Obama watches No. 1 Tar Heels beat Spartans 67-55 (AP)

CORONADO, Calif. ? The nation's basketball-fan-in-chief appeared to enjoy the first college hoops game on an active aircraft carrier.

President Barack Obama sat courtside and watched No. 1 North Carolina beat Michigan State 67-55 on Friday night in the Carrier Classic on the flight deck of the USS Carl Vinson.

Harrison Barnes scored 17 points and John Henson had 12 points and a career-high nine blocked shots as the Tar Heels put their size advantage to good use. Michigan State's Draymond Green had a career-high 18 rebounds.

Obama watched intently, chatted with wife Michelle and service members seated near him, and at one point appeared to check his BlackBerry. When the game ended, he applauded and then shook hands with coaches Roy Williams and Tom Izzo.

"He said, `Good luck.' I told him, `Good luck.' He's got some pretty important things coming up in the next year, also," said Williams, the Tar Heels' coach.

Williams said it was nice that there wasn't a crisis that kept Obama away.

"I like a president who loves sports, loves athletics, loves college basketball," Williams said. "Don't take this wrong and I'm not being disrespectful, but he's a basketball junkie."

Said Izzo: "I thanked him. He thanked us. We're all trying to thank somebody. That damn military starts thanking you, and it's killing me because they do so much for us and they're thanking us. They're the most humble group I've ever met.

"We played the No. 1 team in the country and in front of the No. 1 team in the world," the Michigan State coach added.

Both coaches said the Carrier Classic worked.

"I absolutely loved it," Williams said. "We had some scary moments. We were worried about the weather for the last week, but it worked and I thought it was great."

Izzo "absolutely loved it. The military was so good on this whole deal, from when we got here to when we're leaving. I thought it was awesome," he said.

The Carl Vinson conducted Osama bin Laden's burial at sea after he was killed by Navy SEALs in a raid ordered by Obama.

Fitting with the Veterans Day theme, the Tar Heels and Spartans had U.S.A. rather than their names on the back of their jerseys, which had a camouflage design. At dusk, the game was paused for the lowering of the American flag. When the game ended, the players gave their jerseys to servicemen.

In a nod to the troops, Williams and his staff wore combat boots and cargo pants.

The Carrier Classic featured slam dunks and fast breaks on a court plopped down where jet fighters normally scream into flight.

"It took a while, but at some point you didn't even realize you were outside until the play slowed down," Henson said. "It was fun. My excuse was sometimes I felt like the boat moved a little bit when I shot," Henson joked. "That's why I missed."

North Carolina led by double digits from late in the first half on, including 36-25 after Kendall Marshall made two free throws with 44.8 seconds left before halftime.

This game turned out as have recent matchups between the schools. North Carolina has beaten Michigan State six straight times, including in the 2009 national championship game.

The Tar Heels' biggest lead was 59-38 with 10:42 left before Michigan State closed within 10 points with 5:43 left.

Dexter Strickland had 10 points for North Carolina.

Green scored 13 points and had an unbelievable game on the boards, including 11 defensive rebounds. Michigan State outrebounded the Tar Heels 49-34 but made only 2 of 20 3-pointers.

Branden Dawson and Adreian Payne scored 10 points each for the Spartans.

Green said it was great getting to play in front of the president.

"That was phenomenal," he said. "It's not every day anyone gets to do that."

