Justin Bieber jail video shows wavering pop star

Justin Bieber walks unsteadily and even appears to stumble while performing a sobriety test shortly after his January arrest on driving under the influence and other charges, according to police video released Wednesday.

Only a few moments depict Bieber in the roughly 10 hours of video released by Miami-Dade County prosecutors following public records requests from The Associated Press and other news organizations.

The videos were recorded at the Miami Beach Police Department shortly after Bieber and R&B singer Khalil Amir Sharieff were arrested during what officers said was an illegal street drag race in exotic sports cars. They were not charged with drag racing, however.

In one clip, Bieber — dressed in a dark hoodie with the hood over his head, dark baggy shorts and bright red shoes — wavers as he tries to walk carefully and slowly heel to toe. He stumbles slightly as he turns and appears to have his arms out for balance. In a second try he stumbles again, even reaching out to a wall for support, and has an animated face-to-face conversation with a police officer in which both point fingers at each other.

There are only brief glimpses of the pop singer's face and no close-ups in the medium-quality video, which also included no time codes to determine how long he underwent the sobriety tests.

Other brief clips show Bieber being walked through various parts of the police station, and one previously released video depicted the 19-year-old singer being patted down by an officer. None of the videos have any sound.

Sharieff is also depicted in some segments, sitting quietly in a chair and watching Bieber undergo the sobriety test. At one point the two appear to be talking and Sharieff raises a clenched fist.

Several clips were withheld at the request of Bieber's attorneys, including four segments depicting Bieber urinating into a cup for a drug test. Miami-Dade County Judge William Altfield will review those clips private and plans another hearing next week on whether they will be released.

Bieber has pleaded not guilty to DUI, resisting arrest and driving with an invalid license. Breath tests showed that his blood-alcohol content was below the 0.02 level considered intoxicated for underage drivers, but the urine test found the presence of marijuana and the antidepressant Xanax.

Bieber's attorneys did not immediately respond to an email seeking comment about the videos.

Police reports described Bieber after his arrest as "excited, talkative, profanity, cooperative, insulting, and cocky" and noted that he had a pronounced odor of alcohol on his breath, bloodshot eyes and a flushed face.

Regarding the marijuana, one officer said he noticed a strong smell of the drug while Bieber was sitting in the back of a police car. The officer asked Bieber about it.

"Yeah, we were smoking all night at the studio," the report quotes Bieber as replying.

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The Dating Game's 1st host dies at 81

Jim Lange, the first host of the popular game show The Dating Game, has died at his home in Mill Valley, Calif. He was 81.

He died Tuesday morning after suffering a heart attack, his wife Nancy told The Associated Press Wednesday.

Though Lange had a successful career in radio, he is best known for his television role on ABC's The Dating Game, which debuted in 1965 and on which he appeared for more than a decade, playing host to many celebrity guests. Michael Jackson, Steve Martin and Arnold Schwarzenegger, among others, appeared as contestants.

Even a pre-Charlie's Angels Farrah Fawcett appeared on the program, introduced as "an accomplished artist and sculptress" with a dream to open her own gallery.

The show's format: a young man or woman questions three members of the opposite sex, hidden from her view, to determine which one would be the best date.

The questions were designed by the show's writers to elicit sexy answers.

"I've never been out on a date before. What do two kids like us do on a date?" a teenage Michael Jackson asked one of his potential dates on a 1972 episode of the show.

"Well, we'd have fun," the girl answered. "We'd go out to dinner, and then I'd go over to your house."

Lange was born on Aug. 15, 1932, in St. Paul, Minn., where as a young man he discovered a passion for local radio. He worked as a disc jockey for decades, and upon his retirement from broadcasting in 2005, he was the morning DJ for KABL-FM in the San Francisco Bay Area, which specializes in playing classics from the Big Band era to the 1970s.

"As much as he's known for his television work, his real love was radio," his wife said. "He loved doing local radio, especially before it was computerized."

Lange is survived by a sister, five children, two stepchildren and four grandchildren.

