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Madonna, center, performs with Nicki Minaj, left, and M.I.A. during halftime of the NFL Super Bowl XLVI football game between the New England Patriots and the New York Giants.
Less than a second stood between British singer M.I.A. giving the finger to 114 million people watching the Super Bowl halftime show and no one noticing at all.
That's how close NBC censors came to preventing the gesture from being seen Sunday night, but the Super Bowl instead wound up with another entertainment oops moment. The gesture swept across social media, showing up in screen grabs and video. It was the most-watched halftime entertainment show ever.
Both NBC and the NFL, which produces the halftime show, apologized.
M.I.A.'s record label said Monday it had no comment, and her Twitter account was silent since noting she was in Lucas Oil Stadium with Madonna. And the Material Girl, who invited M.I.A. to appear during her performance of "Give Me All Your Luvin'," had no immediate comment.
The gesture was "so shocking that I had no idea she even did it until NBC issued an apology for it," Time magazine TV critic James Poniewozik wrote on his blog.
Million join 'Oz' weight-loss effort
Television already has "The Biggest Loser." Dr. Mehmet Oz is looking for the biggest number of losers.
"The Dr. Oz Show" said Monday that it had netted its 1 millionth participant in its "transformation nation" health effort, and the number is climbing. One of those people will win a $1 million prize in May.
Since September, Oz has urged viewers to participate in his health challenge, done together with Weight Watchers. The number of registrants has increased steadily to a point that Oz said he'd never imagined the program would reach.
"It is one of the most rewarding experiences of my life," Oz said.
Flack reinterprets Beatles
John, Paul, George, Ringo -- and Roberta?
No, Roberta Flack was never a member of The Beatles, but in her new CD, Let it Be Roberta, the soul songstress sings classics from the legendary Fab Four and makes them her own.
"I love the romanticism of the music of the Beatles," Flack said. "When I started to record ... The Beatles were hot, hot, hot. You couldn't turn on radio or the TV even without hearing something from them. It never left my brain, stuck in my heart. I love it."
The CD is Flack's first solo recording in 13 years and a testament to her fondness of the works of John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr. She recorded with other artists and toured regularly during the 13 years, but nothing wowed her enough to go into the recording studio solo until now.
"I've never been one of those 'an-album-or-two-albums-every-two-years' people -- in the beginning I tried to do that," said Flack, who turns 75 Friday. "What guides me to do whatever it is I do and what determines how long it takes to do that is my heartbeat."
-- From Our Press Services
Today's birthdays
Actor Miguel Ferrer, 57; comedian Robert Smigel (Triumph the Insult Comic Dog), 52; actor James Spader, 52; country singer Garth Brooks, 50; keyboardist David Bryan of Bon Jovi, 50; comedian Chris Rock, 47; actor Jason Gedrick ("Windfall," ''Boomtown"), 45; actor Ashton Kutcher, 34; actress Tina Majorino ("Napoleon Dynamite," "Veronica Mars"), 27.
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