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89% Martha Marcy May Marlene

What saves Martha Marcy May Marlene (barely) for me were two pitch perfect performances in newcomer Elizabeth Olsen as Martha and actor John Hawkes as Patrick. Olsen is the perfect manifestation of slowly building paranoia in Martha. At one moment she appears to be at ease, another moment she is wildly unstable. It's a stunning achievement and it definitely captures the audiences' attention and draws you into her struggle. As the enigmatic leader, John Hawkes is a malevolent force that induces dread. He's quiet, but commanding. As the man in charge, he leads by instilling fear. An uncomfortable incident in the forest has Patrick trying to convince Martha to shoot at a dying cat. Then when unable to do so, he commands her to fire at one of the males in the group. Yet it's never clear why these kids don't simply leave. It's not hard to see why this has earned raves. In this day and age, a good performance is enough to hype a film and there's several here.It's the acting that elevates this feature. I was sufficiently connected to truly care what happens to Martha. It's a smart, well acted character study, just not a rewarding one. True to the nature of the script, the very last scene remains irritatingly cryptic. After it was over I actually thought the projectionist had forgotten to load a reel of film. I can fill in the blanks, but as the culmination of everything we have witnessed before, it's far from a satisfying resolution. Throughout the drama, the pacing is so deliberate, it's inert. You won't realize it until the picture is over, but it's an exercise in frustration. I'm convinced a great movie exists in there...somewhere.

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Olympus dumped by major shareholder as Japan steps up probe (Reuters)

SINGAPORE/TOKYO (Reuters) ? Singapore's sovereign wealth fund said on Saturday it has sold most of its holdings of Olympus Corp (7733.T) on concern about wrongdoing, the first major shareholder to show it had lost confidence in the scandal-hit Japanese medical device and camera maker.

Japanese authorities are investigating Olympus after the company admitted this week that it hid investment losses for decades using funds from M&A payments. Media reports on Saturday said police and regulators were joining forces in a rare collaborative effort to examine the cover-up.

GIC (GIC.UL), which is the acronym for Government of Singapore Investment Corp, was the 10th biggest shareholder in Olympus, with 2.17 percent as of the end of March, according to the latest Olympus annual report.

"GIC disposed of almost all of its investments on first suspicion of possible wrongdoing in Olympus," the Singapore fund said in a statement.

GIC added it had only an insignificant holding under a portfolio managed by an external fund manager. It said the majority of its investment was made in the midst of the global financial crisis.

The Tokyo District Public Prosecutors Office's special investigations unit, the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department and the Securities and Exchange Surveillance Commission (SESC) will team up to investigate the Olympus cover-up of investment losses, Japanese media reported on Saturday.

Nikkei has said the concealment could have exceeded 130 billion yen ($1.68 billion) at its peak, and said the company's creditors were likely to press for a change in lending terms.

Lenders will confront Olympus next week to demand an explanation on its accounting, a banking source said on Friday, though he denied reports they would seek more security over their loans.

Tokyo's stock exchange has told Olympus it will be delisted if it fails to report earnings by December 14, which could effectively leave the 92-year-old company cut off from equity capital markets at a time when its shares have already lost more than three-quarters of their market value since the scandal erupted on October 14.

Olympus plans to correct 20 years of its financial statements and submit them to financial authorities, the Mainichi newspaper reported on Saturday.

Delisting would take effect on January 15 in principle if Olympus does not meet the reporting deadline. Even if Olympus meets the deadline, the bourse could still decide to delist the company, depending on the scale of its past misreporting.

The bourse placed Olympus on its supervisory list on Thursday, which means short-selling of its shares is restricted. But such trading had already been suspended by Japan Securities Finance, the processor of margin transactions.

"LOSING MONEY"

Sixteen investment trusts managed by Nomura Holdings Inc. (8604.T) group member Nomura Asset Management Co. have recently held Olympus in their portfolios, Nikkei also reported.

Eleven stock-index-linked mutual funds held a total of roughly 1.9 billion yen in Olympus shares as of Wednesday, and five more "fund of funds" owned shares as of September 30. The asset manager disclosed the information because of the possibility that Olympus will be delisted, Nikkei said.

Nomura Holdings, Japan's largest investment bank, said Olympus was its client but that it wasn't involved in any of the transactions at the center of the scandal.

Nikkei reported separately, quoting sources, that a majority of the 100-plus businesses acquired during former Olympus President Tsuyoshi Kikukawa's tenure are losing money. Kikukawa stepped down on October 26.

