Sideshow: Kids get a healthy helping from Oprah

A goal shared by two of the nation's top women is being met through the 50th birthday of former personal chef

Art Smith

. In Miami over the weekend, Smith said

Oprah Winfrey

had given a $250,000 check to help fund the kind of healthy eating program for children that is a pet project of another of his high-profile clients,

Michelle Obama

. Today at a party hosted by celebrity chef

Nigella Lawson

, Smith said, he will formally announce Winfrey's donation to his Common Threads nonprofit, which runs more than 20 after-school programs around the country. The programs teach children how to cook healthy, ethnically diverse foods.

"What an amazing birthday present that I can share with so many friends," Smith said.

Grammy-winning rapper

Lil Wayne

is facing up to a year in jail in a New York City gun case this week. It isn't clear where he'll serve his time if sentenced as expected tomorrow, but the Associated Press reported that prison experts said celebrities could create special challenges behind bars. Because of threats against her, rapper

Foxy Brown

was held in protective custody in New York in 2007 and 2008 while serving time on a probation violation. Singer

Diana Ross

was allowed to make a trip home in 2004 during a two-day jail term in Connecticut. Lil Wayne, 27, admitted in the fall to having a loaded gun on his tour bus in 2007. With good behavior, he could serve only about eight months.

The drama

The White Ribbon

won top honors from the American Society of Cinematographers on Saturday night. The group's feature-film award went to cinematographer

Christian Berger

for director

Michael Haneke

's study of a small German town beset by mysterious violence on the eve of World War I. The field included three films nominated for the best-picture Oscar next Sunday:

Avatar, The Hurt Locker

, and

Inglourious Basterds.

Television cinematography prizes went to

Eagle Egilsson

for an episode of

Dark Blue

and

Alar Kivilo

for the TV movie

Taking Chance.

As

Marie Osmond

requested privacy over the weekend to mourn the death of her 18-year-old son,

Michael Blosil

, reports surfaced that he may have left a note in his Los Angeles apartment. TMZ and People reported yesterday that Blosil had text-messaged a friend, alerting her to his agitated mental state before his death from a fall. On Saturday, a few mourners left flowers near his apartment. The coroner's office said an autopsy would be performed.

Melissa Gilbert

will forever be associated with TV's

Little House on the Prairie.

She played spunky Laura Ingalls. Now she is Caroline "Ma" Ingalls in a musical based on the children's books about a farm family in the 19th-century Midwest. As the show headed to Tampa, Fla., Gilbert told a reporter it was a touchstone of childhood: "It's like comfort food, the comfort food of television."

Shutter Island

, the

Martin Scorsese

thriller starring

Leonardo DiCaprio

, topped the movie box office for the second weekend, bringing in $22.2 million. The investigation of a missing patient at an insane asylum has taken in $75.1 million in two weeks.

Cop Out

opened in second place, with $18.6 million;

The Crazies

took in $16.5 million;

Avatar

remained strong with $14 million, surpassing $700 million overall; and

Percy Jackson & The Olympians: The Lightning Thief

was fifth at $9.8 million