LONDON (AP) – Kate Winslet finds the glamorization of ultra-thin models and actresses disturbing and says she keeps magazines featuring such women away from her 6-year-old daughter.

“It’s only a matter of time before she becomes aware of it, and it frightens the life out of me,” Winslet said of her daughter, Mia.

Winslet, who is married to director Sam Mendes, said girls are so impressionable from age 11 up to 20.

“They’re trying to figure out who they are, and they want to be loved, and what I resent is that there is an image of perfection that is getting thinner and thinner, and it’s truly upsetting to me,” Winslet told British Broadcasting Corp. television’s “Sunday AM” program.

Stick-thin celebrities like Kate Moss, Nicole Richie and Victoria Beckham have been criticized as poor role models for young women and accused of contributing to the rise in eating disorders. A major fashion event in Madrid, Spain, banned ultra-thin models from the catwalk earlier this year, and other shows have indicated they plan to do the same.

The 31-year-old Winslet, who burst on the movie scene in “Titanic” and stars in the current romantic comedy “The Holiday,” said she hoped her success will be an inspiration to others.

“I hope that in some small way I’m able to say, ‘I’m a normal person, I’m doing all right.’ I’ve got a lovely husband and children and I didn’t lose weight to find those things, and those things are what should be important.”

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LOS ANGELES (AP) – Hundreds of fans and bargain-hunters descended on Tori Spelling’s yard sale and walked away with wine glasses, paintings, lingerie, roller skates, a rubber duck and other items.

Memorabilia from Spelling’s time with the television show “Beverly Hills, 90210” also sold quickly on Friday and Saturday. One person paid $25 for a plastic Starbucks mug that reportedly retained a smear of Spelling’s lipstick.

About 300 people showed up at the “Tori Spelling Dazzling Studio City Estate Sale” at the rented home she shares with husband Dean McDermott. Spelling is pregnant with the couple’s first child.

They reportedly plan to open a bed and breakfast and raise their child outside of Los Angeles.

Several people even flew in for the sale that resulted in traffic jams and angry neighbors when camera crews blocked the road. News helicopters also hovered over the event.

The sale was videotaped for the VH1 reality show “So NoTORIous” loosely based on the life of Spelling.

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NEW YORK (AP) – Not yet 13, Dakota Fanning is already thinking about what she’ll do when she grows up. And like other actors, she wants to direct.

“I would love to direct someday,” Fanning told Time magazine for editions on newsstands Monday. “I’ve learned a lot from watching directors I’ve worked with, like Steven Spielberg and Gary Winick, whom I worked with on Charlotte’s Web. I would love to have that relationship with another actor.”

Fanning’s latest movie, “Charlotte’s Web,” will be in theaters next month, and an independent movie, “Hound Dog,” to be screened at the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah in January.

She’s excited to go Utah, but not necessarily because of the movies.

“I’ve never been somewhere where there’s that much snow,” she said. “I totally want to go skiing. I’ve heard skiing is super hard, but I’d like to try it.”

Fanning, who becomes a teenager in February, has appeared in other films, including “War of the Worlds” and “Man on Fire.”

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SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) – Hungarian cinematographer Laszlo Kovacs, with more than 60 feature films to his credit including the 1969 biker film “Easy Rider,” was honored at the Santa Fe Film Festival for his lifetime achievement.

Kovacs, whose films also include “Five Easy Pieces,” “Paper Moon,” and “Ghostbusters,” received a standing ovation from the audience in receiving his Lumanaria Award. In accepting Saturday night, he said “this moment has made life worth living for.”

Actress Ali McGraw hosted the ceremony.

Also winning a Lumanaria was writer-director Gregory Nava, who directed “El Norte”, “Selena” and the recently filmed “Bordertown.”

The festival, now in its seventh year, also gave awards to some of the scores of films being screened, including MylDene Morenos documentary “Recalling Orange County,” which explored a controversial bilingual educational program, won Best Latino film.

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LONDON (AP) – The family of a man who fell to his death at a party attended by troubled singer Pete Doherty have called for a full police investigation into the incident.

Actor Matt Blanco, 30, was found injured outside an east London apartment building where he had attended a party on Dec. 3 and died later in a hospital.

Doherty and others at the party have been interviewed by police, who reportedly do not consider the singer a suspect. They have said they believe Blanco fell from a balcony. Blanco’s sister, Emma, said the family wanted to know why Doherty and others reportedly left the scene before police arrived.

“We’re finding it very difficult to do any grieving as we’re so busy trying to find out the truth,” she was quoted as saying by The Independent on Sunday newspaper. “We want to know what happened that night. This is not about us assigning blame on a pseudo-celebrity. We just want the truth.”

The apartment where the party took place belonged to Paul Roundhill, a literary editor and friend of Doherty. Roundhill has said Blanco was behaving rambunctiously and was eventually ejected from the party. Soon after, he was found injured on the pavement outside.