Most of the acquired firms, in areas such as pet care services, DVD production and others with little apparent connection to core Olympus operations, were unlisted and therefore not required to make their financial details public, Nikkei said.

Olympus President Shuichi Takayama on Tuesday blamed Kikukawa, Vice-President Hisashi Mori and internal auditor Hideo Yamada for the cover-up, and said he would consider criminal complaints against them. Mori was dismissed on Tuesday, and Hamada offered to resign.

The SESC, Japan's securities regulator, plans to take voluntary testimony from Kikukawa and two other current and former officials said to be involved in the investment cover-up, Nikkei said.

The report said the regulator also plans to hear as early as next week from former Olympus head Michael Woodford, who was ousted on October 14 - six months after being made president and just two weeks after becoming CEO - due to what the company said were management issues. Woodford subsequently made public some of the contentious M&A deals.

A third-party panel is now examining those acquisitions, and accounting experts have said the investigation could lead to asset writedowns of more than 70 billion yen, though Olympus' big and profitable medical business is likely to emerge unharmed.

The independent panel's head, retired Supreme Court justice Tatsuo Kainaka, told Reuters his team may recommend criminal charges in its report, to be completed early next month.

(Editing by Robert Birsel)

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Oscar's tumultuous week ends with Governors Awards (omg!)

Actors dressed as "Stormtroopers" from the "Star Wars" franchise arrive as presenters at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' 2011 Governors Awards, Saturday, Nov. 12, 2011, in Los Angeles. The Governors Awards is an annual event celebrating awards conferred by the Academy's Board of Governors, with highlights being incorporated into next year's Academy Awards show. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)

LOS ANGELES (AP) ? After a tumultuous week that saw the departure and replacement of the Oscar show's host and producer, the film academy enjoyed a night of good vibes Saturday at its third annual Governors Awards. You might even say the force was with the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

Armed storm troopers ensured guests were in their seats and paying attention as Darth Vader opened the evening honoring James Earl Jones, Oprah Winfrey and makeup artist Dick Smith. Under Vader's helmet was academy president Tom Sherak, who welcomed the audience of industry insiders with, "How was your week?"

Over the past week, Oscar producer Brett Ratner and host Eddie Murphy resigned and were replaced with producer Brian Grazer and host Billy Crystal.

Saturday's untelevised Governors Awards, though, couldn't have been smoother, as Jones, Smith and Winfrey accepted Oscar statuettes in front of a starry crowd that included John Travolta, Alec Baldwin, Woody Harrelson, Sharon Stone, Seth Rogen, Sidney Poitier and Tyler Perry, among others.

Jones, who famously voiced Vader, accepted his award by video from London's Wyndham Theater, where he is starring in "Driving Miss Daisy" with Vanessa Redgrave. Baldwin and Glenn Close feted the actor before Sir Ben Kingsley presented him with his Oscar onstage in London.

Close called Jones "a world treasure" and Kingsley said the 80-year-old actor is "always so damn good."

A beaming Jones said receiving an Oscar in such a fashion is "an actor's wet dream."

"I'm deeply honored, mighty grateful and just plain gobsmacked," he said.

Smith, the groundbreaking makeup artist who counts "The Exorcist" and "The Godfather" among his credits, was lauded for his long career and his generosity in sharing the secrets of his craft. Writer-directors J.J. Abrams, Peter Jackson and Guillermo del Toro saluted the 91-year old.

Abrams, creator of TV's "Lost" and "Fringe," said Smith "was the Beatles to me" and told of how he wrote a fan letter to the makeup artist and received an "old but clean" tongue from "The Exorcist" in return.

Smith said being honored by the academy was "an incredible joy, one of the greatest I've ever had in my whole life."

"I have loved being a makeup artist so much," he said, "but ... to have so much kindness given to me all at once is just too much. I am so grateful."