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Israel donates Anne Frank books to Tokyo libraries

The Israeli Embassy is donating 300 Anne Frank-related books to Tokyo public libraries to replace those that have been vandalized.

Representatives from the embassy and Japan's Jewish community presented some of the books to the mayor of Tokyo's Suginami ward at a news conference Thursday.

More than 300 books related to Anne Frank, including copies of The Diary of a Young Girl, have been found damaged in Tokyo libraries, according to the latest tally. Suginami was particularly hard hit, with 121 books vandalized. The donated books will be divided among Tokyo libraries.

The mayor of Suginami expressed hope that the incident could be turned into a lesson for Japanese who are not aware of the Holocaust.

"Through this incident, I believe that people also learned about the horrid facts of history and of racism, and with this knowledge, I hope that our people were given an opportunity to reflect on the preciousness of peace," Mayor Ryo Tanaka said.

Peleg Lewi, deputy chief of mission at the Israeli Embassy, said he believes the vandalism was a single act that does not represent the feelings of the Japanese.

Hundreds of copies of books related to Anne Frank in Tokyo's public libraries have been vandalized. (Koji Ueda/Associated Press)

"The diary of Anne Frank represents to us a message of tolerance between people," he said. "We fully trust the Japanese authorities to bring those responsible for these cowardly acts to justice."

Police established a task force this week to investigate the case.

Frank wrote her diary during the two years her family hid from the Nazis during the Second World War. She was 15 when she died in a concentration camp in 1945. Her father survived and published the diary, which has become the most widely read document to emerge from the Holocaust.

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Canadian Screen Awards tap Jay Baruchel, Jessica Paré

Mad Men's Jessica Paré, film comedy regular Jay Baruchel and hit singer-songwriter Serena Ryder are the latest famous faces set to join the Canadian Screen Awards festivities in March.

Organizers unveiled more celebrity presenters set to take the stage during the March 9 broadcast celebrating excellence in Canadian film and television production from the past year.

Many of the newly added presenters hail from the world of film. They include:

• Liane Balaban (The Grand Seduction)
• Evelyne Brochu (Tom at the Farm)
• Cara Gee and Jennifer Podemski (Empire of Dirt)
• Matthew Johnson (The Dirties)

Previously announced presenters include actors Tatiana Maslany, Dave Foley, Jason Priestley and David Sutcliffe.

Baruchel — a comedy stalwart on both sides of the border known for films such as The Art of the Steal, Goon, This is the End and How to Train Your Dragon — will help honour his idol, director David Cronenberg, joining previously announced presenter Viggo Mortensen.

The CSA ceremony will include a tribute to the Toronto filmmaker, the 2014 winner of its Lifetime Achievement Award.

Top contenders headed into this year's event include sci-fi series Orphan Black, sitcom Less Than Kind and psychological thriller Enemy.

Hosted for a second year by comedy legend Martin Short, the Canadian Screen Awards broadcast gala takes place at Toronto's Sony Centre for the Performing Arts on Sunday, March 9. The awards will be telecast by CBC-TV beginning at 8 p.m.

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12 Years a Slave to be taught in U.S. schools

After earning kudos at film festivals and front-runner status during the ongoing movie awards season, the harrowing 12 Years a Slave has garnered a fresh accolade: it will be taught in U.S. public schools.

Teaching materials on 12 Years a Slave will be distributed beginning in September through a partnership between the National School Boards Association, New Regency, Penguin Books and the filmmakers behind the searing, Oscar-nominated drama.

Schools will receive the film, the original Solomon Northup memoir that inspired the movie and study guides.

"Since first reading 12 Years a Slave, it has been my dream that this book be taught in schools. I am immensely grateful to Montel Williams and the National School Boards Association for making this dream a reality and for sharing Solomon Northup's story with today's generation," director Steve McQueen said in a statement.

American broadcaster Williams is behind the initiative, following his earlier success with getting the Civil War film Glory distributed to U.S. schools.

"When Hollywood is at its best, the power of the movies can be harnessed into a powerful educational tool," Williams said.

NSBA president David A. Pickler added that the partnership helps "ensure that every public high school student in America has the opportunity to stare the stark realities of slavery in the eye through books and film."

