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On a Clear Day You Can See Forever, the 1965 musical with a reincarnation plot and a handful of beloved Alan Jay Lerner-Burton Lane songs, gets a second life July 29-Aug. 1 in Poughkeepsie, NY.

The starry — and sold-out — Vassar College and New York Stage & Film's Powerhouse Theater concert of a fresh take on the material prefigures a 2011 Off-Broadway run.

Tony Award-winning director Michael Mayer (Spring Awakening) conceived and directs this revision

It isn't much of a stretch for Jill Biden when she takes an acting turn in an episode of Lifetime network's "Army Wives."

The second lady, playing herself, visits the show's Fort Marshall to hear about the challenges facing military families and offer them words of encouragement.

"I'm proud to be here today as a second lady, but I'm even more proud to be here as a military mom," Biden tells a group that gathers for the post's annual fun run to benefit military kids.

In be

The Frank Sinatra jukebox musical "Come Fly Away" will close on Broadway.

The show will end its run at the Marquis Theatre on Sept. 5, producers announced Wednesday. The production was conceived, choreographed and directed by Twyla Tharp, who won a Drama Desk award for choreography.

"Come Fly Away," which opened on Broadway in March, will embark on a national tour in May 2011 in Chicago. Producers said more details on the tour will be announced later.

The show features a

It's a breakthrough for Susan Lucci. No, not a second Emmy. She has a book deal.

It Books said Wednesday that the longtime star of "All My Children" has a memoir coming out next year.

Her book is currently untitled. It will cover her role as Erica Kane on the daytime soap and her years as a stage performer.

Of course, she'll also talk about snagging an Emmy in 1999 after years of falling short.

The aftermath of Megyn Kelly's interview with a former Justice Department lawyer over a New Black Panther Party case has made her a hero and a villain.

The Fox News Channel host is a hero to fans who appreciate the time she has spent on a story about a nightstick-carrying New Black Panther Party member standing outside a 2008 polling place, wondering if it reflects an Obama administration inconsistency in pursuing civil rights cases.

But she's a villain to critics who believe Ke

Billionaire Carl Icahn accused Canadian-headquartered Hollywood studio Lions Gate Entertainment Corp on Monday of using "scorched-earth" tactics to thwart his takeover bid for the company, and pledged legal action.

Icahn relaunched a hostile bid for Lions Gate Entertainment Corp last week after a 10-day truce, a move that was answered by the studio with a debt-to-equity swap, which slashed the stake that Icahn had built up over five months to about 33.5 percent from 37.9 percent .

"Nightline" co-anchor Martin Bashir (buh-SHEER') is leaving ABC News to become an anchor for MSNBC and a contributor to "Dateline NBC."

NBC announced Thursday that Bashir will anchor a daily afternoon program on MSNBC in addition to his new role with "Dateline NBC." The switch will take effect in September.

Bashir joined ABC's newsmagazine "20/20" in 2004 and became a "Nightline" co-anchor a year later.

Meanwhile, ABC News announced that Bill Weir (WEER), who co-anchors t

Gloria Stuart lives like her days are numbered, and little wonder. The Oscar-nominated actress, best known as Old Rose in the 1997 blockbuster "Titanic," turned 100 on July 4.

"I would say I don't notice the difference between 100 and, say, 90," Stuart said while sitting in the bonsai-lined garden of her home in the Brentwood district of Los Angeles. "You're still frail, feeble, and full of you-know-what," she continued, with a laugh.

Truth is, the only thing obviously frail abo

Giant-screen movie operator IMAX Corp signed a deal with China's Guangzhou Jinyi Film & Television Group Co to open eight IMAX theaters in the country.

The deal adds to the four IMAX theaters already contracted between the two parties, bringing the total number of theaters

scheduled to be operating in China by 2014 to 65.

"Our Chinese network is scheduled to at least double in size over the next couple of years," said Chief Executive Richard Gelfond in a statement.

Barbara Kingsolver, winner of the Orange Prize for fiction, is back in the U.K. one month after scooping up the prestigious prize awarded to the best novel of the year written in English by a woman.

