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LOS ANGELES — In the span of about two weeks, "The King’s Speech" has gone from Oscar underdog to front-runner. The World War II-era British drama took the Screen Actors Guild’s top honor Sunday evening at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles, winning the movie ensemble acting award and essentially completing the trifecta of top Hollywood guild honors; its director, Tom Hooper, captured the top Directors Guild of America award on Saturday night, and last weekend the movie walked away with the Producers Guild title. The movie about King George VI and his stammer is now riding a wave of momentum with just four weeks to go before the Academy Awards, stealing thunder from "The Social Network." That movie, about the founding of Facebook, had been seen as the leading best picture Oscar contender after receiving the National Board of Review’s top prize in December, largely sweeping the nation’s main film critics awards, and taking home a best picture statue at the Golden...

Cherry Blossom Festival is a big draw in the US AFP/File – Thousands of cherry trees given by Japan as a present nearly a century ago have started blooming in the … Slideshow: Cherry Blossoms WASHINGTON (AFP) – A little early this year, thousands of  cherry trees  given by  Japan  as a present nearly a century ago started blooming in the US capital, ushering in the  Cherry Blossom Festival , the city's top  tourist attraction . "The weather conditions this past weekend were ideal for moving the cherry blossoms  forward," said  National Park Service National Capital Region  Chief  Horticulturist  Robert DeFeo, who is in charge of nearly 4,000 cherry trees around the Tidal Basin. Every year, the park service measures with scientific precision the Blooming Period of the trees that starts when 20 percent of the blossoms open and peaks at 70 percent or more. This year, the range of peak blooming dates forecast for th...