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Lindsay Lohan has taken "top" honors at the Raspberry (Razzie) Awards. PHOTO: AP

Jennifer Lopez gave birth to twins early on Friday, making the singer and husband Marc Anthony the parents of a boy and a girl after one of pop music's most closely watched pregnancies.

"She's thrilled," Lopez's manager, Simon Fields, said. He said the babies were born "just after midnight this morning." Fields confirmed that the girl arrived first and the boy about 15 minutes later at a Long Island hospital. The location was not identified.

Ending months of speculation, Lopez confirmed her pregnancy at a Miami concert in November. Her father, David Lopez, said earlier this month that the 39-year-old singer was expecting twins.

Lopez and Anthony married in 2004. The twins are her first children, and his fourth and fifth.

Lindsay Lohan was a joint winner of the worst actress Golden Raspberry (Razzie) for her dual roles in the critically panned box-office dud I Know Who Killed Me, which was also crowned worst picture.

In all the film won eight Razzies, including worst director for Chris Sivertson's effort, worst screenplay for the script based on Jeff Hammon's writing, worst excuse for a horror movie, and worst remake or rip-off.

Snoop Dogg was ticketed for drug possession earlier this week. PHOTO: AP

Speaking about Lohan's joint victory in the acting category, Razzies chief John Wilson said the dual dishonors were fitting.

"It's appropriate that it's a tie, because at the end of the movie, you don't know if it was one person or two ... , or are they twins, or are we as mentally ill as the screenwriter and director," he said.

The honors reward Lohan for her work during a miserable year when her life was dominated by personal woes, which included two arrests for drunk driving and drug possession, a brief stint in jail and a stay in rehab for substance abuse.

Veteran funnyman Eddie Murphy meanwhile scored a rare treble of acting Razzies for his trio of performances in the comedy Norbit, which once again saw him don latex and make-up to play multiple characters.

Murphy was named worst actor for his role as the nerdy title character, worst supporting actor for playing a Chinese man and worst supporting actress for playing an overweight woman.

The release of Norbit just prior to last year's Oscars was said by some pundits to have hurt Murphy's chances of winning a best supporting actor Academy Award for his role in Dreamgirls.

This year's Razzies were announced at Santa Monica's Magicopolis center, just one day ahead of the Oscars.

Recipients of the Razzies rarely show up to collect their prizes, gold spray-painted plastic gongs in the shape of a raspberry, which organizers say are worth as much as US$4.89.

Britney Spears has been reunited briefly with her sons, nearly two months after the troubled pop star last saw them.

Elliot Mintz, a spokesman for Spears' ex-husband Kevin Federline, says she spent about three hours Saturday with one-year-old Jayden James and two-year-old Sean Preston.

Mintz wouldn't say where the reunion took place or who else was there.

Spears had not been allowed to see the boys since last month, when she refused to return the children after a visitation. Police were called to her home in a scene that ended with Spears in the hospital.

Federline's attorney said on Friday that the singer's ex had agreed to give her visitation rights.

Snoop Dogg, born Cordozar Calvin Broadus Jr, plans to fight the latest in a string of legal tangles: a ticket citing him with marijuana possession at a Manhattan nightclub, his lawyer said.

The multiplatinum-selling rapper was handed a desk appearance ticket on Wednesday night, lawyer Donald Etra said.

The hip-hop star wasn't arrested, said Etra, who declined to identify the club.

"We are contesting the ticket," Etra told the newspaper. Police could not immediately provide information on the incident.

Snoop Dogg has had brushes with the law going back nearly two decades. He was convicted of cocaine possession in 1990 and pleaded guilty to gun possession in 1997.

In September last year, he pleaded guilty to a felony weapons possession charge that arose after a collapsible baton was found in his luggage at an airport in California. He said it was a video prop, but authorities saw it as a dangerous weapon.

Known for making words his own by adding an "-izzle," the 36-year-old rapper is poised to release his latest album, Ego Trippin,' on March 11.

Sean "Diddy" Combs says he wants to move to Hollywood and become a full-time movie star.

The East Coast-based entertainment mogul aims to get top billing on the big screen.

"Yeah, leading man kind of stuff; you know, jumping off of buildings," Combs says in an appearance scheduled to air on Friday on CBS' Late Show With David Letterman. Besides action-packed adventure, the rapper-producer's ideal film roles would also include "making love to beautiful women" and "very emotional, heart-wrenching scenes." Letterman advises Combs to start doing a smaller, independent movie rather than a big-budget picture that could bomb.

"Oh, no, no, no, I'm going to take my time with it," said Combs, who has a clothing line, Sean John, and heads Bad Boy Worldwide Entertainment and its record label.

Combs, 38, has had small roles in Monster's Ball and Made. He headlined a Broadway revival of Raisin in the Sun in 2004, and co-stars with Phylicia Rashad and Audra McDonald in an ABC film version.
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