stephanie stanton has the latest from hollywood. >> reporter: there were no major surprises this year. of the ten films for best picture, critics say it all came down to two, the king of social networking versus the king of england. >> "the king's speech." >> reporter: a film about a stammering monarch earned a place among hollywood royalty sunday night. it won four academy awards including best picture. >> to have been part of a film that touched and moved people has been a huge privilege. >> reporter: colin firth earned best act orror. >> i have a feeling my career has just peaked. >> reporter: "the king's speech" also took best original screen play and best director for tom hooper who saluted his lead actors. >> i'm only here because of you guys. >> natalie portman. >> reporter: there was no surprise in the best actress category. natalie portman completed a near sweep of award season honors for her performance in "black swan." >> i truly sincerely wish that the prize tonight was to get to work with my fellow nominees. i'm so in awe of you. >> reporter: and melissa leo accepted best

stephanie stanton was backstage. >> i'm feeling my career has just peaked. >> reporter: colin firth may have summed up the night for many associated with "the king's speech." his oscar for best actor. they also won for best picture. firth was one of several first-time winners including natalie portman for best actress for "black swan." >> it feels very, very dream-like right now. i don't really know where i am. >> would it be too crazy to think you may name your baby oscar? >> i think that's probably definitely out of the question. >> reporter: best-supporting actress melissa leo from the fighter spent time backstage had an accidental expletive during her speech. >> i had no idea. those words, i apologize to anyone that they offend. >> reporter: leo's co-star christian bale has used salty language a time or two, but he was straightforward about his win as best supporting actor. >> it is still just a matter of opinion, it is so ab tract. this is a very bizarre thing. but at the same time, i just can't help but be touched so dearly by it. >> reporter: and on this night the film about a st

i'm stephanie stanton. diane, back to you. >> why do you always get those fun jobs, huh, stephanie? i'm jealous. >> i'm worth it. >> absolutely. have fun. all right. if you missed any of the oscars coverage, you can always go to our website for all things oscar at nbcbayarea.com, where you can see the bay area winners and a slide show of the night's best moments. >>> so just days after criticizing the creator of "two and a half men," who responded by halting the cbs show, charlie sheen wants to talk some more, this time to nbc. television's highest paid star taped an interview that will run on the "today" show tomorrow morning. so what is in store, you ask? well, according to today in the interview, sheen says he is clean and wants to go back to work, but has one big demand. here is a sneak peek. >> i'm not angry. i'm passionate. that's like everybody think is should be begging for my job back. and i'm going to forewarn them that it's everybody else that is going to be begging me for their job back.st >> catch the entire interview for tomorrow morning at 7:00 right here on nbc bay a

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stanton's do you think. i think the british went a little too far in getting cozy with gadhafi and they discovered to their cost that he drives a very hard bargain and he's not incapable of punishing those who don't do what he wants he's saying it over migration he said three days ago that he was going to withdraw cooperation on migration across the mediterranean he said many things to the british clearly indicating that if the kind of cooperation that he wants from the british is not forthcoming then there will be consequences for british contract so it's been a difficult relationship in some ways they may be to see the back of it. professor rosemary hollis from the city university in london thank you very much. well a second plane carrying russians evacuated from libya has now landed here in moscow it brought back more than one hundred people who described the situation in the arab country as a nightmare they say that on their way to board the aircraft they have to fight through huge crowds of desperate li

. >> reporter: psychologist stanton peele, author of "seven tools to beat addiction," says sheen clearlye producers who are trying to help. >> it doesn't do well to attack people to get them to change. and he feels attacked. it makes for good media. but it's not good therapy. ordinarily, good therapy involves trying to find some way of making a bridge to the person. not attacking and fighting with them. >> reporter: building bridges may be easier said than done, after they were so publicly scorched this week. one publisher told us, the damage to sheen's bosses, his co-workers, some of those closest to him, may be irreparable. and at this point, sheen's professional options may be limited. many in hollywood believe "two and a half men," is done for good. and yesterday sheen told our andrea canning, he is nearing a deal on a new show at hbo. i talked to the folks at hbo. they said, not true. they are not in discussions with him. >> and losing the "two and a half men" show will cost the studios something like $250 million. >> reporter: they say the overall value of the show, with syndicatio

francis stanton. he was a blind gentleman. >> bergman: he was there for, what, 40-something years?> you know, i don't really know, but he'd been there for a long time. yes, sir. >> bergman: so you got elected, and you just sort of, if you will, dove into the subject? >> yes, sir. that's correct. off the deep end. i've been elected seven times. >> bergman: coroner brown would find himself in the national spotlight after he got a phone call that a body had been found near the state line. and the body was found over there? >> yes, sir, somewhere right in that area, right there. you see where that old log is across? >> bergman: uh-huh. >> and we didn't find any identification. we didn't find a wallet. we didn't find a watch, a ring, a necklace. >> bergman: nothing. >> nothing. no, sir. >> bergman: if the body had been found just a few feet away, the investigation would have been handled by a fully-equipped state medical examiners' office in north carolina. but the body turned up in south carolina, so coroner brown was in charge. like most coroners, brown does not do autopsies. he had t

francis stanton. he was a blind gentleman. >> he was there for 40-some years. >> i don't really know but he'd been there for a long time, yes, sir. >> you gotlected and y just sort of, if you will, dove into the subject? >> yes, sir. that's correct. off the deep end. i've been elected seven times. >> reporter: coroner brown would find himself in the national spotlight after he got a phone call that a body been found near the state line. and the body was found over there? >> yes, sir. somewhere right in that area right there. you see where that old log is across. and we didn't find any identification. no wallet. we didn't find a watch, a ring, a necklace. >> reporter: nothing? >> nothing, no, sir. >> reporter: if the body had been found just a few feet away, the investigation would have been handled by a fully equipped state medical examiner's office in north carolina. but the body turned up in south carolina. so coroner brown was in charge. like most coroners, brown does not do autopsies. he had to sh