, “The Twilight Saga: New Moon.”
• Villain: Tom Felton, “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince.”
• Biggest Badass Star: Rain, “Ninja Assassin.”
• Comedic Performance: Zach Galifianakis, “The Hangover.”
• Movie: “The Twilight Saga: New Moon.”
• MTV Generation Award: Sandra Bullock.
Google Opens Its Defense In Antitrust Case Alleging Monopoly Over Online Ad Technology
Google opened its defense against allegations that it holds an illegal monopoly on online advertising technology Friday with witness testimony saying the industry is vastly more complex and competitive than portrayed by the federal government.
"The industry has been exceptionally fluid over the last 18 years," said Scott Sheffer, a vice president for global partnerships at Google, the company's first witness at its antitrust trial in federal court in Alexandria.
The Justice Department and a coalition of states contend that Google built and maintained an illegal monopoly over the technology that facilitates the buying and selling of online ads seen by consumers.
Google counters that the government's case improperly focuses on a narrow type of online ads — essentially the rectangular ones that appear on the top and on the right-hand side of a webpage. In its opening statement, Google's lawyers said the Supreme Court has warned judges against taking action when dealing with rapidly emerging technology like what Sheffer described because of the risk of error or unintended consequences.
Google says defining the market so narrowly ignores the competition it faces from social media companies, Amazon, streaming TV providers and others who offer advertisers the means to reach online consumers.
Justice Department lawyers called witnesses to testify for two weeks before resting their case Friday afternoon, detailing the ways that automated ad exchanges conduct auctions in a matter of milliseconds to determine which ads are placed in front of which consumers and how much they cost.
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