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Renee Zellweger says she deserves Oscar this year

Renee Zellweger says she'd better win an Academy Award this year - because she deserves it.

The Cold Mountain star told the Austrian magazine News that she is the best candidate in the best supporting actress category.

"I've certainly earned the award. Last year I was nominated for Chicago but I left empty-handed," she said. "I think this year Hollywood will be fair."

The 34-year-old has been nominated for her role as Ruby Thewes, opposite Nicole Kidman and Jude Law.

Commenting on her role as a strong woman in the film, Zellweger said, "Hollywood has finally understood that we women should hold the controls to power and not men. We're on our way to asserting ourselves."

Zellweger added that she enjoyed working with Kidman, who won the best actress Oscar last year for The Hours.

WASHINGTON - Most Americans think the exposure of Janet Jackson's right breast during the Super Bowl halftime show was crass, but few believe it's a federal case.

An Associated Press poll found 54 percent of those surveyed said they thought the act, in which singer Justin Timberlake snatched off part of Jackson's bustier and revealed her breast to millions of television viewers, was in bad taste. Only 18 percent thought it was an illegal act.

The Federal Communications Commission is investigating whether the broadcast violated federal indecency laws.

Nearly 80 percent of respondents said it's a waste of money for the FCC to investigate.

Almost half of those from the ages of 18 to 29 said the Jackson incident was neither illegal nor in bad taste.

LONDON - In 1967, Beach Boys songwriter Brian Wilson shelved Smile, an ambitious concept album intended as the group's masterpiece that Wilson thought didn't have enough commercial appeal.

Thirty-seven years later, Smile received its live premiere in London on Saturday - and most critics agreed it was worth the wait.

Wilson, 61 and performing again after years as a near recluse, received a five-minute standing ovation at the end of Friday's show at London's Royal Festival Hall.

Wilson led an 18-piece band in performances of several Beach Boys hits, followed by the complete Smile - concluding with its best-known track, the pop classic Good Vibrations.

Fans were rapturous. The Guardian newspaper hailed the work's "groundbreaking complexity and sophistication," while the Daily Telegraph called it "a glorious, tangled symphony of celebration and sadness."

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