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*Mariah Carey is "a comedy nerd," Jack McBrayer tells People.com. In Carey's video for "Touch My Body," the "30 Rock" star and Second City alum fantasizes about his dream date with the diva: Think Kenneth the page with a unicorn, laser tag and Vikings. In...Tags: Mariah Carey, Family, Second City, Nicole Richie
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GIMME MORE DRAMA QUEEN! Welcome to the latest installment of "As the Britney Turns." When we last saw the toxic one, she was clearly overwhelmed on the stage of the MTV VMAs. Now come rumors that she is she ready to make amends with America -- on...Tags: Emmy Awards, Rock and Roll Music, Music Industry, Pamela Anderson, Awards and Prizes
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The man Reilly unplugged
It should come as no surprise that John C. Reilly is such a good singer. After all, the Chicago native has been singing for years, in the films "Chicago" and "A Prairie Home Companion," and more casually, in rock cover bands. In the double-entendre...Tags: Movies, Jim Morrison, Music, Wrigleyville, Cinema Industry
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Neuwirth is a true Broadway Bebe
amNewYork Theater CriticTruth be told, Bebe Neuwirth is not the first actress to play both Velma and Roxie, the two merry murderesses of "Chicago." In fact, she is not even the second. Others to pull off the feat have included Chita Rivera, who was the original Velma in 1975...Tags: Renee Zellweger, Ashlee Simpson, Bebe Neuwirth, Broadway, Melanie Griffith
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Miss USA Ends Turbulent Reign
Zap2It.comIf he wanted extra attention for the Miss USA Pageant, Donald Trump couldn't have found a better year. The real-estate mogul and mentor of "The Apprentice" owns the event, and he has been negotiating with NBC over a new broadcast deal. Enter Tara Conner,...Tags: NBC, Family, Kentucky, Donald Trump, New York
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Chicago
STAFF WRITERTrough the revolving-door of the long-running, oft-recast "Chicago" now comes Melanie Griffith. She has a sweet, fragile, aging sex-kitten quality as Roxie Hart, the murdering floozie defined in 1975 by the legendary Gwen Verdon and in this 1996 revival...Tags: Broadway, Melanie Griffith, Dance, Music, Ann Reinking
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Some real eye-openers
Times Staff WriterThe UCLA Film & Television Archive's Festival of Preservation is at it again. Taking over the James Bridges Theater in the campus' Melnitz Hall today through Aug. 19, the 13th preservation event is once more showing the widest and most exciting variety of...Tags: Cliff Robertson, Fred MacMurray, Victor McLaglen, Joseph Schildkraut, Orson Welles
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Usher has that ol' razzle-dazzle
Newsday Staff WriterThe name on everybody's lips is suddenly... Usher? Instead of a razzle-dazzling Roxie Hart or Velma Kelly, murdering tootsies of Cook County jail, the lure at the long-running revolving-door revival of "Chicago" this month is that new guy wearing the tux...Tags: Jerry Orbach, Bebe Neuwirth, Richard Gere, Usher, Ann Reinking
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Roxie Muses
STAFF WRITEREven as an inmate in the Cook County Jail, Roxie Hart whiles away her time in a slinky black teddy. That's onstage at Broadway's Ambassador Theatre, where the musical "Chicago" is in its eighth year. Backstage, cute little reindeer march around the wool...Tags: Connecticut, Leonardo DiCaprio, Movies, Sam Mendes, Music
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Marshall and Daldry: Stage is set for an Oscar face-off
Special to The TimesHollywood's annual orgy of awards-giving is already upon us, and the two men whose films are early favorites -- "Chicago" director Rob Marshall (eight Golden Globe nominations) and "The Hours" director Stephen Daldry (seven) -- have convened in...Tags: Richard Gere, Sam Mendes, Bedford (Bedford, Virginia), Manhattan (New York City), Music
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Theater review, 'Chicago' at the Pheasant Run Dinner Theatre
Tribune theater criticThe free-range nastiness and rampant pelvic gyrations of "Chicago" are a fair distance from, say, "Mame." It's not the same kind of show. A certain percentage of any given dinner theater audience won't cotton to the 1975 musical, even with a fine...Tags: Broadway, Food and Dining Culture, O.J. Simpson, Music, Crimes
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Banderas Was Director's Only Choice For 'Nine'
STAFF WRITERIs it any surprise that the sultry Antonio Banderas, the man with the irresistible smile, is playing Guido Contini, the conflicted, woman-worshiping film director at the heart of the musical "Nine"? Let's start with the plot: If he weren't a man on the...Tags: Hancock Park, Broadway, Marcello Mastroianni, Melanie Griffith, Movies
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