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Betty White to get Daytime Emmy lifetime achievement award

NEW YORK

Show-biz sweetheart Betty White is about to get another dose of love, this time from the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences.

The 93-year-old will be honored with this year’s lifetime achievement award next month at the 42nd Annual Daytime Emmy Awards.

In the 1960s, White was a frequent contestant on “Password,” where she met and subsequently wed its host, Allen Ludden. She also appeared on “The Match Game” and “The $25,000 Pyramid.”

She was the first woman to receive an Emmy Award for outstanding game-show host for the show “Just Men.” And she had a recurring role on “The Bold and the Beautiful” from 2006 to 2009.

Previous honorees include Oprah Winfrey, Barbara Walters and Regis Philbin.

The Daytime Emmys will air April 26 on the Pop network.

Oprah to auction items from condo

CHICAGO

Oprah Winfrey plans to sell antique furniture, paintings and other items from her condominium in Chicago’s Water Tower Place at a public auction April 25.

Leslie Hindman Auctioneers on Monday announced the sale, which will be conducted at its Chicago salesroom.

Leslie Hindman said she expects the auction to be one of her most-popular in recent history because of Winfrey’s fame and longtime connection to Chicago.

“People love Oprah,” Hindman said. “There’s something for everyone. There’s things that are $100 and things up to $100,000.”

The auction house said the proceeds from the sale will benefit Winfrey’s South African girls school.

Winfrey moved into Water Tower in 1985, five years before Harpo Studios opened to house her syndicated talk show. Harpo Studios helped turn Chicago’s West Loop into a thriving neighborhood.

In 2011, Winfrey left Chicago to start her own cable network, OWN. Earlier this month, she announced that Harpo Studios would close at the end of the year.

Actor Emile Hirsch appears in Utah court on assault charge

PARK CITY, Utah

Actor Emile Hirsch made his first court appearance Monday on allegations that he put a studio executive in a chokehold and dragged her across a nightclub table while in Utah for the Sundance Film Festival.

The “Into the Wild” star declined to comment Monday outside court in Park City.

His attorney Neil Kaplan said Hirsch is receiving counseling after going to rehab.

The actor from Encino, Calif., is charged with felony assault, which is punishable by up to five years in prison and a $5,000 fine. He also faces a misdemeanor count of intoxication.

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