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The Who score Super Bowl gig

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The Who will perform at halftime of the Super Bowl this season.

The NFL announced during Thursday's game between the Oakland Raiders and Dallas Cowboys that the longtime rock band known for classic hits such as "Pinball Wizard" and "Baba O'Riley" will play Feb. 7 at Dolphin Stadium in Miami.

Driven by singer Roger Daltrey and guitarist and songwriter Pete Townshend, the band's two remaining original members, The Who gained fame in the mid-1960s and were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1990.

Recent halftime acts at the Super Bowl have included Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, Prince and the Rolling Stones.

Polanski to spend a few more days in jail

Roman Polanski will remain in a jail outside Zurich for at least three more days, until he meets the security conditions of his bail, a Swiss official said Friday.

Polanski won't be placed under house arrest in Switzerland before Monday because he has yet to fulfill all the requirements to ensure that he stays in his chalet in the Swiss luxury resort of Gstaad, Justice Ministry spokesman Folco Galli said.

Galli did not elaborate, but the 76-year-old director must post $4.5 million bail, surrender his identity papers and be fitted with a monitoring bracelet.

Polanski cannot leave the chalet because the ministry is still deciding whether to extradite him to the United States for having sex in 1977 with a 13-year-old girl. Authorities in Los Angeles want him sentenced after 31 years as a fugitive.

Leno gives new car to Air Force member

An audience member at "The Jay Leno Show" is especially grateful this Thanksgiving. He won a new car.

Air Force Capt. Tung Ngo was in the audience filled with men and women of the U.S. military when Leno called his name during Thursday's special holiday program.

Ngo won a 2010 Ford Fusion Hybrid. He told Leno he was glad to get an upgrade from the 12-year-old car he drives.

The Lincoln, Neb., native is headed to a new assignment at Cape Canaveral next week.

Today's birthdays

Recording executive Berry Gordy Jr. is 80. Singer Randy Newman is 66. Movie director Joe Dante is 62. "Late Show" orchestra leader Paul Shaffer is 60. Actor Ed Harris is 59. Actress S. Epatha Merkerson is 57. Actor Judd Nelson is 50. Comedian-talk show host Jon Stewart is 47.

Source: The Associated Press

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