Brazilian supermodel Gisele Bundchen is a new United Nations advocate for environmental awareness -- and reportedly wants her own president to do more to halt Amazon deforestation.

Bundchen tells reporters in New York that Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva should propose better laws to stop the razing of the world's largest rain forest.

Her comments were published yesterday in major Brazilian newspapers that covered her comments as she was named a goodwill ambassador for the U.N. Environment Program.

Silva said yesterday that his new proposal to limit sugarcane production in the Amazon and other ecologically sensitive areas is proof of his commitment to Amazon preservation. It was unveiled last week.

The Emmy Awards can boast of an audience bigger than it's been in three years, despite some tough competition from pro football.

The Nielsen Co. estimates that 13.3 million people watched Sunday's Emmy telecast. That's 1 million more than last year's show, which was the least-watched Emmys ever, and the most since the 16.1 million who watched in 2006.

This increase came despite a Giants-Cowboys game on NBC that scored the best overnight ratings of any prime- time pro football game in 11 years. Nielsen doesn't have a final estimate for the football viewership, but network analysts say it's likely to be in the 20 million to 25 million range.

Neil Patrick Harris earned strong reviews for his turn as Emmy host.

Four-time Oscar winner Charles Guggenheim, one of the deans of documentaries, won one of his golden statuettes for his 1989 film about the catastrophic Johnstown Flood.

On May 31, 1889, the rain-swollen South Fork Dam burst and 2,209 people were killed in the resulting flood. Now, the documentary, shot in black and white on 35-millimeter film, has been digitally remastered by Magic Lantern, a Pittsburgh-based production company that specializes in museum installations. The new print, which features improved sound and captioning for the hearing-impaired, is shown every hour at the Johnstown Flood Museum.

This year marks the 20th anniversary of the making of "The Johns­town Flood," which was commissioned by the museum.

The print, shot on a budget of $500,000, was tightly edited. Len Cariou narrated and the musical score is by Michael Bacon, Kevin Bacon's brother. The film will be shown in a free screening tonight at the National Archives in Washington, D.C.

A panel discussion will follow with Grace Guggenheim, president of Guggenheim Productions Inc.; Richard A. Burkert, executive director of the Johnstown Area Heritage Association; Catherine Shields, the film's editor; and Skip Sorelle, the film's sound designer.