* "The Artist" followed its Golden Globe win by taking top honors at the Producers Guild Awards on Saturday, as the silent film continues its unlikely run toward Oscar night.
HBO's saga of mobsters in Prohibition-era Atlantic City, "Boardwalk Empire," won the producers' award for television drama series, keeping AMC's "Mad Men" from winning its fourth straight PGA Award.
The ABC sitcom "Modern Family" took the award for best comedy series for the second straight year.
Other winners at the PGA awards include PBS's "Downton Abbey" for long-form television, "The Adventures of Tintin" for animated film, "Beats, Rhymes & Life" for movie documentary and "The Colbert Report" for talk and live entertainment shows.
TATTBITS
* Iowa may scrap its program to give celebrities easy access to deer hunting in the state.
The state program gives 75 celebrities an opportunity to buy a special out-of-state deer-hunting permit each year. Non-residents who are not famous might wait years to buy a similar permit.
The celebrity program began in 1998 to help promote the state as a top hunting destination.
* 2 Live Crew, the rap group that created controversy in the early 1990s with songs like "Me So Horny" is reuniting and hitting the road this summer.
Luther Campbell made the announcement at the Sundance Film Festival, where he is promoting his appearance in the short film "The Life and Freaky Times of Uncle Luke."
* Comedian/author/game-show host Steve Harvey will become an Alabama school principal on Thursday after the school won a contest sponsored by Harvey's morning radio show and General Mills.
The Birmingham News reports that Angela Strozier, the mother of an eighth-grader, entered the contest by submitting an essay about the school's success.
* Golden Globe winner Claire Danes will pick up a pudding pot from Harvard's Hasty Pudding Theatricals. The student group named Danes as its Woman of the Year. She'll get a parade and a roast Jan. 26.
* Police in Iran have closed down dozens of toy shops for selling Barbie dolls, part of a decades-long crackdown against "manifestations of Western culture," according to the semiofficial Mehr news agency.
Barbie dolls are sold wearing swimsuits and miniskirts while Iranian women must wear headscarves in public, and men and women are not allowed to swim together.
Burqa Barbie, anyone?
* Steven Tyler yelped the national anthem at the AFC championship game yesterday?
And on "American Idol" he's a judge.
He gets paid a lot of money to decide who's a good singer.
Was his own performance worthy of Hollywood?
Dream on.
- Daily News wire services
contributed to this report.
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