Apparently celebrating its 35th anniversary, the awards were based on tabulations from hoi polloi votes flooding this Web site. In recognition of this anonymous constituency, many of the winners, including Bale, Witherspoon, Ellen DeGeneres and Carrie Underwood, appeared live on the broadcast to accept bulky glass statuettes and offer thanks to whoever noticed whatever it was they did to earn the accolade. Bale also singled out his Dark Knight co-star Heath Ledger, with whom he shared the prize for "Favorite On-Screen Match Up" and who most certainly would have attended himself had he not had better things to do.

Other winners included:

· Favorite Comedy Movie: 27 Dresses

· Favorite Drama and Independent Movie The Secret Life of Bees

· Favorite Family Movie: WALL-E

· Favorite Male Movie Star: Will Smith

· Favorite Female Movie Star: Reese Witherspoon

· Favorite Leading Man: Brad Pitt

· Favorite TV Drama: House

· Favorite TV Comedy: Two and a Half Men

· Favorite TV Game Show: Deal or No Deal

· Favorite TV Drama Diva: Kyra Sedgwick, The Closer

· Favorite Male Singer: Chris Brown

· Favorite Female Singer: Carrie Underwood

And many, many more, viewable here. Congratulations (we think?) to the winners; may their Oscar/Emmy/Grammy campaigns steam forth from here.

• People's Choice Awards

"She's a smart one. She saw what [happened with] Jennifer Aniston, who was crazy successful on TV, but can't seem to carry a film, and she tested the waters early."

But Heigl's chances of fleeing the yawnfest that is Grey's and continuing her journey towards becoming "the next Julia Roberts" don't look good:

After only three seasons on then-mega hit Grey's, Heigl did make an early attempt to break out as a "real" actress on the big screen, and whether it was a case of pure luck or actual talent, Knocked Up turned her into a bankable hot commodity overnight. Then came 27 Dresses, which managed to rack up an impressive $23mm its opening weekend, coming in second to the highly anticipated Cloverfield. Interestingly enough, 27 has racked up $76mm to date, trailing the J.J. Abrams shitshow by only $4mm as of May 1st. Next on her plate is a pantsless role in 2009's The Ugly Truth, which co-stars B.O. superstar Gerard Butler. The only hitch regarding Heigl's promising movie career? As a source told MSNBC, "Heigl might be locked into Grey's a bit longer. 'I don't think she'll be able to get out of it.'" But we're talking about a woman capable of curing ADD sans medical license! We're not worried about Heigl's manipulative methods when it comes to getting her way.

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• HEIGL LOOKING TO HANG UP HER 'GREY'S' SCRUBS? [MSNBC]

"Who is she? Oh, that girl in 27 Dresses?"

But is Hudson's naiveté genuine or might she just be jealous of the fact that Heigl's 27 Dresses tap danced all over Fool's Gold at the box office (27 Dresses has a cume of $74.4MM, while Fool's Gold is stuck at a $58m gross to-date). Call us crazy, but we think that Kate's feigned ignorance of the Emmy winning emasculator is a direct result of the latter.

• 'GOLD' STAR DISSES '27 DRESSES' BEAUTY [AOL News]

1. Cloverfield - $41 million
Slight spoilers ahead: Can you say Best. January. Opening. Ever? Paramount can, and will—a lot, as the Siberian gulag of a movie-release month miraculously thawed in time (Al Gore warned us!) to bring the studio the kinds of numbers one might expect from a July release that ends in 3. A lot was at stake for Cloverfield, as some wondered whether relying so heavily on internet-disseminated buzz could have easily spelled a Snakes on a Curse for the YouTube-Eats-Manhattan movie. At the end of the day, however, it was its utter lack of irony—the dire, matter-of-fact style in which it documented the horrors of CW stars being eaten by Rottweiller-sized crab lice—that was the secret to Cloverfield's success.

2. 27 Dresses - $22.4 million
Fox will likely attribute the success of 27 Dresses—the 8th! Best! January! Opening! etc. etc.—to its positioning as attractive counter-programming to Cloverfield, but we suspect that to be only half the case. In an inspired, soon-to-be-studied-at-Annenberg marketing phenomenon, we think Dresses's hefty take was the result of mass chick-movie/guy-movie bartering agreements, with couples throughout America agreeing to see one if their mate agreed to accompany them to the other. As a result, the adventures of a shrewish, unmarriable Katherine Heigl acted not unlike a Rottweiller-sized crab louse, hanging off its much larger box-office-monster host-body.

3. The Bucket List - $15.1 million
With Jack Nicholson's recent admission to AARP The Magazine that he "can't hit on a girl in public like he used to," the legendary ladies man has begun compiling a sexual-conquest-themed bucket list of his own, beginning with the elusive Me With 17 UCLA Co-Eds fantasy he's meant to accomplish since Chinatown days.

4. Juno - $10.25 million
Certainly Oprah having designated Juno as an official Steadman's Movie Club™ selection and "fresh" couldn't have hurt the indie teen pregnancy comedy at the box office this weekend. We doubt, however, that Dr. Phil's decision to then jump on the bandwagon and ambush Juno in her hospital room with TV cameras and a lecture on sexual responsibility did much to affect the bottom line.

5. National Treasure: Book of Secrets - $8.1 million
You mean to tell us there was still $8 million worth of people meaning to getting around to seeing Secrets, who finally did so this weekend? What could they possibly have had going on in their lives that kept them away for three weeks?

• WEEKEND BOX OFFICE January 18-20, 2008 [BoxOfficeMojo.com]

After watching the clip twice, it becomes readily apparent that Helga The Heigl is like the General Patton of newlywed psychological warfare. Notice how she subtly yet pervasively uses a jokily condescending tone to land public jab after public jab on her husband's shortcomings. Case in point, when she says that "right now he's just visiting my house in L.A." (emphasis ours). Um, now that they're married, shouldn't it be their house? Maybe that wasn't in the pre-nup.

And what's up with calling him JOSHUA all the time? The dude clearly prefers the name Josh (if his MySpace page and album cover are any indication). She then goes on to label him a "show off" and tells the uncomfortably embarrassing story of how he broke his nose in a skiing accident just days before his wedding, prompting Dave to label him a "dope" and a "bonehead" (not in our clip). Good luck with that one, Josh(ua)!