LeBron James nominated for Spirit Award

LeBron James nominated for Spirit Award

CLEVELAND — LeBron James is up for another award.

“More Than A Game” has been nominated in the documentary category for the Spirit Awards honoring independent film. The film follows the NBA superstar and four high school friends on their journey to a national championship while James becomes a celebrity.

James is the reigning league MVP. He spent part of last summer on a worldwide promotional tour for the film. It was nominated along with “Anvil! The Story of Anvil” “Food, Inc.,” “October Country” and “Which Way Home.”

Presented by the cinema group Film Independent, the Spirit Awards honor movies that cost less than $20 million to make.

The awards will be presented March 5, two days before the Academy Awards. The Cavaliers host the Detroit Pistons that day.

Polanski stays jailed while raising bail money

BERN, Switzerland — Roman Polanski will be held in jail at least three more days because he needs more time to pay his $4.5 million bail, Swiss authorities said Tuesday.

All other conditions have been satisfied for the 76-year-old director’s house arrest at his Alpine chalet, and the bail transfer is expected in the next couple of days, Justice Ministry spokesman Folco Galli said.

Once fitted with an electronic monitoring bracelet, Polanski will not be allowed to leave his house in Gstaad while Switzerland decides whether to extradite him to the United States for having sex in 1977 with a 13-year-old girl.

Polanski will need to pay the $4.5 million in full, according to Swiss standards that differ from other countries such as the United States where bail bondsmen often post a percentage of the total.

Philbin recovering from hip-replacement surgery

NEW YORK — Regis Philbin had successful hip-replacement surgery Tuesday and plans to return to his syndicated daytime talk show early next month.

An e-mail from “Live! With Regis and Kelly” says: “Word from the hospital is that everything went perfectly this morning during Regis’ hip replacement surgery, and his doctor said that Regis couldn’t be in better shape.”

The show says the typical recovery period is four to six weeks, and the 78-year-old Philbin expects to return soon after the first of the year,

Philbin had triple heart bypass surgery in 2007.

Sales of Sarah Palin’s memoir go platinum

NEW YORK — “Going Rogue” has gone platinum. HarperCollins spokeswoman Tina Andreadis said Tuesday that just two weeks after publication, Sarah Palin’s memoir has sold 1 million copies. The print run for “Going Rogue” has been increased again, to 2.8 million copies. The original printing was 1.5 million, then moved up to 2.5 million.

“Going Rogue” joins a select club of million-selling political memoirs that includes Barack Obama’s “The Audacity of Hope,” Hillary Rodham Clinton’s “Living History” and Bill Clinton’s “My Life.”

Today’s birthdays

Actress Cathy Lee Crosby is 65. News anchor Stone Phillips is 55. Actress Lucy Liu is 41. Rapper Treach of Naughty By Nature is 39. Singer Nelly Furtado is 31. Singer Britney Spears is 28.