Winfrey was introduced by Quincy Jones, Travolta, Maria Shriver, producer Larry Gordon and a student she'd never met but whose education she funded.

Travolta said "the academy got it right" when it chose the media mogul to receive its Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award, calling her "the most wonderful person in the world, the most magical person in the world and the most powerful person in the world."

Winfrey cried and nuzzled into boyfriend Stedman Graham as Shriver and the others spoke of her generosity, which includes providing scholarships for 65,000 students.

She said receiving an Oscar for philanthropy is "unimaginable" given her humble beginnings in Mississippi.

"It's impossible for you to even know what this journey has meant," Winfrey said.

Appearing in "The Color Purple" was "one of the greatest experiences of my life," she said, When Quincy Jones tapped her for the role of Sofia ? for which she earned an Oscar nod for supporting actress ? he changed the course of her career.

"I'd like to do more films, but to receive the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award means more to me than any film, any acclaim, even an Oscar, because what it says is you all get it," Winfrey said. "What this really means is that you all understand that what I've been trying to do, what I've been trying to say all these years, (which) is that all of us can make a difference through the life that we live."

Winfrey said she plans to keep her new Oscar front and center on her desk.

"For me this Oscar will represent love from all of you," she said. "I thank you for your vote of love and I will use it to increase the open space in my heart to continue to do the great and good work that we all have come to do."

The film academy launched its Governors Awards three years ago to pay tribute to winners of honorary Oscars ? prizes previously presented during the Academy Awards telecast. Governors from its 15 branches chose Saturday's winners.

Highlights from the event will be available online at Oscars.org and included in the Academy Awards telecast in February.

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Makeup artist Dick Smith, recipient of an honorary Oscar, poses at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' 2011 Governors Awards, Saturday, Nov. 12, 2011, in Los Angeles. The Governors Awards is an annual event celebrating awards conferred by the Academy's Board of Governors, with highlights being incorporated into next year's Academy Awards show. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)

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Nuclear smuggler or kidnapped Iranian businessman? (AP)

WASHINGTON ? Amir Sairafi was an Iranian trader doing business in Dubai, the free-wheeling Middle East commerce hub. When he flew to Germany to take his oral exams for his master's degree, he ran into the U.S. crackdown on illicit trade with Iran.

The unusual U.S. criminal case against Sairafi has put a face on the international campaign to stop Iran from trying to build a nuclear bomb.

Sairafi was arrested and deported to the U.S., where he pleaded guilty to one count each of conspiracy, money laundering and violating the 1995 Iran trade embargo. He is now serving more than three years in a prison unit in Indiana where many of the other inmates have been convicted on terror-related charges.

U.S. officials hailed his arrest in January 2010 as a blow to Iran's nuclear smuggling networks, which the West says has supplied critical equipment to that country's nuclear programs. Just this week, a U.N. watchdog agency released a report that accused Iran of conducting research specific to the development of nuclear weapons.

The Washington-based Institute for Science and International Security, which tracks Iran's nuclear programs, describes Sairafi as a core member of the smuggling networks and the kind of big fish rarely caught in the U.S. net.

Sairafi told The Associated Press in emails from prison that he has no connection to the Iran's government or its military. Despite U.S. claims outside the courtroom, he said he was never accused of trading in nuclear-related technology.

He pleaded guilty in November 2010. In March, he was sentenced to 41 months in federal prison.

Sairafi contended that the U.S. has used his case to intimidate merchants in the Middle East from trading with Iran.

"I believe (the) U.S. wanted to test a new strategy to arrest a non-American citizen outside U.S. borders and bring him in their soil and impose their jurisdiction on him. The U.S. tried to ... show that doing business with Iran has high suffering and is costly," Sairafi wrote the AP.

His case offers a glimpse into how the Obama administration has cracked down on Iran's nuclear efforts, using the embargo and sanctions in lieu of military action. It also shows the difficulty in piercing the elaborate veil of secrecy that the U.S. says Tehran weaves around its nuclear efforts.

