Sideshow: Rally for Carpenters' house

Owners of the Carpenters' former home in Downey, Calif., aren't feeling on top of the world about the legions of fans who keep stopping by to pay tribute.

The five-bedroom house, where siblings

Karen

and

Richard Carpenter

lived and wrote some of their greatest hits, was featured on the cover of their 1973 hit album

Now & Then

. It was also where an anorexic Karen collapsed in 1983 before dying.

Owners

Manuel

and

Blanca Melendez Parra

have submitted plans to raze the 39-year-old main house, angering loyal fans, the Los Angeles Times reported Saturday.

"This house is our version of Graceland," said Carpenters fan

Jon Konjoyan

, 57, a musician and promoter heading a campaign to save the home. "They were such a huge American act in the '70s," Konjoyan said. "So many people loved them."

Christopher Walken

sang a song from

Hairspray

and spoofed a

Saturday Night Live

skit Friday night to earn Harvard's Hasty Pudding Man of the Year award.

At a roast before the presentation, Walken, who serenaded

John Travolta

last year in the latest film version of

Hairspray

sang to a Harvard student dressed in drag.

Walken, 64, said he was "amazed and thrilled" by the honor. He won a best-supporting-actor Oscar as a troubled Vietnam vet in 1978's

The Deer Hunter

. He was nominated again for 2002's

Catch Me If You Can

.

Director

Jose Padilha's

Elite Squad

, a controversial movie about police violence in Rio de Janeiro, won the top award Saturday at the Berlin International Film Festival.

The movie, about the shady workings of Rio's Special Operations Police Battalion, overcame an attempt by Brazilian police to keep it out of theaters last year.

Not a documentary, the film claims to tell true stories of 12 former officers from the city's paramilitary unit which strikes fear into residents of Rio's shanty towns.

The festival's jury grand prize went to Oscar-winning U.S. director

Errol Morris

'

Standard Operating Procedure

, a documentary on the scandal over prisoner abuse at the U.S.-run Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq.

Paul Thomas Anderson

was named best director for the Oscar contender

There Will Be Blood

, starring

Daniel Day-Lewis

as an obsessed turn-of-the-century oil man.

The globe-trotting thriller

Jumper

leaped to a box office win with $27.2 million over the weekend. Starring

Hayden Christensen

and

Samuel L. Jackson

in the tale of a man who can teleport himself instantly to any spot on the planet, 20th Century Fox's

Jumper

has rung up $33.9 million since opening Thursday, according to studio estimates.

The wide releases opened a day early, Valentine's Day on Thursday, to get a head start on a long holiday weekend, with Presidents' Day today.

Debuting in second place was Disney's teen dance sequel

Step Up 2 the Streets

, which pulled in $19.7 million for the weekend and $26.3 million since Thursday.

Paramount's fantasy

The Spiderwick Chronicles

, with

Freddie Highmore

and

Mary-Louise Parker

in a story of a family who move into a house menaced by evil creatures, opened third with a $19.1 million weekend; $26.8 million since Thursday.

Universal's romance

Definitely, Maybe

, with

Ryan Reynolds

as a father looking back on his romantic life after he is served with divorce papers, premiered at No. 5 with a weekend haul of $9.7 million.

The previous weekend's top movie, the Warner Bros. romantic comedy Fool's Gold, fell to fourth place with $13.1 million, raising its 10-day total to $42 million.