Arts, Briefly: An Extended Run for Hannah Montana
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Americaâs tweens are going to get more of what they love. Disney Studios has decided to extend the run of âHannah Montana/Miley Cyrus: Best of Both Worlds Concert Tour,â the 3-D movie that sold an estimated $29 million in tickets over the weekend, Variety reported. The run of the concert film, originally scheduled for one week, will be extended market by market, said Chuck Viane, Disneyâs president for distribution. In some cities it may play two more weeks; in others only one. The film stars Miley Cyrus, the daughter of the country music singer Billy Ray Cyrus. She stars on the Disney Channel in the series âHannah Montana,â for two years the top-rated cable show among children 6 to 14. In âHannah Montanaâ Ms. Cyrus plays a teenager who lives a secret life at night as a pop star.
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Miley Cyrus and father Billy Ray Cyrus are admitting they goofed.   "We got caught up in the moment of filming, and we made a mistake and forgot to buckle our seatbelts," Billy Ray Cyrus tells PEOPLE about a gaffe in the hit 3-D movie Hannah Montana/...
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The Los Angeles comedy writer-producer who penned Fox's "In Living Color" and created Nickelodeon's "Roundhouse" has sued the Walt Disney Co., claiming it stole the idea for its hit Disney Channel show, "Hannah Montana," from him.
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Entertainment highlights during the week of Jan. 6-12:
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This assured tragicomedy runs almost three hours but feels longer, which, believe it or not, is intended as praise.
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Dolly Parton, below, citing a back injury, has postponed a United States tour that was to have begun on Feb. 28 in Minneapolis. An announcement said the concerts, promoting her âBackwoods Barbieâ album, to be released on Feb. 26 on Dolly Records, would be rescheduled for late April and May. ... A show arrives: âShrek the Musical,â so far starring Sutton Foster, Christopher Sieber and Kecia Lewis-Evans, is to begin previews on Nov. 8 at the Broadway Theater with an opening on Dec. 14. The title ogre and Donkey have yet to be cast. ... And a show leaves: âThe Farnsworth Invention,â which opened on Dec. 3, will end its run on March 2. It will have played 34 previews and 104 regular performances. ... Julia McKenzie, 67, will be the new Miss Marple, succeeding Geraldine McEwan, who said last month that she was leaving âMarple,â the British crime series. Ms. McKenzie will be the seventh actress to portray this character, created by Agatha Christie, the BBC reported.
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Thereâs still time for that movie (play, exhibition, game, pool concert) everyoneâs talking about.
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Kristin Chenoweth will return to Broadway in December to star in a revival of "The Apple Tree," three one-act musicals based on short stories by Mark Twain, Frank R. Stockton and Jules Feiffer and all tied together by a common theme: the consequences of temptation.
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Some U.S. parents, desperate after Disney star Hannah Montana's concert tour sold out in minutes, are going to extremes with some paying $3,000 a ticket and fathers donning high heels in a race to get in for free.
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Miley Cyrus isn&#039;t a country music star, but after a couple of months of playing one on TV she&#039;s starting to get a pretty good idea what it feels like.
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Blog: Although it was announced back in April, the Internet video site, still in limited testing, is getting renewed attention this week.
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Movie scripts and personal letters belonging to the late star Katharine Hepburn are to go on show.
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Entertainment highlights during the week of Feb. 3-9:
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Playbill - The relationship between a screenwriter and a university professor under investigation for a grisly murder is intriguing audiences so much at Playwrights Horizons' intimate Peter Jay Sharp space that Spatter Pattern is being extended an extra week, to Oct. 31.
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Music videos may not have a home in  MTV's prime-time programming schedule, but the network is  looking for new ways to give artists a presence in key viewing  hours. In the latest wrinkle, MTV is experimenting with letting  recording stars determine the soundtracks to some of its hit  lifestyle shows.
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Arts & entertainment: The verdict on Damon Albarn's Monkey opera, plus what to look out for in the Manchester Festival.
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This would be a good time to rent Inherit the Wind, and get ready for the latest sequel in the Monkey Wars saga. The dates have been changed to reflect the persistence of the Darwin haters, and the arguments