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Juno Awards
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SANTA MONICA, Calif. -- The quirky coming-of-age comedy "Juno" cleaned up Saturday at the Film Independent Spirit Awards as it continues its Cinderella season going into tonight's Academy Awards. Juno" won for best feature film, best actress honors for Ellen Page and best first screenplay for Diablo Cody at the awards show held Saturday afternoon in a tent alongside the sand in Santa Monica. Page and Cody are also nominated for Oscars along with director Jason Reitman.
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SANTA MONICA, Calif. (AP) - The pregnancy comedy "Juno" was chosen as the year's best independent film and won two other honors Saturday at the Spirit Awards, including best actress for Ellen Page. Page gushed thanks for "Juno" director Jason Reitman and writer Diablo Cody.
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It's rare in the world of pop music to find a musician's musician presiding over a massively successful commercial career. But Canadian-Italian singer Gino Vannelli is just such a character -- he studied music theory and composition on the college level, is an adept performer on a variety of instruments, and has channeled much substance into more than 30 years of record-making in the mainstream pop world. Vannelli's biggest hits -- "I Just Wanna Stop," "Brother to Brother" and "People Gotta Move" among them -- marry smart compositional touches to indelible pop hooks, and earned him numerous Grammy and Juno awards since he signed his first recording contract at the tender age of 16.
