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A barbershop quartet with beehives and heels, The Kinsey Sicks have been satirizing politics and personalities in song for more than a decade. The group, which scored an off-Broadway hit with the show “Dragapella!” will be performing its “Condoleezapalooza” show at tomorrow night’s Beaux Arts Ball. TKS is made up of musically inclined social activists and professionals who have adopted over-the-top female personas. The ladies are Rachel (Ben Schatz), Trixie (Jeff Manabat), Winnie (Irwin Keller) and Trampolina (Chris Dilley).

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Readers who want to offer their two cents about online news have a new way to vent. TMZ.com, the fast-growing entertainment blog that is co-owned by AOL, has started letting readers post audible comments about items on its Web site for playback by other people at the site. That’s a next-generation leap from the written comments many sites have added. The No. 1 most-visited entertainment site, which just launched a syndicated TV show, also is planning to let readers post videotaped comments about its snarky celebrity sightings and other news; there is no timetable for that addition.

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After he ditched “The View” — or got ditched by them, depending on who you’re talking to — Barry Manilow and his face seemed to be unmoved by the uproar over his Hasselbeck boycott. And that’s Barry in the picture here, not Babwa Walters.
TMZ
caught up with
the man of exactly one face after a rehearsal, and he told us that while he loved “all those people” at “The View,” appearing with Elisabeth on the show “didn’t feel good.” Barry said he wouldn’t appear on the show because he disagreed with what he deemed Hasselbeck’s “dangerous” opinions.

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TMZ.com lets readers talk to the blog By Jim Hopkins, USA TODAY 1 hour, 3 minutes ago SAN FRANCISCO - Readers who want to offer their 2 cents about online news have a new way to vent.
TMZ.com
, the fast-growing entertainment blog co-owned by AOL, has started letting readers post audio comments about items on its website for playback by other people at the site. That's a next-generation leap from the written comments many sites have added.

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By Jim Hopkins, USA TODAY
SAN FRANCISCO — Readers who want to offer their 2 cents about online news have a new way to vent.

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I’m not saying that Ryan Seacrest single-handedly killed The Emmys last night — he obviously had a lot of help. Here’s basically how it went. He came out and tried his standard routine on American Idol, where he looks around and points out celebrities in the audience. The problem, of course, being that he was at the Emmys, so instead of five celebrities (and that includes Clay Aiken), there were hundreds of celebrities (and that includes former Vice President Al Gore). So, Ryan saunters over to the Desperate Housewives section and chats up the ladies.

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Major Record Labels Seek New Talent at New York Showcase Sun Sep 16, 3:05 AM ET Alpha Music Group to host major record label showcase and networking event on October 15, 2007 in
New York
. Record labels confirmed to attend are Atlantic Records, Universal Records, Capitol Records and Koch Entertainment. Music Industry VIP tickets and Media Passes are available by request.

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Influences: “I like a whole lot of different things. I
like The Eagles, Queen anything that has a great hook or
lyrics,” Wood says.
Sounds like: “My sound, I guess, would be considered a
bit of everything. A lot of people say pop rock, but I have
country and blues influences in there as well,” Wood
says.
Set list: Wood sticks to an all-original set that includes
such songs as “Inside Out,” “All the
Way,” and the Wood-Sarah Ayers duet, “All That I
Am.”

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Sept. 12 The latest monster of a media mess involves Rosie O’Donnell … and her old friend Barbara Walters.
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By By Craig Berman
MSNBC contributor
It couldn’t last forever. Just weeks after being booted from “The View,” Rosie O’Donnell is back in the entertainment headlines as word leaks out that her upcoming memoir
takes some shots
at Barbara Walters. Undoubtedly it also takes shots at the many others who she feels have done her wrong.

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It may not be a white Christmas but it will be an intimate
one when Clay Aiken returns to Easton’s State Theatre
with the Chelsea Symphony from New York.
The show is set for 8 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 12, as part of
Aiken’s Christmas in the Heartland Tour.
Tickets, at $100 (gold circle), $70 and $65, will go on
sale to State Theatre members at 10 a.m. Sept. 27 and to the
public on Oct. 3. During Members Only sales, there will be a
6-ticket-limit per member per performance, according to a
news release.

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