NEW YORK (AP) – Are Ben and Jen expecting a girl?

When a pregnant Jennifer Garner appeared on NBC’s “Tonight Show” on Tuesday night, host Jay Leno asked, “So what do we have here? A boy or a girl? Do you know yet?”

“We have one or the other for sure,” replied Garner, who is married to her “Daredevil” co-star Ben Affleck. Later in the show, Garner seemed to refer to her baby bump as a “she.”

“You can just start to feel really pregnant. Like you are the hugest person on the face of the planet. … And then I felt just bigger and bigger like she …”

The 33-year-old actress stars as Sydney Bristow on ABC’s “Alias,” returning Thursday night for its fifth season.

Garner’s pregnancy was written into the show, even though her character is a globe-trotting spy.

“My stand-in has a little bump. My stunt double has a bump, and the other day I walked in, and my stunt double just looked a little different to me. … And she said, “Yeah, we went to a bigger bump.”‘

Garner and Affleck were wed in June. Their baby is due around Christmas.

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LONDON (AP) – Vivienne Westwood has launched a line of T-shirts to take a stand against proposed anti-terror legislation.

“I am not a terrorist. Please don’t arrest me,” says one T-shirt, which Westwood designed to raise funds for Liberty, one of Britain’s largest civil rights organizations.

Another design says: “Liberty throw away the key.”

The campaign opposes the government’s proposal to allow terrorist suspects to be detained for up to three months without being charged, instead of the present 14 days.

“This T-shirt is really to ask the British people to use their imagination,” the fashion designer told reporters Wednesday.

“How would they feel if someone near them who was innocent was arrested?”

Westwood, who created the punk look for the Sex Pistols and is a favorite designer of rocker Gwen Stefani, has said “there’s always a polemic in my clothes.”

The shirts, priced at $88 for adults and $35 for infants, will be available at Westwood’s London store and on her Web site.

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On the Net:

http://www.viviennewestwood.com

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NEW YORK (AP) – John Singleton will be honored with the fourth annual DaimlerChrysler “Behind the Lens” award.

Singleton, 37, is being recognized for his work as a writer, director and producer of feature films that have provided a platform for change in the depiction of black stories on the screen.

The award will be presented Oct. 23 in Los Angeles. Previous winners are Gordon Parks, Melvin Van Peebles and Reuben Cannon. Recipients are chosen by an advisory panel of industry professionals.

“As one who always works behind the scenes, it is very gratifying to be honored by one’s peers and those who appreciate the hard work we put into telling stories of our America,” Singleton said in a recent statement.

His screen credits as a director include “Four Brothers,” “Boyz N the Hood,” “2 Fast 2 Furious” and “Rosewood.”

DaimlerChrysler will present $25,000 to a charity chosen by Singleton.

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WOODSTOCK, N.Y. (AP) – While countless regional film festivals have cropped up in recent years, the Woodstock Film Festival has managed to leverage its countercultural cachet and proximity to New York City to continued success.

The sixth annual festival, which opened Wednesday and runs through Sunday, includes “Winter Passing,” starring Zooey Deschanel, Will Ferrell and Ed Harris; Atom Egoyan’s “Where the Truth Lies,” starring Kevin Bacon and Colin Firth; “Lonesome Jim,” directed by Steve Buscemi and starring Casey Affleck and Liv Tyler; and “Fateless,” a historical drama about Hungarian Jews during the Holocaust.

Bacon will appear on a movie music panel. Buscemi is this year’s recipient of the Maverick Award for creativity and independent vision.

Festival organizers plan 150 films, panels, concerts and special events in Woodstock (the town still benefits from its association with the 1969 Woodstock concert, which was held in Bethel) and nearby towns.

Co-founder Meira Blaustein said that although she expects the event to attract more than 10,000 people, the festival aims to remain true to its independent roots.

“It’s not our goal to become huge,” she said. “We don’t want to be huge, we want to be high quality.”

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http://www.woodstockfilmfestival.com

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NEW YORK (AP) – Mariah Carey, Kenny Chesney and Rob Thomas will perform at the 2005 American Music Awards.

The awards will be presented Nov. 22 at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles during a three-hour ABC-TV special hosted by Cedric the Entertainer.

Additional artists will be added to the lineup and announced at a later date, ABC said Tuesday.

Nominees in pop/rock, country, soul/rhythm & blues, rap/hip-hop, Latin, alternative, contemporary inspirational and adult contemporary categories were chosen on the basis of record sales. Winners will be selected by a survey of about 20,000 listeners.

Carey, Chesney and Thomas are among the nominees.

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http://abc.go.com/specials/ama.html

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