"I was more surprised to win than anyone," she said of the prize. "I never really expect to be successful."

Kingsolver nearly threw out the first novel she wrote more than 20 years ago, but on a whim she decided to send it to an agent and was amazed when "The Bean Trees" was publishe

All eyes are on Robert Plant when he steps on stage — especially his band's.

If you're going to play with the rock 'n' roll icon, you've got to be ready to follow.

"When you're working with Robert you can only rehearse so much and then it doesn't matter anymore because you have to have your eyes glued on him the entire night," guitarist Buddy Miller said in an interview with his tour bandmate, singer-songwriter and guitarist Patty Griffin. "No matter what the arrangement was, he

The co-founder of E! is launching a celebrity-focused online network complete with several programs in the hope of establishing a new brand in the entertainment programing space.

Alan Mruvka created E! (then called Movietime) 23 years ago with Larry Namer. Last week, he returned to his roots with the launch of the Look, a new site at thelooktv.com, which aims to blend fashion and celebrity programing with an e-commerce sales site.

"When I was pitching E!, I used to say that TV i

LucasFilm recently served a manufacturer of a handheld laser with a cease-and-desist letter for selling an item it claimed was too close in resemblance to its trademark lightsabers from "Star Wars."

Now, the Hong Kong firm is using the force of eBay to score some revenge. The cease-and-desist letter is now being auctioned off. Current bidding is up to $585, with just over four days to go.

The letter isn't signed by George Lucas himself, unfortunately. Nevertheless, the company i

Charles Mackerras, a gifted musician who conducted some of the world's leading orchestras, has died at the age of 84 after suffering from cancer, his agent said on Thursday.

Born in New York state to Australian parents, Mackerras was raised in Sydney but spent large parts of his adult life in Britain where he conducted the BBC Symphony Orchestra and was music director at the English National Opera.

He returned to Sydney for the opening concert in the new Sydney Opera House in 19

What made the huge Hollywood premiere of "Inception" on Tuesday, July 13, different from most? It wasn't that it was staged at Grauman's Chinese Theatre on Hollywood Boulevard; that's been the spot where movie premieres have happened since 1927. Nor was it having a huge movie star like Leonardo DiCaprio head across the street to the screaming crowd, signing autographs and posing for photos with adoring fans, for that's been done, too.

No, what set the "Inception" premiere apart was th

Technology helped the Foo Fighters' Taylor Hawkins record with two of his rock idols on his solo project, but the drummer doesn't think much about how it has impacted the music world on the whole.

Hawkins has a disdain for current recording practices, and blames it mostly on Pro Tools, the digital audio workstation software that's used by most artists.

"It's ruined music as far as I'm concerned, at least rock 'n' roll," Hawkins said. "It's great for dance music."

Hawkins'

R&B singer Ne-Yo and his booking agency are being sued in Maryland by a promoter over the performer's failure to appear at a 2008 New Year's Eve concert in Washington state.

The lawsuit is scheduled for trial later this month in Anne Arundel County, where Ne-Yo's booking agent, Mike Esterman, is based.

Kenyohn Clark's lawsuit seeks $1 million in damages from Ne-Yo, whose real name is Shaffer Smith, and Esterman. Clark claims the botched concert damaged his reputation and tha

Prosecutors on Tuesday dropped a felony burglary charge against actor Rip Torn, clearing the way for him to seek special probation that might settle charges that he broke into a bank while drunk and armed in January.

The Emmy-winning actor, 79, applied for accelerated rehabilitation, a program for first-time nonviolent offenders that allows charges to be dropped after a probation period.

Prosecutors will argue against the application at a hearing Aug. 11, Litchfield State's Atto

It is September in Sachs Harbour, northern Canada. In the cold and desolate landscape, Mikael Blomqvist and Lisbeth Salander are about to begin a new adventure.

But their journey in the fourth book of Stieg Larsson's best-selling "Millennium" crime series is a mystery. The book was left unfinished on the author's laptop when he died suddenly in 2004 at age 50.

Only two people know about the content of the manuscript: Larsson's longtime partner Eva Gabrielsson, who has refused to