Garner, Affleck honorary hosts

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CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) -- Jennifer Garner and husband Ben Affleck have signed up to help raise money for an athletic complex at her hometown university in West Virginia. University of Charleston President Ed Welch says Garner and Affleck will serve as honorary hosts at a Sept. 19 fundraiser. Garner says the University of Charleston was "incredibly positive when I was a kid" growing up in Charleston. She says she's excited to hear the university is growing. Welch says the university hopes to raise more than $500,000 at the fundraiser. The complex will house the school's basketball and volleyball programs and is projected to cost at least $20 million. Spielberg honored for documentary PARIS (AP) -- Steven Spielberg is now an officer in the French Legion of Honor. President Nicolas Sarkozy said the honor was prompted by the filmmaker's work on documenting the Holocaust and his efforts to help the war-wracked Darfur region of Sudan. Spielberg, 61, met with Sarkozy in the French presidential palace on Wednesday. He was at the Cannes Film Festival last weekend for the world premiere of his new film, "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull," starring Harrison Ford. Winehouse wins Novello award LONDON (AP) -- Amy Winehouse has won a prestigious songwriting award for "Love Is a Losing Game" from her "Back to Black" album. The song won the Ivor Novello award for best song musically and lyrically at a ceremony in London on Thursday. Her father, Mitch Winehouse, accepted the award after the 24-year-old singer-songwriter arrived too late to collect it in person. Her song "Rehab," also from the "Back to Black" album, won a Novello last year. The awards are given out annually by Britain's songwriting community.