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Helen Phillips is half the woman she once was - and her 140-pound weight loss was just enough to win her the $250,000 grand prize on NBC's 'The Biggest Loser: Couples.'

RIGHT-WINGERS who've been making a big deal about Wanda Sykes' performance at the White House Correspondent's Dinner need to stop.

The Biggest Loser 7 concluded last night and awarded its $250,000 prize to Helen Phillips, who's 47. That gave Bob Harper his sixth loss to Jillian Michaels on the show; someone he trained only one once, in season three, when Jillian was gone. Anyway, Helen went from 257 to 117 pounds, losing 140 pounds and 54.47 percent of her body weight. Crazy--she could be a jockey. Viewer votes ('millions,' Allison vaguely said--she's no Ryan Seacrest, as she seemed intent upon proving throughout the night) sent 18-year-old Mike Morelli, the show's youngest competitor ever, to the final three instead of his dad, Ron. He ultimately went from 388 to 181 pounds, losing 207 pounds but only 53.35 percent of his weight. Tara Costa's weight dropped from 294 to 139, losing 155 pounds and 52.72 percent of her weight, leaving her in third place even though she'd dominated throughout the season, as she was the biggest loser six times during the competition. But she would have had to have lost 160 pounds

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CANNES, France (Reuters) - An animated comedy adventure helped lift the mood at the start of the Cannes film festival as cinema's biggest and glitziest gathering prepared to roll out the red carpet on Wednesday.

Since 2006, the Theodor Seuss Geisel Award has been awarded annually 'to the author(s) and illustrator(s) of the most distinguished contribution to the body of American children?s literature known as...

'It might be surprising that in 2009, women are still having to grope their way to the power seat in an artistic field such as theater. And the helm of a musical, with its complex and expensive working parts, is perhaps the most difficult and challenging position the theater has to offer. Yet for all the successes of a Julie Taymor ('The Lion King') or a Susan Stroman ('The Producers'), women even today only occasionally receive the assignment to direct a big-budget, big-showcase musical.'...

'140 pounds! Yes! Yes!' exclaimed Helen Phillips, 48, on tonight's season finale of The Biggest Loser: Couples upon learning how many pounds she lost. With a 54.47% total...