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Paula Deen Paula Deen ought to be seriously lowering the donut burgers. The Southern chef, who recently marketed they has Diabetes type 2 symptoms, left searching substantially slimmer within the 2012 South Beach Wine and Food Festival Sunday."I've dropped two pant dimensions which personally i think happy!Inch Deen told People.Photo Gallery: Dramatic celebrity weight lossBut how did she take action? The 65-year-old states she walks 30 minutes per day and cut her portion dimensions in 2.But Deen doesn't have confidence in worrying over the amount of pounds she's lost. "We don't own a scale inside our house," states Deen. "Every six several days I recieve an actual and uncover. Now you must to look for the physician. She'll be so happy basically have dropped a couple of pounds.InchPaula Deen: I have Type 2 DiabetesHer boy Bobby, whose show Not My Mama's Meals premieres in March, is satisfied together with his mother's weight-loss victory. "Doesn't she look great?In . mentioned the 42-year-old chef. "She's a little more pep in their step now. She'd been accountable for being a touch too sedentary - like lots of people.In . Aside from searching better, it seems that Deen feels better too. "Simply mind dazzling how good escaping . of mattress and moving allows you to definitely feel."What can you consider Deen's change?

ND/NF festival sets slate

'Where Can We Proceed Now?A Gotham's annual New Company company directors/New Films festival has arranged a 29-feature slate that opens with Nadine Labaki's "Which Side We Proceed Now?Inch and shuts getting an unexpected screening. The ultimate time Film Society of Lincoln subsequently subsequently Center, which co-presents ND/NF while using Museum of recent Art, skedded the same surprise was incorporated in last year's NY Film Festival. The under-systems pic switched to become an early on cut of "Hugo," the Martin Scorcese film that ongoing being major honours-season player. "Which Side We Proceed Now?Inch concentrates on several Lebanese girls that develop comical schemes to avoid their males from killing each other in religious conflicts. Acquired through the new the new sony Pictures Classics, the film has carried out fests including Cannes, Toronto and Sundance. Another SPC film, Gareth Huw Evans' Indonesian thriller "The Raid," may have ND/NF since the 41-year-old event's first late evening screening, while animated graphic novel adaptation "The Rabbi's Cat," helmed by Antoine Delesvaux and Joann Sfar, will be the fest's first 3d offering. Narrative features on tap have Adam Leon's "Gimme the Loot," Roschdy Zem's "Omar Destroyed Me" and Mads Brugger's "The Ambassador," while Sundance alums "Five Broken Cameras" and "The best way to Survive a Plague" are the doc options. Slate includes twelve shorts additionally to 1953 film "Fear and Desire," an early on work by Stanley Kubrick. New Company company directors/New Films runs March 21-April 1. Title in the surprise pic won't be introduced until before the film unspools. Contact Gordon Cox at gordon.cox@variety.com

RATINGS RAT RACE: Amazing Race Up In Return, Apprentice Down, Simpsons 500

The broadcast networks packed a rate typical Sunday night with season premieres and special episodes. CBS (2.2/6 in adults 18-49, 10.5 million viewers, won the night sandwiched between the Grammys and the Oscars, which featured the season openers of CBS’ The Amazing Race and NBC’s Celebrity Apprentice and the 500th episode of The Simpsons. CBS’ primetime lineup was scrambled by a 22-minute golf overrun. Amazing Race drew an approximate 2.6/7 in 18-49 and 9.2 million viewers, up 4% and 8%, respectively, from last year’s winter premiere. NBC’s Celebrity Apprentice (2.6/7, 7.4 million) was down 7% from last season’s opener. ABC’s Once Upon A Time (3.0/8) ranked as the top program of the night in 18-49 but was surprisingly flat with last Sunday when it faced the monster Grammy Awards. Desperate Housewives (2.2/5) bounced back by 22%, while Pan Am (1.2/3) finished its freshman (and probably series) run on a relatively high note, up 71% from last week. Fox’s The Simpsons‘ 500th episode drew a relatively modest 2.6/7 18-49 rating but was up 30% from last week. It boosted Napoleon Dynamite (2.0/5) to a 11% increase. The rookie still was the weakest link in Fox’s 8-10 PM comedy block, with Family Guy posting a 2.7/7, up 8% from last week, and American Dad (2.2/5) up 22%.

