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The world’s No. 2 women’s tennis player made her first public appearance Saturday night after withdrawing from the French Open and Wimbledon. A pensive Naomi Osaka took the stage at the ESPYs to accept the award for for ‘Best Athlete, Women’s Sports.’

Osaka, who has revealed she suffers from social anxiety and depression, especially in public, gave a speech that lasted less than a minute. Her voice slightly quavering, the four-time major winner led with honesty.

“I just really not want to say a long speech because I’m a bit nervous,” she said as shouts of support rang out from the audience.

After thanking ESPN and her fans Osaka continued, “I know this year’s been really — it hasn’t even finished — but it’s been really tough for a lot of us and, for me, I just want to say I really love you guys.”

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Christina Ricci is "Born to Be a Star."

The actress has signed on for the porn-tinged comedy that Adam Sandler co-wrote and is producing with Jack Giarraputo. Longtime Sandler associates Allen Covert and Barry Bernardi also are producing the flick, which Tom Brady is directing.

The story centers on a small-town nerd who stumbles upon a family secret: His quiet and demure parents were famous porn stars in the 1970s. This motivates him to leave Northern Iowa for Hollywood, hoping to follow in their footsteps and fulfill his destiny as the biggest adult-film star in the world.

Ricci, the female lead, is the guy's innocent girlfriend.

Despite Sandler and Giarraputo's involvement, the movie is not a Happy Madison production but rather by porn title-friendly entity Miles Deep Prods. The movie will act as a negative pickup for Sony, which will release it through one of its labels.

Nick Swardson is co-producing.

NEW YORK -- The U.S. Comedy Arts Festival's Film Program will showcase 30 features and 20 shorts in Aspen this year, organizers said Tuesday.

Sponsored by HBO Films, the festival's movie lineup will get launched with opening night film Waitress, directed by the late Adrienne Shelly. The film premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and was acquired by Fox Searchlight.

World premieres featured at USCAF include Guy Shalem's Cook Off!, Armen Kaprelian's Closing Escrow, Frank Oz's Death at a Funeral, Jim Pasternak's Certifiably Jonathan and Gary Toll's Judy Toll: The Funniest Woman You've Never Heard Of.

The festival's Fireside Chat Series will return this year with Fox Atomic's Debbie Liebling, Netflix's Ted Sarandos, JibJab's Gregg Spiridellis and others. Also back by popular demand is the Mile High Club, which brings together industry executives and filmmakers in 12-minute "speed dating"-type meetings.

Among other film highlights are special screenings of three works in progress. One is John Landis' The Rickles Project, a documentary about legendary comedian Don Rickles. Current footage from The Comebacks, directed by Tom Brady, will also be shown, with Jamie Kennedy's Heckler rounding out the still-in-the-works offers.

Canadian comic Russell Peters is attached to a comedy project set up at Fox Broadcasting Co. through Warner Bros. TV. Scribe Tom Brady (Sports Night) has been tapped to pen the pilot, loosely based on Peters' life and social observations as a comedian of South Asian descent. The project is being produced through the newly formed production banner of Tom Werner, former partner in Carsey-Werner Co., and Eric Gold and Jimmy Miller. Fox has given it a script commitment.

Nick Cannon is teaming up with Lindsay Lohan for an untitled romantic comedy for Revolution Studios. Tom Brady will write and direct the feature, which was pitched to Revolution by Cannon and Michael Goldman. Cannon and Goldman will serve in some producing capacity as will Happy Madison's Jack Giarraputo and Adam Sandler. The story centers on a young girl (Lohan) trying to make it big in New York's fashion world who gets set up on a date with Cannon's character, who is blind. The project was brought to Revolution's Todd Garner by Giarraputo and will be overseen by Derek Dauchy.

Adam Sandler's Happy Madison Prods. has teamed with the stand-up duo of Dana Goodman and Julia Lea Wolov for a comedy series project for the WB Network starring the two Chicago-based comics. The network is close to giving a pilot order to the untitled project from Sandler and Jack Giarraputo's Happy Madison and Sony Pictures Television. The series is described as a modern-day Laverne & Shirley set in Chicago with an Absolutely Fabulous sensibility to it. Tom Brady, who worked with Happy Madison on the Rob Schneider starrers The Animal and The Hot Chick, has penned the script for the buddy comedy and will executive produce.

Carson Daly is looking back to his days as an FM radio DJ as the inspiration for his first major scripted TV project. Daly has teamed with writer-producer Tom Brady to develop a workplace comedy set at an urban radio station. Daly is on board to executive produce but will not star in the project. The as-yet-untitled project, developed under Daly's overall deal at NBC Studios, will be loosely based on his experience working at several radio stations, including KROQ-FM in Los Angeles.

In a weekend upset, Sony's Maid in Manhattan cleaned up at the boxoffice as the Jennifer Lopez-Ralph Fiennes starrer from Revolution Studios had a stronger-than-expected performance with an estimated $19 million, in the process edging out Paramount's Star Trek Nemesis for the top spot. Heading into the weekend, Nemesis was considered the front-runner by many industry observers, but the 10th installment of the long-running franchise beamed up a somewhat disappointing estimate of $18.8 million and had to settle for the second spot. 20th Century Fox's Drumline debuted on an upbeat note in the third spot, generating an estimated $13.1 million from 1,833 theaters. The weakest debut of the wide releases was Buena Vista's The Hot Chick, a PG-13 rated comedy starring Rob Schneider. The Tom Brady-directed picture tied for the fourth slot with MGM's Die Another Day as it picked up an estimated $7.5 million.