Lance Bass joins `Hairspray' on Aug. 14
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Lance Bass will join the Broadway cast of "Hairspray" on Aug. 14.
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Featuring the unlikely trio of John  Travolta as a woman, Michelle Pfeiffer as a racist and a chubby  singer as its star, &quot;Hairspray&quot; debuts in movie theaters on  Friday aiming to be a box office hit -- again.
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Tycho:  I've been au Canada at Hothead since Monday, making a final pass on the entire script and writing new stuff for things we managed to fit into the first ep.  After two days of this process, I feel as though my brain has been dragging a plough through a stubborn field.  Like every other part of this adventure, it's been profoundly educational.  I enjoy it, but there is a constant electrical hum in my skull that I assume is the byproduct of creating a universe in real time.
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LONDON (Reuters Life!) - The flamboyant retro musical "Hairspray" on Thursday won a record 11 nominations for the Laurence Olivier Awards, Britain's top theatre prizes.
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Patrick Stewart has an angioplasty to improve blood flow.  Plus news in brief on Spike Lee and Motley Crue.
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No one knows how to throw a party like MTV. So there must be quite a bash planned for Aug. 1, celebrating 25 years on the air. Right?
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New releases from Clipse, Loreena McKennitt, Darryl Worley, Incubus and 2Pac.
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Arts & entertainment: Â· Consecutive nominations a first for Sheffield band  Â· Amy Winehouse is joint favourite on 12-strong list
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The Bill star Jeff Stewart says he is "improving" after reportedly slashing his wrists on the set of the ITV soap.
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August is rocketing to a close, but there's plenty of midweek action with a bit of everything from visiting rockers to a CD-release party.
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VIERA, Fla., Feb. 19 -- Before last week, Brian Schneider had never met Matt Chico. Yet Monday morning, as he crouched on his haunches and stared through his gaudy catcher's mask, Schneider received a pitch from the young left-hander and yelled, "Attaboy, 'Chic!' ", as if he had known him for years....
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NEW YORK (Billboard) - Hilary Duff will promote her new album during a  month-long summer U.S. concert tour beginning August 6 in Everett, Wash.
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Spurred by the success of John Travolta's drag act in the comedy   "Hairspray", a number of Bollywood directors are planning to put their leading men into ladies' clothes.   Shaad Randhawa is the latest to do so in Shashi Ranjan's "Dhoom Dhadaka".
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Playbill - One of those casting "secrets" that everyone has been talking about but no producer would confirm until now is finally out of the closet: Gary Beach and Daniel Davis will star in the new Broadway production of La Cage Aux Folles.
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Tony Danza will reprise his lead role as Max Bialystock in the Las Vegas version of Mel Brooks' hit Broadway show "The Producers," he told The Associated Press on Monday.
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LOS ANGELES  - Lake Bell, who most  recently co-starred on ABC's "Boston Legal," has been cast as  the female lead in NBC's drama pilot "Fathom," which revolves  around mysterious creatures deep in the ocean.
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Variety - HOLLYWOOD -- The pre-Broadway Boston run of August Wilson's "Gem of the Ocean" has a new director and a new schedule.