Bill O'Reilly Becomes a Supporter for... Ellen DeGeneres?

Bill O'Reilly, Ellen DeGeneres Ellen DeGeneres may have found a surprising new shopping buddy! DeGeneres recently became a spokesperson for JC Penney, but conservative group One Million Moms protested, claiming that the retail chain was jumping on the "pro-gay bandwagon" and calling for JC Penney to fire DeGeneres. On Wednesday's O'Reilly Factor, conservative pundit Bill O'Reilly spoke out in favor of DeGeneres and JC Penney's decision to retain her as their spokesperson. "I don't think that's the spirit of America," he said. "What is the difference between the McCarthy-era communitst blacklist of the '50s and the Million Moms saying, 'Hey, JCPenney and all you other stores, don't you hire any gay people. Don't you dare.' What's the difference?... A conservative group in the country is asking a private company to fire an American citizen based on her lifestyle. I don't think that's correct." Watch videos of Bill O'Reilly O'Reilly clarified that he supported the One Million Moms and other traditional-valued shoppers for speaking up and boycotting JC Penney, but for him, the issue was about ethical business practices. Earlier, the One Million Moms released the following statement: "By jumping on the pro-gay bandwagon, JC Penney is attempting to gain a new target market and in the process will lose customers with traditional values that have been faithful to them over all these years... The majority of JC Penney shoppers will be offended and choose to no longer shop there." Check out photos of Ellen DeGeneres On her talk show, DeGeneres initially joked, "Being gay or pro-gay isn't a bandwagon. You don't get a free ride anywhere. There's no music... Occasionally we'll sing 'We Are Family.' But that's about it." But she also addressed the topic seriously. "This organization doesn't think that I should be the spokesperson because I am gay... So they wanted to have me fired, and I'm proud to say that JC Penney stuck by their decision to make me their spokesperson... I really want to thank everyone for supporting me. If you don't know me very well... here are the values that I stand for: I stand for honesty, equality, kindness, compassion, treating people the way you want to be treated and helping those in need. To me, those are traditional vlues. That's what I stand for." Whose side are you on?

Edinburgh to preem around 100 features

EDINBURGH -- This year's Edinburgh Film Festival will premiere around 100 new features, after shrinking its program to about 60 films last year. New artistic director Chris Fujiwara, speaking publicly for the first time since his appointment, also said the fest will restore the red carpet events which it abandoned last year. "It depends on the films and the availability of stars, but we will be more than happy to roll out all appropriate courtesy including the red carpet to make them happy here," he said. Fujiwara was appointed last September in the aftermath of the disastrous 65th edition in June. Previously based in Japan, where he worked mainly as a critic, he arrived in Edinburgh in early January. He described his role as "bridge building" with the international film community following the bad publicity around last year's event. The 2011 festival experimented with the size, structure and form of the festival on a shoestring budget, but was widely written of as a failure. However, it just about broke even financially on much reduced ticket sales, so the challenge for Fujiwara will be to restore the fest's previous scope and impact on a budget unlikely to be greater than the 2011 figure of around 700,000 ($1.2 million). "My biggest challenge is building the program for this city and for the international film community," he said. Including retrospectives (which were also abandoned last year) and shorts, the total program will include 120-150 films. "I have the great opportunity to be given a clean slate," Fukiwara said. "I'm told I can do the kind of festival I want to do. I'm not thinking in terms of the difference from 2011, that's not something I'm getting bogged down in." He acknowledged that his program would inevitably be constrained by whatever budget he is given, noting that the sum has not yet been fixed. "I hope to have a comfortable budget," he said, adding a plea to the fest's public funders and potential sponsors, "Please give us money!" Having spent the past couple of weeks at the Rotterdam Film Festival, he noted that the response he received made him "more aware than ever of the importance Edinburgh has in the international film world." The fest will take place June 20 to July 1. Contact the Variety newsroom at news@variety.com