Investigators must trace transactions through unwitting legitimate businesses, complicit middlemen and front companies that Iran's Revolutionary Guard uses to evade the U.S. embargo and U.N. penalties, said Matthew Levitt, former deputy assistant secretary for intelligence and analysis at the Treasury Department.

It's even harder to build a criminal case, Levitt said. Despite a sharp rise in the number of prosecutions and a "whole bunch" of cases under investigation, he said, "the number of cases is still relatively small in regards to the size of the problem."

U.S. officials declined to explain why, in public statements, they accused Sairafi of helping supply Iran's nuclear programs, but did not do so in court.

It can be difficult to show that exports were intended for weapons without cooperation from Iran.

The AP asked the FBI for evidence of claims on its website that Sairafi's case involved "the procurement of U.S. export-controlled equipment intended for Iran's nuclear weapons program." Days later, the FBI deleted the material from its site and said older case summaries are sometimes removed to make room for new ones.

"These cases don't come around that often," said David Albright, president of the Institute for Science and International Security. "They don't get a lot of them, they don't rush into them, and when they get a guy they're going to come down like a ton of bricks."

German authorities detained Sairafi, 42, in January 2010 at the Frankfurt airport on his way to the University of Wurzburg, where he was enrolled for a master's degree in business course.

After being held in Germany for just over eight months, Sairafi said, he was told he was returning to Iran. Instead, he was handed over to U.S. marshals, who flew him to Los Angeles to face trial. It was his first visit to the United States.

"I was kidnapped, and I feel I am a victim of political disputes between two countries," Sairafi said. The indictment accused Sairafi of working for nearly five years with businessmen Jirair Avanessian in Los Angeles and Farhad Masoumian in Tehran, forwarding more than a dozen shipments worth tens of thousands of dollars' from the U.S. to Iran. All were charged with falsifying shipping documents in order to hide the ultimate destination of the devices. Avanessian was sentenced to 18 months in federal prison in July. Masoumian remains at large.

Sairafi is one of 40 prisoners in the Communications Management Unit at the prison in Terre Haute, Ind., where inmates are under 24-hour video and audio surveillance and their communications with the outside world are strictly limited so they can be monitored.

Others inmates include John Walker Lindh, who was captured on a battlefield in Afghanistan in 2001 and is serving 20 years, and Shukri Abu Baker, co-founder of the Holy Land Foundation, serving 65 years for providing millions in aid to schools and welfare programs run by the Palestinian terror group Hamas.

Sairafi denied any knowledge that the vacuum pumps and parts he shipped to Tehran were intended for Iran's nuclear program. "Vacuum parts have a wide range of applications and I do not know what they were intended for." He added: "It is not in me to do anything that will contribute to the disruption of world peace."

Sairafi's lawyer, Matthew David Kohn, said his client has been questioned in prison by the FBI about "nuclear matters," which he said Sairafi knows nothing about. Kohn noted that a prosecutor admitted at sentencing she had no evidence he had knowingly shipped nuclear components.

"Is there evidence or even an argument that these vacuum pumps were related to nuclear, biological and chemical weapons or materials?" the judge asked, according to the hearing transcript. The prosecutor shook her head.

A retired International Atomic Energy Agency inspector, Olli Heinonen, said some of the equipment listed in the indictment would have been useful in research on advanced centrifuge design as well as laser uranium enrichment technology ? a much faster and cheaper way to produce reactor or bomb-grade fuel than gas centrifuges.

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War, tight-knit class define Guatemalan leader's rise (Reuters)

GUATEMALA CITY (Reuters) ? Guatemala's next president, retired general Otto Perez, was a small child when a CIA-backed coup overthrew reformist President Jacobo Arbenz in 1954.

The fallout has framed his military and political career.

