Over Coffee...This morning I'm eagerly anticipating the Golden Globe nominations, as are movie fans everywhere. Look for them here later in the morning.

Oprah Winfrey and other producers behind the upcoming Denzel Washington and Forest Whitaker film The Great Debaters will receive an award from the Producers Guild of America for illuminating provocative social issues. Hey, that's what Oprah does.

I've admired Julia Roberts since I met with her in her office in New York some years ago. I like her honesty. Here's a dose of it, from the new Entertainment Weekly.  "I've actually gone on a pop-culture fast. The TV shows and gossip magazines, it seems so polluting and toxic now. It's exhausting just looking at a newsstand these days. Your eyes cross. You can't even focus. People aren't as interested in making a cool movie or constructing interesting characters. Now it's just about being big and shiny and fabulous." -  

NBC's The Office, Showtime's Dexter and HBO's The Wire are among contenders for top honors at the 60th Writers Guild Awards. Yes, THAT writers guild. The strike isn't stopping plans for the show to be held on Feb. 9.

Speaking of TV, my friend Matt Roush at TV Guide put out his list of Top 10 TV in 2007. Read it here.

Shia LaBeouf no longer faces criminal charges in Chicago for refusing to leave a downtown drugstore last month.He was in a Chicago courtroom for only minutes Wednesday before prosecutors said they had received a letter from Walgreen Co. and a security company saying they didn't want to continue the case.

Britney Spears does not get it. The troubled singer didn't show up for  a court-ordered deposition Wednesday in her ongoing child custody dispute with ex-husband Kevin Federline.

Aw-w...Katie Holmes is the cover girl of In Style magazine and says inside that she tries every day to let husband Tom Cruise  know how much she loves him. "It gets better and better," she says of her marriage. "It has made my life."

Miley Cyrus, aka Hannah Montana, announced Wednesday she'll extend her hugely popular concert tour with 14 more performances in January.

Ike Turner died Wednesday at his home in suburban San Diego. He was 76.