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BILLY ELLIOTT TAKES THE TONYS

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In the biggest and most widely anticipated sweep of Broadway’s top kudos since “The Producers” devoured the competition eight years ago, “Billy Elliot” pirouetted away with 10 Tony Awards on Sunday night.  

Its wins included the coveted prize for new musical, as well as lead actor to the three triple-threat teens alternating in the title role. [...]


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DAVID CARRADINE ON WARREN BEATTY

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Back in 2002, QUENTIN TARANTINO contacted DAVID CARRADINE to ask him to be in his new film, KILL BILL. TARANTINO had been working on the film for a year and had been after WARREN BEATTY for the title role. But close to the start of filming TARANTINO  fell out of love with his star (whose performance he’d encouraged BEATTY to [...]


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ON THIS DAY IN SHOW BIZ: THE FIRST DRIVE IN THEATER OPENS

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On this day in 1933, the first drive-in theater in the United States opens in Camden, New Jersey. The lot covered 10 acres, with room for 400 cars.


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ON THIS DAY IN MOVIES: THE DELICATE DELINQUENT

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On this day in 1957, PARAMOUNT PICTURES released THE DELICATE DELINQUENT,  the first JERRY LEWIS film after the infamous split of LEWIS and DEAN MARTIN. Watchable today only as a museum piece.


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BRADLEY COOPER: ON WORKING WITH THE TIGER

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In the new comedy, THE HANGOVER, actor BRADLEY COOPER finds himself sharing the screen with a rather large live tiger. COOPER tells us no ‘movie magic’ was involved here. No panes of glass. And very little in the leash department. Listen in below:

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And, just in case you’ve been living in a cave for the past [...]


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In one of our recent interviews with AMERICAN IDOL finalist ADAM LAMBERT we asked him about his High School experience and he talked to us about glee club and the drama department. Listen in below:

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(This vid’s been around a while but it’s always worth watching)


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DEAN KOONTZ: ON ELECTRONIC BOOKS

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We caught up with bestselling author DEAN KOONTZ a few day ago to talk about his upcoming memoir, A BIG LITTLE LIFE, and the subject of the KINDLE and electronic books came up. Apparently, KOONTZ isn’t quite ready to accept the idea as the wave of the future. Listen in below:

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KATY PERRY’S TURNING POINT

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While Katy Perry might seem like an “overnight success” story, she’s been working toward achieving stardom ever since she was a teenager.  Perry, who scored Number 1 hits with “I Kissed A Girl” and “Hot N Cold” and is now on the charts with her latest single, “Waking Up In Vegas,” remembers the moment when [...]


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Just as we learned that Californians are going to have to wait awhile for same sex marriage rights, comes word from the Daily Mail Online that actor COLIN FARRELL (IN BRUGES) is slated to be Best Man at his brother EAMON’S wedding to partner, STEPHEN MANNION . Apparently, EAMON is searching locations for the wedding now. [...]


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ON THIS DAY IN SHOW BIZ: JOHN WAYNE BORN

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On this day in 1907, Western hero John Wayne was born in Winterset, Iowa, and christened Marion Michael Morrison. As a child, friends nicknamed the boy Duke, and he went on to play his earliest film roles under the name Duke Morrison. Wayne worked at Fox Film Corp. as a laborer in the late 1920s and [...]


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