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Theron joins Dior

NEW YORK - Add Christian Dior to the list of Charlize Theron fans. The company announced Thursday that the Oscar winner will be the new face of J'adore, the designer's fragrance that debuted in 2000.

Theron will start appearing in print ads and TV commercials next month - about the same time that ads for Chanel No. 5, featuring another Oscar winner, Nicole Kidman, debut.

The advertising deal with Theron is the first between the beauty brand and a celebrity. Dior's artistic director John Galliano oversaw all aspects of the campaign.

LONDON - A British newspaper survey of top scientists has chosen Blade Runner as the world's best sci-fi film.

Sixty scientists were questioned, including evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins and Harvard psychologist Steven Pinker, the Guardian newspaper said Wednesday.

In the 1982 film, a retired police officer played by Harrison Ford hunts down renegade human replicates in a dark futuristic vision of Los Angeles.

Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey came in a close second, followed by George Lucas' Star Wars and Star Wars Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back.

LOS ANGELES - This song is my song, this song is your song.

That's the agreement reached between the publishers of Woody Guthrie's classic This Land Is Your Land and JibJab Media, creators of an animated Internet short that uses the tune in a comic send-up of President Bush and Sen. John Kerry's presidential campaigns.

Ludlow Music, the song's publisher, agreed in a settlement Tuesday to allow the cartoon - one of the biggest Internet draws of the summer - to keep using the song.

In return, JibJab dropped a lawsuit against Ludlow that had sought an order saying its use of the song was protected because it was a parody and This Land was in the public domain.

The creators also agreed to provide a link on their Web site to the song's original lyrics and to donate 20 percent of any profits to the Woody Guthrie Foundation.

LAS VEGAS - Roy Horn made a rare public appearance on the Las Vegas Strip, signaling thumbs-up from his wheelchair at a Cuban revue he and partner Siegfried Fischbacher are co-producing.

Horn returned to Las Vegas last weekend from Denver, where he spent two weeks at Craig Hospital, a rehabilitation center for stroke and trauma victims.

The 59-year-old entertainer suffered a stroke that left him partially paralyzed after a near-fatal mauling by a trained white tiger during a performance Oct. 3 at the Mirage hotel-casino. The attack forced an end to the long-running Siegfried & Roy show.

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