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The countdown for the 2012 Golden Globes is nearly over, with just a few hours until the nominees step out onto the red carpet.

Divers found the bodies of two elderly men inside a capsized cruiseliner on Sunday, raising to five the death toll after the luxury vessel foundered and dramatically keeled over off Italy's coast.

Hollywood prepared for its annual party and prize giveaway, the Golden Globe Awards, on Sunday but as much as Tinseltown's eyes will be fixed on which films and stars will be honored, its ears will be listening for barbs from show host Ricky Gervais.

We're presuming now that some of the people we met on the boat didn't make it. As the Costa Concordia, one of a line of luxury Italian cruise ships, sank into the Mediterranean, Seamus and Carol Moore prepared for the possibility that they would die. Read their harrowing story of the sinking of the Costa Concordia, which many are already comparing to the sinking of the Titanic, here.

The 69th Annual Golden Globe Awards ceremony will air live Sunday night on NBC 8-11 p.m. EST from the Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills, Calif. Here is a full list of the nominees, predictions of likely winners and all the after-party details.

The death toll from the Costa Concordia, the cruise ship that ran aground Friday off the Italian coast, has risen to five after scuba divers found two more bodies on board the luxury liner.

Laura Kaeppeler of Wisconsin was crowned Miss America 2012 Saturday night. However, Kaeppeler's unlikely platform was founded upon personal family struggles and helped her secure the crown.

Ricky Gervais is back, hosting the 2012 Golden Globe awards presentation Sunday night on NBC. The 69th annual Golden Globe event will be broadcast live from the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, Calif., beginning at 8 p.m. It lasts for three hours.

A South Korean honeymoon couple and an injured crew member were plucked from the partially submerged Costa Concordia shipwreck on Sunday, more than a day after the cruise ship met its doom close to Italy's Isola del Giglio, as rescue workers struggled to find any others still trapped on board.

An amateur video shot by a passenger in the ill- fated Italian cruise ship Costa Concordia that ran aground on Friday shows the shocked passengers escaping. The raw video in YouTube was shot from the sinking ship after the disaster and shows the rescue operations. The divers located South Korean Couple from a cabin two decks down and another person a crew of the ship in Sunday morning. Divers are continuing their search for the missing people in the ship according to a CNN report.

Blue Ivy Carter became an instant topic of discussion the very moment Beyonce and husband Jay-Z announced the name of their child. Rumors even have it that the name Blue Ivy or Eulb Yvi means Lucifer's daughter.

Estranged couple Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthony reunited briefly on Saturday, while promoting their reality competition show Q'Viva! at a Television Critics Association panel, Us magazine reported.

Laura Kaeppeler, a 23-year-old from Kenosha, Wis., was crowned Miss America 2012 on Saturday night in Las Vegas. Kaeppeler, a tall, dark-haired beauty, impressed the seven judges after walking the runway in a white bikini and a black, beaded evening gown.

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From Demi Moore to Orlando Bloom, a number of Hollywood's A-List celebrities attended the 2012 Cinema for Peace event held on Jan. 14, aimed at benefiting the J/P Haitian Relief Organization.

Miss Wisconsin Laura Kaeppeler, 23, has won Miss America 2012. The finals of the pageant were held on Saturday night at the Planet Hollywood Resort and Casino in Las Vegas. Here are some interesting facts that you should know about the new Miss America 2012.

Miss Wisconsin - Laura Kaeppeler - was crowned Miss America 2012 in Las Vegas, on Saturday night. Kaeppeler, 23, was handed her title by Miss America 2011, Teresa Scanlan.

Miss Wisconsin Laura Kaeppeler, 23, who is from Kenosha, won the Miss America 2012 pageant in Las Vegas on Saturday. Kaeppeler took home the coveted crown after singing opera, wowing judges in a white bikini, and stunning them in a black beaded evening gown.

Actress Mena Suvari has filed for divorce in a Los Angeles court after just 18 months of marriage to concert promoter Simone Sestito.

Actor Mark Wahlberg wants to have a jailhouse chat with James Whitey Bulger and would be interested in pursuing a project about the purported Boston mob boss accused of 19 murders.

The captain of the Costa Concordia, the luxury Italian cruise ship that ran aground off Tuscany on Friday, killing at least three people, was arrested on Saturday, according to reports.

Police on Saturday said that the captain of the Costa Cruises Italian cruise liner, which ran aground off Italy, has been arrested on suspicion of multiple manslaughter charges, as well as being charged with causing a shipwreck and abandoning ship, Reuters reported. Francesco Schettino, the captain of the 4,200-passenger luxury cruise ship Costa Concordia, was taken to a jail in the provincial capital Grosseto in order to await questioning by a magistrate

Lil Wayne launched his first clothing line Thursday in New York City. The hip-hop honcho's line of T-shirts and hats, called Trukfit, embraces pajama swag.

Three people died in the disaster and about 70 remain unaccounted for.

Gene Hackman Hit by Truck While Cycling on Friday the 13th; Discharged from Hospital

The deck of the USS Ronald Reagan, a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, is covered with the vehicles of sailors, making it a strong contender for the title of the world's most expensive parking lot.

Joining the host of celebrity fashionistas like Kate Winslet, Emma Watson, Lindsay Lohan and Katie Holmes for luxury brand campaigns, Twilight star Kristen Stewart has struck a new deal with Paris fashion house Balenciaga.

The 12th annual American Film Institute Awards show held at the Four Seasons Hotel in Beverly Hills, Calif., on Friday was a star-studded event attended by some of the biggest names in Hollywood.