The democratically elected Arbenz wanted to redistribute land to resolve inequalities, and the move angered United States business interests. With U.S. support, Arbenz was ousted in just nine days -- and replaced by three decades of almost uninterrupted army rule.

Military repression led to an armed rebellion, which was in full swing when Perez entered the military academy at age 16. Perez, who was elected president on Sunday, later joined Guatemala's special forces, the kaibils, whose infamously brutal training included eating dog entrails and biting the heads off live chickens.

But it was the graduating military academy class from the "Escuela Politecnica" in 1969 -- a tight knit group of "rising stars" known as class No. 73 -- that defined his years in uniform, according to declassified U.S. government documents.

"This ... class, which originally consisted of 95 officers, is considered an anomaly within the armed forces because of the exceptional cohesiveness it has maintained throughout the years," said a U.S. department of defense cable dated May 1982. It said class members looked out for each other and gathered at informal events like picnics, dances and birthday parties.

Perez emerged as a leader, top of his academic class and a "standard-bearer" for the rest, recalls Mario Merida who was a year behind Perez at the Escuela Politecnica and later served as deputy intelligence director under his command.

That unity was threatening to General Efrain Rios Montt, Guatemala's most notorious dictator during the 1960-96 civil war, in which around a quarter million people were killed.

Rios Montt took power in a 1982 military junta and a United Nations-backed Truth Commission that later examined civil war atrocities concluded that he presided over an average 800 killings a month during his 17-month rule.

Apparently nervous that the talented officers would band together to overthrow him, Rios Montt accused Perez and two other officers on the presidential guard and staff of corruption and ordered their arrest, the document from May 1982 says. They were soon released but the point was made, and a fissure grew between Rios Montt and some in the officer corps.

"Most of the soldiers in the presidential guard were sent as a punishment to the areas of combat in Quiche, Huehuetenango and San Marcos," Merida said. "General Perez went with the rank of captain and left as a commander in Nebaj."

Perez served as head of Guatemala's military intelligence unit, known as D-2, and used his wide connections to quickly move up the ranks, according to a State Department document from 1995, the year he was promoted to general.

Even critics of Guatemala's military give some credit to Perez's group for seeking a way out of the war and the long cycle of violence.

"There was a group within the military that felt ... that only by ultimately ceding power to the civilian leaders would the institution of the army not just survive but thrive," said Kate Doyle, a senior analyst at the Washington-based National Security Archive, a private group that investigates U.S. foreign policy and national security issues.

"It was kind of advanced realpolitik thinking within the military, and Perez was very much a part of that," Doyle said.

The U.S. government often praised Perez and his faction as progressives inside an institution with a brutal reputation.

"Colonel Perez and this group of officers bear close watching for several reasons," said another declassified cable from 1994, unearthed by the security archive.

"They are progressives that grew up with blood stains on their hands, though we have no direct information to suggest that Colonel Perez himself was involved in activities of this nature. At the same time, it cannot be authoritatively said that this group of progressive officers are not still influenced by their past."

"In general, their goals are democratic and they may be the best hope for the army at this time," it said.

Two years later, Perez was one of the key figures to sign the peace accords that ended the long civil war.

In 2001, Perez formed the conservative Patriot Party and became a prominent member of Congress, starting his long push for the presidency.

(Editing by Kieran Murray)

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Engadget Podcast 264 - 11.11.2011

Fire up the Gutenberg sector of your brain, because it's reading time, everyone! What do you think the inventor of the printing press would think if he got his hands on a Nook Simple Touch? We get the impression he might be a Kobo man, actually. Is Johannes a RAZR kind of guy, or more Lumia 800? While we won't answer these questions outright in the 264th edition of the Engadget Podcast, we will provide sufficient background material to help you come to that decision yourself.

