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Jennifer Aniston took home the MTV Movie Award for Best Dirtbag for her role in last summer's "Horrible Bosses."

Best dirtbag? The sweet and lovable Aniston? Of course, Aniston is anything but a dirtbag in real life (we hope), but that's why they call it acting.

In the comedy, she played a sexual harassing dentist who torments her dental hygienist, played by Charlie Day. Aniston beat out fellow cast member Colin Farrell for the honor.

"I would like to say thank you to the television show 'Friends' for letting me unleash my inner-sweetheart, and here's to ('Horrible Bosses' director) Seth Gordon for letting me be a dirtbag," Aniston said in her acceptance speech.

Heath Ledger's Academy Award-winning portrayal of The Joker in "The Dark Knight" made an indelible mark on the film world. But his death in 2008 at the age of 28 made an even bigger impact on the people who worked with him.

This was brought home by the touching moment during the MTV Movie Awards when Christian Bale became visibly emotional after a montage of scenes from "The Dark Knight" was presented during the show.  The footage from the previous movie was there just to set the stage for the reveal of a new look at this summer's final chapter, but it obviously struck a chord with Bale.

Bale was flanked by costars Gary Oldman and Joseph Gordon-Levitt, and when the lights came up after the presentation the star seems to be fighting back tears.  Bale turned his eyes down from the audience and the cameras and said how it was good to see Ledger again. "Wow, great to remember Heath in that moment," Bale said. "Wonderful to see Heath Ledger there."


It was an uncharacteristically vulnerable moment for Bale, who has stirred controversy in the past for outbursts that were more angry than heartfelt.  But it's not the first time he's spoken publicly about missing Ledger.  He told Parade Magazine in 2008, "It takes a long time to accept that someone's gone, when all body and mind are telling you that this is somebody you will know for a great deal of time," and he called Ledger "a kindred spirit."

Bale and Gordon-Levitt then introduced director Christopher Nolan, who came out to present a new collection of scenes from "The Dark Knight Rises," the final chapter of his Batman trilogy coming this summer.  It started with a clip of Gordon-Levitt's character, Gotham City police officer John Blake, questioning Anne Hathaway as Selena Kyle, aka Catwoman.  Blake says she can't hide from the police, and Kyle answers, "Maybe it's not you I'm running from."

We then get new looks at Tom Hardy as Batman's nemesis Bane as he causes chaos throughout Gotham.  There is a shot of a tunnel blocked off by a giant pile of wrecked cars, and after Bane announces "Let the games begin!" two bridges explode and collapse into the river. It would seem that Bane is attempting to cut off the city and trap its citizens inside.


Then we see the Batsuit rising up from the floor in a glass container, and Batman flies over the city and speeds through the streets on his motorcycle.  Catwoman comes around a corner and tells an armed man, "He's behind you." He asks "Who?" and turns around, and Batman, hanging upside-down, answers "Me."  It's followed by a rapid-fire procession of fights, explosions, cars, planes, motorcycles, guns, riots, and a showdown between Batman and Bane.

It cuts back to Blake asking Kyle what she knows about the masked villain, Bane.  She replies, "That you should be as afraid of him as I am."  Then we see Batman turning to face the imposing Bane as he confidently struts towards the Caped Crusader.

It was an intriguing piece of footage, and like the previous trailers it gives the impression that they are holding back the best stuff for you to actually see in the theater.  You'll get your chance when "The Dark Knight Rises" opens on July 20.

Islamabad, June 4  Four women, who were sentenced to death by clerics in Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa provice for singing and dancing at a wedding, have been killed, a media report said. A minister, however, denied this.

Four women and two men had been sentenced to death in Kohistan for singing and dancing at a wedding.

Muhamamd Afzal, brother of one of the convicted men, said that four women have been done to death, Geo News reported.

Clerics ordered their killing following a mobile phone video that showed the six singing and dancing at a remote village in the mountainous district of Kohistan.

There were, however, conflicting reports about the killings.

While Interior Minister Rehman Malik Sunday ordered a judicial inquiry into the incident, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Minister for Social Welfare Sattar Ayaz told Geo News that the women were not killed.

Malik said a judicial commission would probe the incident.

Tahir Rehman, an official, said that he has no information about the killing of the four women.

The  Florida mom arrested for choking a boy who bullied her daughter on Facebook admits she "lost it" when she put her hands around the boy's neck in the middle of a mall while her daughter watched.

 "I said, 'Stop saying things about my daughter on Facebook,' and I did use some expletives, and I was told that he wasn't going to stop and he didn't have to stop," Debbie Piscitella said today on " Good Morning America."  "So I lost it.  I really, really did.

 "I lost my temper," she said."  "I wish it would have been another route I had taken.  I don't go around doing that to children.  I don't want to sound like I'm a huge monster."

 Piscitella, 46, and daughter McKenna, 13, were shopping at a St. Petersburg mall last Monday when the pair spotted the girl's alleged online tormentor, a teenage classmate.

 Piscitella confronted the boy and put her hands around his neck, according to police.  The boy, whose name was not released, had, according to Piscitella, taunted her daughter online after the girl posted a picture of herself taken by her younger brother after a concert.

 "It's the nasty things that he was saying about her," said Piscitella, who admitted her emotions got the best of her.  "What really, really did it was when she [McKenna] was so upset about it.  She wanted to hurt herself. That, to me, as a parent, seeing my daughter like that really angered me."

 Piscitella was arrested on a child abuse charge a few hours later, after the boy's mother saw red marks on her son's neck and decided to press charges.  Piscitella was released on bail.

 While not commenting on the child abuse charge pending against her, Piscitella said she and McKenna's father, Jim, had tried to contact authorities to end the bullying against their daughter before it went too far.

 "I went to the school.  I went to the SRO, the School Resource Office," she said.  "They [McKenna's father] contacted the police even that night and they were like, 'Oh, there's nothing we can do about it.'

 "They have all these anti-bully laws but, when it comes down to it, it falls on deaf ears."

 Piscitella said there are lessons that other parents can learn from her experience.

 "I want people to, obviously, try to go through the proper channels," she said.  "I want you to monitor your children and what your children are doing on Facebook because, obviously, if you look on the Facebook of the children in question, the things that are on there, as a parent, I would shut it down immediately."