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— The Twilight team finally has earned some love - or loathing - from Team Razzies. The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2 was picked as last year’s worst picture Saturday by the Razzies, an Academy Awards spoof that hands out prizes for Hollywood’s lousiest movies on the eve of the Oscars. The finale to the blockbuster supernatural romance dominated the Razzies with seven awards, including worst actress for Kristen Stewart, supporting actor for Taylor Lautner, director for Bill Condon and worst screen couple for Lautner and child costar Mackenzie Foy. Adam Sandler was named worst actor for the raunchy comedy That’s My Boy, his second-straight win after 2011’s Jack and Jill, which swept all 10 Razzie categories a year ago. Pop singer Rihanna won worst supporting actress for the action dud Battleship. Twilight movies had been well represented in Razzie nominations over the years but had not won any key awards there. Razzie voters joke that as with The Lord of the Rings finale winning best picture at the Academy Awards, they were waiting for the last Twilight flick on which to heap their scorn. “I have a pet theory, which is that the box office on Twilight films is very impressive, but my theory is that instead of 40 million individual girls going to see it, it’s 8 million girls going to see it five times each,” said Razzies founder John Wilson. For worst picture, the Twilight finale beat out Battleship, That’s My Boy, the family flick The Oogieloves in the Big Balloon Adventure and Eddie Murphy’s comedy flop A Thousand Words.

MC Hammer suggests he was a victim of racial profiling when he was stopped and arrested by police in the Northern California city of Dublin. The ’90s rap star Tweeted on Saturday that an officer approached him in his car and asked, “Are you on parole or probation?” He says that as he handed over his ID, the officer reached inside the car and tried to pull him out. Dublin police Lt. Herb Walters told the Oakland Tribune that Hammer,who was born Stanley Burrell, was arrested Thursday for investigation of obstructing an officer in the performance of his duty and resisting an officer. He declined to comment to KTVU about Hammer’s version of the arrest. Hammer Tweeted that he wasn’t bitter and considered what happened “a teachable moment.”

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