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Nov 30th 2012, 23:02 Can you see country star Carrie Underwood singing "My Favorite Things," and "Do-Re-Mi"?  Because NBC can.  Having already cast "American Idol" non-winner Katharine McPhee as Marilyn Monroe (on B'way) in "Smash," the network has now cast "American Idol" winner Underwood as Maria von Trapp, the aspiring nun, turned governess, turned baroness, in "The Sound of Music."   Read full article >> Carrie Underwood cast as Maria von Trapp in NBC's 'Sound of Music' Nov 30th 2012, 23:02 Can you see country star Carrie Underwood singing "My Favorite Things," and "Do-Re-Mi"?  Because NBC can.  Having already cast "American Idol" non-winner Katharine McPhee as Marilyn Monroe (on B'way) in "Smash," the network has now cast "American Idol" winner Underwood as Maria von Trapp, the aspiring nun, turned governess, turned baroness, in "The Sound of Music."   Read full article >> 'Jimmy Kimmel Live' scores best sweep stats ever Nov 30th 2012, 20:51 Closing in on its move to the earlier 11:35 p.m. timeslot, "Jimmy Kimmel Live" scored its most watched sweep ratings derby in its 10 years on ABC.  Kimmel's was the only late-night broadcast talk show to grow its audience, year to year. Granted, his audience was up by about 100,000 viewers — but up is up. Read full article >> '30 Rock' ends Jan. 31; new doc drama gets 'ER' slot Nov 30th 2012, 20:25 The morning after Liz Lemon got married, NBC announced "30 Rock" will officially knock off  on Jan. 31. That same Thursday night of the "30 Rock" series finale, NBC will toss struggling newsmag "Rock Center with Brian Williams" from the net's once glorious Thursday 10 p.m. timeslot (and home to "ER") to move in an actual scripted drama series — and a doc drama at that. Read full article >> One Direction is getting its own perfume Nov 30th 2012, 20:19 Following the teen-pop-star-with-a-perfume path carved out by Justin Bieber, One Direction is getting its own fragrance. Women's Wear Daily reports that the boy band's female-targeted scent — Celebritology-proposed name: That's What Makes You Smell Beautiful — will be released next fall. Which seems like kind of a long time to continue living without smelling like Niall or Zayn. Hopefully the band's popularity and musk-potential will not wane before then, especially since they also have a movie coming out around the same time. (Imagine: you could go see a movie about One Direction while smelling like One Direction.) Read full article >> David Letterman, Led Zeppelin reunite day after Kennedy Center Honors for an interview Nov 30th 2012, 20:13 After the Kennedy Center Honors take place this Sunday, two of the honorees will reunite, as members of rock group Led Zeppelin will sit down for a rare interview together on "Late Show With David Letterman." Read full article >> HBO releases trailer for 'Girls' Season 2 Nov 30th 2012, 19:12 HBO released the first extended look at the second season of Lena Dunhan's dramedy "Girls" on Friday. Included: A brief glimpse of Rita Wilson as Marnie's (Allison Williams) mom. "Girls" returns to HBO on Sunday, Jan.13. Read full article >> Dustin Hoffman on movies, manhood and the art of compromise Nov 30th 2012, 17:32 Dustin Hoffman is sitting alone in the sunny corner of a restaurant in Brentwood, looking as though he's deep in prayer. Soon after his lunch companion arrives, the object of his worship rings with the lilting notes "Are You Havin' Any Fun?," a jazz standard that figures prominently in his new movie, "Quartet." Read full article >> Ballerina Natalia Makarova: 'Being spontaneous, it's what saved me' Nov 30th 2012, 16:54 A cluster of birch trees grows outside Natalia Makarova's house. She planted them years ago in the clearing that slopes away from her dance studio. "My corps de ballet," Makarova says with affection, introducing the trees with a sweep of her slightly crooked fingers. Read full article >> David Letterman: 2012 Kennedy Center Honors Nov 30th 2012, 15:46 The man leaps out of the shadows and into the light, a silver blur in a white shirt and violet tie. He bounds across the stage toward his desk, brakes and turns and scampers back stage right, grabs the microphone by its cord and swings it around, letting it thunk on the ground next to his caramel-colored loafers as the CBS Orchestra plays frantically. The audience is on its feet. A fake cityscape frames the man as he hits his mark: a red sticker on the iridescent-blue stage floor of the Ed Sullivan Theater in midtown Manhattan. Read full article >> Buddy Guy's Kennedy Center Honors blues Nov 30th 2012, 15:36 Let's go ahead and get this over with — you damn right Buddy Guy's got the blues. Man can't win 'cause he ain't got nothing to lose. Okay. That feels better. "Damn Right," his Grammy-winning anthem, is stapled to the man like "The Thrill Is Gone" is to B.B. King, like "I'm a Man" is to Muddy Waters. Read full article >> Led Zeppelin listened to each other and found rock-and-roll's most magical formula Nov 30th 2012, 15:16 Maybe you know this one. It's March 1975, and Led Zeppelin is in the middle of conquering America, rock-and-roll and the future, so Robert Plant slips out onto the balcony of his Sunset Strip hotel room with a proclamation for the traffic puttering down below: "I'm a golden god!" Read full article >> Halle Berry and Gabriel Aubry reach truce; Joe Jackson expected to leave hospital post-stroke Nov 30th 2012, 14:26 A morning mix of entertainment headlines . . . It appears that Halle Berry and her ex, Gabriel Aubry, who got into a Thanksgiving Day fight with Berry's fiance Olivier Martinez, reached an agreement in their custody battle over 4-year-old daughter Nahla. Or at least a truce of some kind. The terms of said truce were, of course, not disclosed. (Us Weekly; L.A. Times) Read full article >> 'RISE OF THE GUARDIANS': 'The Obama of animation'? Director Peter Ramsey deflects the comparison — but not the responsibility Nov 30th 2012, 14:07 . . Read full article >> How do some federal VIPs get pricey Kennedy Center Honors tickets? Donations. Nov 30th 2012, 01:03 A classic Washington question: How do congresspeople, Supreme Court justices, Cabinet secretaries, their staff members and other government worthies all end up attending the Kennedy Center Honors, a black-tie-and-ball-gown gala where tickets sell for as much as $5,500? Read full article >>

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