LOS ANGELES, Jan. 23 (UPI) -- "No Strings Attached," starring Ashton Kutcher and Natalie Portman, earned the No. 1 spot at the weekend box office with $20.3 million in gross receipts.
"The Green Hornet," with Seth Rogen and Cameron Diaz, was a close second with $18.1 million. "The Dilemma," a buddy pic with Vince Vaughn and Kevin James, was third with more than $9.72 million.
All studio estimates are via Box Office Mojo.
"The King's Speech" was fourth, close on the leaders' heels with more than $9.16 million; "True Grit" fifth with $8 million; "Black Swan" sixth with $6.2 million; "The Fighter" seventh with more than $4.51 million; "Little Fockers" eighth with more than $4.39 million; and "Yogi Bear" ninth with $4.06 million.
"Tron Legacy" was 10th with more than $3.7 million.
LONDON, Jan. 23 (UPI) -- Sarah Ferguson, the duchess of York, will receive an invitation to Prince William's marriage ceremony to Kate Middleton, royal insiders in Britain said.
Ferguson was recently caught trying to sell access to her former husband, Prince Andrew, for nearly $1 million, The Mail Online reported.
Ferguson's invitation was at the insistence of William, royal insiders said. She has been unwelcome at royal family gatherings since her divorce from Andrew in 1996.
Ferguson was also a good friend of Prince William's mother, Princess Diana, although they had a falling out before her death in an automobile accident.
The duchess, 51, will accompany her daughters, Princesses Beatrice and Eugenie to the April 29 wedding. The princesses are close to their cousins, William and Prince Harry.
Ferguson reportedly received more than two dozen offers from American television networks to discuss the wedding, but has so far refused to do so, the report said.
Royal insiders said Ferguson will not be invited to a dinner and dance hosted by Prince Charles at Buckingham Palace following the wedding ceremony.
Ferguson's planned show for the Oprah Winfrey Network called "Finding Sarah," a documentary about her financial recovery, has been pushed back until after the wedding.
HOLLYWOOD, Jan. 23 (UPI) -- MTV's teen drama "Skins" has lost another advertiser, with Chicago's Wrigley Co. pulling its ads from the program, officials said.
Wrigley is the third major sponsor to pull advertising from the show, which has been deemed too racy by a television watchdog group, The Hollywood Reporter said.
Taco Bell dropped its ads Thursday, saying the program was "not a fit," and General Motors Friday put the show on its "Do Not Buy" list.
"Wrigley has decided to suspend any advertising during MTV's 'Skins' as it was never our intent to endorse content that could offend consumers. Any ads that previously aired during the show were part of a broader advertising plan with the network," the company said in a statement.
The Parents Television Council said "Skins" is "the most dangerous television show for children we have ever seen" and urged advertisers to drop the show.
MTV defended the program.
"We review all of our shows and work with all of our producers on an ongoing basis to ensure our shows comply with laws and community standards. We are confident that the episodes of 'Skins' will not only comply with all applicable legal requirements, but also with our responsibilities to our viewers," MTV said. "We have also taken numerous steps to alert viewers to the strong subject matter so that they can choose for themselves whether it is appropriate."
MTV released a "Skins" trailer showing a teen lesbian kiss.
CHICAGO, Jan. 23 (UPI) -- Chicago-born Jennifer Beals, best known for her role in the movie "Flashdance," is a private person who says she knew she was "different" growing up.
In an interview, Beals told the Chicago Sun-Times she was "acutely aware that I was different."
As the light-skinned daughter of a black father and a Caucasian mother, Beals said at times she endured taunts of "whitey" in Chatham, a predominately African-American Chicago neighborhood.
"It was very odd to have somebody who was white coming into the South Side neighborhood," Beals said of growing up there in the 1960s and early 1970s.
Beals detailed her thinking about her racial identity during a 2004 award acceptance speech in Los Angeles.
"As I got a little older, and I was more aware of television and magazines, I searched for images of girls that looked like me," Beals said. "As a biracial girl growing up in Chicago, there wasn't a lot there, positive or otherwise. I mean, I had Spock. And that was kind of it. And I think my theme song was Cher's 'Half-Breed.'"
Beals has spent six seasons as the lesbian art curator Bette Porter on Showtime's hit show "The L Word." She recently spent 100 days shooting scenes for "The Chicago Code."
The political/cop drama premieres Feb. 7 on Fox and features Beals as Chicago's first female chief of police.
Beals earned $500,000 for her role in "Flashdance," and said she almost turned down the role because she'd just started attending college at Yale.
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