Hugh Grant Hitting Books

And the Oscar goes to...SIDNEY LUMET. The 80-year-old director will receive an honorary Academy Award at February's Oscar ceremony. Lumet, who has directed such classics as 12 Angry Men, Dog Day Afternoon and Network, has been nominated for five Oscars in his career, but has never won...

HUGH GRANT is about to hit the books. The actor has been chosen as one of the judges for a British book prize. He'll help select the Whitbread book of the year recipient. Grant, incidentally, once won a scholarship to Oxford to study English...

Fans of CBS's Survivor will be glad to know that their favorite show will be around for a while. The network announced yesterday that they'd picked up the reality series for an 11th and 12th edition. Both will be broadcast during the 2005-2006 season...

Mork & Mindy -- the late 1970s, early 1980s sitcom that introduced the world to ROBIN WILLIAMS -- is the latest series to get NBC's Behind the Camera treatment. According to The Hollywood Reporter, CHRIS DIAMANTOPOULOS will star as Williams and production will begin next month...

It's not as dire as the flu vaccine shortage, but The Wall Street Journal says iPods are proving difficult to find this holiday season. Several models of the incredibly popular portable music players are not in stock on amazon.com, while Target stores in Chicago and San Francisco claim they have no more left. Best Buy also says iPods are no longer available on its website.