12 Years a Slave recounts the little-known tale of a freeborn, 19th-century African American man kidnapped and sold into slavery before miraculously regaining his freedom.

Starring Chiwetel Ejiofor as Northup, McQueen's film explores the complex, nuanced nature of slavery and the institutionalized racism that propped up the U.S. slave trade.

Speaking at the Toronto International Film Festival last fall, where 12 Years a Slave won the festival's prestigious People's Choice Prize, McQueen said he felt Northup's story is as important as that of Holocaust victim Anne Frank.

"Each turn of the page was a revelation. I live in Amsterdam and Anne Frank is such a big part of that world. This book happened to have been written nearly 100 years before Anne Frank," McQueen said, revealing that his wife — a historian — had first introduced Northup's 1853 memoir to him.

"It had such a grip on me, such a power, that I just had to make this film."

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Cindy Tang's Sea Telescope wins Doodle 4 Google Canada contest

Toronto-area student Cindy Tang's brilliantly coloured image of a telescope able to peer into the far depths of the sea has won the inaugural edition of the Doodle 4 Google Canada contest.

Grade 12 student Tang, a 17-year-old who attends Dr. Norman Bethune Collegiate Institute in Scarborough, Ont., was unveiled today as the national winner of the contest, held in Canada for the first time, during a ceremony at Toronto's Royal Ontario Museum (ROM).

Cindy Tang, at centre in a black jacket, accepted the prize at the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto on Tuesday morning. (Deana Sumanac/CBC)

Her prize includes a $10,000 scholarship, a laptop computer and a $10,000 grant for her school. Her drawing, entitled Sea Telescope, will be featured as the "Google Doodle" on the Google.ca homepage on Wednesday.

"Everyone is going to see my artwork. And even though I should be so happy about the fact... I am still so nervous," Tang told CBC News shortly after her win.

The drawing is also part of a special exhibit at the ROM, alongside images created by more than 70 other finalists.

A popular customization for the Google browser's homepage, a Google Doodle adapts the tech giant's logo to mark special dates, holidays, anniversaries, events or the lives of significant figures.

Organizers kicked off the competition last fall by asking students in kindergarten through Grade 12 to submit an image to fulfil the statement: "If I could invent anything, I would invent..."

Tang's drawing Sea Telescope answers: "I would invent a telescpe that would show us the depth of the sea (all of it). I've heard we've discovered less than five per cent of the ocean [with] 95 per cent still left unseen by human eyes."

Tang, the finalist for the Ontario region, was also joined by four remaining national finalists:

• Prairies: Xusheng (Sam) Yu of St. Francis Xavier Community School for Electric Trees.
• Atlantic Canada: David Isaiah Jeans of Yarmouth Consolidated Memorial High School for Age Reversing Machine.
• Quebec: Meriam Akkou of École Secondaire La Camaradière for Underwater City.
• British Columbia and the North: Maria Angela Viaje of Johnston Heights Secondary for Virtual Reality Simulator.

The four national finalists will each receive a $5,000 scholarship and a laptop computer.

Submissions were accepted until Dec. 31, after which a judging committee narrowed the list down to 75 regional finalists. Then, a celebrity judging panel chose the 25 finalists. The celebrity group was composed of retired astronaut Chris Hadfield, actress Karine Vanasse, Royal Ontario Museum chief executive Janet Carding and Google Science Fair winner Ann Makosinski.

The public also got to cast votes for their favourite of the 25 finalists.

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Mitch Albom launches Philippine library-rebuilding effort

Bestselling author Mitch Albom has launched a drive to rebuild 10 libraries in Tacloban, the central Philippine city ravaged by Typhoon Haiyan in November.

National Book Store Foundation, his Philippine partner in the project, said Tuesday that Albom has pledged to raise $160,000 US, starting with his own contribution of $10,000 for the libraries.

He has enlisted famous writers to contribute their books to the Donated Reading for Youth of the Philippines project, including Stephen King, Amy Tan and JK Rowling.

