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Celebs offer support for Houston’s daughter

ATLANTA

Celebrities are offering their support and prayers for Whitney Houston’s daughter, who authorities say was found face down and unresponsive in a bathtub Saturday in a suburban Atlanta townhome.

Police said 21-year-old Bobbi Kristina Brown was taken Saturday to a hospital in Roswell, Ga.

La Toya Jackson and singer-songwriter Missy Elliott tweeted their support.

Brown is the daughter of Houston and R&B singer Bobby Brown.

Brown’s husband, Nick Gordon, along with a friend, found the woman in a bathtub Saturday, Ros-well police said. The friend called 911 while Brown’s husband performed CPR on the woman because they did not believe she was breathing nor had a pulse, said Officer Lisa Holland, a Roswell Police Department spokeswoman.

‘Sniper’ nails record

NEW YORK

“American Sniper” shot down another box-office record: Its $31.9 million is the biggest Super Bowl weekend gross ever.

The Weinstein Co. animated adaptation “Paddington” came in a distant second with $8.5 million in its third weekend. Rounding out the top five were “Project Almanac,” $8.5 million, third; “Black or White,” $6.5 million, fourth; and “The Boy Next Door,” $6.1 million, fifth place.

‘Me and Earl’ sweeps Sundance Awards

PARK CITY, UTAH

Sundance breakout “Me and Earl and the Dying Girl,” a quirky, heartfelt story about a pair of high school film-lovers who befriend a girl with cancer, won both the U.S. dramatic audience award and the grand jury prize at the 31st Sundance Film Festival awards, announced Saturday.

Thomas Mann, R.J. Cyler and Olivia Cooke lead the cast of the idiosyncratic tearjerker from director Alfonso Gomez-Rejon. Nick Offerman, Connie Britton, and Molly Shannon also star.

Associated Press