On this day in 1947, WARNER BROTHERS PICTURES released GOODBYE, MY FANCY. Directed by VINCENT SHERMAN, JOAN CRAWFORD plays a reporter returning to her old alma matter to renew some relationships and settle some scores. Also in the cast: ROBERT YOUNG, FRANK LOVEJOY and EVE ARDEN. Great fun for ’soap’ fans.

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Some 500 actors, including prominent stars George Clooney and Tom Hanks, urged members of the largest U.S. actors union to vote “yes” on a new contract with Hollywood’s major studios on Friday.

In a statement released by the 120,000-member Screen Actors Guild, signers “wholeheartedly recommend that SAG members VOTE YES on our tentative Television and Theatrical Contracts.”

It ends with “I urge you to VOTE YES on this contract.”

SAG had been embroiled in a bitter labor dispute with Hollywood’s major film and television studios for nearly a year until last month when its contract negotiators reached an agreement over a new labor accord.

 An accident on the set of the spy thriller “Salt,” currently filming in Bethpage, sent Angelina Jolie to a Long Island hospital Friday morning.Sony Pictures Entertainment declined to release details but issued a statement saying that Jolie had “sustained a minor injury” while filming an action sequence and that production on the film had resumed.

While performing a stunt, Jolie bumped her head and ended up with a “nick” between her eyes that began to bleed, according to the Web site TMZ.com.

She was treated at North Shore University Hospital in Manhasset and released, hospital spokesman Terry Lynam said. Lynam declined to elaborate on the actress’ treatment.

Are you the type of person who likes to open your Christmas presents early? Do you always read the last page of a novel first?

For Twilighters, the time has finally come to get a first peek at “New Moon.” Well, OK, it won’t really come until Sunday night. But since “Twilight” fans have been so good — and this weekend is shaping up to be a memorable one for the Cullens — they’re being rewarded with a quick peek at what’s to come.

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Jay Leno bid farewell to “The Tonight Show” on Friday, ending his 17-year run as host with a finale that stayed true to the style that made him the top-rated performer on U.S. late-night television.

The main difference was a long ovation that Leno struggled to quiet as he took the stage for an opening monologue that poked fun, as usual, at politicians, celebrities and current events.

He thanked the likes of pop star Michael Jackson and former White House intern Monica Lewinsky, whose affair with Bill Clinton led to the former U.S. president’s impeachment, for giving him material over the years. He also took a final jab at his network, NBC, which is mired at the bottom of the ratings among the four major U.S. broadcasters.

Leno takes his act to 10 p.m. on NBC this autumn, where he will mount a program expected to be similar to the “Tonight Show” but attract a wider audience than the roughly 5 million viewers, on average, who tune in nightly to the broadcast.

“I’m going to be going to a secluded spot where no one can find me — NBC prime time,” Leno said. “It’s a gamble. I’m betting NBC will still be around in three months, but that’s not a given.”

LONDON (Reuters) - It may have been 007 years since Roger Moore’s last appearance in a full-length film, but if the standing ovation that welcomed him to the British Film Institute on Thursday evening was anything to judge by, his absence from the big screen has done little to dim his audience appeal.

The London-born actor and star of seven Bond movies and “The Saint” television series appeared in conversation with David Walliams as part of a celebration of the career of Bond producer Cubby Broccoli at the BFI, the British Film Institute.

 Broccoli died at his home in Beverly Hills in 1996 at the age of 87.

 Still tall and elegant at 81, Moore shrugged off a series of technical hitches to regale the audience with a string of anecdotes from the Bond years.

 Asked by Walliams at what point he felt he had stopped being an actor and become a star, he replied: “Well, I was never an ‘actor.’”

 His relations with Broccoli, with whom he used to play backgammon on the Bond set during breaks in filming, were warm to the last. He first met Broccoli and fellow producer Harry Salzman in 1962 in a London gaming club, the White Elephant.

 “Where else is a potential Bond going to meet the producers, except over a gaming table?” he asked.

In Cannes to celebrate promote the release of the brilliant DISNEY/PIXAR film, UP, director PETE DOCTOR talked about where the story came from. He makes it sound like anyone could’ve done it. Listen in below:

UNTIL NOW…..OPIE an AARP cover boy, guy, man…really?!….opie?…really?

In her new SHOWTIME series, NURSE JACKIE, former SOPRANOS star EDIE FALCO plays a very competent Emergency Room nurse who has more than anyone’s share of personal issues. At the recent press event for the show, FALCO talked about trying to research the role but giving it up after not feeling comfortable with it. Listen in below:

After 17 years, Jay Leno will host “The Tonight Show” for the final time tonight.  Following in the footsteps of legends like Johnny Carson and Jack Paar, Leno has left his own mark on the venerable late-night institution.  What does he feel is his “Tonight Show” legacy?. (CLICK ON THE MEDIA BAR BELOW TO HEAR JAY LENO)