The American author of the bestselling memoir Tuesdays with Morrie visited Tacloban on Monday and also donated 40 boats to help fishermen in the region. He said during a visit to a damaged school in Tacloban that he was blessed to have many Filipino readers, and that he wanted to do something to help.

"I've seen my own books pulled from the flood-damaged homes, mouldy, discoloured, yet brought to me to sign," Albom said.

"It's incredible and heartwarming."

Many areas of Tacloban were flattened by the powerful typhoon and the tsunami-like storm surge it unleashed.

National Book Store Foundation has said it will match funds raised by Albom on a dollar for dollar basis until the goal is met. Albom is on a promotional tour in Manila for his latest book, The First Phone Call from Heaven.

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World-renowned flamenco guitarist Paco de Lucia dies at 66

World-renowned guitarist Paco de Lucia, who dazzled audiences with his lightning-speed flamenco rhythms and finger work, has died in Mexico, Spanish officials said Wednesday. He was 66.

A spokeswoman for the town hall of de Lucia's native Spanish town of Algeciras said de Lucia family members had told them the artist died of a heart attack. She said he began to feel unwell while on a beach in Cancun with his child and died while being taken to a local hospital.

The official spoke on condition of anonymity as town hall regulations do not allow her to be identified publicly

Describing the death as unexpected and premature, Education and Culture Minister Jose Ignacio Wert said he was "a unique and unrepeatable figure."

Born Dec. 21, 1947, de Lucia — whose real name was Francisco Sanchez Gomez — was best-known for flamenco but also experimented with other genres of music. One of his most famous recordings was Friday Night in San Francisco, recorded with fellow guitarists John McLaughlin and Al Di Meola in 1981.

During the 1960s and 1970s, he formed an extremely popular duo with late flamenco singer legend Camaron de la Isla.

His 1973 rumba Entre Dos Aguas (Between Two Waters) became one of the most popular recordings in Spain.

De Lucia was awarded the Culture Ministry's Fine Arts Gold Medal in 1992 and the prestigious Prince of Asturias prize for the Arts in 2004.

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Student Cindy Tang's Sea Telescope wins Doodle 4 Google Canada

Toronto-area student Cindy Tang's brilliantly coloured image of a telescope able to peer into the far depths of the sea has won the latest edition of the Doodle 4 Google Canada contest.

Tang, a student at Dr. Norman Bethune Collegiate Institute in Scarborough, Ont., was unveiled today as the national winner of the contest, held in Canada for the first time, during a ceremony at Toronto's Royal Ontario Museum (ROM).

Cindy Tang, at centre in a black jacket, accepted the prize at the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto on Tuesday morning. (Deana Sumanac/CBC)

Her prize includes a $10,000 scholarship and a $10,000 grant for her school. Her drawing, entitled Sea Telescope, will be featured as the "Google Doodle" on the Google.ca homepage on Wednesday and also be part of a special exhibit at the ROM next month.

A popular customization for the Google browser's homepage, a Google Doodle adapts the tech giant's logo to mark special dates, holidays, anniversaries, events or the lives of significant figures.

Organizers kicked off the competition last fall by asking students in kindergarten through Grade 12 to submit an image to fulfil the statement: "If I could invent anything, I would invent..."

Tang's drawing Sea Telescope answers: "I would invent a telescpe that would show us the depth of the sea (all of it). I've heard we've discovered less than five per cent of the ocean [with] 95 per cent still left unseen by human eyes."

Tang, the finalist for the Ontario region, was also joined by four remaining national finalists:

• Prairies: Xusheng (Sam) Yu of St. Francis Xavier Community School for Electric Trees.
• Atlantic Canada: David Isaiah Jeans of Yarmouth Consolidated Memorial High School for Age Reversing Machine.
• Quebec: Meriam Akkou of École Secondaire La Camaradière for Underwater City.
• British Columbia and the North: Maria Angela Viaje of Johnston Heights Secondary for Virtual Reality Simulator.