Host: Brian Heater
Guests: Darren Murph, Dana Wollman
Producer: Trent Wolbe
Music: Crazy

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08:00 - Behind the glass: a detailed tour inside the Motorola Droid RAZR
15:55 - Barnes & Noble's Nook Tablet gets real, we go hands-on (video)
17:40 - Barnes & Noble makes $199 Nook Color, $99 Nook Simple Touch official
21:30 - Nook Simple Touch upgrade hands-on (video)
26:45 - Barnes & Noble launches in-store Nook stations
35:10 - The Engadget Interview: Kobo's Michael Serbinis
42:06 - Rakuten signs agreement to purchase Kobo
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NVIDIA reports Q3 earnings: $1.07 billion in revenue, $178.3 million in net income

Just yesterday, ASUS announced the first-ever quad-core tablet, packing NVIDIA's Tegra 3 SoC, and now the chipmaker is making an announcement of its own. It may be a slightly less exciting reveal, but NVIDIA's just taken the wraps off of its Q3 earnings, and it appears things are looking up -- revenue is up 4.9 percent over last quarter to $1.07 billion from $1.02 billion and up 26.3 percent from last year. The company also reported an increase in net income, raking in $178.3 million for Q3 2011, up from $151.6 million last quarter and $84.9 million last year. The company's CEO, Jen-Hsun Huang, unsurprisingly attributed the growth to the mobile market as well as the outfit's GPU business, and continued to boast of future good times, riding the quad-core wave. For more details, check the full PR after the break.

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James Earl Jones accepts honorary Oscar from afar (AP)

LOS ANGELES ? James Earl Jones is about to receive an honorary Oscar for his nearly five decades in film, but the 80-year-old thespian says he shouldn't even be an actor.

"One, because I'm a stutterer," the deep-voiced star said by phone from London, where he is starring with Vanessa Redgrave in the stage production of "Driving Miss Daisy."

"And two," he continued, "my introduction to motion pictures was sitting on a bench in Mississippi watching a movie on a makeshift screen, a sheet stretched between two stores, and when a fistfight broke out on screen on that sheet, I freaked out. I couldn't handle the violence, so I hid under the bench and begged people to make them stop, and they didn't. They just watched.

"I guess I said if I can't stop them, I better join them."

Join them he did, making his big-screen debut in Stanley Kubrick's 1964 classic, "Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb."

Jones was nominated for the best actor Oscar for 1970's "The Great White Hope," the same role that won him a Tony two years prior. He has appeared in scores of movies, plays and TV shows, and gave voice to two of film's most memorable fathers: Mustafa in "The Lion King" and Darth Vader in the "Star Wars" trilogy.

"When Darth Vader first spoke on film, I denied it was me," Jones said. "I had good reason: I thought it was special effects."

Asked to compare stage, screen and voice acting, Jones said, "I love it all. I even love commercials."

When the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences called in August to say they were honoring him with an Oscar at the third annual Governors Awards, Jones thought it was a joke.

"The caller convinced my son, who screens everything, convinced him that it wasn't a prank," he said. "Once we accepted it as not a prank, we started laughing and haven't stopped laughing since."

The actor said he is deeply grateful for the honor and his long tenure as an entertainer.

"I have been very content with my career and very happy, even though I am not primarily a film actor, and that makes it even more astonishing that I would get this award," he said.

He said he still has more to do on screen: "I've done some beauties, but I don't think I've done that movie that can say I'll leave as my legacy. I'm still waiting for that one."

And what kind of character might that be?

"An older guy, of course," he said with a laugh. "That's the main requirement."

Jones will be lauded at Saturday's Governors Awards ceremony in Los Angeles, along with makeup artist Dick Smith and philanthropist Oprah Winfrey, who will receive the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award.

The actor won't be at the ceremony, though, opting to avoid the long flight to continue "Daisy's" run uninterrupted. But he'll be celebrating across the pond and plans to participate via video.

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AP Entertainment Writer Sandy Cohen can be reached at www.twitter.com/APSandy.

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