Submissions were accepted until Dec. 31, after which a judging committee narrowed the list down to 75 regional finalists. Then, a celebrity judging panel chose the 25 finalists. The group was comprised of retired astronaut Chris Hadfield, actress Karine Vanasse, Royal Ontario Museum CEO Janet Carding and Google Science Fair winner Ann Makosinski.

The public also got to cast votes for their favourite of the 25 finalists.

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Actor and filmmaker Harold Ramis dies at age 69

Actor, writer and filmmaker Harold Ramis, the Ghostbusters star whose comedy credits include Groundhog Day and the National Lampoon films, has died at age 69.

Ramis died early Monday morning at his Chicago-area home, surrounded by family and friends, according to a statement from his Los Angeles representatives, United Talent Agency.

Ramis died of complications from autoimmune inflammatory vasculitis, a condition that affects blood vessels he had battled for the past four years.

• National Lampoon's Animal House.
• Meatballs.
• Stripes.
• Ghostbusters (I and II).
• National Lampoon's Vacation.
• Caddyshack (I and II).
• Groundhog Day.
• As Good as It Gets.
• Stuart Saves His Family.
• Multiplicity.
• Knocked Up.
• Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story.
• Analyze This (and its sequel Analyze That).
• Bedazzled.
• Year One.

Chicago-born Ramis started his comedy career in 1969 in his hometown's influential Second City improv comedy theatre, where he would encounter his friends and regular collaborators such as John Belushi, Bill Murray and Dan Aykroyd.

"[I'm] deeply saddened to hear of the passing of my brilliant, gifted, funny friend," Aykroyd said in a statement on Monday.

"May he now get the answers he was always seeking."

When the troupe launched its landmark television series SCTV in the late 1970s, Ramis was its first head writer, as well as one of the cast members.

Shortly afterward, the former Playboy magazine jokes editor broke through in Hollywood with the blockbuster comedy National Lampoon's Animal House, starring Belushi, and became known for some of the most popular comedy films of the 1980s.

Throughout his career, he would mix screenwriting, directing, producing and acting roles. His best-loved titles include his role in the Ghostbusters films — in which he portrayed the straight-laced Dr. Egon Spengler and co-wrote with Aykroyd — and directing the comedy classic Groundhog Day, starring Murray.

He often teamed with his former Second City colleagues for wild and silly films, including Stripes, Caddyshack, Meatballs and National Lampoon's Vacation.

"He was a very generous, smart guy. He was always the quietest person and the loudest person in the room. His volume didn't come from his voice. It came from his intelligence," Canadian filmmaker Ivan Reitman, who directed Ghostbusters and Meatballs, told CBC's As It Happens.

"You had to pay attention because he was always going to say something really clever that made whatever we were working on better. 

"I loved the guy. I always felt he was the one I could speak to, that I could be the closest with, and there must have been hundreds of others who felt the same way. It's why I felt like he was the brother I never had. He was like the more funny version of me. I learned a lot from him."

In recent years, Ramis's work included directing episodes of The Office, the film Year One and cameo roles in movies by filmmakers he'd influenced (including Judd Apatow's Knocked Up). He was also touted as a caring mentor in the industry and a key inspiration to a younger generation of comedy filmmakers, including Adam Sandler, Jay Roach, Jake Kasdan and Peter and Bobby Farrelly.

Second City founder Bernie Sahlins once said that, from the start, he knew Ramis "would be an important factor in American comedy.

"He has all the skills and abilities to be funny and to write funny, but he also is a leader, a very nice guy. He was always looked up to, in Second City to being head writer at SCTV. He was never separate from anybody. He was always one of the boys, but he was the best boy," Sahlins told the Chicago Tribune in a 1999 interview. Sahlins, who had worked with Ramis since 1969, died in 2013.

Ramis is survived by his wife, Erica Mann Ramis, his children Julian, Daniel and Violet and two grandchildren.

Former SCTV cast members reunited at the U.S. Comedy Arts Festival in Aspen in 1999, including (front row, from left) Dave Thomas, Catherine O'Hara, Andrea Martin, Eugene Levy, Martin Short, (back row, from left) Joe Flaherty and Harold Ramis. (E Pablo Kosmicki/Associated Press)

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